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by jacobkg 7y ago
Can the index be reliably represented in fewer bytes than the data itself?
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Read replicas is a good way to go. Rails 6 has good built-in support for them: https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2019/05/23/rails-6-multiple-d...
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For what it’s worth, I willingly took a pay cut for my current job which I enjoy immensely. This was something I noticed a few years ago when I experimented with using Hired. They let you set your minimum salary. When I set it very high I g
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by jacobkg 7y ago
“While almost everyone has some areas that they get overly hung up on, some people also get sloppy instead of getting stuck” So true
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Do/did people regularly pay that much for cable without live sports? My understanding is that it’s usually the live sports channels (or HBO, etc) that would bump the cost into the higher tiers.
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by jacobkg 7y ago
Are you able to reset the rating in your next iOS release? As I recall this is an option.
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by jacobkg 7y ago
I used 3D Touch all the time for one specific feature: if you did a 3D Touch on the keyboard it would turn into a touch pad for moving the cursor around a block of text. For anyone else who was devastated to lose this feature, I was happy t
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by jacobkg 7y ago
When I was interviewing for my current job (to stop being remote) my 4 year old son barged in and started climbing all over me for the second half of a 30 minute video phone screen. That the CTO didn’t bat an eye at this was one strong indi
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by jacobkg 7y ago
Lately I’ve been looking at the distribution of reviews. TripAdvisor and Amazon both have bar graphs of rating distributions. In general, I see these distributions: Great products: Generally a very good product will have between 80 and 90 p
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by jacobkg 7y ago
How does Wipr compare to AdGuard?
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by jacobkg 7y ago
I learned C from “C Primer Plus” about a decade ago and I thought it was terrific: C Primer Plus (6th Edition) (Developer's Library) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0321928423/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_bg...
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by jacobkg 7y ago
I once left a cast iron skillet on the stove about 1/2 full of canola oil for about 10 minutes on high heat. I was heating it up to deep fry something (don’t do this) and got distracted. I started picking up the pan to move it to anoth
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by jacobkg 7y ago
My son is 4 and we get a lot of kids books out of the library. I do wonder occasionally whether he can catch a cold from the books since kids are sick quite a lot and they like to put their hands in their mouths, etc
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by jacobkg 7y ago
The salient part seems to be that the researcher reported the first vulnerability through HackerOne and was (reportedly) told by Steam it wouldn’t be fixed. He then published it after being instructed that was against the rules and was bann
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by jacobkg 7y ago
The multiple database support is really exciting. Anything that makes it easier to push database reads to replicas is huge!
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by jacobkg 7y ago
I’m sure it must have been rough for people near the epicenter and I hope everyone is okay. Here in Los Angeles we felt it for sure but a quick survey of friends around town indicates that there wasn’t much damage.
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Boeing 737 skids off runway into Florida river(bbc.com)
6 points by jacobkg 7y ago|2 comments
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by jacobkg 7y ago
https://www.bogleheads.org/ That’s where I learned everything I know about investing. It’s definitely the ultimate source of information about passive investing. I spent a lot of time there a decade ago and now I pretty muc
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by jacobkg 8y ago
The author is on point with regards to the overall complexity of the setup. I wanted to add that we switched from ECS without Fargate (managing our own EC2 instanced) to ECS with Fargate and it has been a pure improvement. It’s simpler and
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by jacobkg 8y ago
The WorkFlowy ( https://www.workflowy.com ) backend runs on Django. We are on Django 2.1 and planning to upgrade to 2.2 now that it has been released. One new feature I’m excited about is bulk_update: https://docs.djang
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Halting Password Puzzles (2007) [pdf](crypto.stanford.edu)
10 points by jacobkg 8y ago|2 comments
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No you are not a bad person. If you knew for a fact that you would never make more than $100million no matter how successful it was would you still try to start a business?
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You can use bcrypt or argon2 to make it much slower than that.
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by jacobkg 8y ago
How to Measure Anything - Douglas Hubbard This book is a treatise against the notion that some important things can’t be measured. Full of information about how to figure what should be measured and then how to measure it. Very thorough and
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by jacobkg 8y ago
You should definitely check out WorkFlowy ( https://workflowy.com ). It is a next generation outliner. People use it to write books and screenplays among other things.
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“It ended up in an area called the Engineered Material Arresting System (EMAS). EMAS is a safety system designed to stop planes if they go off the end of a runway, according to the FAA. Wheels from a plane sink into soft material to stop it
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Southwest flight skids off end of runway at Burbank Airport(abc7.com)
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Not mentioned in the article but WorkFlowy (YC ‘10) is still going strong. Minimalist web-based word processor with a flexible outline format. Can hold hundreds of thousands of items, without you getting overwhelmed.
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by jacobkg 8y ago
This is the best thing I’ve seen on HN in a long time
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by jacobkg 8y ago
Can you give reference(s) for that beginner’s mistake? I’ve never heard it before and it’s definitely something I do. Would love to learn more about this!

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