ericHosick

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by ericHosick 5y ago
Anton Petrov has a great video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRaQj_IMAjY .
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by ericHosick 5y ago
This Porsche has a design flaw: I can only go 22,500 kilometers before I have to replace the tires. This VW bus has a design flaw: I can't pull more than 1G on the race track.
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by ericHosick 5y ago
> Still hoping for those automatically refreshed materialized views in PostgreSQL, ala what VoltDB has. Not exactly what you're hoping for and you probably already follow this pattern. pg_cron can help (and is now available in AWS R
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by ericHosick 5y ago
In some cases, we aren't in a position to normalize the database due to legacy situations. However, one thing that could be done is to use views (maybe scoped in their own schema) to make the database look normalized (Facade the databa
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by ericHosick 6y ago
> 1) Make sure devs can run a realistic version of the whole stack locally. This idea is greatly under-appreciated in the industry.
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by ericHosick 6y ago
> Every additional JOIN you make creates a cartesian product of all previously joined records and the number of rows grows exponentially => you join tables A to B to C to D -> SQL engine has to create AxBxCxD number rows, each lett
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by ericHosick 6y ago
Location: Santa Cruz County Area (US Citizen) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Specialties : my preferred full-stack environment. infrastructure : AWS (most services), cloud formation, IAC (orchestration), docker (containers), Github Ac
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by ericHosick 7y ago
This is the only movie I've watched that has left me feeling disturbed for weeks. I couldn't even watch all the parts and I haven't been able to watch again. It is really well done.
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by ericHosick 7y ago
I use autopilot daily. It drives me, on a twisty road, from my house to work with intervention when I get into town. > how quickly might it react to a perceived obstacle? I've had it head towards a curbed median in the middle of the
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by ericHosick 7y ago
We're trying out a few things right now. 1) Use a migration tool (flyway, dbmigate, etc.) 2) We try and keep scripts idempotent to minimize on migration script explosion. Also helps to keep changes to similar assets located within the
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by ericHosick 8y ago
We used an approach called student centered learning at the University I lectured at. Basically, students sit in groups and work with each other and the lecturer acts as an enabler (this is actually harder than just lecturing for 1+ hours).
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by ericHosick 9y ago
I think a lot of people miss that R&D is expensive and it is often takes those who can 'throw away money' to help fund it. This is on top of any subsidies that may exist for that R&D. Look at cars, cell phones, computers a
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by ericHosick 9y ago
> Societies are societies because they put the good of the group above the good of the individual. Doesn't necessarily make a society good (aka righteous).
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by ericHosick 9y ago
Yes. I did get an email. You should be able to login to your Tesla account and 'choose' the Model 3 you want. Based on your choice, they give an estimate on when you'll be able to order the Tesla.
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by ericHosick 9y ago
I grew up on his sci-fi books. The Mote in God's Eye, to me, is the best science fiction I've ever read. Lucifer's Hammer was way up there and hit close to home (being in California and all).
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by ericHosick 9y ago
The world in general for that matter.
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by ericHosick 9y ago
Fully agree. It wouldn't surprise me if acting 'scummy' was considered, by at least one party, to be non-consensual.
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by ericHosick 9y ago
> If achieving a free market requires a complete upheaval of all of our governments and laws, then the idea isn't very useful. The idea is extremely useful: act consensual to others. There is no better basis of a social system t
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by ericHosick 9y ago
This is a deep discussion to have: too deep for a medium like HN. That being said... Your points pre-suppose parties consented to a dispute resolution system: one that is based on arbitrary boundaries and quite monopolistic (1). > I can
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by ericHosick 9y ago
> "Free market" implies "I can do what I want" I always though free implied free from non-consensual acts. It's not much of a free market if your actions are non-consensual (1). (1) Defining what makes an action
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by ericHosick 9y ago
> All because we're programming against a frozen database spec. Relational databases, unlike XML, JSON, Key/Value stores and ORMs, do not pre-suppose document structure. On top of that, it is very easy to create new relations (
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by ericHosick 9y ago
SV seems to have migrated a bit North. At one time, Scotts Valley (other side of Highway 17) was considered part of Silicon Valley (Borland and Seagate).
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by ericHosick 10y ago
There was a study a read (that I can't find now), I think by MIT, that showed there was no correlation between what bills passed in the house/senate and the 'will of the voter' (what people wanted). Until you took into a
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by ericHosick 10y ago
> The issue has never been the backend systems at banks I find this hard to believe considering the pains we were solving: now quite some time ago. Maybe they have changed. Excessive burden on mortgage consumers is driven by many aspects
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by ericHosick 10y ago
Had a company that was solving sort of this problem a while back (early 2000s). Read in forms (1003 for example), did automated underwriting (hooked in with Fannie Mae), pulled in rate sheets from different Banks to do automatic rate calcul
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by ericHosick 10y ago
Friend wrote a feedforward neural network using jq. https://github.com/kevin-albert/jq-neural-network
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by ericHosick 10y ago
> Heroin, meth, etc. definitely are harmful and addictive, and destroy lives. Selling them would be violent... Unless you can personally claim ownership of those people, among other things you're claiming ownership* of, there is no
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by ericHosick 10y ago
> I'd rather have fiat currency than gold, because that would save me the time and hassle of selling the gold and getting something I can actually spend. Isn't currency backed by commodities considered something other than fiat
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by ericHosick 10y ago
> Never plug in - Turbine charges batteries automatically while driving. How does that work?
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by ericHosick 11y ago
> If you don't trust judicial review, there's no hope left for you to function in a normal society I would like to hear your definition of normal society. I personally feel that there are thousands of unique societies in the wo

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