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by jacobkg 8y ago
Is this technology somewhat akin to a code linter? It automatically finds that problems that would be tedious for humans to find and greatly speeds up the work of the human expert?
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by jacobkg 8y ago
https://www.runforoffice.org
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Elon Musk Had a Deal from the SEC. It Unraveled in a Morning(nytimes.com)
4 points by jacobkg 8y ago|1 comments
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by jacobkg 8y ago
I really liked the positive tone of this article and also found it be very informative.
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Atiyah Riemann Hypothesis proof: final thoughts(aperiodical.com)
2 points by jacobkg 8y ago|1 comments
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by jacobkg 8y ago
“Guest confuses American and cheddar cheese, so when she orders American please bring her cheddar, but tell her it’s American.”
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by jacobkg 8y ago
Elastic’s signature product is ElasticSearch. They also make Kibana and Logstash https://www.elastic.co
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by jacobkg 8y ago
In case you don’t know, it’s illegal for them to ask and you have no duty to disclose it. You don’t even need to tell them you are married.
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by jacobkg 8y ago
Jordan Mechner published his journals from the period when he made Karateka and Prince of Persia. I found them to be very inspirational. The Making of Karateka https://www.amazon.com/dp/1480297232/ The Making of P
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by jacobkg 8y ago
That’s true only if the bond has an “infinite” term. Meaning it pays interest forever but you never get your initial principal back If a bond has say a one-year term then it won’t lose 50% of its value if interest rates double from 1 to 2 p
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by jacobkg 8y ago
I highly recommend buying some Sodium Citrate (available on Amazon) and making some Perfectly Melting Mac n Cheese. http://modernistcuisine.com/recipes/silky-smooth-macaroni-an...
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by jacobkg 8y ago
I hired the same company to move my car across the country then back four years apart. The same man drove the truck. He told me he expects the company will shut down in another decade or two as it’s too hard to find good reliable drivers wh
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At top of WorkFlowy founder’s todo list: Keeping app’s cult-like following happy(geekwire.com)
2 points by jacobkg 8y ago|0 comments
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by jacobkg 8y ago
I commuted 90 minutes each way for a year (120 miles round trip) in SoCal. The time spent driving wasn't that bad; I spent that time listening to books on Audible. The problem was everything else that had to give because I was spending
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Kobe Bryant brings viewers inside the obsessive film-watching process he learned(latimes.com)
3 points by jacobkg 9y ago|0 comments
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by jacobkg 9y ago
Some exceptional content on writing tests in the early seasons. Also a great demonstration of what a very skilled typist can do in vim.
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by jacobkg 9y ago
Maybe because I have a young son but the headline was so gut wrenching I still haven't been able to read any of the coverage.
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by jacobkg 9y ago
For most people there exists a news headline that will ruin their day or at least disrupt their morning e.g "Young child decapitated at amusement park" or "North Korea moves one step closer to nuking Western US" or &quot
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by jacobkg 9y ago
One of my biggest lessons from the book is right in the introduction. To paraphrase: "If a change you want to make to the codebase is hard, refactor the codebase until that change is easy, then make the change". I always try to ei
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by jacobkg 9y ago
There is an excellent book called 'Maverick' about a Brazilian manufacturing company that, while not owned by the workers, gets much closer than almost any other business. I highly recommend that all founders read it https:&#x2F
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by jacobkg 9y ago
Chicken Sexing = Identifying a Chicken as Male or Female
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by jacobkg 9y ago
I would add "And Then There Were None" Haven't actually read Curtain, I will now immediately go buy it!
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by jacobkg 9y ago
I first discovered Agatha Christie in middle school at a book fair. "The Alphabet Murders". The story twisted in such a way I had never experienced before. I was used to being "smarter than the author" and being able to
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by jacobkg 9y ago
Solid advice! I remember reading about fillfactor but didn't get a chance to try it out on our workload.
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by jacobkg 9y ago
Thank you for correcting my misunderstanding!
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by jacobkg 9y ago
We tested pg_repack early on. Our experience (at least 5 years ago) was it didn't reliably clean up after itself in all cases so we were left with random triggers in the database. With thousands of customer databases this was a huge po
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by jacobkg 9y ago
Vacuum helps with deletes but updates create new rows and vacuum never cleans up the old ones. Edit: My statement about updates is not correct, see comments below Vacuum Full works but it requires a full table lock so we could only use it o
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by jacobkg 9y ago
This is potentially BIG news. At my last company Postgres bloat was a gigantic problem. We did a lot of data updates and sometimes customer databases (we sharded by schema) would be bloated by as much as 300%. This really hurts when some cu
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by jacobkg 9y ago
I believe they are discussing eradication of the HPV virus, which the article states causes 99.9% of cervical cancer. We do have proof of humanity once before successfully eradicating a virus, namely smallpox: https://en.wikipedi
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by jacobkg 9y ago
This is amazing! "As a result, the HPV rate among women aged 18 to 24 dropped from 22.7% to 1.1% between 2005 and 2015."

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