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by jakozaur 11y ago
Just use some automated coding test like Codility: https://codility.com/ Even an easy JavaScript programming tasks can filter a lot of applications so you can concentrate on best candidates.
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Yet another: Why Meteor is awesome [video 26m23s](youtube.com)
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Many great companies takes decade or more to build. A lot of the most valuable companies have their founders/early employees as their CEO vs. someone who join later (usually a professional one): http://www.bhorowitz.com&#x2F
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by jakozaur 11y ago
I would suggest buy one and try it before you buy more of them. I like it, use it on average twice in any week. Got first generation. So much better than hangout. I got all accessories (additional mic and charging dock) and from what I hear
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Maybe we should have start numbering those plunges? It's harder to follow them.
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Great point. I guess there will be a year when more ppl will be killed by drones than by guns operated by human.
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Wow, I use Double Robot: http://www.doublerobotics.com/ and was wondering how to script this thing. E.g. appear at meeting and record it for ppl in different timezone. However, it seems to be hard with Double. With Segway i
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by jakozaur 11y ago
The availability of instance type also hints the future for other AWS regions. E.g. T2, M4, C4, I2, D2, and R3 are available, but not M3 or C3.
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Oh, yeah! I just wonder if movie selection is the same, or if in some countries there are more titles. Anyone got information on that?
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Oh, yeah! I just wonder if movie selection is the same, or if in some countries there are more titles. Anyone got information on that? I pay for proxy service just to "pretend" to be in USA and than pay the Neflix regular price. I
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Really hard problem to solve. Maybe with technology advances such as telepresence robots location will matter less, so cities will have to start competing against each other? On the other hand, the whole software industry which can be perfo
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Great article, but it misses two triggers: 1. Globalization. A lot of manual labour was tied to USA, not so ago to local labour. In last 20-30 years a lot of things get imported from China or outsourced to India. 2. Software (briefly mentio
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by jakozaur 11y ago
The actual success story, USA included South Korea in visa waiver program: https://vwp.ustravel.org/sites/default/files/South%20Korea_0... I think all parties would benefit if USA would add a few more countri
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by jakozaur 11y ago
It would be so much easier for everyone, if companies would IPO earlier. Evaluation of your option value would be straightforward, there is liquid market, no need to worry about investors preferences, ratchets, etc. Also the whole market ga
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Would be interested to read how CloudFlare solve flapping problem with their Anycast network: https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-brief-anycast-primer/
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Related read: https://www.packet.net/blog/how-we-failed-at-openstack/
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by jakozaur 11y ago
To give context, in Poland there is strong copyright movement focused on modernizing copyright law: https://nowoczesnapolska.org.pl/ It successfully lobbies common sense changes.
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Y Combinator expands its media conglomerate: 1. Starts from books "Founders at works". 2. Startup School. 3. Hacker News. 4. Paul Graham essays. 5. Startup class. 6. Macro. 7. ???, but already excited
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by jakozaur 11y ago
AWS is more honest with S3 Infrequent Access: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/ No additional metadata, but you get charged at least for 128 KB . Luckily lifecycle transition doesn't move files small
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Hoffman She is daughter of the Polish Jewish film director: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Hoffman
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by jakozaur 11y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/business/oil-tanker-traffi...
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by jakozaur 11y ago
15:38 per hour of showtime + 2 minute of re-runs in some programs. Netflix got zero, just enjoy your movie. Looks like cable companies are still in denial phase. How about ad-free versions of their channels?
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Yeas, USA companies tend to call that region EMEA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe,_the_Middle_East_and_Af... Which is usually means Europe, sometimes with Middle East.
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by jakozaur 11y ago
How about the official Scala compiler? It seems to stagnant a bit... I know there is a lot of work behind the scene, but from developer perspective there aren't many things going on. E.g. Scala 2.10 Introduced a lot of interesting feat
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How to implement integer addition(jacek.migdal.pl)
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Ppl in software are familiar with tech debt. There is also organizational debt: http://steveblank.com/2015/05/19/organizational-debt-is-like... This article seems to be an example infrastructure debt.
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Thumb rule, if you design service with many servers you have following options: 1. Have a stateless service. You can update it frequently with no downtime... Relatively easy. 2. Use some of the shelf service that provides states and you don
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Semi-related. If you ever visit Warsaw (Poland). I highly recommend museum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POLIN_Museum_of_the_History_of... http://www.polin.pl/en/ There is amazing/modern&#x2
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Especially when other price their registry as low margin business.
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Looks like you can afford to have monolith and don't worry about this microservice thing :-P.

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