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by jonaf 10y ago
Do you have an example? What makes it unbelievable? What if a product is legitimately that good?
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by jonaf 10y ago
What would incentivize me to forward on such a review? Material compensation just happen somewhere... No one posts great reviews about a product because they were asked nicely. Unsolicited? That's fine; I consider that a review based o
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by jonaf 10y ago
Always interested in more folks joining this conversation. It's what I do full time. I think my contact info is in my profile. I'm located in Austin so I'd have to fly out for drinks. ;)
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by jonaf 10y ago
If the FTC contacts you directly, expect your corporate lawyers to ask you to prioritize resolution over pretty much anything else.
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by jonaf 10y ago
I don't know of any studies (do you?). Do people only look at the star rating? We have done some statistics and found that star rating only tells a small part of the story. Anyone with a background in statistics knows this, though.
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by jonaf 10y ago
Amazon is not strictly a ratings and reviews company. I don't know in total how many reviews they have.
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by jonaf 10y ago
The FTC requires disclosure for reviews that were written by individuals who were given a product for the purpose of reviewing it. It is considered anticompetitive and illegal to forego disclosing this about a review. As an engineer at perh
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by jonaf 10y ago
How does this compare with the log stash alerting plugin that's available? Does it work without log stash (i.e., just elastic search)?
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by jonaf 10y ago
My 2-year-old son is the happiest, sweetest little boy. He was diagnosed with autism about 6 months ago by a pediatric neurologist, who we saw because he has zero communication skills (verbal or otherwise). He is almost always remarkably ha
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by jonaf 10y ago
In fact, YAML is a superset of JSON, and any valid JSON is also valid YAML. This becomes more obvious when you realize you can put any JSON objects inside of your YAML document and any YAML parser will correctly deserialize it.
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by jonaf 10y ago
tl;dr incidents happen and they suck. Buy our stuff. Not sure why this is in the front page.
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by jonaf 11y ago
Is there any real science to this? Can someone provide legitimate references? I tried this last time it was on HN. It felt like a hoax; I was less focused because the sounds were less calming than the air conditioning in the office, and bec
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by jonaf 11y ago
Out of curiosity, how do you handle deployment of databases on nixOS? I'm curious how others run stateful services on nix
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by jonaf 11y ago
A minor correction as a courtesy to other readers: puppet, chef, etc are not atomic. They can usually be considered thread safe across processes, if for some reason you run two simultaneously, but that is not a guarantee. Their changes are
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by jonaf 11y ago
What the... For Mac app design concepts, these all suuuure look like Windows!! Where's the brushed metal, the shaded orbs, the soft drop shadows?
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by jonaf 11y ago
I always read comments before article on mobile, hoping for a tldr comment.
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by jonaf 11y ago
Because Mint has been horribly broken and useless from the day Intuit bought it. Currently I use an excel spreadsheet in lieu of my now-inactive Mint account. Because even nothing is better than mint.
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by jonaf 11y ago
Doesn't this assume a single-threaded application? The example of a clerk's service time and people waiting in line is oversimplified. Modern systems have maybe 100 clerks per store, and many stores; how do you perform a "Ctr
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by jonaf 11y ago
What about termites?
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by jonaf 11y ago
This is neat. At Bazaarvoice (my current employer), we built a Ruby DSL specifically for CloudFormation (AWS) several years ago. It looks and works similarly. We open sourced it and have been using it in production for a couple years now. y
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by jonaf 11y ago
I expect the reason is because Heroku could switch to a new provider in the future and it would be a pain to always update every reference to their provider. Parent seems to imply there's something wrong with choosing AWS. There is not
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by jonaf 11y ago
Without having read the article, based on your comment it sounds like I should just ignore the whole thing and not waste my time.
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by jonaf 11y ago
I don't think using proprietary platforms such as Xbox 360 or iOS as examples constitutes a trend in the field of Computer Science. It's more likely that Apple will reject your iOS app for some reason than it is that you won'
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by jonaf 12y ago
Rison (specifically O-RSON) is a great solution to this problem. We use it in production and have done so for a couple years now, and it's served us very well to address this problem.
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by jonaf 12y ago
Forgive my botched formatting. Long time lurker here :)
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by jonaf 12y ago
One neat trick I've found is using `exec` in conjunction with process substitution to effect and gather changes to the current environment within the context of a script (usually not as useful with a pty attached). Example: how can you