endymi0n

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by endymi0n 9y ago
I'm German and I've seen maybe two paper cheques in my entire life.
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My Name is Alexa – and Amazon changed my life forever(seattletimes.com)
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by endymi0n 9y ago
sha256 hashing rate on a modern graphics card is about 23GH/s: https://gist.github.com/epixoip/a83d38f412b4737e99bbef804a27... Not too good advice if you ask me IMHO. Here's better advice: https://
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by endymi0n 9y ago
The amount of chuzpah, ignorance and insensitivity in that CMO's response is staggering and completely out of touch with their core audience. Looks like they didn't have a look at what happened to Patreon lately.
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by endymi0n 9y ago
A great further read: "The saddest thing I know about the integers" https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/the-sadd...
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by endymi0n 9y ago
You still forgot about the bail system, or a law system where everyone with deep enough pockets can sue anyone else for a sum that's impossible to defend for - or civil forfeiture, where law enforcement can take someone's money ju
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by endymi0n 9y ago
To be fair, the 70% number is true but misleading due to a lot of the new smaller members in the East. More than 80% of EU population is living in a country where either gay marriage or civil unions (which are pretty close) are legal.
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by endymi0n 9y ago
Could have been ze Germans in both cases... "tricked out" is an often self-coined (but wrong) direct translation of "ausgetrickst", meaning outwitted.
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by endymi0n 9y ago
Well, because it "used to be like that" and nothing is as persistent as a stopgap solution. Fun story: Used to work at a 8 year old, heavily growing ad network in customer support and hadn't even officially progressed to engi
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Musk beats deadline for building world's biggest battery(phys.org)
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by endymi0n 9y ago
Gopass, the 98% `pass` compatible password manager with a lot of nice improvements on the UX side: https://www.justwatch.com/gopass/ https://github.com/justwatchcom/gopass
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by endymi0n 9y ago
Here's the secret: Don't apply for those jobs and cut your losses short by finishing the interview yourself and walking out. TL;DR: Bad interviews are a strong, pretty reliable symptom of a lack of good company culture. What few p
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by endymi0n 9y ago
Yep, pretty much all of Google's internal and premium GCP network is Anycast. You'll be terminated to Google's network on your continent, no matter what the DB says: Obviously that's impossible to tag correctly in any Ge
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by endymi0n 9y ago
I was going to downvote you, but actually — even though I completely disagree with the premise — it makes perfect sense as an explanation.
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by endymi0n 9y ago
[citation needed]
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by endymi0n 9y ago
Playing devil's advocate here, especially for Postgres this isn't a clear cut case, as because of Postgres' MVCC implementation, depending on whether the rows were already frozen or not (caused by lots of mutations ongoing an
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by endymi0n 9y ago
Weather. Weather. Weather. I know it doesn't rain or snow in California but it sure does in most of the rest of the world. Lack of larger transportation possibilities. Yes, there are specialized transport bikes, but they still can&#x27
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by endymi0n 9y ago
> How did you significantly reduce your AWS cost? We moved to Google Cloud Platform. Snark aside, we're continuing to be pretty happy about that decision, in addition to paying a lot less.
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by endymi0n 9y ago
Hits the nail on the head. It's an often cited cliché, but Google wasn't the first search engine and Facebook not the first social network. That works in niches as well if you have the feeling that the current state of the art som
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EU Parliament calls for a tightening of data protection(translate.google.com)
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by endymi0n 9y ago
So I guess it's web scale? EDIT: Just discovered my MacBook is actually a mainframe: for run in {1..1000} do bdb & done I'm gonna be rich.
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by endymi0n 9y ago
With all due respect, Oracle doesn't provide ACID semantics across a cluster spanning several continents...
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by endymi0n 9y ago
Technically not, but for SEO ranking, it's one of a hundred factors that even if you max it out, it's a rather small one: https://searchengineland.com/seotable Talk about diminishing returns here. Source: We'
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by endymi0n 9y ago
...or "how to immediately get flagged as a paranoid weirdo nerd and die without credit FOREVER ALONE" A little like the paradox that by using more secure browsers and configurations, any browser fingerprinting algorithm will singl
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by endymi0n 9y ago
This might be something for you two guys if you can afford it... http://mashable.com/2015/10/28/altwork-station-laying-down
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by endymi0n 9y ago
Confirmation Bias at work. You're invested, so you want it to take off. Yet none of those blockchain enthusiasts could tell me a single USP that blockchains had over storage in a normal database on any concrete use case, with the so
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by endymi0n 9y ago
JustWatch | Backend, Frontend & System Engineers | Berlin, Germany | INTERNS, VISA, ONSITE, https://www.justwatch.com/us/talent We're always looking for hungry & curious engineers (from INTERN to senior le
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by endymi0n 9y ago
...and EC2 reservations are still a Godsend compared to some other offerings out there, I mean at least they're interchangeable by node class: We've got Redshift reserved instances and due to growth, we need to upgrade our node ty
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Lane detection, self driving cars, drone delivery and of course meeting your Tinder date in the middle of a rock concert.
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by endymi0n 9y ago
It will probably turn out just like the rest of the history of the internet - as a huge "public/private partnership" (/s) FB/Google jump on the train and enable new possibilities you don't want to miss, meanwhi

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