jbellis

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by jbellis 6y ago
> Rendered completely impotent by sane compensation models that do not allow him to bully employees, working for a corporation with a management ethos that does not view people as slave labor, and with no outlet for his egomaniacal urges
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by jbellis 6y ago
Author here. Looking forward to your feedback!
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by jbellis 6y ago
This doesn't pass the smell test. Laptop batteries are effectively infinite compared to a phone.
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by jbellis 6y ago
Alton Brown suggested adding a tiny pinch of salt to coffee instead of sugar. I like it, it takes the edge off the bitterness without an explicit "salty" flavor.
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by jbellis 6y ago
The article is from 2012.
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by jbellis 6y ago
there's a couple million users of a free niche product.
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by jbellis 6y ago
Fair point, but 6 years and 3 (?) CEOs is an eternity in startup years. It's effectively a different company with the same name now.
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by jbellis 6y ago
So many people here missing that PG is modeling "how much stock would you have to sell" not "how much would your remaining stock be worth." Yes, your stock will on average be worth more over time but that is not what he
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by jbellis 6y ago
How do you soundproof a room without tearing out the walls and replacing them with thicker ones?
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by jbellis 6y ago
You're not wrong, gdscript is pretty awful. It's only python-like for someone who's never used python. No list comprehensions, no tuples (which means no destructuring in assignment or function parameters), no first class func
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by jbellis 6y ago
85 comments and not one seems to have read past the headline here. "The 68 staff cuts are mostly attributable to the collapse of the company's events business." Reporters aren't losing their jobs here. Events staff with
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by jbellis 7y ago
As an ex Mormon, I've read a lot about this. The single most useful piece for additional context that I've seen is this one by historian Kathleen Flake. https://mormonstudies.as.virginia.edu/2019/12/23&#x
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by jbellis 7y ago
No doubt Facebook considers theirs a competitive advantage, but I'm kind of surprised there isn't a reasonably robust OSS erasure-coding based object store available in 2019. Maybe LizardFS?
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by jbellis 7y ago
Wow, I haven't seen that name in a while. I had a SixPakPlus back in the day. (I couldn't remember what the sixth function was, turns out it's "new compact size." http://chiclassiccomp.org/docs&#x2F
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by jbellis 7y ago
Selfish Reasons to have More Kids. The TLDR is, relax: your parenting doesn't matter as much as you probably think.
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by jbellis 7y ago
I accepted the "phones are so good that you don't need a separate camera" conventional wisdom by default. Then I tried a mirrorless aps-c. I'm shocked at how much better its photos are. Yes, the phone is adequate for
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by jbellis 8y ago
We're not doing fine. "New York’s Second Avenue Subway cost $2.6 billion per mile... The approximate range of underground rail construction costs in continental Europe and Japan is between $100 million per mile, at the lowest end,
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by jbellis 8y ago
Recent paper on the possibility of gender studies being blind to biological differences because of political assumptions: http://ratio.se/app/uploads/2016/09/ls_ideology_insights_gen...
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by jbellis 9y ago
I guess "programming talent is a normal distribution, not a U distribution" doesn't make for as catchy a headline.
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by jbellis 9y ago
Fined $500k AND she returns 19M shares. Unclear if that's "effectively all of it" without doing more homework.
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by jbellis 9y ago
Hi Alyson, Thanks for the link! It looks like the video covers using timestamps to implement replicated mvcc correctly from primary to other replicas. The interesting next step is how you go from there to multi-document across different pr
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by jbellis 9y ago
Murat's blog is underappreciated. One of the most approachable writers on distributed systems. Check out his full archives.
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by jbellis 10y ago
Cassandra developer here. Lots of comments here about how Cassandra is AP so of course you get inconsistent (non-serializable) results. This is true, to a point. I'm firmly convinced that AP is a better way to build distributed system
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by jbellis 10y ago
It's the f4 afterwards that made it aggressive for Fischer et al. It looks like the reporter didn't understand enough about chess to communicate that. But he did get the first move right!
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by jbellis 11y ago
I haven't played in twenty years. Is Gehennom still ridiculously tedious?
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by jbellis 11y ago
Nope. The details don't match not because GP has a bad memory but because it was a separate incident. Don't be a dick.
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by jbellis 11y ago
I'm going to miss Catull.
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by jbellis 11y ago
How much will process-per-tab increase memory usage?
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by jbellis 12y ago
FSF, Apache, Python Software Foundation, Canonical, basically everyone who's serious about OSS requires a CLA. The main exception I can think of is Debian. I'm not sure what the history is there or why their lawyers came to a dif
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by jbellis 12y ago
Agreed. R-S encoding is hard. You should use something like zfec (extensively battle-tested by Tahoe-LAFS) or JErasure rather than rolling your own. (I say this as someone who worked at a company where we rolled our own, but that was ten

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