jbarciauskas

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by jbarciauskas 9y ago
Real money that we print, yes. Edit: Since this was down voted, I want to be clear: this is not snark. This was meant as a very real commentary on how important it is that we have the ability to inflate our way out of debt. It's critic
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by jbarciauskas 9y ago
Pattern matching interfaces also makes finding exactly what underlying object is being used in a given context difficult as well. With explicitly declared interfaces, you can easily find all implementations. With pattern matching it's
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by jbarciauskas 9y ago
I don't understand this statement: >Due to the way GCE instances are deployed (in containers) they do not suffer from noisy neighbour syndrome I understand the second half of the statement might be true, but it doesn't follow f
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by jbarciauskas 10y ago
EdX is strongly committed to learning being free. You can audit any of the courses in the AI MicroMasters for free. https://www.edx.org/micromasters/columbiax-artificial-intell... (EdX employee)
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by jbarciauskas 10y ago
It's meaningless to compare employer funded plans to ACA plans without knowing what amount was being subsidized by your company. It's also a different risk pool. The idea is self-insuring $15-20k is absurd for most people, and mos
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by jbarciauskas 10y ago
This is right. There's no other reason to allow selling across state lines, and very little evidence there is a lack of competition that needs addressing in this way. The biggest issue facing the ACA is literally no one wants to offer
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Turkish Military’s Influence Rises Again(wsj.com)
160 points by jbarciauskas 10y ago|114 comments
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Coursera’s transition to a new technology platform(blog.coursera.org)
1 points by jbarciauskas 10y ago|0 comments
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In with the new web technologies, out with the old(medium.com)
2 points by jbarciauskas 11y ago|0 comments
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by jbarciauskas 11y ago
In the current opiate epidemic, a far greater proportion of addicts are white. Whether consciously or unconsciously, it's seems highly likely that those in power are drawing different conclusions about what the right solution to drug a
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by jbarciauskas 11y ago
I'm responsible for a medium to large FOSS project. I noticed that Wordpress had recently moved to Slack, and asked someone I knew over there how engagement had changed after the move. He reported they saw about a 10x increase in users
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by jbarciauskas 11y ago
Those responsible for limiting new development are at least partially responsible.
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by jbarciauskas 11y ago
It's great to hear that Vancouver is really diverse, it's just disappointing that it wasn't portrayed that way then.
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by jbarciauskas 11y ago
I'm not from Vancouver so not specifically, I just found the lack of diversity striking and was curious if it was reflective of the paper's lack of imagination or Vancouver's actual lack of diversity. Sounds like the former.
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by jbarciauskas 11y ago
Disappointing that they only featured white males in this article. Maybe that's part of the problem?
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by jbarciauskas 11y ago
I saw that and was wondering what he was thinking of. I had to double check to make sure the most recent parliament hadn't been up to any shenanigans, but seems like everything is on the up and up politically there. The ISIS situation
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Markbox has been shut down(markbox.io)
2 points by jbarciauskas 12y ago|0 comments
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by jbarciauskas 12y ago
The goal of admonishing a person to check their privilege is not to invalidate their argument from a logical standpoint. It doesn't represent an ad hominem argument, because it's not about winning the argument, at least not direc
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IN subqueries in MySQL 5.6 are optimized away(blog.mozilla.org)
2 points by jbarciauskas 14y ago|0 comments
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by jbarciauskas 14y ago
And it finally loaded for me just now. Strange.
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by jbarciauskas 14y ago
Yeah, I was confused and checked there as well as the front page here before posting. Also surprised I haven't seen complaints on Facebook. Must be a limited outage along some dimension, though I have no idea what.
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Twitter is down?(twitter.com)
10 points by jbarciauskas 14y ago|6 comments
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by jbarciauskas 14y ago
So, the purported benefits are that a) it's easier to create the form than other form creators and b) you'll get improved response rates because people fill out the form in-line and reply rather than clicking a link? Marketing managers don'
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by jbarciauskas 14y ago
My comment is that UX wise, I don't really know what I'm supposed to be doing on the site. It took me a few minutes to realize there was a search bar in the upper right that really is the focus for finding the beer you like and seeding the
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by jbarciauskas 14y ago
One of the most horrific aspects of PHP documentation is that it isn't versioned. In most cases, documenters are good enough to note which versions various parameters and return values correspond to, but it is not logged in a rigorous way
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by jbarciauskas 15y ago
The licensing restrictions on this are jarring ("We can only play you a preview of this song until someone else starts DJ'ing") but I guess they can't have it just be a personal music service.
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by jbarciauskas 16y ago
Obviously this is a post begging for counter-examples, but I'll refer to Joel Spolsky's strategy letter "Ben and Jerry's versus Amazon" for a better articulation of how there are many roads to a billion dollars: http://www.joelonsoftware.c
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by jbarciauskas 16y ago
If you believe, as I do, that a given programmer can produce roughly the same number of lines of code per day independent of the language used, you can see how this reduction of lines of code can translate into a substantial increase in pr
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by jbarciauskas 16y ago
I don't think the 3.99 price is a signal of any kind of desperation. I read recently, I wish I could remember where, that subscription and newsstand sales make a smaller portion of magazine revenue when compared to ads. Publishers would gi
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by jbarciauskas 16y ago
You prefaced this with "I can't document this" but the statement that "[software project failures] never happen when you have high code coverage" seems outlandish, I'm certain there are thousands of projects failing right now with 80%+ code

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