cheriot

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by cheriot 8y ago
If I'm in 5 chat rooms, does it make that much of a difference if they're on one platform or 3? Messaging and social networks have much bigger network effects than slack and spectrum.
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by cheriot 8y ago
I think you're ignoring that this is FOSS. What are they really depending on Spectrum for? Download the data, run the software yourself, and you no longer need them. The one exception seems to be that it's hosted at a Spectrum own
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by cheriot 8y ago
I don't mind advocating against regulatory capture in general. If nothing else, improved access to this data will make the Westlas/LexisNexis industry more competitive. There are a lot of ways governments generate revenue even if
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by cheriot 8y ago
If America's urban areas were good at "geometry" they wouldn't have so much parking and such shitty transit.
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by cheriot 8y ago
> There are as many permanent housing beds as people who need them. That does not match what I've read elsewhere.
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by cheriot 8y ago
The other side of the comparison is that SF has fewer families than other major cities. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/09/families-flee-san-...
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by cheriot 8y ago
There is such a thing as a functional heroin addict https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/27/health/functioning-heroin-add... For the ones that can no longer function, they can't get to or around the suburbs
818.
by cheriot 8y ago
I'd argue that there's lower hanging fruit. The loss of jobs to automation just hasn't become a problem yet. When you look at the economic prospects of the California poor, there have jobs, but housing costs consume a large a
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by cheriot 8y ago
I suspect the reason for IRA vs 401k is entirely regulatory. For any values I try in a spreadsheet, paying the taxes up front results in larger post-tax amounts later (as long as the initial income tax rate is greater than capital gains rat
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by cheriot 8y ago
Google may be playing the long game. I've seen an effect on my team after moving from physical hardware and centralized capacity provisioning to GCP with immediate gratification hardware. It's easier to spend money so we ask for m
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by cheriot 8y ago
Great point. The real story here is regulatory capture and willing politicians. This is what makes money in politics the enemy of every voters on both sides.
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by cheriot 8y ago
I don't think the author is saying tech debt is ONLY fixed on Fridays. Companies have a hard time prioritizing things that only engineers can see. Especially small things. So some form of reserved engineer bandwidth for tech debt can b
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by cheriot 8y ago
I'm more excited at the prospect of choosing my own wake word than the privacy. Ok, Google is weirdly cumbersome
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by cheriot 8y ago
Here ya go, https://www.amazon.com/Hatching-Twitter-Story-Friendship-Bet...
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by cheriot 8y ago
Iirc, they were charging for their mobile OS while Android was given away (only requiring the gsuite). MS was also later to launch an app store. So the mobile OS layer is where MS use to make money and it's what Android commoditized.
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by cheriot 8y ago
I've always wished I could use the Professional Development budget employers give me to donate to open source projects. Not that I feel entitled to it, but I think some employers could get enough employee engagement and outside attenti
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by cheriot 8y ago
Are there any good, free hosted options for blogs about programming?
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by cheriot 8y ago
I don't think anyone is claiming that housing density is the only dimension of city planning. It's just the most controversial one. Transportation, schools, and grocery stores are also required in the right proportions. It's
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by cheriot 8y ago
They also never went as high as San Francisco where construction was more restricted. How the amount of residential construction compares to the amount of office construction also matters.
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by cheriot 8y ago
As is Barcelona and Athens. But it would ruin the neighborhood's character /s Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_Union_cities_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o
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by cheriot 8y ago
City planning requires proportions, but cities keep building more office space without building the residential space for those workers to live in. For example, San Francisco has added over 170,000 new jobs since 2010 and has a stretch goal
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by cheriot 8y ago
The 60 minutes episode on Luxottica and why glasses are so expensive was interesting context for reading about Warby Parker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDdq2rIqAlM
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by cheriot 8y ago
Didn't we always know macros were going to be a problem? For the same reasons the API never progressed beyond experimental in Scala 2.
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by cheriot 8y ago
I find the Monocle library does a good job of describing the motivation for type optics: http://julien-truffaut.github.io/Monocle/ Where I've used this in real code is via circe-optics (json parsing). An example:
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by cheriot 8y ago
What matters is the complexity of the systems built out of these things. Threading primitives are simpler to understand in isolation, but lead to non-deterministic behavior. I've only used optics in a couple small situations, but even
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by cheriot 8y ago
I'd be curious to see a cost estimate for some traffic level. I wonder if there's a way to put the pixel in s3 and process the access logs more cheaply.
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by cheriot 8y ago
There's a lot more to professional development than certification bs. I've not done anything on Udacity, but I've spent my employer's money on Coursera before and it was well worth the time. I've also spent 10x the
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by cheriot 8y ago
> We will increase our investments in growth areas like enterprise and career development I'm surprised the shift has taken this long. Employers will spend massively more on employee development than employees will. Employer: $2,000
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by cheriot 8y ago
Does anyone know how Heroku and Elastic Beanstalk compare with App Engine Flexible (ie, the one that runs an arbitrary docker container)? I can't believe how long ago Heroku nailed such a simple PaaS platform.
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by cheriot 8y ago
> Laws generally exist for a reason Laws need to be updated as the world changes and that's a really bad reason to justify one.

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