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by cbanek 9y ago
I didn't realize that there was a name for this, but this feels like every Vegas casino. They also do lots of other tricky things, like not generally allowing windows or having clocks on the wall.
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by cbanek 9y ago
I'm not sure if it's "technical debt" but backward compatibility between versions can feel like this. Once you decide you stop supporting a previous version, you can rip out all that code (or strange compatibility code p
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by cbanek 9y ago
One other interesting point that could come up but wasn't in the calculations is the reflection of the sound of the toilet tank lid hitting the tank. Most toilets are put into little nooks with just a few open inches between the toile
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by cbanek 9y ago
Even with a top-tier company, recruiting top-tier employees, doesn't implie top-tier-interesting-work. I do think many of the top-tier companies do have good people, because they can pay for them, but it almost seems like it's a
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by cbanek 9y ago
That's a really interesting comparison. I've worked at Microsoft and got an offer from Google and found the opposite to be true. I was first offered by the team I interned with, whom I liked, and accepted, so I knew where I was
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by cbanek 9y ago
Making a wrapper function that locked/serialized access to printf. There was a crash that would happen occasionally in a server which always happened in printf and outputting logs and debug data. While you'd think it was a softw
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by cbanek 9y ago
This has been a problem for me driving for years. Driving thru non-interstate highways in the middle of the desert, you're usually restricted to two lane roads, which have lots of dips and turns which block oncoming visibility. There
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by cbanek 9y ago
"17% of developers worked with AI or machine learning in 2017." Really? That seems very high to me. Although maybe developers are a smaller pool than I thought (is making a website still development these days)? Also, same for
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by cbanek 9y ago
We are going to be doing some backend development! We are building out a public data center to back the portal, and to power interactive python notebooks for education and citizen science. We're not currently hiring for that position
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by cbanek 9y ago
Thank you so much! Link should be fixed.
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by cbanek 9y ago
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by cbanek 9y ago
Totally and completely agree. But everywhere I've worked in the past 10 years has always asked me to unit test everything, and unit testing is specifically called out all the time. Other types of tests are rarely even discussed, becaus
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by cbanek 9y ago
Couldn't have said it better myself. I've had a lot of times where no bugs were found with huge amounts of unit testing over trivial code. It would have been easier and of more use to just do manual inspection (code review) with
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by cbanek 9y ago
> Tesla is not a production company yet. Tesla is a promise of what it can be. Well, it's not exactly a startup anymore either, which is what it sounds like you're describing (escape velocity). They're a public company th
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by cbanek 9y ago
Love this article. Very interesting, and I love how the results are able to be quantified. Coming from some projects that had a very heavy unit testing culture, I can agree that unit testing doesn't always necessarily have the intende
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by cbanek 9y ago
> People are blinded by so called conventional wisdom This seems to be the exact kind of thinking that led to the dotcom bust. I've commented before on the whole Tesla valuation thing, and people try to think of it like a tech compa
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by cbanek 9y ago
I'm sad to say that I think this is the intended result of social media from the corporate/business point of view. Instead of TV, with its advertisements being broad and un-targeted, people are building their own hell by searching
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by cbanek 9y ago
Everywhere I hear people talking about healthcare. Mostly it seems we need more providers for the elderly, because of our demographics and population growth slowdown. But if that's the case, won't this be the "peak elderly&
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by cbanek 9y ago
> However I am pretty sure Apple does some DNS tunneling. That seems very reasonable. It would be better than hardcoding IP addresses and safer than straight DNS for management things. Maybe their implementation of that doesn't ha
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by cbanek 9y ago
Since you're blocking some DNS requests, do you think a portion of the usage might be retries? If one DNS request could turn into querying all the addresses in your list, I could see an amplification attack happening, and then that ha
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by cbanek 9y ago
I've heard that and brought that up to a doctor friend of mine at the time, and they told me that they would rather give the prescription if it won't harm the person, because it's likely the patient will go to a questionable
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by cbanek 9y ago
I feel like the push to TV advertising and advertising to patients started after regulations slowing drug companies from taking doctors on vacations (think country clubs, hotels, cruises, golf) and working on them directly. I remember when
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by cbanek 9y ago
I've heard this happens a lot. Plus, if the person is really adamant about getting whatever drug, the doctor knows that it's possible the patient will find a new doctor to prescribe it anyway.
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by cbanek 9y ago
I guess you can think of it that way, but it probably depends on the technology used by the printer at that point. My thought was that for the 3d printer, at least it's one consistent piece with no seams or edges that are later welded
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by cbanek 9y ago
For a liquid fueled rocket you have many opportunities before launch such as firing the engine in a test stand, etc. For the whole rocket you can do a static fire, or even a full duration fire to test the components. Mostly when you are m
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by cbanek 9y ago
> I think the idea is to 3D print parts that are currently welded together. I don't see anywhere that they are planning to print as one piece anything that is ever disassembled with current practices. I would agree that 3d printing
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by cbanek 9y ago
It sounds like an interesting idea, but I'm not sure I buy it. It makes sense that building single use rockets is expensive, and with only one launch to amortize the construction cost, labor is a huge factor (materials in a rocket are
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by cbanek 9y ago
> “The big problem in the U.S. is that half of the working population in the private sector has no retirement plan available at work — and people do not save on their own,” Munnell said. I'd love to see an article about retirement s
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by cbanek 9y ago
> “There is no company on earth with a better track record than Tesla,” it said in a statement to the Guardian. This statement is a huge red flag. It's almost Trumpian in its useless superlatives. No corporation is perfect, and eve
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by cbanek 9y ago
Curl is in everything. And you can tell, if you find the license. In my 2014 Chevy Cruze, if you look in the owner's manual, there is the curl license, in all its glory. I've used it many times myself, and it's always prov

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