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by ci5er 10y ago
The traffic was pretty light by today's standards. I was able to "run" half or more of two and a half states' (in the Rocky Mountain region) worth of UUCP/email traffic on a TrailBlazer 9600 baud modem hanging off o
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by ci5er 10y ago
This is almost certainly a naive question, but wouldn't you treat your DBMS data as a "snapshot" of that (zero) point in time and then all of the new events update from there until the next snapshot?
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by ci5er 10y ago
> It fits really nicely with a data > functions mindset. That will probably confuse my procedural mind, much like declarative "stuff" often does! :-)
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by ci5er 10y ago
Thanks for the pointer. I'm already using BEAM in a project, so that wouldn't be a bridge too far for that one...
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by ci5er 10y ago
> It's pretty demoralizing to go to work and leave work in complete darkness for days on end. Those are clouds. The sun is still there - you just can't see it.
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by ci5er 10y ago
This would seem to indicate that it's an above average salary: * https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/seattle-senior-software-e... > because they wanted me to join at in one level down than my current role. As yo
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by ci5er 10y ago
Amazon can provide a competing shipping service. If they give me a choice, I'll pick the one that best fits my needs. It might be theirs; it might not be. If they don't offer that choice, and force me to use theirs, and theirs fai
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by ci5er 10y ago
You expect consumers to pick crappier stuff, at higher prices and more inconvenience? Or that the companies who provide better/faster/cheaper not to grow large on providing what the people want at the prices they want to pay?
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by ci5er 10y ago
In the absence of a good reason not to use Python (and there are many case where one should not), I use it quite a bit myself. And usually (absent good reason) I use it with PostresQL. SQLAlchemy is a wonderful thing. Granted, I am neither
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by ci5er 10y ago
Now that you mention it, I've noticed that. The pages seem to load quickly enough, but take a while to appear. I might be some funky client-side JS rendering "stuff". It reminds me of how a lot of material design web-componen
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by ci5er 10y ago
> I suspect most people don't like reading reference material so asking random stuff on SO works for them This is probably true. I'm not a Windows developer and on a recent project I had to use their IDE (which turns out to qui
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by ci5er 10y ago
I agree with you philosophically, but what you are describing is a market clearing price. That is, regardless of the price, there are not infinite bananas. Even at one million dollars per pound, there is no way for us to allocate bananas th
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by ci5er 10y ago
> the top of the knowledge economy. The only economy that isn't demonstrably under threat. The knowledge economy? At one point in the past, this used to be accounting, law and medicine. Maybe engineering. Accounting has been largely
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by ci5er 10y ago
Fair enough. I don't do a lot of event dispatching (well, bubbling), so I haven't found it a clear win for my use case, but it's only 10k more than jQuery (gzipped), so I can see that it would be good for a lot of them. As I
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by ci5er 10y ago
Really? I've subscribed to a few web SAAS apps recently and they all seem to have most of their requisite jquery (in one case, quite a bit of the whole thing) compiled into their app.js. What are people doing? Going commando?
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by ci5er 10y ago
> 3) You have to pay tax based on the amount of money you've invoiced for, not the amount you received to date, so you can easily get a tax bill for which you won't have the money for until your customer pays you. But the taxma
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by ci5er 10y ago
First you have to separate out network effects (recently called "the platform stack") from virality. The former (not the one you asked for) is this stuff: - https://medium.com/@smitty/what-i-learned-from-10
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by ci5er 10y ago
Thanks! I love this kind of market-specific knowledge.
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by ci5er 10y ago
I'm not talking about card refunds. I'm talking about all the lags in ACH and all the ways that (under UCC) that consumers can grab their money back even after it already went through... > Why would anyone agree to a 1.5% reduc
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by ci5er 10y ago
How so? About 1% for about a month (30 days) is in the ballpark for A/R acceleration, isn't it? The "about 1%" for the 20 day lag on the issuing side collections cycle is from the merchant paying for about one month of c
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by ci5er 10y ago
> Now, if that awareness created or creates the physical world (as the Bhagavad Gita seems to state) that would be pretty amazing [...] Where else would it come from? If we break a conventionally physical object into smaller and smaller
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by ci5er 10y ago
I was thinking of a profit distribution once we hit that point - say 24 months in. 20% of last year's EBITDA quarterly to employees this year or some such. Of course if I've taken on any outside money by that time, those investors
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by ci5er 10y ago
You are right. It does not compute. Dozens do not die each year from badly prepared blowfish. It's on TV whenever someone does.
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by ci5er 10y ago
Well, sure - you're right. They outlawed slavery; that's why they have lockup provisions. In acquihire-land, that's the short-hand terminology that is often used. I'm sure there are more precise (and lengthy) ways to say
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by ci5er 10y ago
If there were 10 engineers, no one else, and no investors, and they each had 10% of the company, and that company sold for $100M, then they would have each gotten 10% of the company. But that's not likely. From the point of view of a b
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by ci5er 10y ago
I'm interested in this as well. I've been thinking about doing a startup with no stock options. Budgeting an average of about $125K in W2 salaries for developer types in the Austin/Dallas (or remote). (I realize that this wou
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by ci5er 10y ago
The thread is deep (as you say in this comment's sibling), so I will email the longer commentary... Briefly, most of the published analysis is top-down and less is bottom-up. People seem to bundle Seed+Series-A in most places. There&#x
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by ci5er 10y ago
I hadn't even thought of including kickstarter-and-friends, partly because the companies aren't selling equity. I'm not including any sort of corporate spin-out either. The lines have gotten so blurry compared to 20 years ago
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by ci5er 10y ago
That's county jail, not prison, right?
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by ci5er 10y ago
Well, my point was that while, yes, it's easier (cheaper, faster) to build and market a product than it was 20 years ago, the criteria for an investment has moved right along with it. I mean - gosh - Sun was funded based on a napkin dr

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