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by gaius 8y ago
Sun didn’t invent HTTP and didn’t sell the only computers that could run a web server. If the web had been built on NFS they might have a case.
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by gaius 8y ago
Sometimes you’ve just got to put on your yellow vest and right some wrongs.
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by gaius 8y ago
No, it coincides precisely with the rise of RoR and is largely confined to webdev, even if the trendy language had changed to Node. You just don’t get C++ or R or Python brogrammers.
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by gaius 8y ago
I don't see anything wrong with a company deciding on a culture/work enviornment which attracts people who are very dedicated to the company (and hope to be rewarded in the long term as such) That’s OK in theory but in practice
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by gaius 8y ago
“My boss bet me I couldn’t work 100 hours this week and I proved him wrong!” is how I look at things like this. People actually brag about how exploited they are, it’s bizarre.
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by gaius 8y ago
True story, 10 years ago I was doing linear regression on infra data to predict capacity issues. My system knew when it had made a prediction and when capacity increased so based on the lag it could tell you the exact date to place an order
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by gaius 8y ago
You have hit upon the dark secret of the industry. ML is a solution looking for a problem. It’s nowhere near as bad as blockchain mind, but ML and Kubernetes both have far more people eager to do them than there is actual work... Having sai
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by gaius 8y ago
IBM offers statutory minimum i.e. “we would give you nothing if it was legal”. A year+ is a fair deal.
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by gaius 8y ago
Old British word for scientist. Like geek but not pejorative.
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by gaius 8y ago
Read the Stoics. Take up an endurance sport. What is mental toughness? It is perspective and belief to step back and realise that the suffering is only temporary and will ultimately be worth having endured.
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by gaius 8y ago
SE has a very strict notion of having the "correct answer" to each question Probably had . The secret of SE’s success was the rigorous curation as encouraged via the gamification system, explicitly at the design of the site’s f
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by gaius 8y ago
And yet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18572482 https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/30/blockchain_study_fi...
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by gaius 8y ago
the younger generation would know which skills to build for the new economy Homesteading, hunting, fishing, foraging...
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by gaius 8y ago
I prefer a decentralized approach. ... Once electric car total ownership costs get low enough, then gasoline cars will be worthless scrap heaps over night. Once solar power and battery tech improves enough, it will take over very quickly.
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by gaius 8y ago
I still have one here. Manually inserting control codes in Wordwise Plus! So much more satisfying than any modern word processor.
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by gaius 8y ago
Estonia is brilliant, the whole country has a buzz to it, like everyone is excited for the future. Totally the opposite of Finland just across the Baltic.
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by gaius 8y ago
And a saw, needed that more than once. How is a passenger in a self-driving car going to deal with a tree fallen across the road?
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by gaius 8y ago
Guys like Spolskey did enormous harm to the industry by pushing this inane meme that a single bad hire will destroy the company overnight. It just isn’t true. The vast majority of work doesn’t need a superstar, it just needs basic competenc
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by gaius 8y ago
It means to reverse it left-to-right, like a mirror. You will never have to implement this yourself for real.
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by gaius 8y ago
Off the top of my head I have chargers, sunglasses, brufen, snacks/water/hand gel, a giant umbrella, assorted maps and a compass, a change of clothes or two, boots, IFAK, shovel, a couple of flashlights and some tools. Most of the
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by gaius 8y ago
Ownership as we know it will become meaningless. Sure, you could buy a self-driving car, but do you need to? I wonder if people who say things like this are actually drivers, because every driver I know has a car full of random stuff that
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by gaius 8y ago
very elastic use cases, like a ride home from the bar or a rescue from the rain They manage demand via surge pricing, I thought. So is it really elastic?
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by gaius 8y ago
The practical limit for battery capacity is 100 Wh; beyond that you need airline approval to travel with it. Does that also apply if it’s two batteries, both physically removable, from the outside? Just curious. SWMBO and I travel with ca
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by gaius 8y ago
You can distort almost any topic by selectively reporting only truthful thing You mean like, determining what users see on their timelines?
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by gaius 8y ago
Who says leaving the EU is a right-wing thing? The current leader of the Labour Party is far more anti-EU than the current leader of the Tories! Some things just don’t fit the classic left/right model.
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by gaius 8y ago
think what Facebook is very very good at is tracking the market and identifying potential competitors Well, they did that with Onavo didn’t they? Snooping VPN traffic to see who else their users were using. It remains to be seen if they c
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by gaius 8y ago
Praise in public, criticise in private. Give the team credit for success and take blame yourself for failure. Get those right and everything else will follow. So simple but only a fraction of managers get it.
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by gaius 8y ago
If you lose the root password, you can fix it in Postgres without taking the database down.
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by gaius 8y ago
Because nowadays you can get servers with about 192GB of RAM and 32 CPU cores. You can get servers with 2T of memory and 96 cores off the shelf for a few years now. Real world workloads that you can't run on these boxes are few and f
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by gaius 8y ago
It happens when concurrent queries update records in a different sequence, but the same application on Postgres never deadlocks. SQL Server has like 4 different isolation levels + MVCC, you just pick the one you need. Postgres just does M

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