cgusto

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by cgusto 10y ago
I think this is the wrong way to look at Vine's impact. If you search Youtube for monthly Vine compilations (ie Oct 2016 Vines) these videos have millions of views - enough to make some of these Vine stars into minor celebrities (look
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by cgusto 10y ago
I'm also a Prime addict, and have noticed vast improvements in the past year or so with Amazon Logistics (Bay Area). Just like you mentioned, it was really bad at first. Packages would routinely arrive late, wrong address, etc. I live
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by cgusto 10y ago
Wasn't even that long ago. In 2006, the CSU I was at still used your SSN for everything - including logging into the computers. This particular school has since changed this, but I wouldn't be surprised if the practice is still us
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by cgusto 10y ago
I have noticed an uptick as well (upto 3-4 calls a day). If it's not a number I recognize, I just silence the ringer and let it go to VM. And then block the number.
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by cgusto 10y ago
I play it a few times a week. Project Cars and DiRT are what I spend most of the time with. I'm also enjoying Chronos right now, which is more of a RPG. Echoing what a few others have said, there are not a lot of great AAA titles for e
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by cgusto 11y ago
IMHO, fully autonomous cars for the general public are at least 10+ years away. What I'm excited about is how we will soon see more and more autonomous 'features' i.e. lane changing, smarter adaptive cruise control and parkin
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by cgusto 12y ago
Wow, this rumor is out of control. I guarantee they are not working on a complete vehicle. Probably battery systems and some type of autonomous control, if anything. I think this is just a moonshot program to attract engineering talent.
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by cgusto 12y ago
Agreed. The stock dropped around 7.5%. Although significant, it is not "tumbling".
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by cgusto 12y ago
Yes, it is scary when you realize how susceptible some of this infrastructure is. Reminds me of an instance in 2009. I was working in Santa Cruz, CA. I was configuring some of our servers remotely, when suddenly I lost internet connection.
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by cgusto 12y ago
There are tons of bat shit crazy ideas everywhere. Despite all the sensationalized stories, SF is a great area, filled with great people (for the most part). But you will be paying nearly $2k/mo to rent a bedroom; that much is true :-p
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by cgusto 12y ago
Is anyone else curious on what data setup the NSA is using? Do they have some crazy non relational ZFS setup that makes Hadoop seem like a kid's toy? Or is it just a bunch of off the shelf enterprise SQL servers duct taped together? M
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by cgusto 13y ago
Unless I'm mistaken, every cell phone maker has only a standard one-year warranty. I agree with all the points you made. I just don't think a longer warranty would have helped them.
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by cgusto 14y ago
So you quit using Google, but you advocate products by Apple and MS? Clearly those companies don't want to monetize your data. Ever.
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by cgusto 14y ago
Had their website been called buywithbitcoin.com or something similar, they would probably still be around. They used Amazon's name/logo. What did they think was going to happen?
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by cgusto 14y ago
+1 for the Battletoads reference. I probably broke a couple NES controllers out of frustration back in the day. As morbid as it sounds, it is refreshing to see such a painfully honest email. I wish Groupon and Andy the best.
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by cgusto 14y ago
Agreed. This will just add unnecessary confusion for a lot of people. Might look good for marketing, but I bet most of these will just redirect to the '.com' site.
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by cgusto 15y ago
Sorry you have to go through this, but you shouldn't have any trouble landing a job. Along with the other great companies listed above, Facebook is hiring as well. I work with infra systems - if large hadoop clusters, compilers, or kernel w