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by hagy 6y ago
The similar battle in newspaper and television included heavy moderation and legislation to limit this. E.g., do you think the Wall Street Journal was regularly publishing letters to the editor that focused on the arguments for abolishing p
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by hagy 6y ago
I don't believe the dominance of a small number of social media empires is due to anti-trust violations, specifically anit-competitive behavior. Instead, I believe these industries have incredibly strong network effects with the value
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by hagy 6y ago
The type of gullible person that accepts these false beliefs about issues such as climate change and immigration isn't going to change their mind simply because Facebook starts censoring such content. Many people held such views before
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by hagy 6y ago
Learned a bit about how database are implemented and shared the learnings in a series of projects, https://dbfromzero.com/
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by hagy 6y ago
To a large extent, anyone can already get access to the top university lectures in the world for a range of subjects already. Since top universities, chiefly MIT, have been recording and publicly sharing full-course classroom lectures for y
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by hagy 6y ago
Regular market forces don't hold for college tuition for a number of reasons. Chief among these being that many students are paying with loans. Secondly, some students and their families view education as a veblen good, whereby higher
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by hagy 6y ago
Exactly. University presidents easily pay for their salary many times over just through their fundraising activities. Presidents aren't chosen for their administrative prowess, but instead for their professional network and informal co
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by hagy 6y ago
I agree, but quantifying value add is very hard. If we were just comparing small companies against each other then it would be straightforward to just look at each companies profit. But when you look at a team within a company, how can we s
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by hagy 6y ago
I assume the cloned git repo includes arbitrary code that will be executed with the same security profile as a downloaded shell script.
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by hagy 6y ago
That is my understanding as well and I checked mozilla documentation to confirm. [0] That link also covers loading="lazy" attribute for <img> tags, which I've commonly used to defer loading. [0] https://devel
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by hagy 6y ago
In your hypothetical narrative I would say that Triplebyte's investors would be the Machiavellian operators setting up a situation where they stand to gain from the company's risk and be shielded should it go badly. After all, inv
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by hagy 6y ago
Agreed. I could imagine how many of the most active users of their platform would be excited for any feature that improved their prospect of landing a job. Combined with the team's excitement for taking on LinkedIn and expanding their
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by hagy 6y ago
I think the asynchronous nature of email makes it a superior communication medium. With slack and other messaging apps, we all end up writing short bursts of whatever is on the top of our head, without much thought or organization of the id
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by hagy 6y ago
Like your idea! Posted my blog and looking forward to discovering new blogs. I too miss the days of curated links on personal sites. Occasionally, I'll find a gem consisting of a simple, yet captivating personal sites with links to add
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by hagy 6y ago
Even for small personal projects, analytics can give you a lot of insights into what your viewers like. Things like session duration and bounce rate, broken down by page, can tell what content people enjoy and what contents needs some work.
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by hagy 6y ago
I agree that S3, Route 53, Certificate Manager, CloudFront are great for serving small static websites, but as others have mentioned there are plenty of free alternatives. Nonetheless less, I think this approach is the right solution if you
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by hagy 6y ago
I think there are several sites that offer such functionality. Squarespace and Wix immediately come to mind due to all of their advertising. There was some other company I used a while back for a small website for an engineering team, but t
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by hagy 6y ago
I never realized how bad Google spam could be for technical content until I had to start searching for solution to some Windows issues. Almost without fail, the first page would be littered would spam sites posing as informative answers. Ma
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by hagy 6y ago
I agree and have personally found it quite easy to setup small websites hosted on AWS using Route53, Certificate Manager, S3, and CloudFront. They cost nearly nothing at low scale and are quite cost efficient until you hit serious scale, wh
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by hagy 6y ago
100% agree that shared mutable state should be minimized regardless of the paradigm used and further agree that it's generally not possible to totally eliminate it. I believe programming in a functional style helps on to adopt a mindse
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by hagy 6y ago
I agree with a lot of this, although I wouldn't conflate DI references with global variables. They certainly allow for shared state between different components, but the great thing about DI is that you can always create new contexts w
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by hagy 6y ago
I've been learning how various database components work (e.g., log-structured merge trees) by implementing them from scratch and benchmarking their performance with different workloads and configurations. Sharing the results at https:
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by hagy 6y ago
Exactly. For an entirely static website, I can't see any reason not to host content in cloud storage and serve through a CDN (e.g., CloudFront or Cloudflare). You get the advantage of low cost when running at low volume and the ability
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by hagy 6y ago
This is great! Will certainly be using it in all my command line tools and scripts. Particularly the log handler. Also, like how it has special support for Jupyter notebooks. Thanks for developing this.
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by hagy 6y ago
Fixed to use a lighter color background for the code syntax highlighting theme. Thanks again for feedback!
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by hagy 6y ago
Thanks for letting me know. I'll look into a better code highlighting theme.
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Author here. This is an educational project exploring database development and benchmarking from scratch. Had some free time with the quarantine and using this time to learn more about databases and share what I've learned. Work in pro
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DBFromZero: Develop increasingly sophisticated databases from scratch(dbfromzero.com)
1 points by hagy 6y ago|4 comments
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by hagy 7y ago
https://medium.com/@matthagy Assorted blog posts on software engineering, data science, and introductory computational chemical physics A curation of the best posts can be found at https://matthagy.com
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by hagy 7y ago
For those curious, here are some animations by Drew Berry, https://www.wehi.edu.au/wehi-tv . They're visually stunning, accurate, and highly informative.

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