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by jchrisa 7y ago
NoSQL is based on this realization. Rather than optimize for IO with normalization, denormalize and pipe data more or less directly from storage to clients, simplifying the compute and consistency model to make distributed data easier.
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by jchrisa 7y ago
What does "the city" have to do with anything?
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Engineering Interviews: Grading Rubric(medium.engineering)
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History of the Capital AI and Market Failures in the Attention Economy(kortina.nyc)
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Marriott to Take on Airbnb in Booming Home-Rental Market(wsj.com)
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by jchrisa 7y ago
I used to play with an idea to build kiosks for wild chimps with video phone recording software. With an interface tuned for them, I wonder if you could build social software that actually provided utility to the chimpanzees. I can imagine
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Setup Gatsby with Netlify Functions(employbl.com)
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by jchrisa 7y ago
If your regular pay just barely makes ends meet, but you've had a couple of windfalls and exercised financial discipline with the results. You aren't able to save, but you aren't broke.
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by jchrisa 7y ago
If we treat microplastics as a symptom of business-as-usual, then they are a marker, and we can think of them as the canary in the coal mine. Entropically, we dug up a bunch of dead stuff and either burned it into the air or refined it into
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by jchrisa 8y ago
To me, it's that it packages up best-practices in a way that is useful for all developers from enterprise to hobbyist. By following Netlify's easy path you'll end up with a solution that would take much effort to duplicate. A
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by jchrisa 8y ago
I'd expect the opposite. Giving a UBI would suddenly give the poorest people a voice in the market, and industries that are currently bottom-feeder would become inclusive and thriving. Eg payday loans becomes small business loans. Doll
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by jchrisa 8y ago
Some of my most productive moments have been when I'm following my own whimsy, instead of responding to economic pressure. I can only imagine this effect, scaled up, would be a net benefit for society.
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Transparent wood can store and release heat(phys.org)
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Morphing metamaterial models take origami to a whole new level(newatlas.com)
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by jchrisa 8y ago
The identity discussed elsewhere in the thread seems to be personal identity (the kind you use for deeds and titles.) I'm mostly referring to digital identity (the kind where you manage more than one social media persona and switch bet
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The Triton malware is murderous and spreading(technologyreview.com)
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by jchrisa 8y ago
I think this is a great problem statement. The dynamic at play is that wallets/identities should be free to make, and expensive to lose. That is, the activity your identity participates in, is what gives it weight. So there will be inc
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by jchrisa 8y ago
TLDR: FaunaDB is a distributed database that offers multi-partition ACID transactions and is optimized for cloud / multi-cloud deployment. This is a big deal because there aren't many other options with this level of data integrit
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by jchrisa 8y ago
If you are doing financial services like insurance or banking, you might be stuck on Oracle because you need active active worldwide database replication and none of the 1st-gen NoSQLs offer global ACID transactions. As someone who's b
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by jchrisa 8y ago
Here is a good article that runs the numbers on what reparations could look like: https://qz.com/1012692/this-is-what-reparations-could-actual...
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by jchrisa 8y ago
If you can do this for kicks, imagine what you can do with a budget.
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by jchrisa 8y ago
James C Scott argues that if you got to choose, you might prefer a dark age, because people in so-called dark ages were better off, as they weren't being "managed" by leaders more intent on legibility for social control than
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by jchrisa 8y ago
My take on Bay Area food culture is that people are too caught up in the rat race to perceive the difference between good food and expensive food. This results in inflated prices and inconsistent quality, with an emphasis on over-salting, s
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by jchrisa 8y ago
Free healthcare, free college, and a UBI would go a long way toward making starting a company realistic for more people.
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by jchrisa 8y ago
Obligatory links to Anomalous Monism https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/anomalous-monism/ and supervenience https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/supervenience/
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by jchrisa 8y ago
Just came to say it makes me happy to see the term "discovered" used in a what is essentially an engineering/software context, instead of the term "invented." The more that people in our industry speak clearly about
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by jchrisa 8y ago
Fauna | Scala Engineers, Tech Writers, Solutions Architects | Distributed / Remote https://fauna.com We are hiring aggressively at FaunaDB for Scala and JVM distributed systems roles, as well as field engineering/solut
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by jchrisa 8y ago
We are a globally distributed company making a globally distributed database. It doesn't matter where you live, you can join our team.
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by jchrisa 8y ago
This is essentially an opinionated take on how to deploy JAMStack style applications. TLDR is to use index.html as deployment config / manifest ONLY, and load all other assets from static unchanging resources. This kind of discipline i
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by jchrisa 8y ago
I appreciate demos that show off the minimal effort path. It's a good way to take measure of a stack. If there's a quick golden path, you can tell the stack developers are thinking about how to make their users (app developers) mo

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