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by endymi0n 9y ago
Give me just one example where that ever worked to create a viable company. Whoops, there aren‘t any. Separating research and development never really worked for anything. What do you expect, if you have a two class employment hierarchy: Fi
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by endymi0n 9y ago
I‘m really curious how this will play along with GDPR, which will pretty much absolutely need forced modals in order to to legally capture tracking consent. It could also create interesting legal constellations: How do you prove you asked f
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by endymi0n 9y ago
We do and we‘re still okay with it. It‘s an incredible piece of engineering of a database, all optimized towards a single use case: Guaranteed single-millisecond reads and writes on a key-value store that‘s too expensive to fit in RAM. That
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by endymi0n 9y ago
From a business perspective, this is incredibly stupid, as they‘re basically abandoning their early, nerdy adopters who brought them into companies in the first place. It‘s a big „fuck you, now that we‘re a REAL COMPANY“, we don‘t need you
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by endymi0n 9y ago
You‘re probably referring to this research: https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/05/daily-... ...which by the way I find extremely plausible, just judging by the fact that most of our sense
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by endymi0n 9y ago
To be honest, all of this depends heavily on the support level and company size as well. While we had gold support at GCP (initial free offering), we were using one of their beta APIs that wasn't working properly — and within minutes w
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by endymi0n 9y ago
Thinking at the scale of Musk's ambitions real quick, this makes a lot of sense. At Tesla: Think about every Tesla car worldwide being able to phone home with self-driving learning data. Being able to remote operate them in the 0.001
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by endymi0n 9y ago
Quick note that gopass (which is 98% drop-in API compatible with pass) does this out of the box: https://github.com/justwatchcom/gopass/blob/master/docs/feat...
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by endymi0n 9y ago
I'm in. Just add me on LinkedIn :)
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by endymi0n 9y ago
You're welcome. I'll just leave this final piece of advice here, which I would say is the distilled essence of wisdom I've worked hard for in the last decade — whether it might reach you at the point you currently are or not:
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by endymi0n 9y ago
TBH I've been thinking long and hard about that issue since I still have lots of interesting plans, and for the next step in my career (which is probably still a few years away), I already decided I'll do what it takes to find som
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by endymi0n 9y ago
Went through Ritalin (normal & XR), amphetamine, SSRI and tricyclic antidepressants, but in hindsight none of those gave me much leverage... just left me with holes in my short term memory I'm still regularly annoyed by. YMMV of co
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by endymi0n 9y ago
Hey, of course this didn't come out of nowhere. After lots of failures on my own ambitions right after college, I eventually caved in (completely broke) and started a job in tech support to pay the bills. It was only then — where I got
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by endymi0n 9y ago
I can relate a lot. I'm still burning through self-motivation hacks at 35, some of which are helping while most don't. Eventually, the hack with by far the largest impact (which brought me to currently being cofounder and CTO of o
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by endymi0n 9y ago
> Rent-A-Guinea Pig Service Takes Off in Switzerland http://m.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/hope-for-lonely-...
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by endymi0n 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man The popup being annoying (to which I personally agree) doesn't change anything about the incredibly clear results. People are placed into all kinds of situations in which th
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by endymi0n 9y ago
This is known for a while and used to cause huge problems for our tracking: https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow-javascript-tracker/issu...
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by endymi0n 9y ago
(which has the two big advantages of being counted in standard intergalactic minutes instead of fractional ones and usually having an easy to calculate constant whole hour difference to the time zone you live in, barring few exceptions)
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by endymi0n 9y ago
So you want to abolish time zones... (I see you don't, completely, but this one's gold in any case): https://qntm.org/abolish
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by endymi0n 9y ago
I‘m sorry, but 99% of the population will prefer a random shiny device that plays their cat video to one that lets them be „in control“ but have them recompile their kernel with the correct wifi driver before it works for them. With the cur
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by endymi0n 9y ago
> I feel like most Make users don't understand Make very well (especially the ones that complain really loudly about it). This is the very same narrative that vim users proclaim: "It's totally not complex if you took some
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by endymi0n 9y ago
All ethical thoughts aside for a moment (most of this article actually made me sad), is there any remaining strain of the Gros Michel? Seems to me from the articles’ tone like the Cavendish was more of an inferior stopgap solution. If we st
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by endymi0n 9y ago
From everything that is publically known, assume PageRank to still exist and be one tensor feature on the RankBrain algorithm. https://searchengineland.com/faq-all-about-the-new-google-ra... Although there haven't been
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by endymi0n 9y ago
well, we can only speculate...
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by endymi0n 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generat... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness_extractor ...the easiest is the von Neumann extractor where you just extract a zero if both
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by endymi0n 9y ago
Concurrency You forgot 2) Cache invalidation and 3)
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by endymi0n 9y ago
> "Americans have an impoverished and immature conception of technology, one that fetishizes innovation as a kind of art and demeans upkeep as mere drudgery." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14835256
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by endymi0n 9y ago
Hard to find a good spot for this, but: Thanks to anyone involved! From grasping the magnitude of this vulnerability to coordinating it with all major OS vendors, including Open Source ones that do all of their stuff more or less „in the op
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by endymi0n 9y ago
Obviously not. What could an unfixable CPU design bug that will impact every Intel processor (and cost up to 30% performance through the neccessary fixes) possibly do to the companies‘ stock price? /s
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Intel's CEO Just Sold a Lot of Stock(fool.com)
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