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by diolpah 15y ago
That's why the good lord invented eventually consistent data synchronization models. If your use case can tolerate it, use it.
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by diolpah 15y ago
As someone who makes technology purchasing decisions, this article infuriates me. Datasheets and a pricing structure are fundamentally more efficient than sales snowjobs. The fact that this approach is apparently effective makes me weep f
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by diolpah 15y ago
No, but I have lended money to friends and in so doing destroyed said friendships. I refuse to lend money to any entity but my own business as a result. Human beings are fundamentally untrustworthy in the absence of explicit contracts, wh
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by diolpah 15y ago
Very much fulltime, but it began as a side project many moons ago.
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by diolpah 15y ago
I suggest that SETI attempt to pitch the research grant divison of Hadden Industries. It is my understanding that S. R. Hadden is interested in this type of thing.
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by diolpah 15y ago
Well, I strongly disagree with this. One example from our own applications would be O(m*n) for computing levenshtein distances between arbitrary product sets. Of course many of these are precomputed, but they are still used in a web appli
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by diolpah 15y ago
The story of our origins is far too long to detail here. The very short edition is that we both had primary jobs and worked on the business in the evenings. After crossing the $1mm revenue mark, we decided to make it a fulltime thing.
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by diolpah 15y ago
" everybody that has a sister thinks 'that could be my sister'" Because ransacking the home of my brother is no big deal, according to modern gender politics, right?
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by diolpah 15y ago
I am not sure why you dismissed selling physical goods out of hand due to perceived complexity or cost barriers. When my company first began operations, my cofounder and I both had 'only a few hours a day to invest' as well.
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by diolpah 15y ago
"It's 3am and I've been drinking, but this seems feasible" I have come up with some astoundingly dumb ideas that were preceded by exactly the above thought. However, there was some sheer brilliance, as well.
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by diolpah 15y ago
ARIN lookup shows it being hosted at ThePlanet. Traceroute shows it terminating somewhere in or around Houston TX. So my guess is one or more boxes at ThePlanet's Houston datacenter.
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by diolpah 15y ago
We are not 'near' that point. The Rebecca Watson incident clearly demonstrates that we are already there.
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by diolpah 15y ago
The downvotes are appreciated. Where am I wrong?
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by diolpah 15y ago
A cursory look at the graph indicates that the only place women suffered was on their own code. Resume, phone skills, interpersonal skills, all great.
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by diolpah 15y ago
"Still, his actions make it necessary to repeal all of his arguments and assumptions." Really? James Watson and William Shockley both said very unpopular things about race. Shockley advocated a policy of sterilizing lower class black peop
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by diolpah 15y ago
Because hamstringing and stifling business activity that does not comply with the interests or arbitrary whims of politically connected powers is not an economically productive activity?
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by diolpah 15y ago
Your experience stands in stark contrast to what the general belief of the tech media, including HN, is. Specifically, that the job market for engineers is extremely tight and that even junior developers can name their price, that recruite
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by diolpah 15y ago
'Has this ever happened to anyone?' Yes. When we started our company, the space was already fairly crowded. We worked to do it better than they were. Also, if you ever intend to grow, you will have to get over your fear of legal problems.
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by diolpah 15y ago
Fair point. Parent post removed.
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by diolpah 15y ago
Any organization that maintains an institutional fear of saying the "wrong thing" destroys its ability to effectively communicate such that the morale will have already hit rock bottom by the time someone actually does get offended.
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by diolpah 15y ago
mkn, it is rarely a good idea to question the thought police. Prepare to be informed about how your male privilege invalidates any point you make.
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by diolpah 15y ago
Try signing up for their spamletter. Then try reading halfway through their incredibly annoying spam when you get it. It reads like the transcription of a carnival barker. I don't know if their practices are actually scummy. But their co
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by diolpah 15y ago
"Personally speaking, I would never work with anybody who did this - no matter if they were a 10X productive super rockstar who invents new languages on the side." Thank you for volunteering to help those of us who prefer to hire on merit.
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by diolpah 15y ago
Tarsnap.
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by diolpah 15y ago
I literally laughed out loud at this particular example of journalistic cluelessness. Haven't done that since, well, the Louise Boat.
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by diolpah 15y ago
I believe I have woken up in an alternate universe today. Since when are random Google engineers so absurdly popular that a G+ account suspension is even noticed, let alone reacted to with a flood of tweets, emails, etc? Being a Google engi
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by diolpah 15y ago
I stopped reading when I got to this gem: "It can be done quickly and cleanly by adding some global variables." We differ by orders of magnitude on what constitutes 'cleanly'.
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by diolpah 15y ago
My current company, which operates a number of ecommerce sites, started out as a side project. It's profitable, but it is no longer a side project, so it does not exactly count.
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by diolpah 15y ago
Part time startups don't work? I strongly disagree and I would ask for a citation as evidence of this claim. Seems to have worked reasonably well for my company, at least.
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by diolpah 15y ago
"For instance, while Scala boils away a lot of repetitious code, it's still there under the hood. It feels like an architectural band-aid" I don't understand this argument. Even so-called elegant languages like Scheme still have 'repetitio

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