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by exelius 9y ago
Whatever Facebook once aspired to be? That vision, the “social graph connecting everything and everyone” vision that justifies the $500B valuation, is dead. The social graph will decay without new data, and it quickly loses relevance as the
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by exelius 9y ago
Fine by me; but this is a usability issue and the answer isn’t “wrap every line in asterisks and prepend with an angle bracket”.
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by exelius 9y ago
If you have a multi line quote, it’s more difficult to read. Blockindents on long quotes are a long standing typesetting signal.
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by exelius 9y ago
No offense, code blocks are easier and HN can fix them so they render properly.
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by exelius 9y ago
Until HN gives us better formatting for block quotes, don’t expect people to stop using code formatting. Or they can fix code format rendering on mobiles. Or they don’t see a problem with the current setup.
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by exelius 9y ago
Platforms like this also allow you to choose between using Amazon RDS or a homerolled Postgres DBaaS in the same way. You can make a strategic/tactical decision to implement certain parts of your infrastructure yourself vs outsource th
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by exelius 9y ago
At least when I was working with them last (6-9 months ago) Java had by far the most platform support as a language. I wasn’t talking about the language the PCF code was written in, but rather the development language you use to write servi
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by exelius 9y ago
Well, a lot of what PCF does is help you map the services available in AWS / Azure to an internal service catalog as defined by an enterprise architecture group. This is really powerful in the “small enterprise” space ($1 billion - $5
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by exelius 9y ago
They basically make a Java-based application abstraction layer that sits on top of AWS, Azure, VMWare, etc. Basically a platform for managing storage and compute across multiple on-prem and cloud providers. It’s real enterprisey stuff — as
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by exelius 9y ago
Ironically, this ends up being pretty much a spin-off since the companies which founded and own Pivotal are working on a merger themselves. We’re back to this model of “innovation” I guess.
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by exelius 9y ago
Agree 100%; but there are a lot of self-deluded workaholics who don’t understand why everyone else can’t (or won’t) work like them — and these people tend to set the culture. You have no idea how difficult it is to bring these ideas to exec
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by exelius 9y ago
I actually know Sandy and he’s a conscientious guy who cares about this stuff. He’s a good dude who wants to make positive change by being in the conversation.
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by exelius 9y ago
I think that’s the authors way of saying the story is unverifiable in any way.
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by exelius 9y ago
I’m kind of in the Elon Musk camp here where you gotta break some eggs to make an omelette? Human-driven cars kill a lot of pedestrians today, but we can actually do something to improve the human-recognition algorithms in a self-driving ca
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by exelius 9y ago
Haha, completely true, but you get a lot of latitude and you are actually valued as an employee — unlike most salaried jobs, there is a direct correlation between your paycheck and the company’s revenue. There is also a high incentive for t
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by exelius 9y ago
Yeah, Trump picked up a lot of votes simply because he addressed it as a problem while Hillary said “everything’s fine”. That was pretty insulting for a lot of people, and I don’t think the Democrats realized they were alienating their blue
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by exelius 9y ago
You can install other browsers, but the page rendering must be done by Apple’s iOS system version of WebKit. Basically it’s only good for things like bookmark / history syncing.
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by exelius 9y ago
I think we had an election where misinformation was being spread like wildfire and used to inflame passions to support a populist candidate against the mainstream academics / elite. But the divisions were already there and had been gro
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by exelius 9y ago
Go work for a big 4 as a consultant in your specialty? Sure you’ll work 80 hours a week and travel basically all the time, but you get a lot of latitude and professionalism in exchange for that.
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by exelius 9y ago
Institutional investors who need to place large sums of money without causing market shocks. Usually the company is much healthier on paper after the LBO; and to be fair some companies actually do turn it around and they end up being ba
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by exelius 9y ago
Usually this happens because the company has gotten into cash flow trouble. When that happens, the company’s creditors lose faith in its ability to invest capitol in productive ways. But an LBO is usually the option of last resort. If you d
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by exelius 9y ago
There’s no benefit to doing so; and smaller vials are harder to preserve. Measurements on blood draws are not exact, and pre-measured preservatives in the vials and the blood have to be in the right ratios. This is easier to do consistently
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by exelius 9y ago
Agree with you 100%. There are definitely areas where a wunderkind can advance the frontier by ignoring dogma about what is and isn’t possible; but biomedical engineering doesn’t seem like one of them. I always had my suspicions too; her id
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by exelius 9y ago
Here’s how an LBO generally works: 1. PE company secures a loan in the company’s name (usually contingent on a turnaround plan executed by the PE with a history of turning companies around) 2. Company turns around and loans the money for pu
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by exelius 9y ago
Yes, when I was in college.
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by exelius 9y ago
I actually have had the opposite experience with hyperfocus — if I get sidetracked into a subject I personally find very interesting but know others don’t, I have a harder time letting go of it. I know what the right thing to do is; my brai
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by exelius 9y ago
I thought Apple required HomeKit devices to go through a certification process that includes an audit of device security controls (things like secret management, crypto, default passwords, etc) — and very few of these low-cost IoT devices w
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by exelius 9y ago
I think it depends on the person; but I personally see a lot of people I would identify as high-functioning people on the ASD spectrum working in senior management positions. We are able to be successful exactly because we have learned to e
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by exelius 9y ago
They are often confused for each other, but I tend to think of ADHD as “ASD lite”. They have some of the same issues with focus and attention (esp with hyperfocus) but kids with ASD tend to show a lot more sensitivity to sensory perception.
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by exelius 9y ago
As someone on the spectrum, I don’t necessarily know if this is something I would want. My ASD is a big part of my personality; if these social “difficulties” (which really just mean I click with a different type of person) were “solved” I

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