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by elmin 11y ago
Remember that the most at-risk students were being selected for the program. It's possible that the education helped a bit, but was ultimately outweighed by the negative factors which made them at-risk to begin with. If so, it would su
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by elmin 11y ago
One thing that essentially every organization has is specialization (job roles). When I was working as an engineer, my problems focused around engineering. I simply didn't have the time to think about company-level problems every day.
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by elmin 11y ago
The location of instances could be an option. I imagine if their locally-hosted instances were a bit cheaper they would be the more popular option.
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by elmin 11y ago
Here is an article which examines this phenomenon in more depth: http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2142320.pdf?acceptTC=true
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by elmin 11y ago
If at all possible, please consider building things like this as static websites. It makes them faster, cheaper and much more tolerant to load spikes like this.
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by elmin 11y ago
Why not use gulp to build static html pages, and serve those with S3/CloudFront. Simpler, more reliable, and no need to run a node service.
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by elmin 11y ago
If it's rated to 6000lbs, and you test it at 6000lbs, it certainly _shouldn't_ be destructive.
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Show HN: json.is(json.is)
10 points by elmin 11y ago|3 comments
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by elmin 11y ago
I've never had any trouble with Amazon Route53.
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by elmin 11y ago
Unfortunately not enough people traffic the new page to make hn a fair arbiter of content quality. If you don't like it spend some time on https://news.ycombinator.com/newest upvoting content you like.
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by elmin 11y ago
If that's how the equal protection clause works, why was it necessary to pass the Civil Rights Act as a law or Woman's Sufferage as an amendment? Based on the state of civil rights at the time, it's clear that the founding f
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by elmin 11y ago
Amazons margins are so narrow an employee discount without some sort of cap would be ridiculous.
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by elmin 11y ago
I have a very different perspective. With tools like Heroku, building systems as microservices is no more time consuming than building a monolithic system. And it's much easier to iterate on and improve. Conversly, pulling apart a mono
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by elmin 11y ago
I wouldn't be so quick to blame the engineers. They might be working within a managerial structure which doesn't give them the latitude they need to do their jobs. Yes engineers have a duty, but in software it's often hard to
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by elmin 11y ago
We're dealing with many of the same issues at Eager ( https://eager.io ). We're considerably younger as app stores go, going us a shot to iterate. The insights in write ups like this are therefore very helpful.
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by elmin 11y ago
I'm sorry but your destination is not the same as your race, sex or disability. If a business doesn't want to drive you somewhere, that's not discrimination, it's business.
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by elmin 11y ago
4-5 Gs.
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by elmin 11y ago
Aircraft approaches are issued every 90 days. To stay up to date you need to have a book of these 'plates' for every region of the U.S, or a subscription to a service that sends you paper updates. If this happened in flight they w
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by elmin 11y ago
Please consider making your site static if possible. It makes it much more tolerant to the traffic which is taking it down now, faster and often more accessible. There's a write up here, but you can also just google 'static websit
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by elmin 12y ago
I've had your experience, but I've also had the experience of content which has been posted multiple times suddenly skyrocketing to the frontpage. I wouldn't be so quick to think that the fickleness you experience is your con
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by elmin 12y ago
To me the easiest solution is to expose more users to the /newest page. When more eyes are on the new stories, legitimate ones will have more of a shot.
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by elmin 12y ago
What evidence is there that Amazon sets different prices for different users for the same goods?
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by elmin 12y ago
He colluded with other sellers to 'fix' prices. In a fair market, individual sellers set their own prices. This works to limit the ability of one seller to price gouge. If they charge too much, a competitor will undercut them, gra
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by elmin 12y ago
There's a difference between sushi you get at whole foods and sushi prepared by a chef directly in front of you.
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by elmin 12y ago
I hope to god no one has paid the $70k without realizing this.
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by elmin 12y ago
Please consider making your blog and landing pages static sites. They'll handle load like this much better (the site is currently 500ing), and will be cheaper to operate as well. I did a little write up here, but you can also just goog
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by elmin 12y ago
There has been a lot of talk recently of him naming Charlie Munger as his successor. I think this letter may have been a handoff of sorts. He may make a specific announcement at the meeting.
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by elmin 12y ago
Drip irrigation uses as little as 1% the water of traditional irrigation methods.
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by elmin 12y ago
The C philosophy is: an easier alternative to writing assembly.
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by elmin 12y ago
This seems like marketing-speak to me. Or perhaps they haven't gotten far enough in their development for it to be really hard yet. Here are some examples of reasons this is harder than you'd think: - At a complex intersection, ho

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