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by ef4 10y ago
> It's pretty much a rite of passage here... most people have or will That's pretty silly. Plenty of people working in startups never put themselves through that kind of BS. There are at last two obvious strategies for avoiding
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by ef4 10y ago
This is describing two stages in the growth of programmer skill. The researchers are at beginner stage and make classic beginner-stage mistakes. The developers are at intermediate stage, and they make classic intermediate-stage mistakes. Th
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by ef4 10y ago
Surprised nobody has already pointed out why the high traffic from Ashburn, VA is "hard to interpret". That is the home of one of the biggest AWS data centers. It would be an obvious place to run bulk downloading of sci-hub conten
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by ef4 10y ago
Fitting into a bulk launch with hundreds of other tiny craft makes the hardest part -- getting into low earth orbit -- relatively affordable. Once you're there, by being small and patient you can gradually lift your orbit using slow-an
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by ef4 10y ago
Yup, when your founders were fathered by Mars and suckled by a she-wolf, you can only go downhill from there.
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by ef4 10y ago
The original comment was almost certainly about zoning regulations, not safety regulations. Obviously inspecting elevators so people don't plunge to their deaths is something we know how to do.
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by ef4 10y ago
This architecture fails precisely when you need it the most. Any failure that breaks your server's ability to respond to requests in a timely fashion will also break it's ability to render this monitoring page. Monitoring that can
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by ef4 10y ago
> everything is open to them, source included Certifiers typically don't review source code. They are operating at least two levels of abstraction away: they review documents that describe procedures that are supposed to ensure qual
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by ef4 10y ago
> will triple the traffic on the remaining through-street. It is almost certainly less than triple, because of latent demand.
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by ef4 10y ago
It does, and I think Montessori schools are great. My one complaint is that a lot of Montessori teachers seem to have a blanket distaste for all electronics that lumps the good (Scratch and Logo) in with the bad (passively watching videos a
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by ef4 10y ago
This is actually why so many organizations that are good at shipping other kinds of products suck at software: the distinction between "what to build" and "how to build it" is very squishy, and on a complex enough projec
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by ef4 10y ago
Yup. Most schools can't authentically do the things that Papert describes in Mindstorms. It goes against their very structure. I don't blame the commercial vendors -- they are following the public-policy-directed money. I blame th
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by ef4 10y ago
The total output of the world economy is about $13,000 worth of goods and services per person per year. That's not enough to provide even just education and healthcare up to a standard that would be considered remotely acceptable by pe
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by ef4 10y ago
My bet for carbon-neutral aviation is not batteries, it's synthetic hydrocarbon fuels. A factory that can make kerosene out of atmospheric carbon and electricity at a reasonable cost seems like a smaller stretch than an exotic new batt
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by ef4 10y ago
The explanation for that behavior is that instead of a cursor, emacs has a mark and a point. If you want to view something else without losing your place, you can leave the mark behind and then jump back. The main benefit of this is that yo
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by ef4 10y ago
Yeah, keeping them apart makes no sense. Definitely a single market. If they belong apart, then so do Manhattan and Brooklyn.
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by ef4 10y ago
In venture dollar terms, Boston is 3x bigger than Austin: http://www.inc.com/associated-press/top-20-cities-for-tech-s... That list excludes biotech, and Boston is one of the top biotech hubs, so I suspect that would b
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by ef4 10y ago
I'm sure Sergei Brin, Larry Page, Jeff Bezos, and Jimmy Wales would be interested in hearing how their Montessori educations prevented them from competing in today's society.
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by ef4 10y ago
That's simply not true. Per student spending in the US is among the highest in the world. http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cmd.asp We just blow it on administration-heavy bureaucracies and demonstrab
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by ef4 10y ago
There are already commercial VR camera rigs that can do translation within a sphere big enough for head motion. The camera makers want to be able to make content for use with things like Gear VR.
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by ef4 10y ago
We are on the cusp of solving the peripheral vision piece, because 360 degree camera rigs are getting cheap and popular. As soon as they can stream in realtime, you could have low-latency VR as if your head was really on top of the robot.
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by ef4 10y ago
If anything it is pessimistic. It amounts to 7.2% total annual costs, which would include a jumbo mortgage rate, real estate taxes, and condo fees.
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by ef4 10y ago
Well, there are 1,200 Harvard faculty, average effective annual salary $274,005. 600 MIT faculty, average effective annual salary $249,509. 900 Google employees, of which quite a few are at least Staff Software Engineers, which average $200
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by ef4 10y ago
In Boston & Cambridge there are quite a lot of tech people making $200k, even as individual contributors. And there are many two-job couples with household income over $300k. A million dollar mortgage will cost $6000 per month, which is
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by ef4 10y ago
> Anything that gets your heart rate somewhere between 110 and 140 beats per minute is enough. There's a related point that people often get really wrong when they take up distance running: you can (and should!) actually run within
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by ef4 10y ago
> Possibly, but I think you underestimate the effort required to create and distribute a toolchain that would become shared and standardized. Not really, because we're already doing it. It's definitely hard, but it's also
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by ef4 10y ago
I'm going to go against the JS ecosystem grain and say that boilerplates are a total anti-pattern. And not because you should be doing this stuff by hand either, which is probably the second most popular answer. "Boilerplate"
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by ef4 10y ago
> there will be no assimilation possible. While I can't speak for Europe, in America there are approximately zero second-generation immigrants who aren't thoroughly Americanized.
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On the irony of programmers who don't like abstraction(eaf4.com)
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by ef4 10y ago
That doesn't necessarily contradict the proverb. It's saying that somebody who starts out poor and then rises is still likely to have descendants who are poor. That is actually a statement that social classes are sticky.

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