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by jbooth 13y ago
It's washington, politics are part of project management. A 'bunker mentality' WRT subpoenas is totally justified on this project, given how Republicans have acted. You want to pay people by the hour to give testimony while
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by jbooth 13y ago
I'm not a Java hater, I love it, but a lot of code tends to be written as just "throws IOException". I've written a lot of code like that. Go forces you to handle each error separately, which can be nice.
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by jbooth 13y ago
try-resources is new in java, didn't realize that c# had using. I wasn't claiming it was revolutionary, just that it's nice.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Or java/c# where exceptions tend to bubble all the way up the stack and where you have to to try/finally which can be harder to write safe code with than defer.
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by jbooth 13y ago
I've barely used it, but the json document thing with a lot of random convenience functions in the query language seem to lend themselves well to rapid development. For postgres you'd be mapping to a relational schema, and for red
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by jbooth 13y ago
I just did. You remembered it, and with passion. You knew exactly what the parenthetical (they stepped in it) was talking about. So did everyone else on the thread. You disprove your own argument.
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by jbooth 13y ago
I'd submit that database-level locks make any claims of availability or distributed storage a little overblown. If a single query can blow you out of the water, you're really not highly available. Although I don't have a lo
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by jbooth 13y ago
From what I've seen, the data model has a lot of utility as long as you don't need super high concurrent performance. Basically, the same area as where rails is the right tool - we want easy features and rapid development, will w
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by jbooth 13y ago
That's all true, but they were giving 90% of their users exactly what they wanted: "We value feature-set and expressiveness much more than scalability at our data size, but we want to feel like we're big data too so say some
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by jbooth 13y ago
If you're going to comment so strongly, some explanation of why it deserves such ridicule would contribute much more value to the discussion.
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by jbooth 13y ago
You mention "chick fil-a PR", and that's going to be the first thing that comes to mind. Total self-inflicted wound on their part, whatever your personal politics.
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by jbooth 13y ago
He didn't say anything about liberals, conservatives or Chick-fil-a's noxious gay marriage positions. Who's biased? The article mentions chick-fil-a by name 3 times in the text and at the bottom, it's one of 3 terms tha
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by jbooth 13y ago
I was actually thinking about this comment, and I agree with you for all cases where we're not radically rethinking existing systems. Note that I wasn't really arguing from authority except when giving him investment advice. Also
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by jbooth 13y ago
Kinda puts a new spin on whether RMS was too ideological with the tivoization clauses in GPLv3.
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by jbooth 13y ago
So, less spending = less GDP, right?
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by jbooth 13y ago
" their scope of understanding of economics and past efforts in that field is relevant, and age is an extremely poor proxy for that. (It's exactly the same problem as using age alone as a proxy for to measure programming skill wou
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by jbooth 13y ago
When it comes to thinking "this time is different" and "I have an idea to refactor the world economy", your age is VERY relevant. Everyone thinks they have a simple way to fix everything when they're 22. By the tim
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by jbooth 13y ago
"They think of it in terms of safety nets, equality of outcomes, security, enforced politeness or political correctness, and government coerced egalitarianism..." Nobody thinks of anything in those terms aside from dreadlocked col
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by jbooth 13y ago
So you're saying it has ponzi-ish properties? Or not? If you're always incentivized to hold something and never incentivized to spend it, it becomes more of an asset than a currency. Gold is an asset, too, but it has much broade
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by jbooth 13y ago
It can't be both? The declining rate of bitcoin generation certainly has ponzi-like properties. It seems like the primary motivation to mine is assuming that the value will go up as mining becomes more difficult.
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by jbooth 13y ago
That's fair, and the commenters below pointed out that I was sort of conflating the short and long term yields on bonds, which dampens the enthusiasm for borrowing. The thing is, right now, all of our borrowing is for things that don&#
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by jbooth 13y ago
A favor? There's no such thing as a favor. The US offers bonds in $ at a certain very low interest rate and China buys them in order to maintain their low yuan valuation. As stated in the article, this is to manipulate currency price
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by jbooth 13y ago
It's this context (China buying a ton of dollars to maintain their pegged value for the yuan) that completely destroys the Econ 101 theory that say the US should have massive inflation with our low interest rates and quantitative easem
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by jbooth 13y ago
So your contention is that compared to 1789, we've moved more than halfway (1->6->10) to where North Korea is? And that ~45% of the country wants to be more like North Korea? At 8/10, does that still leave room for private
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by jbooth 13y ago
* If you're a startup that mostly employs 20-something males. It's nothing to do with being a startup and everything to do with demographics. Additionally, for really small startups that don't have a giant pile of capital or
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by jbooth 13y ago
He wasn't admiring the economic situation, he was admiring some truly amazing high-end computer networking. If HFT produces nothing else (and I generally agree with your economic view of it), at least it'll have financed the next
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by jbooth 13y ago
"Avoiding centralized power" is a bit too simplistic. The Constitution was the result of people realizing the Articles of Confederation had too little central power in many ways. I'd say that "checks and balances&quot
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by jbooth 13y ago
I think a big cultural indicator might be advertising your beer fridge on the job posting. Having beer in the fridge and being cool with people having one on a late Friday afternoon is one thing, making it one of your selling points is ano
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by jbooth 13y ago
They likely paid themselves executive level salaries out of that 41.2M all the while. If you're doing much better than a high-end developer salary, congrats, but if you're not, they prob paid themselves more than you.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Consider that the people who made the biggest, shittiest decisions here made way more money while doing so than you did during the same period, most likely.

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