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by dirkgadsden 13y ago
Nice straw-man, since I never claimed to be a victim (I was merely making an observation). Also citing your wife's individual experience is a red herring since she alone does not represent a large sample size.
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by dirkgadsden 13y ago
"on display in these comments" is a pretty clear reference to a source. The people here defending the whole PUA genre are defending an objectification of women. The PUA approach treats women as objects that are to be manipulated t
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by dirkgadsden 13y ago
This isn't a legal issue. You can write all you want promoting rape culture. Kickstarter, as a private company, is well within their rights and Terms of Service to pull your project if they find it in bad taste. And they should most de
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by dirkgadsden 13y ago
It's easy to see why there aren't more women in computing with the mountain of rape culture, misogyny, and male privilege on display in these comments.
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by dirkgadsden 14y ago
HTTP specification API, web-server, Sinatra-like DSL, and client implementations already exist in Julia (and are listed in the package manager): https://github.com/dirk/HTTP.jl The server is also pure-Julia and doesn't require a shared li
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by dirkgadsden 14y ago
If you look at the bottom right under "Key stats and ratios"[1] you can see a trace of Google creating a time with 0 (default I guess) and spitting out the year (+/- 1 because of timezones) of the Unix epoch. [1] http://d.pr/i/sMYb
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by dirkgadsden 15y ago
That's only the beginning of the flaws; I saw no mention of the author taking into account the individual scoring systems that the various reviewers used. Some reviewers can be quite harsh, and would use the majority of the 0-100 spectrum f
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by dirkgadsden 15y ago
Read it three years ago; entertaining, engaging, and quite deep in it's development of characters within a relatively static environment. Definitely a great.
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by dirkgadsden 15y ago
Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey Friedl, the first edition (a.k.a. "The Perl Edition", http://regex.info/ for more information about the book and its editions) It's my standard litmus test judging a programmer; if you haven't read
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by dirkgadsden 16y ago
Totally air-tight houses can be a danger as well; in my home (which is old and "breathes"), a heater once malfunctioned; when I noticed the malfunction (black accumulant around the vents) and called a technician to come check it out, the te
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by dirkgadsden 16y ago
Personally I hate extra features; but that doesn't mean that the possibility shouldn't exist. Diaspora's plans for opening up their system appears to be "we'll add plugins later." This seems fundamentally flawed to me. I'd rather use a prot
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Ask HN: Debriefing Diaspora; where did flexibility go?
7 points by dirkgadsden 16y ago|5 comments
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by dirkgadsden 16y ago
One thing I'd add to the to the list is have someone to talk to. When building large systems it's always important to have the big picture in mind, and being able to get another person's input on what you're doing can often be invaluable. I
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by dirkgadsden 16y ago
It doesn't seem that it was necessarily stinginess of neglect, but rather stinginess imposed by their situation. Like the article said, it took hours to create a new shard, downtime that Foursquare definitely did not want.
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by dirkgadsden 16y ago
What exactly is the rate like for transferring data across MongoDB instances on EBS? Was the overhead of going across EBS volumes the major factor in the length of the downtime? The 60%/40% sharding distribution doesn't seem too bad in the
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by dirkgadsden 16y ago
The duration of the downtime seems to have been dependent on not just disk throughput, but also network and CPU throughput. Eliot did mention that a large portion of the downtime was partly caused by the slowness of EBS. Making a rough esti