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by cmckn 6y ago
> I think it’s way harder coming up with complex algorithms in the first place. As soon as you start utilizing a data structure or calling another function, understanding the asymptotic behavior of each call can be super helpful. For exa
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by cmckn 6y ago
A grisly death is more appealing than running a full Elasticsearch cluster :)
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by cmckn 6y ago
Sure, you can read it that way. My point was that he isn't clear about the exact nature of his relationship with the person he helped, and those details are probably relevant to his termination.
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by cmckn 6y ago
Fair. I still think this person is being very selective with the facts of the matter; despite Apple not being incredibly nice, I don't think they're unreasonable in the way he implies.
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by cmckn 6y ago
> I decided to help an elderly _friend_ > I had just been fired for helping _someone_ > they wouldn’t have fired me for helping a _customer_ This shifting language is suspicious to me; is this a friend or a customer you met at the
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by cmckn 6y ago
> it's better to have a source from where you can rebuild the index. Having worked for several years at a company selling search, I can't emphasize this enough. Rebuilding indices should always be straightforward, and your data
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by cmckn 6y ago
> I first heard about it at KubeCon last fall, and kind of shrugged it off as one of those fledgling... I didn’t know the age of the project, because I hadn’t heard of it. That’s why I go on to say that in actuality it has a ton of adopt
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by cmckn 6y ago
Refactoring always requires a deeeep muscle-memory of the codebase, getting to that point at a job is a great feeling. Sometimes (always?) making things pretty pays off, too! :)
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by cmckn 6y ago
Prometheus is great. I first heard about it at KubeCon last fall, and kind of shrugged it off as one of those fledgling "cloud native" projects that I probably didn't need or didn't have time to learn. There's actua
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by cmckn 6y ago
Many others have mentioned the problem with estimating time cost. I think the core issue is that very few things actually take _only_ an afternoon of programming to build. One good example of this is a general application framework like Dro
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by cmckn 6y ago
Honestly, I've lost track of the actual argument in this app-taxi space. Is it primarily health insurance? What is the employee benefit that is the crux of the issue for the average driver?
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by cmckn 6y ago
> if an EV is driven 50,000 miles over its lifetime Small nit-pick, but this made my eyes pop out of my skull. My first car had over 200k miles on it when I _started_ driving it another 75k. It seems ridiculous to use 50k in these calcu
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by cmckn 6y ago
Hopefully, none of this will be implemented and we can all forget Mike Pompeo exists in 6 months.
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by cmckn 6y ago
Tangential, but I actually switched back to Maven after using Gradle on a fairly large project for about a year. The incremental/cached builds of Gradle were awesome, but I found writing build.gradle files to be a bit too hacky. I can
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by cmckn 6y ago
I agree; and unfortunately I found self-hosted vaults to always be a bit challenging to get right, if I wanted to use my vault on multiple devices. The local-network only sync engine never worked for me, so I ended up using another third-pa
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by cmckn 6y ago
The author doesn't detail _what_ is more complicated about the gRPC API, other than the fact that it's gRPC. One could implement the exact same API in HTTP or with gRPC; so without specific examples, it's kind of a meaningles
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by cmckn 6y ago
This looks great, thanks!
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by cmckn 6y ago
For sure, I was attempting to say that my opinion isn't up-to-date on LibreOffice. I tried it many times back in the day, and it never impressed. Like others have said, it's fine. I just wouldn't call it good, and I'd ra
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by cmckn 6y ago
Yes, probably with superior performance. The clustering model seems to differ, but as far as I can tell, the 'distributed' part of this project isn't really implemented.
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by cmckn 6y ago
> GhostDB provides a very large hash table that is distributed across multiple machines. Sounds like no replication to me, AKA the memcached model. I can't find how to actually configure a cluster (the `Cluster Configuration` sectio
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by cmckn 6y ago
Isn't that just as ridiculous of a notion? A DEA agent shaking down an identify theft victim for Target gift cards, calling from a government phone? It's a hell of a yarn, no matter how you read it.
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by cmckn 6y ago
I'm not trying to de-value the company, just explaining why I don't think an Apple acquisition makes sense. If the main search product, or even the majority of the search results, are coming from Bing...I think that makes an acqui
653.
by cmckn 6y ago
DuckDuckGo is a Bing frontend, no? An acquisition by Apple wouldn't make sense, because they'd just be writing checks to Microsoft. In any case, I don't think the proposition is something to get upset over.
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by cmckn 6y ago
Sounds like the exact nightmare a previous employer was living. AWS' (awful) web UI convinces the faint of heart to click through wizards for everything. If you're not using version control for _anything_ related to your infrastru
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by cmckn 6y ago
For sure. In general, if it isn't your fault, it will be covered. If it's your fault, almost any policy will fight to not pay. Insurance sucks.
656.
by cmckn 6y ago
Many (most?) credit cards have rental car coverage, it saved me a ~thousand dollars when a bird shattered a windshield. I always make sure the card I rent with has it.
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by cmckn 6y ago
Honestly, I can forgive the lack of context awareness. That's a hard problem. I have issues even getting consistent responses to the same query over time (even back to back in some cases). Sometimes, Siri will misunderstand me and fail
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by cmckn 6y ago
The PS3 had dual-boot support for Linux early on, for a couple years after launch. It was removed in a software update a week or two after I decided to try it. I don't see Sony doubling back on that one, but you never know.
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by cmckn 6y ago
This is where my mind went too. I don't think Netflix has generally grandfathered-in pricing, my bill has always gone up when their advertised price does. If there are some folks who are getting a year or so of promo pricing, I don&#x2
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by cmckn 6y ago
APFS was not designed for spinning disks. No, they won't fix it; because they don't even sell a computer that ships with only a spinning disk (asterisk on the iMac's hybrid drive). HFS+ is still available, just use it if you

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