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by endymi0n 10y ago
With all due respect to the OP, I think debt is amazing and a great and sensible solution of financing a company - that VCs want to distract you from for their own benefit. If all factors point into the right direction, why would you give V
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That being said, the prideful worker effect is very real though. I remember when my mom told me how her nightshifts in the sausage factory as a student made her more humble - and I thought "what a waste - I'm going to step in high
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by endymi0n 10y ago
Anyone care to elaborate on how well it has aged? When I last used SQL Server in 2010, it was indeed pretty cool, especially the awesome ecosystem (SQL Studio, Reporting Services, graphical Query Planner, etc.). Then I went to MySQL because
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by endymi0n 10y ago
Anyone with domain knowledge cares to TL;DR the significance of the Hough Transform and its applications? Never heard of it before...
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by endymi0n 10y ago
To quote Ira Glass here: "Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuf
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by endymi0n 10y ago
JustWatch (Berlin, Germany) is searching for hungry & curious engineers (from INTERN to senior level) ONSITE: - Backend Engineering (Golang, GRPC, Postgres, Aerospike) - Web & hybrid Engineering (Typescript, Angular, Ionic, Cordova)
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by endymi0n 10y ago
A good start would be all of http://highscalability.com - but it more or less boils down to being able to roll back: And that rules out hard schema changes. So the proper and hard way is always a variant of: 1) Create another co
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There's more and more nuanced reasons actually: 1. Companies don't know how to do the engineering for maximum uptime, like you describe. It's way more complicated than the usual CRUD operations 2. Companies know how to but th
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This is also one of the reasons New Zealand often gets products first - it's far away, super small, highly developed amd English speaking: http://www.economist.com/news/business/21651858-small-techno...
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by endymi0n 10y ago
Like there's almost no malware or fishy apps for Windows Phone since nobody bothers targeting an ecosystem with 2% market share?
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by endymi0n 10y ago
There is anecdotal evidence they did: http://qz.com/378228/google-is-over-those-ridiculous-brainte...
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by endymi0n 10y ago
At their rate of taking sane stuff away in the name of "design", their 2017 MacBook Pro and the 2017 iPad Pro will be the same device. Because by now, there's honestly not so much more to lose than 3 USB-C connectors and a ke
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by endymi0n 10y ago
Sorry, but this is wrong. "less battery is possible without less battery runtime" -> doesn't work with CPU bound software like Hangouts or external appliances that need to be powered. Fact is the battery is much smaller. -
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by endymi0n 10y ago
Public Service Announcement: https://qntm.org/abolish (So you want to abolish Time Zones...)
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Could it be sharp oxygen crystals penetrating the carbon fiber resin layer - just like what happens when freezing living cells?
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Have fun editing HDR footage or cutting samples on the command line. Don't get me wrong, but MacOS is exactly my platform of choice because I can have a sane POSIX command line as well as a color managed display and high resolution, lo
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by endymi0n 10y ago
Does it run http://doppiojvm.org/ ? Then we could run JavaScript on top of that!
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by endymi0n 10y ago
While you're 100% right, the key word to me here is "hierarchical organization" - and I remember my history teacher, the best I've ever had. She was demanding, on fire all the time - and most of other students and teache
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by endymi0n 10y ago
> Build more and everyone will be happy...eventually. Except this still will not help due to the economic forces driving urbanization. Silicon Valley is a self-fulfilling prophecy and creating more supply will only help to drive more dem
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Exactly this. Our second daughter has had so many cuts and bruises because we couldn't be all over her when looking after the first one in her terrible twos - and that way she's a much more relaxed and courageous child FWIW. I gue
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Concurrency Nice one. The only hard thing missing now is:
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We're operating a quite large, custom built scraper - this, together with extensive monitoring, continuous engineering effort and topped with some manual checking of the most popular content & providers keeps our users happy. It&#x
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by endymi0n 10y ago
My bet for a broad catch-all: Traces left in low-level networking (MTU et al.) https://medium.com/@ValdikSS/detecting-vpn-and-its-configura...
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by endymi0n 10y ago
For legal and technical reasons, our actual possibly copyrighted content (posters, descriptions, ...) is currently pulled from the free TMDB - and titles are only displayed when we both have an entry there AND it's correctly matched (w
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by endymi0n 10y ago
Hey, sorry for that, we're out in 26 countries already, but Switzerland isn't launched yet. It's one of the next countries on our list though, bear with us!
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by endymi0n 10y ago
Have a look on https://www.justwatch.com in the country you want to know and filter for Mubi! Disclosure: I'm Cofounder there :)
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When he returned to the air field, Bob Hoover walked over to the man who had nearly caused his death and, according to the California Fullerton News-Tribune, said: “There isn’t a man alive who hasn’t made a mistake. But I’m positive you’ll
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by endymi0n 10y ago
Big kudos to Luna for fusing both of these awesome projects - this was actually on our backlog too and helped a lot!
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Yup, and it somehow also includes Packer, Kubernetes, Spinnaker and Mesos. Don't get me wrong, but this looks like it's trying to be systemd for infrastructure orchestration - and I don't mean that in a particularly good way.
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JustWatch (Berlin, Germany) is always out for smart, entrepreneurial thinking engineers (from INTERN to senior level) ONSITE, especially: - Backend Engineering (Golang, ElasticSearch, Postgres, Docker) - Web & hybrid Engineering (Javasc

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