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by breischl 8y ago
Some people have claimed that in my organization. I think that can work for library code, and particularly libraries that are used in many different places. But once you're talking about a service, or code that is only used by one serv
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Oh, and he didn't even touch on things like liquidation preference and participation. Basically says that even though they own X% of the company, they get paid out like it was 4*X. Or maybe they get $YY out before anybody else gets pai
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by breischl 8y ago
I imagine that was just a shorthand or maybe he misspoke. It would be a management decision, but they would most likely need to clear it with the investors. Frequently the funding deal between investors and management will even carve out a
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by breischl 8y ago
I had a former employer do something different but similar. They sold all the products to another company, paid all of the proceeds out as a bonus to the execs and big investors, and left the holders of the common stock (ie, employees who h
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by breischl 8y ago
Seems like you might be trying to say that these optimizations are fragile, in the sense that small changes environment or workload can invalidate them. Which seems like a fair criticism, although maybe not reason to ignore them.
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>you can’t cut interest rates below zero Well, he was wrong on that point. >Crazy as it sounds, several of Europe’s central banks cut interest rates below zero in 2014, and then Japan followed. By mid-2016, some 500 million people in
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by breischl 8y ago
>FB employees were retrieving user passwords? Around two thousand FB employees? This sounds to me like they were writing it into some log analysis tool, and people happened to pull it up. I have no knowledge of FB internals, but as an ex
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by breischl 8y ago
Probably gave those poor females a serious complex. Can you imagine how messed up you'd be if every time you approached someone of the opposite sex, they got shot from a helicopter?
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Had someone do that this morning. They ran across a problem that has been the focus of a multi-year effort involving dozens of people. Fixing the problem is a big part of the literal #1 priority for the company. Anyway, he hit an example of
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by breischl 8y ago
>Clear filters can’t hurt IQ other than introducing flare or ghosts in backlighting. Or causing fringing, or reducing sharpness, or reducing contrast... The absolute _best_ that a filter can do to IQ is nothing. But that's basically
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by breischl 8y ago
This is a bit trivial, but why is it called "Flag Day"? Because they're flipping some configuration flag to change the behavior?
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They did mention a planned model with a 50 ton capacity.
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Looks like it's not focused on traditional passenger routes. Their Q&A (linked elsewhere in this thread) talks a lot about bringing cargo directly to where it's needed, with little/no infrastructure. So if you want to unl
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by breischl 8y ago
To expand on your point, there is also more to cache than user-specific data. Exchange rates, tax rates, product catalogs, and more can be usefully cached without requiring sticky sessions.
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by breischl 8y ago
Even if it was the User's data and not FB's (which is argued downthread a bit...) there's nothing that requires Facebook to make it accessible to other companies. There is real cost in creating an API, running it, managing it
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by breischl 8y ago
I've wondered that too. My inexpert, unresearched guess is that people are scared of darkness, because we don't see too well. Hence black is a scary/bad color, and blacklists are the things to avoid. Brightness is good - you
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by breischl 8y ago
I have no particular love for FB or what they've done with data, but these I don't understand why either of those points is particularly controversial or even unusual. > Facebook used data provided by the Israeli analytics firm
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Which is one of the hard problems. That's why it takes so long.
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Personally I find that they can, but they don't have to. I can put off Slack/email until I hit a stopping point, or I can wedge it into the middle of a long-running process (start a build/test-cycle/deployment, then go a
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by breischl 8y ago
Would the satellites have some known set of sensors or something like that? Just trying to figure out what would be the point, other than just the coolness of running code in spaaaaaaaace.
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by breischl 8y ago
>I fail to see what isn't "conservative" about that. I believe the "not conservative" part is that they're giving massive amounts of public money, both directly and via free infrastructure, to a private busi
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>BTW - why is lack of free will a downer? I perceive is as neutral. Not the GP, but lack of free will implies that people have no agency over their actions, and hence can't really take pride in anything they've accomplished. Th
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by breischl 8y ago
I recall seeing somebody that did exactly that, largely because it was way more efficient for solar setups. It is a bit ridiculous to take DC power from solar panels, convert to AC power, then plug a standard home electronic power supply in
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by breischl 8y ago
The execs at our company put themselves in the same open-plan... but then they each perma-booked a conference room for their own personal use. So they don't really live it, and they made the problem of scarce conference room space even
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by breischl 8y ago
After they switched us to an open office there was so much complaining that they then bought noise-cancelling headphones for everyone. So now we have an open office in which everyone wears headphones in an attempt to emulate having some pri
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There was a bunch of crap to sign. I suspect there was some agreement, otherwise people would just not show up to the presentation at all. But TBH I didn't read it all or seriously consider doing a chargeback.
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by breischl 8y ago
Ah, that explains why they won't allow you to post photos from their website. I do some serious-amateur and (when I'm lucky) semi-pro quality photography using a "real camera". I was going to post some of them on Instagr
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by breischl 8y ago
I went to one of the Wyndham presentations a couple years back, partially for the free (albeit shitty) breakfast, free tickets to a local attraction (actually somewhat valuable) and to observe the sales pitch. I came away similarly impresse
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by breischl 8y ago
Multi-billion is a bit high, even for modern planes. You basically have to crash a B-2 bomber to get there. Which has, of course, been done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_B-2_Spirit#Ac...
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by breischl 8y ago
I've worked on price display for a large-ish company. The funny thing is that our company, and probably others, would really like to show all-in pricing! It's easier for us because we wouldn't have to do things differently in

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