calcifer

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by calcifer 8y ago
> But you do pay the water company based on how much water you use. Yes, I do as the consumer of that water. In this analogy Netflix would be the dam operator, so why would a particular dam pay more to the pipe company than another d
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by calcifer 8y ago
Because all I want is a dumb pipe. I don't pay the water company based on how wide their pipes are (backbone bandwith) or how far I am from their treatment center (latency); I pay based on consumption alone, as it should be. Why do y
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Amazon Neptune Generally Available(aws.amazon.com)
3 points by calcifer 8y ago|1 comments
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by calcifer 8y ago
> People care deeply about their privacy. No, they don't. Do you really think if, before she made this purchase, someone explained to her all the things that could theoratically go wrong with this device, she would have chosen not t
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by calcifer 8y ago
For those without noscript etc. this [1] is how it looks without JS. Absolutely amazing. [1] https://i.imgur.com/gTXPXrx.png
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by calcifer 8y ago
> Do you have people on staff working on building flying cars? Does Uber? They sure talk about things a lot and yet, there is very little - if any - proof of them doing actual work on "flying cars". I'm inclined to agree w
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by calcifer 8y ago
I also talked about flying cars before, how is that "experience"?
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by calcifer 8y ago
> I see the tin foil hats are out in full swing, but the reality is, far from what people assume. So the people who are suspicious of NSAs motives and actions are "tin foil hats", but your position is somehow "the reality&
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by calcifer 8y ago
Account Executive, I think.
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by calcifer 8y ago
> Wine clearly is an emulator of the Windows APIs No, WINE is a third party implementation of Windows APIs, that doesn't make it an emulator. Otherwise, Oracle JDK would be an "OpenJDK emulator".
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by calcifer 8y ago
It never officially stood for that.The backronym was there even when the name WINE itself was very, very new [1]. [1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.linux.misc/_g3F2H4ie...
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by calcifer 8y ago
> SLS (Senate Launch System) You sound like the kind of person that unironically writes Micro$oft, mistakenly believing it supports their view point. At best , it makes you look juvenile.
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by calcifer 8y ago
Than it sounds like Musk is disagreeing with SpaceX. From the article: > SpaceX says it is serious about flying people safely and is going to great lengths to study every aspect of the vehicle, down to individual valves, so that it will
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by calcifer 8y ago
> *bad ?
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by calcifer 8y ago
> Survival rates are significantly higher in the US Citation needed.
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by calcifer 8y ago
It's only political to a certain segment of Americans. For pretty much every other major country, it's just the natural, correct state of things.
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by calcifer 9y ago
Maybe it's just me, but needing an entire IDE or a debugger to write a function that checks if a string is the same backwards seems entirely too much to me. It's a pen&paper question really.
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by calcifer 9y ago
Fair enough. I certainly don't claim to know the best interview method ever; simply that, in my experience, starting with trivial coding questions has a higher benefit/risk ratio then other approaches.
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by calcifer 9y ago
Personally, if you gave me this answer I would accept it and then asked you how those functions work and how you would implement them. Still trivial, but it would tell me whether you are familiar with the basics or you just memorized some
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by calcifer 9y ago
> How often do you need to write palindrome functions for your job? That's like answering "how often do you need math?" to the question "what is 2+3?". It is an utterly, completely, stunningly trivial question
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by calcifer 9y ago
I understand and truly symphatize with stress the candidate is in, but someone who claims to be a "senior developer with 10 years experience" should be able to write that palindrome function in 30 whole minutes in any kind of st
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by calcifer 9y ago
> 99% of my candidates can code, as in iterate over collections, write case statements, and call functions. Honestly, that's way too trivial to call "can code". I usually ask something less trivial, yet still extremely eas
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by calcifer 9y ago
I'm definitely in camp B. 90% chance of dying on the table beats a 100% chance of dying without the surgery, every single time.
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by calcifer 9y ago
> some system of having different physicians assess ratings than the ones performing the procedures - maybe in some kind of double-blind fashion to prevent any kind of coordination strategy. That would simply result in an unwritten rule
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by calcifer 9y ago
What information? Apparently the doctor told them he could do it. If he really believed in himself, then he told the patient everything she needed to know. Remember, the other option is "go die". So assigning a percentage chance o
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by calcifer 9y ago
That's not realistic. You and I are complete strangers; we can have a talk for 10 minutes where not a single word that comes out of my mouth is true and you'd be none the wiser.
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by calcifer 9y ago
My guess is they decided to switch to Highwinds as their CDN (don't know what it was before) and they didn't plan it correctly.
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by calcifer 9y ago
> To claim that the primary purpose of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (NAVIC) is for belligerent activities is to claim knowledge of the intentions of the Indian government at the time of the system's creation. Soun
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by calcifer 9y ago
As always, there is a relevant xkcd. https://xkcd.com/641/
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by calcifer 9y ago
Actually, in the 70s Netherlands was very much a car-first country. The current cycling infrastructure is a very hard won victory, with thousands dead along the way [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBdf9jYj7o

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