carterehsmith

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by carterehsmith 7y ago
Well before pyramids, they built "mastabas". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastaba And before that, they "buried their dead in pit graves dug out from the sand" (same article) That _does_ indicate a
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
>> Cancer is a fairly modern disease. Depends on what we consider "modern". Last I checked, they found cancers on dinosaur fossils. see e.g. https://www.cancerquest.org/cancer-biology/cancer-wild-anima..
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
>> how toxic the Windows brand is -- or, if not 'toxic', at least worthless How about the "Microsoft" brand? Looking at the "most valuable brands", Microsoft is always near the top. Example: https:&#x2F
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
What do you propose instead?
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
>>Have you never gotten a flat tire? That's the thing: I do get a punctured tire... sometimes. Maybe every 2-3 years. Not critical, just losing pressure. Not urgent. Last time, local shop fixed it for $28. They gave me a little f
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
>> and comes with a full size spare I am curious, how often do you need a spare tire, full size or otherwise?
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
>> you can't introduce newer patterns without breaking compatibility. Yeah it is tricky, but Java has a good track record here: In 1.2 they added all-new Collections API. The old API is still there and still works, though it is n
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
>> Go's standard library is an order of magnitude (at least) better than Java's, much more comprehensive, much more cohesive, and much more capable Can you please provide some examples? This would be a useful comparison, as
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by carterehsmith 7y ago
>> C can be quite complex once you get into all the abstractions it's using. Perhaps you were referring to C++, or some newer C dialect? What I mean is, the K&R C had very few (if any) abstractions, other than those defined b
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by carterehsmith 8y ago
Question. I am curious in general in that, how can they say that "this" data was compromised, but "that" data was not? How does that work? Do they really have some low-level access log that shows who accessed what file a
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by carterehsmith 8y ago
Heh, I can imagine him in front of some whiteboard, while some interviewer dude is like... "uh... the candidate does not even understand the basic WebPack.keepCompatWithWebPack0.1.11='comp,3t,all'. And I am not even joking.
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by carterehsmith 8y ago
I remember when the "proceduraly generated" games first showed up - 30 years ago? You could get a billion different scenarios, each one involving a million locations. None of them existed before you started playing the game. And g
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by carterehsmith 8y ago
Canada. Looks like unlimited cell data plans are not a thing here, at least not yet.
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by carterehsmith 8y ago
Nice. Myself, I did not see price drops -- I've been paying ~ $100/mo for cell phone plan (5GB data) for some years now -- 3 years at least maybe 5 years or more.
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by carterehsmith 8y ago
Well, that made me search for "most expensive potatoes" and sure enough, some exotic potatoes go for $300/pound. til. http://www.luxuo.com/lifestyle/gastronomy/potato-la-bonnotte...
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by carterehsmith 8y ago
>> What else do you use that is 10 times better than it was a decade ago? Google Search? Gmail? Facebook? iOS? Heh, ironically, the "wired" internet is surely 10X or more faster than a decade ago. Anecdotally, I have a 1 Gbp
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by carterehsmith 8y ago
"they argued about whether it’s a big enough site to include" Wow. That sounds ridiculous. But if you try and track that site ... From https://twofactorauth.org/ "Made with tea by Josh Davis..." Then yo
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by carterehsmith 9y ago
>> without vendor lock-in If you buy into CRDB you are vendor locked-in (just like any other db).
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by carterehsmith 9y ago
Eh, I find these comparisons of "X on local SSDs" vs "Y on networked storage" completely meaningless. Even worse: "DISCLAIMER: this benchmark script was not validated and certified by the Transaction Processing Coun
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by carterehsmith 9y ago
"The moment one of those people becomes large enough, Oracle's lawyers will come knocking." Can we see an example of big Java user being called by Oracle's lawyers? Excluding Google, they created their own Java with no r
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by carterehsmith 9y ago
Where I work now, we went through 2 or 3 rounds of funding. Each round involved lawyers doing due dilligence, checking the licencing of all the software we use, and all the libraries we use, and so on. No issues were raised regarding Java o
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by carterehsmith 9y ago
>> existential threat to my company There is like a bajillion people out there running Oracle Java, MySql, Virtualbox and so on. All of them Oracle products, and with permissive licenses. Where is this "existential treat" th
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by carterehsmith 9y ago
First off, I wish you all the best. "we have about a dozen of the Fortune 500 signing up" Let's be honest. What this means is that someone in the Fortune 500 clicked on your email advertisement. Maybe installed your software.
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by carterehsmith 9y ago
Huh, that was a total waste of some 5-10-whatever minutes I spent. The title was "Anne Wojcicki on How to Build the Future" There was absolutely nothing about "How to Build the Future". Just a random blabber about whatev
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by carterehsmith 9y ago
Good points, I am familiar with the process. There is a concept or "forward-compatible change". Basically, you don't do things that will break your software. Example, you don't add a NOT-NULL column unless you can give i
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by carterehsmith 9y ago
> They must be having some sort of decent traction to close these rounds, so that means that they have a strong use case. Hard to tell. Closing rounds is not a guarantee of anything. VC model is to throw shit against the wall and see wha
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by carterehsmith 9y ago
Hmmm so how do you scale this business of reviewing code? At the beginning, maybe you sign up some super high-end 10X developers to do reviews. Also run some tools like SpotBugs or Coverity or something. Then when the ammount of reviews goe
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by carterehsmith 9y ago
> but I've never understood what the employee gets out of it They may get money? Some of these companies have valuation in hundreds of billions, and a small bit of news can nudge that +/- 0.5-2% or more which could be a couple
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by carterehsmith 9y ago
So this is true, but I find that it does not matter much. Like, how often one needs to rollback a DDL statement? I did that like... never. And, what is the use case? Like, you added a column to a table by accident? Well, that will not break
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by carterehsmith 9y ago
>> Tesla’s Autopilot reduces crashes by 40% according to the NHTSA So does any car with automatic emergency braking and/or or forward collision warning (links below). The problem here is, this Tesla drove head-on into the gore po

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