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by geertj 7y ago
Have a look at Ring also. I’ve been a happy user of their doorbell, cameras and security system. The app is updated regularly and they come out with new products all the time. Disclaimer: I work for Amazon, in a job unrelated to Ring
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by geertj 7y ago
A ‘tech first’ approach (create an API) will not make this company agile. The question that the CEO of SuperRentalCorp needs to answer is ‘do we want to become a tech company?’ If yes, then start a multi year transformation starting with de
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by geertj 7y ago
I’m going on a limb here and may get downvoted. But I’ll say it anyway. This battle is over, and Python is now the standard for data science, just like git is the standard for version control. The mindshare, number of tools, and number of p
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by geertj 7y ago
When I was a child (80s in the Netherlands) it was definitely the case.
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by geertj 7y ago
I used to think this also. However after diving really deep into OLAP for business reporting over the last 6 months, I find NULL to be the single most powerful idea in SQL. Here’s some use cases for NULL that I find super useful: COUNT(case
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by geertj 8y ago
> it's cheaper to pay the cost of the migration when you know you want to migrate Agreed, on principle and based on experience. This does require you have reasonable abstractions in place as otherwise you’ll end up refactoring befor
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by geertj 8y ago
Fun fact: OCaml, which was used to bootstrap rust, is also bootstrapped itself. And it used a binary that was added here https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/commit/84bbb2fd6f493112b43008... .
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by geertj 8y ago
> Physics is wrong on many fundamental levels Physics, when practiced according to the principles of the scientific method, is never wrong (or right). Physical laws try to explain the world around us using mathematical models. Those mode
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by geertj 8y ago
Whole heartedly agreed. My main contributions have been when bringing knowledge from disperate domains together.
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by geertj 8y ago
Cryptography, not only for speed, but also for ensuring implementations are constant time.
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by geertj 8y ago
Nobody is perfect. GGP seemed to go through a difficult time.
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by geertj 8y ago
Doh - thanks! For some reason I was parsing "67" and "70" as a month.
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by geertj 8y ago
What's up with the date format in the table, for example 1964-67 and 1968-70? I don't recognize this format.
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by geertj 8y ago
Correct
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by geertj 8y ago
> I don't want the device of everyone in my country being subject to surveillance requests from the NSA (and Cloudflare is legally (if you call warrantless wiretaps legal) required to comply), and I don't like the centralizatio
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by geertj 8y ago
To get to low cost you need a lot of routes to fly on. Without a sonic boom can fly over land which opens up more routes. Therefore, the lack of a sonic boom does contribute to the comeback of supersonic air travel.
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by geertj 8y ago
This changed in TLS 1.3. The server cert is now encrypted.
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Virtualized iOS builds at Shopify(engineering.shopify.com)
22 points by geertj 8y ago|8 comments
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by geertj 8y ago
> upgrading distributed databases live is always going to be quite non-trivial. I understand that the implementation of live upgrades for a distributed database will be complex but this post is about the user experience. Given enough re
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by geertj 8y ago
Does the portable service run in a PID namespace? Couldn't find the response in the article.
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by geertj 8y ago
Question: in open offices, what's the consensus of the etiquette regarding the use of loud keyboards?
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by geertj 8y ago
Git merges aren't really merges in the sense that they store a delta produced by some kind of N-way merge algorithm. A git commit is essentially a full copy of a tree where the parents are stored as simple metadata attributes. The pare
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by geertj 8y ago
Obligatory link to The Chaos https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~clamen/misc/humour/TheChaos.html
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by geertj 9y ago
From a very high level, yes, although this solves a wider range of problems.
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by geertj 9y ago
Why does this project need battery storage? The power demand for air-conditioning during the day follows the supply of solar. Is it to cater for hot but cloudy days?
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by geertj 9y ago
Agreed that the explanation is a bit lacking. This uses the phase difference between the signals of multiple pulsars, as indeed the individual pulses are not marked with a timestamp like in GPS. Imagine you have two pulsars each with a 1ms
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by geertj 9y ago
Lol, yes, I always loved working with the Finns. I am Dutch myself, so pretty direct, but the Finns take it up to a different level. I remember a business meeting for which I traveled to Helsinki. After a 1 minute intro, our customer spoke
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Ariane rocket suffers from rare launch anomaly(bbc.com)
66 points by geertj 9y ago|46 comments
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by geertj 9y ago
Is anyone else finding the use of the first person singular in this post annoying? ("I apologize" vs "We apologize"). The previous post was the same. Since this was certainly highly edited by corp comms, it's hard t
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by geertj 9y ago
> d I fear there's little reason to think that the "three variants" from project zero's announcement are the full scope of the problem. Agreed. This is an entirely new class of vulnerabilities, and we're just at

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