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by gesticulator 7y ago
Really great dive into the various workers buying real estate in SF. I did wish they at least quantified how much data is missing due to the LLC purchases excluded from the analysis, but it's a great breakdown of both which company&#x2
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by gesticulator 8y ago
This is about caviar prices.
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by gesticulator 8y ago
Neat! Thanks for the info. Edit: to add on about Kafka, it guarantees a serializable ordering on the incoming messages and is driven internally by a vector clock. This may not be suitable for applications, but the throughput is high and all
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by gesticulator 8y ago
Does using Kafka help mitigate this? Or should it be producer-driven vector clock? I imagine the latter is the event-driven equivalent of a optimistic locking.
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by gesticulator 8y ago
Really? I think you need to engage customer support to do that https://help.uber.com/partners/article/i-want-to-change-my-r...
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by gesticulator 8y ago
That’s correct, the driver will rate the passenger before they can see any tips. This thread is nonsense. https://ride.guru/content/newsroom/can-my-uber-or-lyft-drive...
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Common Misconceptions about Computer Game Design (2018)(medium.com)
1 points by gesticulator 8y ago|0 comments
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by gesticulator 8y ago
The article lists several on the team. They’re mostly senior executives, data scientists and engineers. They’re definitely pulling strings from that room - in total, there’s a team of 300 specifically working on the issue, not to mention th
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by gesticulator 8y ago
Tech companies are like glaciers, 20 people at the tip of this project will be leveraging all of FB’s internal tooling and might be able to get more done. Also, it would be difficult and maybe a waste of effort to try to scale a team faster
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A Week on the Wrist: Apple Watch Series 4(hodinkee.com)
41 points by gesticulator 8y ago|63 comments
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by gesticulator 8y ago
Do you have examples of a low-tech gravity train? From what I know there's serious limitations to this tech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_train#Objections
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Tesla's Engineering Chief, Doug Field, Departs Company for Good(bloomberg.com)
2 points by gesticulator 8y ago|0 comments
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by gesticulator 12y ago
One possible explanation for why user's skip behavior varies by time of day/week is that they're more likely to be playing songs around friends. A lot of times you'll want to show just one part of a song to someone, or y
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What Tech Hasn't Learned From Urban Planning(nytimes.com)
26 points by gesticulator 13y ago|5 comments