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by dickeytk 7y ago
Big difference between a startup and a massive valuation that everyone assumes is about to IPO. WeWork deflated more than any company in HISTORY. You’re technically correct but people are irrational and I’m sure they were being lied to thei
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by dickeytk 7y ago
They’re not destitute, no. But their employees were heavily compensated with options that are now worthless. Of course options are a risk, but they didn’t work there if they didn’t think those options would be at least worth something in
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by dickeytk 7y ago
I’ve never in my life worked on something where we didn’t keep having to upgrade our database resources
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by dickeytk 7y ago
The author addresses Redis: > So, many developers have started going straight to Redis-backed queues (Resque, Sidekiq) or dedicated queues (beanstalkd, ZeroMQ...), but I see these as suboptimal solutions - they're each another movin
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by dickeytk 7y ago
One thing: I push that an flag on my phone on accident all the time. Have you guys thought about a way to maybe hide it better?
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by dickeytk 7y ago
As the only form of advertising that HN does—I think this is a totally acceptable trade-off to being able to use it for free.
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by dickeytk 7y ago
They do chroot. You can only install to specific directories
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by dickeytk 7y ago
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0fB49xX6FueVyXTFbo0my-OEg This is literally the entire article on mobile safari EDIT: purify ad-blocker caused the issue
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by dickeytk 7y ago
I would argue processors are never commodities anymore (maybe back in the 486 days it was closer). You can't swap an intel for an amd processor into the same motherboard ever today. They don't have the same performance characteris
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by dickeytk 7y ago
Because it can't be resold? https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/purchasing-options/reserved-insta... Maybe? It seems more "flexible" to me personally
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by dickeytk 7y ago
Fire escapes are definitely not "required". You rarely ever even see them out of NYC and within NYC they've been banned since 1968.
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by dickeytk 7y ago
I don't know much about NY but there is clearly loads of regulation and building codes defining these kind of things. I'm sure the definitions vary based on when things were built and to what purpose the definition is being used.
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by dickeytk 7y ago
Did you read my comment? I never said closets are a thing in europe. I said that I think it's part of the regulation in the US. More importantly I linked to detailed regulation in the UK that defines what a bedroom is.
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by dickeytk 7y ago
I would be very surprised if that was the case. It's certainly not in the US or UK: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/part/X in the US it"s that it needs a window + closet I think.
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by dickeytk 7y ago
I still think "commodity" is not the correct word even in that context. Mass-market, or commercially available might be better. How can it be a commodity when there is only one manufacturer?
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by dickeytk 7y ago
Ok so I’ve lived in these states my whole life and I love geography and know a little bit about this, apologize while I geek out a bit. (I’m also more interested in geography than meteorology per-se, so I’m only 90% confident all of this is
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by dickeytk 7y ago
Am I not understanding something? https://imgur.com/gallery/QEgymrZ
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by dickeytk 7y ago
There is no need to be dense, of course I mean not straight away. I’m just saying there is a path where the government can take over the utility that doesn’t require waiting until PG&E goes completely bankrupt.
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by dickeytk 7y ago
I don’t see a reason in your response other than “the political system is bad” I’d be more curious if you had a reason why you think state-owned would be worse than state-regulated. To me it seems better for sure. A panacea? No, but better
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by dickeytk 7y ago
Do they have to go bankrupt? Can’t the state just pass laws to force them to quit operating? Sort of like eminent domain (or maybe exactly?) I’m sure they’d have to make reasonable payments to the shareholders, but it’s not like PG&E is
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by dickeytk 7y ago
Keep in mind that TypeScript does make breaking changes in point releases. They don’t ascribe to semver. Not sure if that’s your issue or a bug though
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by dickeytk 7y ago
Is SoftBank looking to invest in PG&E?
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by dickeytk 7y ago
Isn't it nicer once it's indented though? https://imgur.com/a/LR0Otpb I'm pretty sure this is the reason people try to use code blocks for quotes—because they want it indented.
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by dickeytk 7y ago
So that it’s more clear? and supports multiple paragraphs Do you indent your code? Or are the curly braces enough?
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by dickeytk 7y ago
It doesn’t indent
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by dickeytk 7y ago
I know HN is super minimalistic but I’d love a way to indent quotes considering how often we do it here
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by dickeytk 7y ago
And in that case you could argue that they’re in the same industry
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by dickeytk 7y ago
I wonder who owns the 888 number though. I assume there must be some kind of registration for toll free numbers
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by dickeytk 7y ago
Fair point. Perhaps it is harder than I thought without looking anything up or testing? At least to get the canonical version written down.
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by dickeytk 7y ago
I’m not saying that it’s important, I’m saying it’s trivial and an engineer should be able to figure it out. Bubble sort that is. Merge sort? Quick sort? Bogosort? Maybe not. But bubble sort yes. Just like an engineer even at the most junio

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