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by gaadd33 13y ago
Is there anyone from the original Digg team still there? I was under the impression the brand got bought by Betaworks but the team went to the Washington Post or something like that.
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by gaadd33 13y ago
Is inflight spending that big of a profit center for airlines? I would think that being able to do (for example) 20% more trips full of paying customers in the same span of time would be far more profitable for the airline.
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by gaadd33 13y ago
I assume the people who spend a large amount on the top floors of a very tall skyscraper don't want to have to change elevators halfway there.
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by gaadd33 13y ago
Oh yeah that's very true, many SQL engines seem to lock tables whenever a DDL statement is run. I do like that Postgresql tends not to, it is a huge change from the hoops you have to jump through to add columns in a production MySQL sc
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by gaadd33 13y ago
Why is ALTER never useful in production?
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by gaadd33 13y ago
20K ballons doesn't seem like that many unless each one costs a ton of money. From an industrial production point of view it barely seems like a drop in the bucket given how many cars/phones/planes we produce.
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by gaadd33 13y ago
How is 56K better than 4G or at least 3G?
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by gaadd33 13y ago
Would it be possible to easily grab the data from a running dedicated server without interrupting service to the user?
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by gaadd33 13y ago
How does that work for international companies who end up sued in non US jurisdictions?
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by gaadd33 13y ago
Oh yeah I know that but he implied that the salary gap wasn't that big. As far as I can tell it is. Sure defense contractors pay far more but that's not really working for the government anymore, you are in private industry and co
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by gaadd33 13y ago
It appears most people, assuming its fresh out of college, would start out at GS-7 which at step 10 in the DC area would only be $54K. Assuming they were graduating with a Phd, they could be at GS-11 step 10 which would still only be 81K. I
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by gaadd33 13y ago
How do they convince all of them to stay and deal with the bureaucracy vs going to somewhere like google and having tons of benefits and likely double or triple the salary? Or starting their own company doing whatever they find interesting?
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by gaadd33 13y ago
Why not rent it? If you got it really cheap just rent it for the cost of the property taxes.
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by gaadd33 13y ago
But personal bankruptcy still carries somewhat of a social stigma whereas corporate bankruptcy is part of a good business plan.
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by gaadd33 13y ago
Just curious why you feel AWS has a better network than providers such as Equinix, Internap or Level3?