h1karu

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by h1karu 12y ago
I hate to break it to you but ancient cultures used OTP systems for thousands of years before this guy supposedly invented it. The ancient Egyptians for example would create a pad, use it to encrypt a secret with a numeric shift cypher, th
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by h1karu 12y ago
What makes it worse is when other developers whisper in their ear that you are in-fact hallucinating. This is often done out of jealousy, spite, or plain old ignorance. The bottom line though is that if your primary stakeholders are listen
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by h1karu 12y ago
Here's an example from the viewpoint of someone doing the hiring. Lets assume your goal is to hire the top 5% of technology X programmers in America. The first 5 people you hire are all early to mid 30s white guys who go out drinking
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by h1karu 12y ago
You're right. If you've done open source work you know that of course there's a huge amount of space for personality conflicts to arise even when working remotely, but at least those personality conflicts are usually centere
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by h1karu 12y ago
When I clicked that I wanted to go from Austin TX to Portland, OR it said "pack your plaid". This is just a poorly done rip-off of hipmonk's messaging. It's just going to confuse people who aren't familiar with si
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by h1karu 12y ago
This is why "work remote" jobs are so fantastic if you can get them. You don't have to worry as much about politics. In an office environment you have to worry about if you're getting along well enough with people on a
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by h1karu 12y ago
The cost of living in the tech-scene areas are outrageous and skyrocketing, those are the facts. The sun-shine California lifestyle can be quite nice you'll need to be prepared to pay out the wazoo. Don't believe it ? Prove me w
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by h1karu 12y ago
Why would any privacy related service provider operate within the United States of America ? It's one of the worst jurisdictions for that kind of thing. To me that makes no sense whatsoever, so this start-up was doomed from the very o
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by h1karu 12y ago
HIKARU!!!!!!!! NO GO!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-LHI1MC6Gc
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by h1karu 12y ago
I thought life is all about launching a minimal viable product, tweaking it to narrow in on product/market fit, and then scaling up. You mean there's more to life AFTER that ?! oh brother. I'll worry about that once I get t
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by h1karu 12y ago
Stay out of the pathologizing paradigm. Explore non-duality perspectives, Zen, meditation. With these modalities you can learn to relax into whatever seems to arise or whatever seem to dissolve. You might try MDMA based therapy if you nee
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by h1karu 12y ago
You're kinda all over the place with your question. I disagree with the idea that you can form any assumptions about what is happening broadly in the tech community based on frequency of certain types of posts appearing on HN, reddit,
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by h1karu 12y ago
I would argue that Zen buddhism is not a religion, and vipassana/samatha meditation practice isn't in any way religious, as in there's nothing you're being asked to believe outside of what you can absolutely confirm for
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by h1karu 12y ago
ROFL I just glanced @ your blog. I see you've made the most of the situation
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by h1karu 12y ago
Or you could teach your children something like Zen buddhism or Theravada vipassana meditation so they can learn to slowly and methodologically take their bubble apart and put it back together with each session of sitting practice. This wa
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by h1karu 12y ago
Serendipity doesn't mean you're crazy, some people experience it more than others. Just relax. If you think that every time you experience one it means you're going mad then maybe you really will :) All the existence of sere
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by h1karu 12y ago
See Phillip K Dick
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by h1karu 12y ago
Yea performance is the thing. You're correct that most of these queries can also be expressed in a relational DB. The underlying data structures involved in Neo4J do help with performance on these kinds of queries, but in addition to
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by h1karu 12y ago
I love remote companies because they can afford to give their employees the freedom to have drug habits or kids who demand a lot of attention or whatever else. There's no pressure to "keep up appearances" so as long as his c
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by h1karu 12y ago
The approach I like is to use a key/value document store as the system of record (SOR). If any data conflicts arise between Redis, the document store, and the graph database, then the SOR wins. A good SOR should contain all of the dat
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by h1karu 12y ago
that's exactly how I design the parts of my app that need a transactional nature. Map/reduce views make it a breeze to query for a consistent aggregate view of the world. This is not something new it's a well established tec
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by h1karu 12y ago
NDA and all of that, but if you pick up this book: http://pragprog.com/book/rwdata/seven-databases-in-seven-wee... and grep for the phrase "polyglot persistence" you'll find some great information t
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by h1karu 12y ago
My NoSQL store of choices gives me document-level ACID semantics along with eventual consistency, MapReduce, and replication. Here's an example that explains how to get transaction-like guarantees from this kind of NoSQL data-store: h
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by h1karu 12y ago
These are all scams. No amount of VC money can solve this problem because it's not a technology problem it's a legal and political problem centered around the legal definition of 'money laundering'. See e-gold, liberty
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by h1karu 12y ago
That's a fair point. If you need highly relational queries within a given shard then using a relational database there can make sense, but for many apps the kinds of queries that are used are not highly relational in nature so using a
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by h1karu 12y ago
Like I said because the relational database doesn't scale horizontally you are forced to build a sharding layer into your application which introduces complexity into the application layer and limits your ability to use the relational
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by h1karu 12y ago
AdWords was designed with sharding built into it's application layer. This essentially means that the developers were forced to implement a custom app-specific persistence layer that rides on top of MySQL. This limits your ability to
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by h1karu 12y ago
Relational databases don't scale horizontally. That's still as true today as it was a decade ago. Therefor engineers who need to cope with Big Data and Web Scale will continue to migrate away from relational database solutions t
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by h1karu 12y ago
Agreed. This is one of the reasons why I like remote work so much. If most of the work conversation is happening in a basecamp or hipchat which is logged then if a particular team member is phrasing his communication in a demeaning way or
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by h1karu 12y ago
If you're not careful your shop can become a drinking fraternity first, dev team second. What happens when someone who does not drink wants to join the team ? Well just the fact that he doesn't drink can make the rest of the tea

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