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by drewda 6y ago
Prop 22 is written such that it can only be modified by 7/8 vote of the legislature in the future. Its funders made sure to protect their "investment" from the normal political process of push/pull/debate/chang
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by drewda 6y ago
Facebook announced that they'd be adjusting employee salaries by new home location at the start of the new calendar year, I think. Some more distributed companies like Salesforce have been adjusting compensation for years when employee
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by drewda 6y ago
Agreed
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by drewda 6y ago
> To my knowledge, nothing majorly successful or long-term supported has ever come out of Area 120. Instead try evaluating the success of Area 120 by the number of Google staff members who have had their "incredible journey" it
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by drewda 6y ago
FYI, these are all excerpts or reviews of the same book by the historian Jill Lepore. (I've quite enjoyed her writing over the years and highly recommend it.)
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by drewda 6y ago
Related: the OpenDP project out of Harvard and sponsored by Microsoft: - https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/opendp - https://github.com/opendifferentialprivacy/
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GoodJob 1.0, a new Postgres-based, multithreaded, ActiveJob back end for Rails(island94.org)
5 points by drewda 6y ago|0 comments
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by drewda 6y ago
On a somewhat related note, here's an enjoyable read about how citations in scholarly papers can sometimes mask shoddy thinking and spread "Academic urban legends": > Many of the messages presented in respectable scientifi
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by drewda 6y ago
Of the commercial options, I used to use Navicat. Then moved on to DataGrip by Jetbrains. Of the open/free options, I like DBeaver.
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by drewda 6y ago
Ruby on Rails is the stack I've felt most comfortable in for well over a decade and it's always great to see it's continued progress! That said, I do think it's unfortunate that Rails has yet to have a "canonical&qu
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Hey: Email Service by Basecamp (37 Signals)(hey.com)
2 points by drewda 7y ago|0 comments
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by drewda 7y ago
Nice. Thanks for sharing. For what it's worth, this would bring ODbL-licensed data into an output GTFS feed.
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by drewda 7y ago
Sharp eyes! ACE is included in the feed, but we did not include it in the animation. We don't currently have geometries for the route alignment (the train tracks), so we'd be drawing straight lines between the ACE stops — didn&#x2
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by drewda 7y ago
You just described the official purpose of https://area120.google.com/
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by drewda 7y ago
According to their overall status page, they already do run two separate CDNs for normal and enterprise customers: https://www.netlifystatus.com/
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by drewda 7y ago
For geographic and geometric operations in JavaScript: https://turfjs.org/ http://bjornharrtell.github.io/jsts/ For projections: http://proj4js.org/ https://github.com/
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by drewda 7y ago
"Facebook to acquire CTRL-Labs, a startup for controlling computers with the ~~mind~~ brain"
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by drewda 7y ago
For those who want to relive the HP Way or learn about it for the first time, I highly recommend: "Bill & Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World's Greatest Company" by Michael S. Malone https://www.amazo
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Libraries guarantee patrons’ privacy. That’s why LinkedIn policy is so troubling(calmatters.org)
2 points by drewda 7y ago|0 comments
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by drewda 7y ago
Yes, I quite like this functionality in the "gcloud" CLI: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/compute/ssh FWIW, it sounds like one advantage of the new AWS service is that it will pro
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by drewda 7y ago
Many good comments in this thread! Here's a practical item I'll add: Good managers offer praise in public. They offer critical feedback in private. Critical feedback isn't necessarily the sign of a bad/mean/uncaring
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by drewda 7y ago
One of my own techniques as a manager: if I'm not satisfied with an answer to my question, I'll just keep asking more questions. Sometimes my questioning will lead the others to find some unnoticed complexity in their own proposal
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by drewda 7y ago
This is interesting and I'm tempted to order a base station. But how can one buy client hardware or find reference designs for building clients that use this network?
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by drewda 7y ago
Magic Mountain in Coyote Point used to be so different. A giant mound of concrete that we'd ride down on cardboard sheets. This century's version with its metal slides is fine, but not the same.
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by drewda 7y ago
Some people like both managed services _and_ OSS. It's nice to see how, say, GCP offers a managed Airflow service. (Edit: I don't mean this as a negative comment about AWS managed workflow services. Just pointing out some advantag
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by drewda 7y ago
Instead of competing over burgers, could Beyond Meat or Impossible Burger work on brisket?
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by drewda 7y ago
I only have first hand experience with NIH SBIR/STTRs, but I have heard good things from acquaintances with NSF funding. Sounds like NSF has put more resources into startup resources and mentorship, like its i-Corps program. I've
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by drewda 8y ago
Some other companies that specialize in Postgres support/hosting/commercial tooling: - https://www.crunchydata.com/ - https://www.enterprisedb.com/
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by drewda 8y ago
Reactions to this headline (not necessarily to the article's contents): Even if the decisions have taken longer, perhaps they've been better decisions? And even if the growth could be greater, they've been successful with spe
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by drewda 8y ago
Can anyone compare this with Istio (the Google backed service mesh)? FWIW, both Istio and AWS App Mesh use the Envoy proxy.

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