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by dcosson 10y ago
> scales fairly well at the initial stages Not sure what that means, but scalability is the worst thing about mongo (though my experience with mongo is all from ~2.5 ish years ago). As soon as your working set of indices gets bigger than
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by dcosson 10y ago
> No time to think. I find I solve solutions by thinking about them, and I can imagine mob rule would lend itself to less thinking and more doing (fastest solution that sounds half-right gets done first). Similarly… I could imagine maybe
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by dcosson 10y ago
I think this is a critical problem to solve with UBI. If you give people in expensive areas more money, more people might crowd into cities, intensifying the affordability crises in places like SF and NYC. Plus there are strong incentives t
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by dcosson 10y ago
Another bit of sensationalism I noticed, the article mentions people have died after mixing adhd meds and alcohol. But the link was to an article about a person who died after mixing adhd meds, narcotic painkillers, and alcohol. It's w
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by dcosson 10y ago
> Actually, I think the two main groups are both libertarian, though there's a left-libertarian and a right-libertarian viewpoint That's an interesting distinction, I think of myself as pretty liberal but maybe I'm more of
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by dcosson 10y ago
These are all good points, but ultimately it seems like a well-configured cookie-based storage is equally secure as a similarly well-configured web storage session. There are more hacks required with cookies, but you hopefully only have to
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by dcosson 10y ago
Just curious, why is there no Realm support for web & mobile web using localstorage? It seems like that could be useful, to re-use your model/data tier between react native and a react web app.
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by dcosson 10y ago
This might be already happening - e.g. in the last few months Drake's album was released exclusively on Apple Music, Kanye's exclusively on Tidal. The back catalogs are mostly everywhere for now, but maybe this is the beginning an
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by dcosson 10y ago
Nice, is there a github link to the program?
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by dcosson 10y ago
No separate pieces. You can kind of hack it so that single actions are set up as an activity, i.e. one activity is turn it on, a separate activity is turn it on then hit volume up 5 times, separate one for volume down, separate one for play
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by dcosson 10y ago
I have the echo hooked up to a Harmony Hub[0], it's a universal remote that controls devices via IR or wifi that the echo can trigger via IFTTT. The Harmony Hub UX is annoyingly overdesigned IMO which makes it more complicated than it
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by dcosson 10y ago
Yeah, NP-complete.
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by dcosson 10y ago
One problem with this is that the entire ecosystem has to get on board with async. Maybe a new framework would make it compelling enough, who knows. This was/is the big issue with Tornado, IMO (and Tornado has been around for ages in f
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by dcosson 10y ago
> Would it only be possible to use quantum computing to defend against quantum computing? Not at all. As it is believed currently, there are a few problems (BQP space) such as the discreet logarithm that quantum computers can solve quick
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by dcosson 11y ago
Does GCE have an equivalent of IAM Instance Profiles and IAM policies in general, and if so how do they stack up? One of the most underrated features IMO in AWS is being able to connect services without worrying about passing around, rotati
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by dcosson 11y ago
This ignores the fact that js libraries need to be downloaded on every run. Even if there were a great general-purpose string module that included the functionality, a micro-package like left-pad would be less to download if you didn't
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by dcosson 11y ago
> Never forget to cancel one of those pesky "30 day free trials." This seems like a bad idea, I'm surprised they're advertising it. I'm pretty sure not being able to charge your card doesn't let you out of a
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by dcosson 11y ago
A merchant can choose to decline prepaid debit cards, e.g. here's how the braintree api exposes it[0]. I assume that's what this shows up as. [0] https://developers.braintreepayments.com/reference/response&#x2
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by dcosson 11y ago
Surely Seattle salaries are lower because no state income tax and cheaper housing than the bay area?
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by dcosson 11y ago
On a technical level I really don't understand something about this situation. All the discussion I see presupposes that the only option for Apple to comply with the FBI is to build & sign this new version of iOS, and then give it
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by dcosson 11y ago
On a technical level I really don't understand something about this situation. All the discussion I see presupposes that the only option for Apple to comply with the FBI is to build & sign this new version of iOS, and then give it
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by dcosson 11y ago
Reminds me of mint.com. I used to work at Venmo and they tried to integrate with us, but then without even reaching out to us they decided they couldn't because of the 2fa on our web login. We had a documented developer API but they se
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by dcosson 11y ago
With contractors at least you could make the argument that there's safety at stake if they don't know what they're doing (e.g. your cabinets fall on you). I totally agree about realtors though. It's such a tautology - th
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by dcosson 11y ago
There are some bold claims here that you don't even make an attempt to back up with evidence. On chaos, you seem to be arguing that a few select simple systems are chaotic, therefore a much larger system must also be chaotic. This does
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by dcosson 11y ago
You can tweet at them when your product is on the front page and they'll give you comment access (at least they did for me and a few others I know). But yeah, overall it's crazy that you still can't comment there.
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by dcosson 11y ago
I think you're exaggerating the obscurity of libraries that only run on python 2. The list I've gone off of is https://python3wos.appspot.com/ . I use python a lot, and only now in late 2015 I might finally use pyt
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by dcosson 11y ago
From your comment below, I don't quite get your characterization of Uber and Walmart as evil. If anyone's evil, isn't it the government for not providing useful safety nets? The companies are just going along with the market
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by dcosson 11y ago
> In practice, you can dilute glycemic index using fat and protein in addition to water. And people really don't understand this. For instance, you basically can't find full-fat yogurt in an American grocery store. Instead ther
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by dcosson 11y ago
As I understand it, the process you describe is true of glucose but actually not fructose. Glucose gets absorbed into your blood, causes your pancreas to start releasing more insulin into the blood, which causes basically all the cells in y
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by dcosson 11y ago
Alternatively you could set up a forward proxy server on its own instance with an elastic IP and proxy your network requests through it. This has the added benefit that if you ever need to spin up more instances to run simultaneously, you d

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