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by chesser 16y ago
To me, that sounds like encouraging a race to the bottom. When you're in the business of storing other people's data, things like transactions, binary backups, QUICK RESTORES, and separating dev from production shouldn't be afterthoughts.
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by chesser 16y ago
I have a slightly higher threshold for considering something refreshing . It took several levels of basic mistakes for this to happen AND for the restore to be as slow as it is. Using MySQL with no transactions, no binary backups, no way t
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by chesser 16y ago
> MySQL. Not that using anything else would have prevented this or would help restore the table faster... The slowness of the restore sounds like they have to insert a text dump back into the database, rather than simply copy over the
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by chesser 16y ago
Let's say someone comes over to start a start-up. Who exactly are they going to hire? The competition is already super tough for getting good help. The talent pool is limited, so this seems rather zero-sum. The kind of people you want
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by chesser 16y ago
That's the point. Even if that top 1% gets bigger in absolute numbers, there will just be more or bigger companies vying for them, so the problem never goes away. Even if you magically boost everyone drastically so the average person of the
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by chesser 16y ago
> Why have we never seen a blog post saying that it's not worth it? I can think of some reasons. 1) If your company doesn't make it, then you got investment and owe nothing, so complaining seems a little silly. 2) If your company DOES
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by chesser 16y ago
If everyone is competing for the top 1%, you're never going to solve the problem. And of the people with the skills you want, why should they work at your crappy company instead of starting their own? Try this on for size: "Here, I'll give
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by chesser 16y ago
Everything in this article applies to non-"gifted" children as well. They also get enormously pressured to get better grades, are overscheduled, forced into music lessons, come from broken homes, have crappy parents, get picked on for any
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by chesser 16y ago
> Feynman was just making the point that there is a point where no matter how hard your work your little tail off, you will simply be at a disadvantage compared with someone who has genetic gifts or the like. Actually it was Hans Beth
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by chesser 16y ago
> IM and GM are not awarded by rating Correct. That's why I used phrases like "typically" and "International Master level ". The mentioned ratings are part of the requirements, and are STRONGLY associated with those titles. "The requ
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by chesser 16y ago
> yet it still fails to account for the impenetrable mystery that enshrouds such birds of paradise as Bobby Fischer, who started playing chess at the age of 6. Nine years later, he became the U.S. chess champion. What's the mystery th