danielrhodes

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by danielrhodes 4y ago
A company that provides a needed product/service has the minimum it needs to survive. But you also need positive cash flow and you need to not have surprises and many other things. So it's easy to get caught in a bad situation and
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by danielrhodes 4y ago
You're welcome to request your data from Facebook and see if they have this data (assuming they are following the law, which I assume they are). I've requested my data from various companies and they did not have anything even clo
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by danielrhodes 4y ago
> Look at Google's features like spelling correction or search term suggestions - they likely used huge troves of semi-anonymous user input to develop and support them. There's a big difference between data which is directly ti
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by danielrhodes 4y ago
Do tech companies really store unbounded amounts of information, like keyboard strokes, from their users? For me this seems hard to believe, at least over the medium to long term. Storing data is not free and if you plan to use this data fo
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by danielrhodes 4y ago
Why don’t we create an even more extreme take: remote work is only truly remote if you communicate through git commit messages. The only thing that matters is the result of your work and anything higher level is simply corporate fluff.
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by danielrhodes 4y ago
He also jumped out of the plane holding a selfie stick. Call me old fashioned, but if I was bailing out of a crashing plane, that wouldn’t be the first thing I would reach for.
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by danielrhodes 5y ago
Docker is far heavier - the overhead is the flexibility and process isolation you get. I imagine that's really useful for certain types of workloads (e.g. an ETL pipeline), but is crazy inefficient for something single purpose like a w
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by danielrhodes 5y ago
In most cases it is adequate. But there are a couple factors to consider: 1) OpenXML is an open standard and like HTML it is interpreted and rendered, much like a browser. MS Word is obviously the reference here. But in certain cases, you w
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by danielrhodes 5y ago
This isn't easy because PDFs are PostScript, so text is laid out absolutely. You can make very small changes but a larger change requiring a reflow of the text would break things. In some cases it is possible to convert the PDF to a Wo
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by danielrhodes 5y ago
Libreoffice only does a mediocre job of rendering Word documents. There are a number of cases where it really mangles things. An example would be some types of bulleted lists or indentation.
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by danielrhodes 5y ago
Yes, if you're working with documents a lot it is. Word docs are not portable and people don't like them because they can be changed easily, not to mention not everybody has Word. You also can't display them in inline in a br
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by danielrhodes 5y ago
This really does not resonate at all, and I have the scars to prove it. I used to work on a browser-based document management system, and I would have used (or at least tried) all of these APIs without hesitation. PDFs are a pain and the mi
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by danielrhodes 5y ago
React using React Native is almost identical, with a few key differences: 1) No HTML elements. React Native provides some low level elements for views, text, etc. The rest depends on the platforms and packages you have installed. 2) You can
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by danielrhodes 5y ago
This question about the cloud and services is especially prescient though, because it's about incentives. As a hardware and OS manufacturer, Apple was not highly incentivized to collect data on its users. But as a cloud/services p
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by danielrhodes 5y ago
I came here for this. The one place where this might actually be a useful real world exercise, and yet, apparently not.
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by danielrhodes 5y ago
My cynical take: the government is not going to forgo collecting a tax from you that you are already paying. Instead it will tax you and start collecting per-ride fees from Cruise, etc.
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by danielrhodes 5y ago
Cruise is interesting insofar as they are not simply looking to sell their technology, but they also want to monetize it as a service. Not only will they not need a driver, they will also be able to buy the hardware (the car) at cost. If it
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by danielrhodes 5y ago
You might find something like Hasura interesting. https://hasura.io/ It is a GraphQL server that sits on top of your Postgres DB and the schema reflects the table schema. It's quite powerful right out of the box. If yo
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by danielrhodes 5y ago
Assuming no bias, the author is going to be far more informed than your average news media analyst. The author’s point is more or less that the west does not understand what they are looking at. But if you look at the past few debacles in f
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by danielrhodes 5y ago
I'm curious what would happen if somebody uploaded illegal data (e.g. child porn, sensitive PII, or government secrets) to an Ethereum contract. Would these nodes be legally required to filter it? If you look at something like the Pira
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by danielrhodes 5y ago
I don't support government incompetence, but when you look at the reasons they need to update and enforce the code on these parklets, it is entirely reasonable. For example, they need to make sure the parklets aren't blocking acce
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by danielrhodes 5y ago
Cloudflare is pretty great in a lot of ways. They have a lot of promising products, and I have never had problems with their reliability (and I've seen it handle billions of requests).
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by danielrhodes 5y ago
I love Cloudflare, but these Image products are a black mark on their reputation. Every point the author says is 100% correct. I'll add one more point, which ended up making it a total non-starter: you can't import lots of images
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by danielrhodes 5y ago
YouTube does have competitors: Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Netflix. YouTube is a clear winner in a few big categories, but video is a huge market and they haven’t gotten an edge on anything new in awhile, for example short f
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by danielrhodes 5y ago
What a burn - but not surprising given MySQL's history and things like MariaDB or Percona which exist to fill the gaps. My impression is that many people will choose Postgres over MySQL when starting a new project as it progresses so q
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by danielrhodes 5y ago
Also an open area of law! I think this has already happened, in fact.
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by danielrhodes 5y ago
You’re right that the relationship between DAOs and corporate entities is a gray area in law right now. But imagine this went to court and the plaintiffs said that it quacked like a duck, so their assumption was for all intents and purposes
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by danielrhodes 5y ago
Yeah the pricing model for SQL based queries is not optimal at all considering you don't control how the query optimizer will use the indexes, and (not trying to assign malice) they aren't very incentivized to improve it.
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by danielrhodes 5y ago
I doubt YouTube is using the cloud service. If they're not 100% on Google's services by now, they still use Vitess. Vitess is the open source project PlanetScale manages which lets you horizontally scale MySQL databases.
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by danielrhodes 5y ago
This is sort of wait nails people with DynamoDB pricing. If you mess up your query, you end up scanning through tons of data, racking up the cost.

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