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by dlubarov 10y ago
It's just a form of price discrimination. Early bookers are usually price-sensitive individuals. They're prepared to shop around, or even forgo the trip if it's too expensive. Late bookers are mostly corporate customers or pr
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by dlubarov 10y ago
The platform team does do code review and automated tests, but occasionally something slips through, so they QA release branches as well. Is there any major app (say, at least 1 million SLOC) which has such good automated tests that they&#x
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by dlubarov 10y ago
> There have been cases where AOSP releases on master have failed to compile or require binary blobs. I wouldn't expect master to be stable, for Android or any other project. If you were setting up a new Linux machine and compiling
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by dlubarov 10y ago
Anecdotally, it seems most models can be quantized to 8 bits without much loss of accuracy, and fixed point arithmetic requires much less hardware. Training is still done with floating point though.
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by dlubarov 10y ago
Rate limiting is a way of failing gracefully. Ideally your request handlers never fail, but if they have to, having a rate limiter filter out some requests (based on rules you control) is usually better than the default failure behavior of
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by dlubarov 10y ago
There's nothing wrong with selling public domain works for profit in general. (KDP has some restrictions - https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A2OHLJURFVK57Q ) Were those authors pretending they were original works?
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by dlubarov 10y ago
But the first sale doctrine means there can be other legit sellers. There's no way to be certain whether a third party seller is selling a counterfeit (except by buying it).
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by dlubarov 10y ago
I'd suggest using +/- like Google Fonts does, and change the tooltip to "Add to collection" or "Add to download" rather than "Favorite". If you use the "favorite" symbol/terminology the
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by dlubarov 10y ago
I think most GIF optimizers would do it, although I haven't tried any. E.g. https://ezgif.com/optimize says they do it ("makes unchanged parts of the following frames transparent").
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by dlubarov 10y ago
The major ISPs don't pay much for transit though. E.g. Comcast is is not tier 1, but with their peering arrangements they pay for less than 1 percent of their traffic. The notorious Comcast/Netflix case was certainly not motivated
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by dlubarov 10y ago
> Animated images aren't that smart, they're just a bunch of images, so you're storing every single frame. GIF89a has a sort of limited delta encoding via the "do not dispose" option. If you write a frame with &q
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by dlubarov 10y ago
I get that. That's why you diversify your assets and hold a bit of cash as well. But 6 months is a bit extreme. It's not as if a diversified portfolio is going to drop to zero during a major recession (unless the government collap
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by dlubarov 10y ago
Couldn't the founders just give themselves common stock with similar terms (including non-transferability) as employees' RSUs? I don't see the need for a trust.
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by dlubarov 10y ago
> There's a reason it's recommended that you have 6 months of living expenses liquid. Do you mean cash equivalents? Public stocks are liquid. Personally I think the 6 months advice is too conservative. If everyone calculated
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by dlubarov 10y ago
IMO you shouldn't try to prove that his code is bad and the feedback is good. Even if his code is perfect and the feedback is bad, he should still respond to the feedback with a justification for his approach. If his way is really bett
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by dlubarov 10y ago
I didn't downvote, but your claims could use some justification. What makes you think quality is declining? Personal experience? Second hand anecdotes? Media stories?
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by dlubarov 10y ago
Coming from Square (which is mostly SOA, but with an old monolithic service), we had quite a few services which really needed to be separated for performance reasons: - One needed a large in-process cache in order to deliver good performanc
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by dlubarov 10y ago
I don't think you're really justifying why employees and investors ought to have different terms. To the extend that investors need extra compensation, they can always be compensated with additional shares, regardless of those sha
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by dlubarov 10y ago
IMO there's no point in arguing about the relative importance of investors versus employees, because everyone should be in favor of more flexible equity terms. The 90 day rule creates a lot of risk for employees who lack the capital fo
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by dlubarov 10y ago
A workaround is to convert ISOs to NSOs after 90 days. Quora adopted that policy a while ago and a lot of companies followed suit (Square and Pintrest to name a few). Sam A now recommends that approach - http://blog.samaltman.com
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by dlubarov 10y ago
The benefit is that you might receive dividends later on, after a period of revenue growth. Granted, it'll be years if not decades before SNAP pays a dividend, if it succeeds at all. But on the flip side, SNAP's future dividends c
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by dlubarov 10y ago
> the only way to release them is for the merchant to call the customer's bank and provide the, cc number and auth code. Who is your payment processor? They should be voiding the auth after the AVS or CVV mismatch.
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by dlubarov 10y ago
> Can we please not have a "default" way of handling errors? None fit all. Well language designers have to make the choice. I think overall, the best approach is Python's behavior, where both 1/0 and 1.0/0.0 trig
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by dlubarov 10y ago
Yes, but the issue comes up more often in JS and PHP since they don't have native integer division.
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by dlubarov 10y ago
> An exception is the same NaN, only less convenientlying packaged. I prefer an exception because I'd rather have my code fail fast, and immediately point me close to the source of the bug, rather than letting a NaN or Infinity prop
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by dlubarov 10y ago
It's good practice to destroy all sessions (besides the current one) when a password is changed, since a password change suggests that the old password may have been compromised. Not sure how many websites do that in practice, though.
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by dlubarov 10y ago
My advice would be to look at the pricing of CreateSpace versus Lightning Source/Spark before choosing one. And keep in mind that LS is the only one which lets you control the Ingram discount, down to 20%. Here's the LS pricing gu
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by dlubarov 10y ago
> Git prepends type and length, that makes an attack significantly more difficult, and certainly you cannot just directly translate the pdf attack to Git. With the attack vectors discussed above, the type would always be blob. I don&#x27
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by dlubarov 10y ago
> 1) Git doesn't rely on SHA-1 for security. It relies on HTTPS, and a web of trust. HTTPS lets you verify that you're fetching changes from, say, a Github server. Just because a repo is hosted by Github doesn't mean that
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by dlubarov 10y ago
> That usually tends to make collision attacks much harder, because you either have to make the resulting size the same too, or you have to be able to also edit the size field in the header. > pdf's don't have that issue, th

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