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by dbmikus 7y ago
Don't a lot of boot camp teach you how to do tech interviews as well as how to code?
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Instagram will test hiding likes in the US as soon as next week(theverge.com)
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by dbmikus 7y ago
Switzerland doesn't have nationalized healthcare and Singapore has a hybrid model. In a ranking of top 5 healthcare systems, on average you will find some that are nationalized and some that are not. One thing that is unequivocally a m
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by dbmikus 7y ago
I don't think the OP meant "don't touch old code", but this sentence, to me, implies that "reasons" means good reasons: > There are reasons for every code and every guard that exists in production. Sometimes
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by dbmikus 7y ago
About this one: > Respect code and systems that came before you. There are reasons for every code and every guard that exists in production Sometimes there's bad code in prod, or code that doesn't need to exist anymore. You sho
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Elasticsearch uses Lucene for the actual inverted index DB systems. They then built a robust and updateable distributed system on top of it. By updateable, I mean that Lucene indexes are fixed at creation, and Elasticsearch coordinates mult
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by dbmikus 7y ago
I think the parent post's argument was that instead of stopping the usage of plastic straws locally, take the effort spent on that and spend it on helping China, etc. manage their plastics disposal. I believe it would be more economica
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by dbmikus 7y ago
Would this just be like using RocksDB or something like that with extensions to auto-shard and balance between instances? That's what it looks like to me, but I could be misunderstanding it.
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by dbmikus 7y ago
Like writing books... I laughed when I read that example.
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by dbmikus 8y ago
I prefer paying extra to book a non-stop flight and then I just don't sleep the night beforehand and enter the plane, squeeze into my garbage economy seat and enter a semi-asleep fugue state for the duration of the flight. After 7 hour
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by dbmikus 8y ago
Technically bikeable: yes A long unpleasant bike ride for your daily commute: also yes I think biking works if it's either a last mile type of thing via bike share programs combined with public transit, or if you are biking in a denser
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by dbmikus 8y ago
Google was hit with a big antitrust violation fine in the EU in 2017 for demoting rival shopping services: https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/google-fined-e2-42bn-for-e...
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by dbmikus 8y ago
Sounds fine if you don't care too much how your coffee tastes. Granted, buying coffee from a cafe always comes with a markup, but nice fresh-ground coffee beans (which you can also do at home and do pour over if you want) definitely be
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by dbmikus 8y ago
It's funny how much he talked up Facebook's "platform", but all of their platform work has contributed very little to Facebook's bottom line, and has even caused them issues in the case of Cambridge Analytica.
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by dbmikus 8y ago
I think the grandparent post is saying that Asians in Flushings are more likely to own their property and then it gets rented out inside the ethnic group moreso than outside the group. So Hispanics etcetera will be squeezed between that and
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by dbmikus 8y ago
I play Diplomacy online with a group of friends, where we normally have a turn lasting 2 days. We need to do this sparingly, though, because invariably we all end up spending huge portions of our workdays messaging each other and plotting i
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by dbmikus 8y ago
Extract and refine it cheaply and then do logistics and shipping better. If you can do that and have enough, everyone will buy. Oil/energy companies are still some of the most valuable in the world. EDIT: also, demand is sky high. And
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by dbmikus 8y ago
A small anecdote, but when I was in high school they started drug testing if you participated in or used any non-essential services, like parking or playing on a sports team or joining a club. The effect was that a lot of people that smoked
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by dbmikus 8y ago
Definitely agree about putting tying the value of a new product or system to metrics, if possible. It makes it easier to argue about the worth of the product and can often tie into important metrics that you'd want to track across proj
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by dbmikus 8y ago
Google shows you ads based on what you type in so you are directly telling them what you're looking for at that moment. That's a pretty good position to be in as an advertiser. Some people will do what you do and go right to a spe
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by dbmikus 8y ago
Trump definitely speaks like a lunatic, and I can't parse if any of his opinions come from a place other than feeling slighted, but I see the issue with big tech is that they keep buying up or copying and exterminating competitors. Yes
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by dbmikus 8y ago
Half of my Indian-American (first generation born in America) can barely handle any spice. That's just an anecdote, but I'm not so sure you can draw the spice line on whether or not someone is Indian.
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by dbmikus 8y ago
People can keep their old Steam games and still use Discord. That's what people have been doing since Discord came out (along with Epic Games, Blizzard, EA, etc.). I'm curious to see how the social stickiness of Discord will affec
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by dbmikus 8y ago
I would guess this means absolutely nothing for the protocol and ecosystem. Both have been around a long time (in tech years) and I've never noticed any way that BitTorrent the company affected BitTorrent the protocol.
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by dbmikus 8y ago
I'm pretty sure that SF restricting building height is a major reason for high real-estate prices that people complain about pricing them out of their homes.
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by dbmikus 8y ago
If your docker containers all build off of the same OS and then you run them on a host using that OS, won't the containers share the lower filesystem layers with the host?
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by dbmikus 8y ago
People will host their own infrastructure if it's the better cost decision for them. No one is stopping a company or an individual from going the self hosted route. EDIT: I guess you could advocate against Google, Amazon, Microsoft in
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by dbmikus 9y ago
If you want to have a set of globally defined types and/or language-independent types to share between your various programs or services, gRPC and Protobufs are a good option. Also, anywhere that you might use RPC you could use gRPC. I
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by dbmikus 9y ago
Yeah, but if you're going for most bang for your buck, improving and making accessible renewable tech is still better value. I also think you'll have an easier route to profitability with alternative fuel over carbon removal. Ulti
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by dbmikus 9y ago
The Apache patent grant and retaliation clause says that if you issue a lawsuit alleging that the licensed software infringes on a patent, then you lose your patent grant to that software. The old Facebook license said that if you issue a p

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