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by fixxer 11y ago
I live an hour outside of Chicago and mostly work from home; I'm in the city maybe 1 day per week. I fought moving out of the city for a while, but I have really come to love it, especially when it comes to raising kids. When I have to
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by fixxer 11y ago
With regard to meaningful commentary, that is a double edged sword. What you call meaning, I might call bias. Someone you call knowledgeable, I might call a shill. And vice versa. I've been thinking about data driven news for years now
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by fixxer 11y ago
By that same token, who cares what "billyhoffman" has to say?
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by fixxer 11y ago
How do you define journalism? Obviously, this isn't an article, but it is information and I found it entertaining. True, only a single point of view... shall we call it Gonzo? If you compiled all those tweets into a paragraph, it would
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by fixxer 11y ago
Well, I'm not going to sign up for Instagram. Wankers. Smells like desperation when companies are willing to alienate their core like this.
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by fixxer 11y ago
I'm the right size for a boy my age.
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Aerosolve: Machine learning for humans(nerds.airbnb.com)
24 points by fixxer 11y ago|3 comments
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by fixxer 11y ago
They should have just sold that stuff to the Feds and helped keep America safe /s
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by fixxer 11y ago
If you think the bailout compares to a "loan", I can see why you find the analogy inapt. I would compare the requisite bailout magnitude to paying off your friend's mortgage, his friend's mortgages, and their student loa
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by fixxer 11y ago
Not my words. Their economy is smaller than Louisiana's, their population is more than twice, and they really, really like entitlements. Sorry if this hurts feelings, but that is not a recipe for success.
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by fixxer 11y ago
How is this philosophically different from demanding that your drunk friend (who, you know has always been a bit of a fuck up) surrender his car keys? He already has been to rehab a few times and, if you let him, he's gonna destroy a l
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by fixxer 11y ago
Basically, the same formula for most successful paths in life: Luck, smarts, and survivorship bias.
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by fixxer 11y ago
Sure, since the outright protest, but the community has been against her since the start.
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by fixxer 11y ago
I was thinking the opposite. Feels like it took forever to extricate her.
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by fixxer 11y ago
Genuinely curious: What are your qualifications?
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by fixxer 11y ago
Excellent, logic-driven critique.
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by fixxer 11y ago
The final version was crappy? How would it be better?
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by fixxer 11y ago
> inefficient solution as a technical triumph They were able to solve their problem in a single process balanced over 4 boxes without ever having to hire someone like you, despite your expertise. Could they have increased throughput? Abs
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by fixxer 11y ago
Maybe they should hire somebody smart like you.
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by fixxer 11y ago
But that would prevent the knee-jerk tribal language war response.
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by fixxer 11y ago
Read the analysis. First attempt was "just a pass through".
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by fixxer 11y ago
16k requests per second is not fast if you're talking about fetching a page or doing a minimal amount of I/O. 16k requests per second is worth writing about if you're talking about a process with substantial side effects (S3
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by fixxer 11y ago
Based on the write-up? Regardless of language choice, I thought the analysis was pretty honest and the data suggests they did indeed engineer a solution worth being proud of. Did you get beyond the title?
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by fixxer 11y ago
They're going from Ruby, so Go is a pretty easy transition with respect to skill set and helped them accomplish scale (as seen from the analysis). I agree that other languages could accomplish the same effect, but I'm not surprise
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by fixxer 11y ago
I'm guessing persistence is not a priority. The difference is management of a simple process (behind elastic load balancer, of course) vs a more complicated architecture with three distinct, load balanced process types (webserver ->
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by fixxer 11y ago
I still read it (programming subs mostly), but I logged out after the censorship fiasco. Reddit has strayed pretty bloody far off course.
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by fixxer 11y ago
I haven't had a horse in any of these races. I despise them all; I especially despise those sad true believers out there that pin their hopes to an empty suit.
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by fixxer 11y ago
My point is that the narrative for my dissent from a bill with strong GOP support is that it violates individual freedom. You might argue semantics, but I claim my motivation has nothing to do with social justice in the progressive sense an
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by fixxer 11y ago
So the GOP is forcing his hand? He has no free will? Manchurian candidate?
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by fixxer 11y ago
You're aware that the Executive Branch's vote is equal to the consolidated power of the Congress, right?

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