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by dbenhur 10y ago
It does not need to be framed as exploitive. Work life balance isn't just about time spent working vs not working -- it's about quality of life. If you have a job where the things you do for work are things that genuinely engage
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by dbenhur 10y ago
What does "expect even one" mean? This is a probability equations, so what p does expect correspond to? Let's make this real concrete, with 122 random bits, you can issue a million UUIDv4s every second for the next 100 years
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by dbenhur 10y ago
> we don't produce all that much anymore If by "we" you mean the US, this is not true. US manufacturing production was as high in 2015 as any prior year. Production took a big hit in the "great recession", it m
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by dbenhur 10y ago
republic: a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch. democracy: A system of government in which power is vested in the peopl
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by dbenhur 11y ago
The article argues against that proposition.
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by dbenhur 11y ago
Heh. Except for: element, action, slot, task, goal, task command, subject, target, source, destination, object, actor, path, key, memo, manifest, sender, receiver, self, this, thing, data, value, register, ... I think you enumerated them al
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by dbenhur 11y ago
Or editorilizing C-hash
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by dbenhur 11y ago
UUID4 requires a good CSPRNG. Random isn't magic, you have to do the work.
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by dbenhur 11y ago
I've been trying to suck a little less every day for 40 years and I'm doin alright.
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by dbenhur 11y ago
And maybe $50M was a pretty fucking nice luiqidation event in 1998 and Yahoo had a brand and user footprint very much larger than what Viaweb could have reasonable been expected to capture on their own.
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by dbenhur 11y ago
And then their O(10^7) LoC increment the exponent, as Go has fuck all higher level abstractions.
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by dbenhur 11y ago
> if we make a bad hire, that can drag down the productivity of a team for years This is the essential cowardice of employers. Interviews are insufficient contexts to judge if someone can help move your business forward. Screen the inc
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by dbenhur 11y ago
The more of you who take this deal, the better I and everyone else is. You're so uninvested in what you do for a living you'd stop for $1K/mo? Good riddance. You're a drag on anyone who's actually trying to get shi
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by dbenhur 11y ago
The world of actual programmers is NOT filled with fake programmers. The world of people actively applying for advertised programming positions IS dominated by fake programmers. That's why FizzBuzz is an effective screen. As to your
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by dbenhur 11y ago
Wow... I am surprised. If you gather some useful data please send it on to postgresql-dev and.or postgresql-performance so some core devs can fix it in subsequent releases.
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by dbenhur 11y ago
The only pain point? Really? How about not breaking every "posix compliant" header for every release so I don't have to wait 4-6 months before I can reliable compile open source software without hacking someone else's im
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by dbenhur 12y ago
Author could lose a layer of subselect with the filter on rank by using first_value over the window frame instead. https://gist.github.com/dbenhur/951b7bae4e07d7998268
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by dbenhur 12y ago
> Without argument, one of the most common used data model is JSON JSON is a data representation, not a data model.
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by dbenhur 12y ago
Life gets more pleasant when you internalize that consistency is not aligned with how the universe works and idempotence is your friend.
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by dbenhur 12y ago
RabbitMQ has decided to punt on any robust scheme for surviving network partitions. If you're building a distributed architecture and you care about availability and correctness you should just avoid it. https://www.rabbitm
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by dbenhur 12y ago
But I Fuckin' Love Science https://www.facebook.com/IFeakingLoveScience
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by dbenhur 12y ago
Smaller standard error, significantly less memory, faster execution, equivalent rebalance cost... what's not to like? Thanks, Google: > Google has not applied for patent protection for this algorithm, and, as of this writing, has no
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by dbenhur 12y ago
> the whole fire fast mentality Zach was there for five years. Why are we talking about "fire fast"?
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by dbenhur 12y ago
OFFSET j is O(j) in most RDMSes. You made an o(N/2 * k) algorithm given j is a random number in [0,N).
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by dbenhur 12y ago
When the p-System came out cpu caches were not yet a thing. Main memory was fast enough to match cpu speeds. Your cache was your register set.
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by dbenhur 12y ago
> The salaries are almost always deflated. Really? Last I looked self-reported numbers tend to be _inflated_ compared to govt collected figures (from tax returns and payroll reports). My intuitive understanding of this is that people b
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by dbenhur 12y ago
> which even MySQL manages to get right. hahahaha. If you think MySQL gets this right, you haven't thought about it much. http://www.pgcon.org/2014/schedule/events/661.en.html https://wiki.
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by dbenhur 12y ago
> First it was the Mac Apple sold a lot of Apple II's before they visited Xerox
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by dbenhur 12y ago
"Experienced programmers" who don't understand linked lists and binary trees without looking them up are strong no hires anywhere I have worked in the last three decades. Please stop writing software until this isn't a p
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by dbenhur 12y ago
ComScore data is collected from panels with self-selection bias, but also incorporating significant statistical correction based on random selection panels and demographic data. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ComScore#Dat

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