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by courtf 8y ago
Eh, kind of a stretch. Religion is not a purely Western invention, and you're reading what you want to in #29.
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by courtf 9y ago
I'm imagining that the dead are just a small fraction of the fake comments: just those who had died since whatever dataset being used was last regenerated/cleaned.
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by courtf 10y ago
I don't have great measurements for this, but we have done optimizations to reduce the data flowing over the Go<->C interface. One of our key measurements that does make a big impact on performance is how often we need to upload
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by courtf 10y ago
We run a cluster of P2P, GPU heavy machines that use Go to ingest byte streams of raw radar data, store that info in btrees, and render, cache & serve map tiles that are drawn on the fly in response to http requests. We are not using m
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by courtf 10y ago
We have a few Go processes with high memory usage. For one in particular, while it's been higher in the past (~150GB), we're sitting at 40-80GB per node right now. The busiest node traffic-wise had average GC time over the past 2
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by courtf 11y ago
Synchronizing access to a memory address isn't really the use-case for channels. I think that's fairly well understood by the Go programmers I work with. This example demonstrates why, but it prefaces the discussion by implying
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by courtf 11y ago
Worked there from 2007-2010, through the sale etc. I had no idea they were up to 750 employees, and can't guess why they've gotten so big. There were 10-15 employees, 2 engineers in 2008 and that company was printing its own mon
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by courtf 12y ago
Your comment isn't really addressing mine from the context in which it was given. My comment was in reply to someone implying criticism of the piece stems from its reading level being above that of a 12 or 13 year old, which isn'
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by courtf 12y ago
Beyond the grammatical errors, misplaced punctuation and misspellings, and despite the relative novelty of the anecdotes, I thought the writing itself was dull and simplistic. Many paragraphs were just a string of blunt statements without a
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by courtf 12y ago
"the founders of those companies will generally tell you he has been their best source" Honest question: if a company receives investment from Peter Thiel, do the founders have any choice but to express the opinion above?
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by courtf 12y ago
There's no doubt that Federer and other great sports figures are well mannered and handle their success with extraordinary grace. However, if your definition of a-hole includes 1) being ruthlessly competitive and/or 2) believing
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by courtf 12y ago
It's a common trope, particularly among the more intellectually focused, to reduce sports to mindless drudgery.
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by courtf 12y ago
Fair point, although I wonder if we'd have these elite players if they were more willing to tolerate failure in themselves. The man is obviously flawed, but a lot of the criticism is petty and no better than Jordan's own kvetching
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by courtf 12y ago
Good points here. Some of those who left the process in the beginning may have simply had better things to spend the next month on, not because they were inferior candidates. I like the tone of the article in general, but it does smack of
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by courtf 12y ago
Agree with this. No amount of formality and forced stoicism is going to eliminate the myriad biases that creep into every minute action and decision we all make every day. Hiring is a notorious minefield where believing in your own impart
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by courtf 12y ago
"According to him, we have allowed efficiency thinking to optimize our world to such an extent that we have lost the flexibility and slack that is necessary for dealing with failure. This is why we can no longer handle any form of risk
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by courtf 12y ago
I think it would be nice to return a bool, rather than an error. It really is just a binary condition and this pattern fits nicely with accessing values in maps. That said, I haven't really found a need for a .Get method in my own co
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by courtf 12y ago
Chiefly, the author is arguing against productivity as an ends to itself, but also against the reduction of human endeavors down to more easily digestible quantities. In essence, against measuring out our lives with coffee spoons. The auth
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by courtf 12y ago
Free speech != voting to legislate away the rights of some minority. This is a rampant conflation.
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by courtf 12y ago
"I would certainly respect the rights of others to support the opposing side" No such right exists in this context. A proposition to ban interracial marriage has nothing to do with people's consciences and everything to do w
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by courtf 12y ago
I think your logic is good, but your application is lacking. Same-sex "sexual activity" is not what has been outlawed in Singapore. There is no law that fits the description you have outlined and it is essentially a straw-man ar
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by courtf 12y ago
I don't like what happened to Eich and I am not trying to change anyone's mind about homosexuality being wrong/unhealthy, but here's a few responses. "that's why there is a word for it" Well that particula
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by courtf 12y ago
There are certainly contexts where this is a valuable sentiment, but separating sexual orientation from sexual behavior at such a gross level (ie, all not engaging in same-sex behavior at all) is simply crude and unnecessary. To each their
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by courtf 12y ago
A casual examination of nature would demonstrate your statement to be false. Your statements are both extreme and unfounded, which is a curious state to start from when you have very little objective information about a topic.
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by courtf 12y ago
Not the author, but taking a stab at your question: I think it means that regardless of how logically unassailable you believe your position to be in an argument, that position is heavily influenced by your emotions (whether you realize it
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by courtf 12y ago
In a physical sense, future you _is_ someone else. All the atoms that make up our bodies are replaced within some timeframe. Sympathizing with future you shouldn't be predicated on that person having your personality anyway: we are a
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by courtf 12y ago
A billion dollars for a one engineer social media company? Certainly possible, but then you'd have to ask yourself what you are paying for. Perhaps it's not just (or even mostly) the engineering; in which case I'd say the aut
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by courtf 12y ago
Just stumbled across this project with the same name, and at least some of the same goals: https://github.com/UrbanCode/terraform
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by courtf 12y ago
I came to a similar conclusion based on my school experiences, and my experiences in the tech industry. This sort of assumed mental superiority among nerds is just tiring, and what's worse, often undeserved. I agree with most of this
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by courtf 12y ago
I feel similarly. Criticism in and of itself is not necessarily of any value. Poignant, timely criticism from someone knowledgeable who possesses a modicum of tact? Much appreciated. The problem with most criticism is that it is just as ig

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