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by hibikir 8y ago
I don’t think the grandparent says that everyone is owned, but that if your data is interesting enough, your threat model must include employees that are willingly exhilarating data, sometimes for nation states. That your first barriers are
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by hibikir 8y ago
You are misinterpreting the grandparent: Their claim is comparing an event of running a red light vs speeding once. Your statistics have the incidence of both behaviors already baked in. So with your numbers, you could say that all the spee
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by hibikir 8y ago
The story didn't start as 'add types to Ruby'. It starts from someone having a codebase in the hundreds of thousands of lines of Ruby, dedicated to financial software, and the costs that they had by trying to keep said codeba
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by hibikir 8y ago
It's actually the opposite: If you are building an infrastructure company, you are far better off chasing startups than large enterprise companies. Microsoft just has an overwhelming advantage for them in the cloud: The fact that they
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by hibikir 8y ago
ITunes and Apple Music are also available in Windows and in Android. You could argue about whether those versions are good or bad, but if you want to use them, you can. The discovery features works just fine, as long as you install the apps
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by hibikir 8y ago
There's plenty of good reasons to not write 95% of code with big walls of explanation. The first is a matter of cost: Writing a good explanation around everything is very expensive to do at first. A whole lot of the custom code you fin
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by hibikir 8y ago
Absolutely: A major one is that you can skirt all kinds of financial disclosure laws that apply to public companies. The world doesn't get to know your volume, your profit margin, or which of your divisions makes most if its money. Thi
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by hibikir 8y ago
St Louis' downtown feels deserted before 5 too, as large chunks of downtown are designed to have nothing to do for pedestrians. Look at your favorite satellite images around Market and 10th: You see nice parks surrounded by buildings t
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by hibikir 8y ago
Some have written about the problems of the piece. I agree with most of the criticisms, but what is useful for the rest of us is not the problems, but figuring out what useful things we can get out of the piece. The author's biggest wo
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by hibikir 8y ago
People approach payments in the same way they approach, say, twitter: They think of the simplest parts of the business, and think that's all there is. If all you are doing is taking credit card numbers, taking money out, and handing it
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by hibikir 8y ago
The ability to make your own vote public is a bug, not a feature: It allows people to demand you to show them that you voted "correctly", whether for straight out vote sales, or plain old intimidation from a group. A pastor/u
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by hibikir 8y ago
This is not an uncommon arrangement in companies that plan to remain private forever, or just have no rush to IPO. Without some exercise clause, it's hard to compete with public tech companies on compensation: I've seen way too ma
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by hibikir 8y ago
There are startups in the midwest, but it's very hard to get funding here: Exec teams have to spend a lot of time traveling to raise money. Still, there are sectors where the midwest is a clear competitive advantage: You can build a bi
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by hibikir 8y ago
THere's similar things like this in other sports, like American Football. You don't tell an amazing cornerback by just counting how many passes he broke down or intercepted: You also look at how often the player he was covering wa
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by hibikir 8y ago
AWS is expensive enough, and the pricing is hard enough, that you don't need a crazy scale before you have a team monitoring AWS expenses. It all depends on how much more revenue you'll get out of each engineer, but ignoring the m
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by hibikir 8y ago
It's the same book: Patrick kept recommending it, and it was out of print, so Stripe talked to the publisher to get a private printing, which was available for employees and visitors. This initiative looks like an extension of the same
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by hibikir 8y ago
In a world with no tax incentives, the determining factor for a large company is access to potential workforce. Therefore companies will move to places where other large successful companies are already, because ultimately you want to recr
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by hibikir 8y ago
I have not tried to do what you describe, but this is my best take: The problem isn't really the law most of the time: It's how companies are hooked up to the financial system. The Stripes and Paypals of the world aren't real
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by hibikir 8y ago
Your lack of interest in football is already what makes the rest of your search fruitless: You are looking for information with little relevance to the article. The article is about international soccer competitions, not national or interna
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by hibikir 8y ago
And your imagination regarding genetic diversity would be wrong: Roundup ready genetics have multiple generations, each with a smaller footprint in the genes of the host plant. Also, it's not as if this is being added to a single strai
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by hibikir 8y ago
It'd only be at the expense of other countries if you keep the current quotas, which haven't moved for decades. Let's not pit immigrant vs immigrant when congress could double the number of Green Cards if they had any interes
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by hibikir 8y ago
If you prefer, look at the classic traffic ticket example: In court, prior to talking to the judge, you can have a conversation with the prosecutor to change your moving violation to a non-moving violation that is a little bit more expensiv
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by hibikir 9y ago
The strange bit with Elm is that it limits its type system just enough that compile times should be reasonable: The performance pits that Scala has are skirted altogether by Elm. If Elm isn't faster at compilation time, it's becau
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by hibikir 9y ago
It kind of does: Jave EE was all about having single Java Application Servers running on each host, and deploying applications/services on top. In practice every service was built by the same company though, so focused moved toward sha
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by hibikir 9y ago
True, but that's useless to the customer, who has no idea of whether commingling happens or not. The other day I found myself needing printer toner. Amazon has a much better price, even when they sell it themselves, than local stores.
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by hibikir 9y ago
If one could remove the need for trust with no other costs, sure, why not? But in practice, using something shaped like bitcoin asks for very hard things: The financial system started with very little trust, but it expanded because trust so
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by hibikir 9y ago
Microservices with a share datasource are just a Service Oriented Architecture, circa 2005. You might have a variety of middle tier services, deployed in their own boxes, or at the very least Java service containers, but ultimately talking
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by hibikir 9y ago
Ah, but your chances of an MRSA infection aren't the same everywhere. Some hospitals are far better than others at preventing infection, while others are far worse. In a bill per procedure world, like in US medical billing, while I&#x2
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by hibikir 9y ago
Many comments seem to miss the real significance of this. This is not a joseki dictionary, and it doesn't play 50+ moves for you. This is AlphaGo Master's explanation of how it sees the opening. Humans have a very good understandi
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by hibikir 9y ago
Shopping around for college education only makes sense if your career path doesn't take the name of the institution into account. Careers are so path dependent that landing in a worse first job can make a huge difference in lifetime ea

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