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by inoop 8y ago
Systems that are difficult to reason about are difficult to replace.
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by inoop 8y ago
Because it's a really, really hard problem to solve. The sheer scale of Amazon combined with razor thin margins and the fact that Amazon isn't even the selling party on most products means that they can't just throw a bunch o
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by inoop 8y ago
Ah, I stand corrected, thanks!
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by inoop 8y ago
> Does the taxpayer in Buffalo New York benefit if their tax money goes to fund some HQ in Queens, if the bulk of the state's tax capture is just "handed" right back to Amazon? You have to be exceptionally uninformed to be
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by inoop 8y ago
Actually no, because other locations would have given tax incentives, too. In fact, LIC wasn't even one of the highest ones by that metric. For example, Newark was offering $7bn: https://www.seattlebusinessmag.com/busin
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by inoop 8y ago
> I think there's reason to debate whether large corps should be able to hold an auction like this It wasn't an auction. As the letter points out, each location put in a single, sealed bid, invisible to everybody else. There we
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by inoop 8y ago
> I disagree that diversity is a priority over long term tax revenue and infrastructure improvements and economic success 'Tech bros' are also diversity, and so are Trump supporters. You can't just pick and choose and crea
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by inoop 8y ago
"The company tried to reach out to Gianaris — but he rejected three invitations to meet, according to a source." source: https://nypost.com/2019/02/14/this-is-the-man-who-delivered-... > there&#x
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by inoop 8y ago
> It shows that Amazon never cared about the people here and would bring nothing to the community. Jesus christ, no. The state put an outspoken opponent of the deal in a position where he has veto power to stop said deal. Then when Amazo
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by inoop 8y ago
Self organization in biological systems It explains with many examples how stable, global structures arise from simple, local interactions. It changed the way I think about economics, politics, society, evolution, computer science, and a wh
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by inoop 8y ago
If you're using AWS, maybe take a look at Cognito? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/wh...
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by inoop 8y ago
> Go ahead and ignore it right now. It's still building time. I've been hearing this argument for years, but you that doesn't take away that global broadcast doesn't scale to any kind of useful TPS rate unless you&#x2
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by inoop 8y ago
Dutch guy living in New York here. Americans are way, way louder than us. Not only do they talk and laugh louder, they also interrupt each other a lot. It took me a long time to get used to when I first moved here, and I still walk into res
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by inoop 8y ago
Why do I get the feeling that whoever wrote this just came out of a bad relationship?
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by inoop 8y ago
Have you looked at AWS Step Functions? https://aws.amazon.com/step-functions edit: to add, I would highly recommend using a workflow engine over a distributed messaging system. With messages it's hard to track where a
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by inoop 9y ago
Out of curiosity, have you considered using a workflow management system such as AWS Step Functions [1] instead of a set of queues? If so, what made you decide to go with queues? Workflow engines neatly solve a lot of the challenges you men
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by inoop 9y ago
Have a look at Rekognition: https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition
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by inoop 9y ago
> Why doesn't a team of talented programmers trust each other? If it's not immediately clear to a reviewer that your change is correct, then either your code isn't clear, you're not writing tests, your colleagues don&
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by inoop 9y ago
I have a gen1 Echo, and mostly I ask it the weather, the news, play music (through Spotify), and set timers when I'm cooking. Occasionally I'll ask her about my Amazon orders. I've also got it paired to my Fire TV so I can ju
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by inoop 10y ago
X14 by Orange? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRPhB1KkxMc
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by inoop 10y ago
> I can't ignore the fact that the working conditions are awful one of the great things about the EU is that people can freely move inside it and work wherever they want. Nothing is stopping your friends from doing what you did - se
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by inoop 10y ago
Yes, but only with FW 1.3 if I recall correctly.
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by inoop 10y ago
Calm down. Probably some engineer made a mistake that caused a bunch of items to be incorrectly labeled as prime-only. A bunch of vidya nerds couldn't buy they favorite shooter anymore, made a post about it, and Amazon rolled back. As
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by inoop 11y ago
Salmiakki?
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by inoop 11y ago
I think 'honest Achmed' is just used as a stock character here, like 'the town drunk', 'the jewish-american princess', 'the frat boy', 'the absent minded professor', 'the indian store c
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by inoop 11y ago
It's more like introducing a new $10.000 dollar bill that only you accept, but no-one else. He's making it sound like Bitcoin is all about freedom of choice, when in reality a small group of ~6 Chinese miners decide what the block
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by inoop 11y ago
> The upside of this is that none of them have been able to break the basic blockchain mechanism and profit from doing so. That's an impressive achievement in computer security. Not really. Merkle trees aren't exactly new, and
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by inoop 11y ago
> What we've learned from Bitcoin is that blockchain technology is robust enough to strongly resist attacks. Bitcoin is highly vulnerable to spam attacks (as demonstrated several times), malleability, and has forked twice so far, wi
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by inoop 11y ago
Hey wow, this is great, thanks!
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by inoop 11y ago
My personal favorite is Viznut's classic signature: #include <math.h> /* outputs 8 kHz 8-bit unsigned pcm to stdout */ main(v,i,z,n,u,t){for(v=-1;;)for(n=pow(/* gcc -lm sig.c;./a.out>/dev&#x2

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