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by efficax 4y ago
tulip mania and ponzi schemes come up for a good reason
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by efficax 4y ago
10x engineers don't exist, or if they do, they are less than .1% of engineers. 2x engineers, sure, 2.5-3x even, but 10x? A fantasy, a pure invention with no data to back it up. Factor that into your analysis.
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by efficax 4y ago
To me the biggest blocker is unclear requirements in the edge cases (this is maybe the final 10-20% of a project). You get to a point where it's unclear which of a few options to move forward with, in a way that will affect the UX of t
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by efficax 4y ago
They can exchange Ethereum for the equivalent amount of BTC, but good luck turning that BTC into cash
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by efficax 4y ago
well you see, they tried to exchange it for cash and there was no cash left, so it got "stuck"
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by efficax 4y ago
most employment in the US is "at will" and has no real contractual obligations. you can quit at any time (and be fired at any time), for any reason. severance is essentially a benefit, completely optional, although it is required
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by efficax 4y ago
curious about the consistency guarantees. redis is single threaded which seems old fashioned but guarantees that all transactions are serial, so there is no chance of conflict between reads, no issue with race conditions , a complicated pro
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by efficax 4y ago
competition requires consolidation in order to acquire new lines of profit, it’s inevitable
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by efficax 4y ago
battery life is good on the mini for me, as for locking up, not sure why you would see that, it's got the same chipset as the non-mini iphone 13
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by efficax 4y ago
They claim that GUSD holders may be eligible for FDIC “passthrough” insurance, that’s a big maybe, and a lot of depends on whether or not they really do hold a dollar in an FDIC insured account for every Gemini dollar. Who knows? I do kno
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by efficax 4y ago
regular intake of sugar can make a dog diabetic, and diabetes can make a dog go blind
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by efficax 4y ago
Although apple silicon support is pretty good now for Docker and there are lots of arm64 container images out there, docker on macos is always a subpar experience because it requires a virtual machine with a linux kernel. Docker is just lin
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by efficax 4y ago
> Bigger sites might handle that number of requests every second. I can think of maybe 10 sites that get anywhere near that amount of traffic and they have millions and millions of dollars of infrastructure behind them. 34 million reques
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by efficax 4y ago
it’s funny to think that there is anything valuable about twitter’s code. twitter’s value is in its userbase, its code is useless on its own, not to mention that it’s a fairly simple piece of software in its essence. sure, there are probabl
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by efficax 4y ago
Nicotine has significant positive effects on attention and executive function, as well as wakefulness. People smoke for a reason, even if they don't really understand the effect it's having
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by efficax 4y ago
Last I knew, they offered you the choice of all cash or using whatever % of your salary to buy options, including 100% options.
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by efficax 5y ago
i seriously considered a framework laptop instead of a 14" mbpro but the battery life seems to be terrible on them, maybe in a few years if intel or amd catch up on power consumption of their chips
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by efficax 5y ago
> Even software that is directly ported has trouble because M1 tile memory cache is designed for minimal tasks, not heavy computing, and computationally heavy software has to be re-written from scratch to optimize it for the platform. Hu
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by efficax 5y ago
DNA was old news sure but using it to identify individuals was only theoretical and hardly widespread knowledge, it wouldn't be practical until the late 80s/early 90s...
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by efficax 5y ago
the answer isn't: it's fine because it's linux and you can use something else. The answer is: ok, it's broken, but it's GNU: you can fix it yourself!
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by efficax 5y ago
They could offer higher salaries, but would they? And employers are able to negotiate better plans than you can get in the individual market. There's no way i could get the plan i have through my work for the about $12000 they spend on
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by efficax 5y ago
Training the dogs for the fmris is the hardest part, but you do it like anything else, gradual exposure with food rewards
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by efficax 5y ago
There used to be such a wonderful diversity of architectures, operating systems and platforms in comparison to today's boring landscape of really only 3 end user platforms and basically 2 viable server environments. Alas, i miss the ol
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by efficax 5y ago
How many of us do you think work on "free" software? I write proprietary software and i use proprietary software to do it because it pays my mortgage. I drank the fsf Kool aid as a kid, then i grew up and had to put a roof over my
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by efficax 5y ago
Nobody runs for president for the salary
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by efficax 5y ago
You can do user testing, you can call up people in the industries and ask them, you can do a Kickstarter and spend a little on advertising it to see if it gets any traction, but mostly the reaching out to people in the target market and com
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by efficax 5y ago
before spending $40k and his own time he should have made a mockup of the software invested just a few hundred bucks in interviews with his intended customers, would have found out quite soon that it had no product-market fit
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by efficax 5y ago
The thing is that in most places there's going to be water almost everywhere
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by efficax 5y ago
Would be great if they had an enterprise level so i could get my work to buy this for us
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by efficax 5y ago
Back in 2016 at least, Stack overflow was container free https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar... No idea how much has changed since then

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