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by joshdick 8y ago
"It does not store or sell users’ personal information, the company said."
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by joshdick 8y ago
"Propel typically gets referral fees from its coupon, job-listing and other advertiser partners."
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by joshdick 9y ago
Sharing a framework for logging, routing, and other boring things is fine; sharing a framework with domain-specific logic is when you start getting into trouble. Now if you want to change something in that framework, you have to change and
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by joshdick 10y ago
Sure: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgamecategory/1041/childre... Just sort that by rank to get an ordered list of the best children's games.
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by joshdick 10y ago
Schneier cited the Verisign DDoS trends report and provided a link to it. He also cites anonymous sources. These sources agreed with each other and with the public report from Verisign. He explained why he was keeping those sources anonymou
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by joshdick 10y ago
No. You also need something that responds to events and reports on them. Statuspage integrates with pingdom, new relic, and datadog.
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by joshdick 10y ago
I wonder how many false conjectures could pass muster using this sort of probabilistic argument.
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by joshdick 10y ago
Yeah, I can't believe someone would write a blog post about design patterns without reading the GoF book. The authors are very explicit in every chapter about what problems are a good fit for that design pattern.
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by joshdick 11y ago
This product has Salesforce replication, and it's free to try: https://rjmetrics.com/product/pipeline/
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by joshdick 11y ago
Write better commit messages. Garbage in, garbage out.
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by joshdick 11y ago
The classic essay on this topic is "On Being the Right Size" by biologist J.B.S. Haldane in 1926. It's really worth a read: http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/papers/right-size.html I'll never forget: "You
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by joshdick 11y ago
You can read a lot more than you'd think. Ryan Holiday had a great post about this very topic: http://ryanholiday.net/how-to-read-more-a-lot-more/
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by joshdick 11y ago
It's irrelevant who the NPGVAN CEO supports: The decision to cut off the Sanders campaign was made by the DNC, not him.
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by joshdick 11y ago
According to Crunchbase, Atlassian has raised $210M in funding in two rounds. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/atlassian#/entity
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by joshdick 11y ago
In college I attended a great talk by Herb Wilf that was his foolproof plan for writing a combinatorics paper: Basically, find two sequences on the OEIS that look unrelated and prove a relationship between them.
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by joshdick 11y ago
I really enjoyed "Notes to a Software Team Leader: Growing Self Organizing Teams." The second half of the book is advice from various tech leads.
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The State of Data Science(rjmetrics.com)
4 points by joshdick 11y ago|1 comments
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by joshdick 11y ago
If you're going to question market hours, you should ask why the market is open for so long. Why not just have one big print a day? There's not actually so much new information coming out throughout the day that the market needs t
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by joshdick 11y ago
Rich Hickey has been criticized for that repeatedly. When asked, he's been transparent that Datomic is closed source so that he can put his kids through college. He also points out that he already gave us the whole Clojure language ope
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by joshdick 11y ago
Sounds like you haven't correctly drawn the boundaries of your microservices or you're not versioning them or both. And if you're having a tough time deploying changes, it sounds like you're not practicing continuous del
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by joshdick 11y ago
Those predictions were still off by ten years, however. Wasabi served them well until other technologies improved enough to allow them to ditch Wasabi.
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by joshdick 11y ago
Even if that were true, doesn't it matter more what he's done in the 50 years since then?
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by joshdick 11y ago
The only people who will find that creepy are the people who will slap you if you try it without consent.
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by joshdick 11y ago
Or the Great Orangered/Periwinkle Clash of April Fools Day 2013. https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/2jne44/what_w...
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by joshdick 12y ago
Addressing that first point is "The Difference Between 'Significant' and 'Not Significant' is not Itself Statistically Significant" by Andrew Gelman and Hal Stern. PDF link: http://www.stat.columbia.
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by joshdick 12y ago
I don't see myself ditching lein anytime soon, but I'm glad to see some competition in this area.
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by joshdick 12y ago
I'm surprised that this doesn't mention Fukuyama's "end of history" idea [1]. When it looks like the world is full of liberal democracies and nations becoming liberal democracies, history feels less compelling. [1]
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by joshdick 12y ago
People don't like it when 14 inches is forecast and the actual snowfall is 2 inches, but they aren't going to like hearing forecasts of 2-16 inches. That sort of wide confidence interval is more accurate, but it's also basica
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by joshdick 12y ago
Clearly markets weren't expecting the change, or else they wouldn't've been so volatile after the announcement.
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by joshdick 12y ago
Or poker or financial markets.

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