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by fizx 13y ago
I've wondered if recursively propagating down "bonus points" would be a fair way of solving this. For example, Acme, Inc ranks on a 1-5 scale, and all things being equal, a manager will get (direct reports)x3 points to alloca
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by fizx 13y ago
Cache link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.jay...
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by fizx 13y ago
Group cohesion often benefits from choosing a nemesis and creating a straw boogeyman--a rallying cry for the group to fight against. Rubyists hate Java with all of its J2EE and XML configuration (never mind that Rails is at least as complic
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by fizx 13y ago
Email providers have enough address books on file to know how they're doing already :)
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by fizx 13y ago
Neither Amazon nor Groupon were profitable at IPO, ostensibly because they were maximizing growth. I guess you just have to decide which you think Twitter is more like.
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by fizx 13y ago
Make the level editor open source, and the main site closed source? Make the core game engine open source, but keep the surrounding infrastructure closed? Let people modify and run forks of the game engine (different art, physics, perhaps
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by fizx 13y ago
While I can't see the security-conscious user liking this, the CSS tricks could be a great tool in the bag of a company that wants to send actionable notifications or newsletters--either the giants like twitter, or SaSS tools like htt
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by fizx 13y ago
Hopefully, we can use gamification to provide incentives not to kill civilians.
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by fizx 13y ago
Zboards do this. In practice, I found the pressure pads extremely clunky. They were very sensitive to foot positioning, and rather all or nothing on the acceleration. http://www.zboardshop.com/
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by fizx 13y ago
"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." -- Bjarne Stroustrup
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by fizx 13y ago
Vitamin water's 4+B acquisition was about 5 years ago. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/business/26drink-web.html?...
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by fizx 13y ago
Also helpful: http://www.slideshare.net/aszegedi/everything-i-ever-learned...
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by fizx 13y ago
Some applications can be pathological, in which case you are better off setting lower-level flags. For example, Lucene both churns through tons of short-lived strings and tries to maintain caches of large arrays. The memory/gc optimi
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by fizx 13y ago
It is, however, a fun day to become a Tesla shareholder.
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by fizx 13y ago
Can we stop posting articles behind paywalls?
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by fizx 13y ago
Do rights change, or does the expression of a right change? I believe everyone has a right to an education. Obviously that education will have changed from 4000BCE to 2013. What about the right to create and choose family? How does that
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by fizx 13y ago
Who grants basic rights? If they're God-given, perhaps they're immutable. Nature grants no rights, and is perfectly willing to stand by idle while we slaughter each other by the millions. The alternative is that basic rights are
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by fizx 13y ago
"I think a fair number of those personality types hide in larger companies, too." You're right, of course. A difference when you're stuck near one is that it's generally easier to switch teams than companies.
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by fizx 13y ago
A word of warning: these personality types are incredibly common in the startup world, for a number of reasons: Driven, strong personalities are valued. It's easier to hide in a small company. As a founder, it's relatively easy
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by fizx 13y ago
We run many (hundreds) of instances in most/all AZs, and this appeared to be about 30 minutes of flakiness in EBS instances created during 2012 (roughly) in only one us-east-1 AZ (Amazon randomizes the names, so my us-east-1e is differ
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by fizx 13y ago
Any way this makes sense other than as an investment into the virtual infrastructure that will route and control a self-driving car ecosystem?
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by fizx 13y ago
Web components/shadow DOM may help sooner or later. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-components-intro-20130606/
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by fizx 13y ago
Programming tends to this pattern where people get super-excited when a language gets a feature everyone else has taken for granted forever. It's like a guy getting out of the hospital after shooting himself in the foot. You know wha
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by fizx 13y ago
The interpretation is complicated, but its neither black or white. Also, its standard in asymmetric contracts (EULAs, employment, rentals) for the drafting side to completely overreach. RTFM here: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/
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by fizx 13y ago
Scala+finagle is comparable in use cases, but scala isn't very close to javascript. Perhaps still worth looking into though.
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by fizx 13y ago
This is a terrible article. It makes no mention of 83b elections or AMT, and contrary to the article, you will pay taxes on exercise. Real advice: Research "83b elections" heavily before joining, negotiate well, and if the compan
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by fizx 13y ago
Steel tube is inherently far more structurally stable than rail. This should make elevation easier/cheaper. Edit: apparently, the weight of the train/car/etc matters more.
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by fizx 13y ago
The direct competitor here is apache zookeeper, which this is probably simpler than. If you care, you should do some research, because there are smart people excited about this. I'd start by looking at which software uses zookeeper an
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by fizx 13y ago
Perhaps you should change the background image in the demo video away from a photo of a galaxy. I'm sure there's many images (e.g. http://archive.org/download/313253main_moon_landscape_HI_ful... ) that don&#x
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by fizx 13y ago
ProTip: If you are building anything that you expect users to run themselves, copy/steal FoundationDB's AWS CloudFormation setup. One click and a couple form fields to setup, one click to tear down. Edit: http://founda

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