iblaine

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by iblaine 10y ago
Motorola Brick here. My hipster street cred is through the roof.
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by iblaine 10y ago
/r/the_donald has taken over Reddit. I do not think there is any way to go back.
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by iblaine 10y ago
I created a womens ecommerce site with some friends, took $1M in VC, grew it to several million in revenue per year, then the business fell apart when we realized scaling would not solve our net income issues. Online womens fashion is a ha
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by iblaine 10y ago
By 2010, the commute in SF was worse than LA. While caltrain & bart do help in SF, when it breaks, you got problems. Bart is pretty reliable but Caltrain seems to break or hit something/someone a few times a month.
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by iblaine 10y ago
I prefer any formatting over no formatting. If had to choose then I would do this: * Lowercase for tables & columns and upper case for syntax. * Having commas first makes it easier to move lines around. * I avoid small aliases to minim
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by iblaine 10y ago
I thought the same thing with VNC. GotoMyPC took something that was free, improved it, then made a fortune on it. While the technology improvements were notable, I think their success was derived from marketing.
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by iblaine 10y ago
It helps to be right to win a lawsuit but before that you need enough money to defend yourself. I once had pfizer go after one of my domains and all it took was an inch thick cease and desist notice to convince me to hand it over. Surely
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by iblaine 10y ago
A guide is better than no guide. I like the part about adding suffix strings to variables. Two things I would changes * Add commas before the variable * Do not use single letters for aliases. Some versions of hive will throw exceptions.
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by iblaine 10y ago
This is a great list of fundamentals for CS. This is also very creepy.
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by iblaine 10y ago
What an ignorant article. It's unrealistic to expect cryptocurrencies to behave as flawlessly as wire transfers. The technologies need to mature. But for those with patience, they're pretty awesome.
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by iblaine 10y ago
One way trip to Mars. Rightfully so, the first trip to Mars should be one way. [edit] Presentation is ongoing and there is a return trip. Cool.
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by iblaine 10y ago
What does alooma generally charge? Just curious.
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by iblaine 10y ago
10 year old company, raised $165M in 7 rounds and now wants $75M more from the public. I'm guessing full ratchets are part of some of those private rounds and the news will shock employees when the IPO.
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by iblaine 10y ago
I was at a company that had an IPO, it did poorly and it was then that I learned about a Full Ratchet. Those are terms in fine print that employees are never told. Ugh...
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by iblaine 10y ago
Often times, part of being an entrepreneur or creating a startup is doing it lean. Living off rice and beans and ramen. Doing that at a fancy ski resort sounds impractical.
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by iblaine 10y ago
Nothing. $181M at $1.5B sounds pretty good to me. But in reality the employees are no richer today than they were yesterday. If everything goes right and the stars align, in several years there will be a liquidity event for investors, th
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by iblaine 10y ago
This spam brought to you by surveymonkey.com...
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by iblaine 10y ago
> We have chosen to keep this list short to provide an opportunity for a discrete [sic] resolution So much for that...
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by iblaine 10y ago
TL:DR Abbreviated variables are not always intuitive to others. I tend to agree. If you're going to use a pattern or abbreviation then be as non-creative as possible.
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by iblaine 11y ago
I think the conclusion is this. Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and Infrastructure Engineers exist in their respective roles. Data Engineers should enable Data Scientists to be better engineers by creating frameworks for Data Scientists.
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by iblaine 11y ago
The vertabelo.com spam on reddit.com/r/database can now be found on hackernews...it's a cool product and all but seriously...spam is spam...
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by iblaine 11y ago
> Lockheed Martin has discovered the cause of the problem and has diverted developers who were working on the next increment of the F-35's code to fix it. A patch is expected by the end of March. Much ado about nothing.
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by iblaine 11y ago
Payday loans for startups?
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by iblaine 11y ago
I left SV for Santa Barbara and could not be more happy. My compensation package took a hit but living expenses decreased proportionally. More importantly, I got my life back. My commute went from 90 mins to 15 mins and my family is happ
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by iblaine 11y ago
>ClearChannel has the power to know you better than your best friend. That would be true if your best friend didn't know your name, address, email, date of birth, and phone number. You see, AT&T, among others, will scrub Person
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by iblaine 11y ago
It is a strange situation to see lavish tech offices with homeless people sleeping on sidewalks. One minute you'll be making your way through tents set up on sidewalks and the next you'll be inside a plush cafeteria with an endle
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by iblaine 11y ago
You use the work hack but I do not think you know what it means.
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by iblaine 11y ago
A similar thing happened to me. I joined a late stage startup with a market cap of $1.5B. It IPO'd a few years later with some critics calling it the worst IPO of the year. It now has a market cap of $600M. I felt betrayed by execs
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by iblaine 11y ago
>The smartest people I knew were in high school, and I was so let down by the people in college. He seems like a good person to get into business with. He's so non-judgmental. Reminds me of myself and all the stupid things I said
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by iblaine 11y ago
Your point is valid, that bash should be avoided as processes become increasingly complex. But there is still room for bash. How much room depends on what you are trying to do.

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