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by crucini 9y ago
Adam just raised seed funding to build the next great mobile app. He needs a high performance back end which will support rapid iteration. He looks at two candidates for tech lead: Bob has 20 years experience in server software development
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by crucini 9y ago
That's not exactly what I meant by "skin in the game". What I'd like to offer to any would be reformer and rehabilitator: 1. You will pick an inmate who you think has maximum chance of reform. He must be someone facing 5
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by crucini 9y ago
But we sort of have that already. First offences tend to get lesser sanctions, including probation, which is an attempt to curb bad behavior without imprisonment. In California at least, the three strikes law means that three convictions ab
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by crucini 9y ago
This article is a fine example of IYI - "intellectual yet idiot" as Taleb terms it. Verbal cleverness + plausible statistics + apples/oranges comparison = what? Equals: "We have the answer to everything, but sadly the ru
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by crucini 9y ago
It's interesting that when White delved into his journals from years past, searching for facts, he only found opinions, thoughts, ideas - hot air. All that hot air must have felt urgent and important at the time. Might have lessons for
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by crucini 10y ago
He probably uses flock(2)
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by crucini 10y ago
It sounds like you've barely scratched the surface. I'm no expert, but there's a lot to know in order to get good value from adwords. For starters google "google keyword research". Any keyword which is too popular w
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by crucini 10y ago
I notice that many of the "entreprenurial" dreams in here would work better if individuals banded together. Of course there are downsides, such as handling unequal investment of money and time. But take the dream of a brewpub. At
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by crucini 10y ago
Applying the idea of "fact checking" to politically charged topics inherently raises problems. Snopes was a good site to find out if there were really alligators in the sewers. The Forbes article cited by rokosbasilisk here seems
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by crucini 10y ago
However. I've found there is a period of increased energy upon moving to a new city. During this period, I am more open and alert, more willing to start conversations that may not end well. When you live in a place for years, a mental
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by crucini 10y ago
Agreed about the dangers of less than explicit communication. But I'm not appalled by Dubai. If anything, I'm appalled by the childish arrogance and "moral superiority" on display in this thread. There is nothing "h
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by crucini 10y ago
All sorts of hazards are "grandfathered" in. If cars were invented today, they'd never be allowed. Now think about stairs. A certain athletic performance is needed to rapidly descend stairs. Get it wrong and you can tumble a
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by crucini 10y ago
Re the kitchen knife: see also the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. Especially the litigation which led up to it.
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by crucini 10y ago
Back in the dotcom boom, I think Philip Greenspun leased a Ferrari and lent it to employees in rotation. That looked insanely wasteful (since most people thought the company owned it) but was probably way cheaper than this stuff - and more
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by crucini 10y ago
Yeah, such comments are the spice of conversation; without them, it's a bit bland. Somehow they work better in person.
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by crucini 10y ago
OK, so we agree that the lead auto-car may still apply maximum braking unexpectedly. Therefore the follower needs to leave enough space to compensate for reaction latency, difference in braking power, etc. So how does data communication (or
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by crucini 10y ago
What if you apply that logic to today's cars: own vs rent?
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by crucini 10y ago
> Second, and more importantly, when you have only autonomous vehicles on the road, you can make assumptions that all drivers are perfectly rational, and then your safety margins can be smaller, allowing closer travel at higher speeds. A
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by crucini 10y ago
This is an interesting insight. What if we replace 20 sequential cars with a huge "road train" ala Australia - a tractor with multiple trailers? The road train has no cushion (ignore the few inches in pintle hooks) so it brakes as
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by crucini 10y ago
> Sure, it's possible, but what profit-driven company would ever take that risk knowing the real-world reliability of wireless communication? I think it can be done; the following car may have to brake hard if communication is lost
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by crucini 10y ago
Please don't take this personally, but I think the "obstruction" comment illustrates why political topics tend to degrade into something bad. It's a subcase of "blue team criticizes red team for action X, but conven
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by crucini 10y ago
OK. I find Neuromancer and Snow Crash pretty similar, as raw, high energy cyberpunk books with no attempt at respectability. Gibson was artier and a better writer (in the narrow sense of prose stylist.) It's kind of hard to picture som
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by crucini 10y ago
Can you recommend an alternative?
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by crucini 10y ago
Do you think he's eternally mediocre, or is his recent stuff worse? Is all scifi mediocre? Is the problem that Stephenson "crossed over" and got more mainstream credibility? Is Gibson also mediocre?
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by crucini 10y ago
It's probably a good move. Of course I wish we could have intelligent, calm discussions - if not of political ideals per se, then of the peripheral issues like polling, voting machines, etc. But political rage and snark always get inje
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by crucini 10y ago
That's also a good answer for someone who was highly involved in politics - and might explain the smile.
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by crucini 10y ago
Well hang on. If the iPhone is a vessel for self-love (I think psychiatric jargon is overused) wasn't the television a vessel for equally unattractive qualities? But you wouldn't dismiss television engineering - a fantastic body o
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by crucini 10y ago
I guess there is no right answer to a question of nomenclature, but "startup" is a useful term and probably shouldn't be applied all young businesses. The opposite kind of small business, to me, is the "organic" com
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by crucini 10y ago
JSON isn't un-evolvable. In fact, thrift can serialize to JSON. What makes thrift evolvable in practice is that we don't remove fields and don't add mandatory fields. The same discipline can be applied to JSON definitions. We
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by crucini 10y ago
I agree that the supplied code is improvable. Consider this: def set_r(adict, keypath, val): key = keypath[0] if len(keypath) == 1: adict[key] = val return if not key in adict: adict[key] = {} set_r(adi

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