hildaman

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by hildaman 4y ago
This is just the beginning. As we see easy money dry up, we are going to see a lot of unprofitable startups go belly up.
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by hildaman 5y ago
I read this book, it was truly jaw dropping to see the "Guanxi" system at work. From what I could tell, there is a whole system of unwritten rules about how different political factions could collect their "percentage",
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by hildaman 5y ago
I seriously doubt Amazon would risk mail fraud (and a bevy of other federal charges) over this. If they get caught in a criminal case (not civil), they could be completely shut down.
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by hildaman 6y ago
I once saw some article about them writing their own rich chat client for their internal tooling because their existing solution wouldn't "uber scale" - whatever that meant.
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by hildaman 7y ago
Soon Java will become the new PERL with 20 ways to do the same thing & developers will have to spend hours on Google trying to figure out what that wierd bit of syntax actually does.
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by hildaman 7y ago
I disagree with this. A good Computer Science program must have enough software development curriculum that people actually learn to write code.
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by hildaman 8y ago
"for eventual integration into PostgreSQL"..
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by hildaman 8y ago
I'll tell you why - try to update one column in 100GB worth of row data. Postgress makes a copy of _every_ row and you need 100GB of extra space on the hard-drive until you commit the transaction. Now extrapolate to a 1TB table that ne
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by hildaman 8y ago
Instagram is Facebook owned now.
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by hildaman 8y ago
I don't think they are monopolies. I use DuckDuckGo for search & Twitter for social media. I find discovering new things/People on Twitter more interesting than the sclerotic family/friends stuff on Facebook.
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by hildaman 9y ago
Huh got me there. I have started to trust Apple maps - not as good as Google though. Hope this gets commodotized though.
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by hildaman 9y ago
I switched to DuckDuckGo - it isn’t as good as google, but it is 90% of what I need. For the rest I have to slightly tweak my search criteria - but that is not a bad thing because it forces me to use my little gray cells. YouTube and Gmail
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by hildaman 9y ago
I got tired of being a cog in the Amazon machine and bought some merchandise from Jet.com last week. It was a sub-optimal experience. This is what I bought: -> $4.22 Q-tips Cotton Swabs 500 ct -> $16.32 iPhone 5/5s, iPhone SE, i
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by hildaman 9y ago
I don't think this will fix anything. Consider the following scenario. Employer to (theoretically) underpaid/under-represented minority: I offer you x. Underpaid minority: accepted. Employer to market-rate perspective employee: I
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by hildaman 9y ago
Your last paragraph just made my point for me. Once you get out of toy frameworks that won't scale, refactor or "age well" - you end up with a JEE style framework. It's like that famous cliche about unix - "Those wh
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by hildaman 9y ago
I don't understand your comment. To me the beauty of JEE on the backend is: 1. Scalability - the application server creates as many instances as needed - until it hits either the JVM limit or the machine limit. 2. Declarative transacti
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by hildaman 9y ago
Probably because they don't want to deal with the overhead of maintaining patches to RHEL source.
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by hildaman 9y ago
If NASA doesn't have the funding for landing humans on Mars, this isn't "news" to them. This is whole article is actually designed to get attention at a time when the CJS (Commerce Justice and Sciences) appropriations bi
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by hildaman 9y ago
If this is what you want me to respond to: > You could even, if you wanted to, make an argument that this has some things in common with what was historically called indentured labor. But to use a charged phrase as a rhetorical weapon in
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by hildaman 9y ago
Ok - that "you are kidding" was an unwarranted swipe. I won't do it again. Regarding "indentured servant" - that is the factually correct term to describe the situation. Even H-1B visa holders themselves use this te
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by hildaman 9y ago
How about this: VC: Hey DHS, Entrepreneur lied about something 2 years ago just before/after he came here. Entrepreneur: That was not a lie - that was marketing. Every business does it. DHS: "Get out" > For a VC and an ent
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by hildaman 9y ago
When the system brings people in who cannot change jobs or have a hard time changing jobs - what other term would you suggest I use? Is "bonded labor" better?
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by hildaman 9y ago
You are kidding right? When the "entrepreneurs" very status in the US is dependent on being in the good-graces of anyone else - especially vultures like VC firms - these "entrepreneurs" are no better than indentured serv
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by hildaman 9y ago
The US skills based immigration system is based on bringing in indentured labor to enrich corporations. L-1 visa holders _cannot_ change jobs. H-1B visa holders have to go through an expensive and cumbersome process to change jobs which eff