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by chadnickbok 11y ago
Great series of articles, I very much enjoy reading Martin Sustrik's thoughts on concurrency, mainly because he has the creds to back up his criticisms. Reminds me a lot of reading Poul-Henning Kamp's writing (the author of Varnis
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by chadnickbok 11y ago
Oh for sure there's a reason that approach is dropbox's default - its really hard for people to understand their files aren't really "there". That said, my point is more that for people who start storing 100GB+ of d
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by chadnickbok 11y ago
What's also impressive is doing away with Dropbox's clunky "selective sync". While having everything stored locally sounds like a good idea at first, as you store more and more data is gets less and less user-friendly; i
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by chadnickbok 11y ago
I think there's a marked difference between conversations about basic income and "two-cent gasoline". In this case, direct market manipulation of specific goods paid for by a budget entirely reliant on the price of oil being
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by chadnickbok 11y ago
Its not exactly hard to come up with a counter-point on right-wing policy here using the same, broad logic. Putin's Russia is having similar issues with an unbalanced budget due to a low oil price - would you say that his mistake is le
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by chadnickbok 11y ago
Relevant xkcd what-if: http://what-if.xkcd.com/143/
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by chadnickbok 11y ago
My fear is that some managers take this as a sign they need to think about replacing someone - I'd be really careful about taking this option unless I had a really great personal relationship with my manager.
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by chadnickbok 11y ago
If you're feeling burned out and you've put over a year into your current job, I'd highly recommend you consider switching jobs. My own opinion is, if you're not feeling passionate about your work, the first thing to try
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by chadnickbok 11y ago
Yes, please do put it on GitHub! It does sound like a big claim, but what do you have to lose? I'm personally trying to get more of my projects out into the open, even before I feel like they're ready - having code I put lots of t
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by chadnickbok 11y ago
Good engineers ship.
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by chadnickbok 11y ago
Its been my experience that there's a second part to the TCO argument that answers the question of why companies allow their employees, on company time, to work on and contribute OSS. Essentially, open source provides a mechanism to sh
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by chadnickbok 11y ago
Hey so I currently work on this technology - check out https://www.x.io/ if you'd like to learn more. You can sign up for free and get some free minutes to try it out. We can run arbitrary windows apps and stream them
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by chadnickbok 11y ago
What kind of progress are you expecting teams to make during the 8 weeks? How greatly do you anticipate this program impact getting into the "real" YC winter batch? Do you expect that after 8 weeks most good startups would be &quo
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by chadnickbok 11y ago
The part of this story I liked the most was the team's reaction; gathering up their desks into one part of the office, and breaking down the old desks that were now unused. Seems like a kind of mourning process, and makes me feel like
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by chadnickbok 11y ago
When executing layoffs like this, the hardest thing _for the company_ is to make sure that the negativity from laying people off doesn't destroy the company completely. Ben Horowitz has some interesting insights on this in this blog ar
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by chadnickbok 12y ago
I though that the point of the article was that Amazon's hardware strategy isn't working, completely ignoring the echo. The title then invites us to draw our own conclusions about the echo, and enjoy the irony...
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by chadnickbok 12y ago
This sucks, my heart goes out to his family :( For a brief moment I wondered if this is what I want to see on HN/Techcrunch. But we're a community, and lots of us live in SF - if it were a friend of mine, I'd be super happy t
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by chadnickbok 12y ago
This article is incorrect. 1 - Lots of apps don't solve any "problem". Lots of apps don't sell anything other than ad space. Some of them succeed 2 - Lots of 'Apps' can be successful with one founder. Perhaps t
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by chadnickbok 12y ago
I always find the TIOBE Index fascinating, but mainly because I just don't get it ! I have no idea how any index can rank Transact-SQL (not even just 'sql') over JavaScript. I'm not sure where the index pulls in its dat
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by chadnickbok 12y ago
Perhaps a better argument to make is that, since 2009, "Cloud Storage" has taken off alongside Amazon's S3 service. So while folks who really do need to reliably store 500GB of stuff might still be looking at RAID, for the &#
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by chadnickbok 12y ago
I'm not sure I fully understand why RAID10 is better than RAID5. Reading the RAID wikipedia article, they seem to imply that a typical RAID10 setup uses n*2 disks, where each block of data is written to two drives. But how does that he
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by chadnickbok 13y ago
Right now it supports Dropbox, Box, and Google drive, with SkyDrive coming soon. We'll take a look into evernote - Hadn't thought about that before.
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by chadnickbok 13y ago
We're actually working on both Linux and Mac clients right now; we just started with Windows. Right now, you can add two different services for free, adding more requires a subscription - we're still trying to figure out exactly w
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by chadnickbok 13y ago
We're working on the Mac and Linux clients at the moment; if you sign up, we'll invite you to the beta once they're ready ;)
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by chadnickbok 13y ago
Actually, in this case, no it won't. Your own shell will parse $TMP_DIR and replace it with the output of mktemp, and then execute it. Its only really bad if some does the following: rm -rf /$TMP_DIR The slash is importan
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by chadnickbok 13y ago
You're right, I'm completely wrong - the worst thing that can happen here is that the whole RVM directory is removed. Hardly catastrophic, and definitely not the extreme failure case the article is talking about.
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by chadnickbok 13y ago
A quick example - RVM! http://rvm.io suggests you run the command: \curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable Which exhibits exactly the failure scenario outlined in the article; partway through the script RVM cl
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by chadnickbok 13y ago
The are quite simplistic, but that's kind of a feature - Use them to get down 'the basics', before moving onto actually using languages to solve problems. There's no better way to learn than through building actual 'things'. As an aside, my
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by chadnickbok 13y ago
As many people have said, no, you're not too old to get started. And despite what some people might say, a multi-year degree program, with a decent GPA, is a great way of showing employers that you're a decent potential candidate. That said
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by chadnickbok 14y ago
Being generous - It sounds like beamr has a tool that can choose, for a given input video, which minimum crf option will provide a 'transparent' transcode.

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