josiahpeters

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by josiahpeters 8y ago
Boise, Idaho has a growing technology scene. There are many HP and Micron offshoots. Some big success stories too: Cradlepoint, Bodybuilding.com, T-Sheets (acquired by Intuit), ClearWater analytics, ClickBank, TruckStop.com, the list goes o
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by josiahpeters 8y ago
Thanks for the insight, that was my fear. Our decision came down to the notion of "no one ever got fired for recommending SQL Server or PostgreSQL"
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by josiahpeters 8y ago
The entire offering looks very compelling. Unfortunately I couldn't get a sense of operational efficiency or performance of ArangoDB in the wild. I couldn't convince our CTO if we adopted this product, would we be trading the extr
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by josiahpeters 9y ago
/s Some people might consider that a blessing in disguise with Slack. I'm not sure what the behavior is, maybe best case Slack crashes and restarts itself. You could almost call that behavior a feature of 32bit Slack: "automa
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by josiahpeters 9y ago
I treat helmet safety like I do gun safety. ALWAYS TREAT A GUN AS IF ITS LOADED. If you don't, you behave differently around it always. And that's how people accidentally shoot their friends or themselves (even cleaning their gun)
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by josiahpeters 9y ago
I would guess at least number of backend services for Xbox One titles. I remember seeing an advert for Titanfall being run on Azure. That was a few years ago so my memory may be flawed. I suspect 343 Industries (Microsoft Studio behind the
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by josiahpeters 9y ago
I don't have a large enough house to have a great theater experience without waking my kids up by enjoying the sound at the volume it should be at. Also, I don't want my three year old repeating the words of Tyrion Lannister.
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by josiahpeters 9y ago
I would pay $10 a month to watch Game of Thrones, House of Cards, or other high production value TV shows on a big screen with other fans each week. I might even pay $20 or $30 a month for just those few months of new episodes for the lates
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by josiahpeters 9y ago
Hi magnetic, nice to meet you! Out of curiosity, where would you say you developed your money management skills? Was it from your parents, from school, or just organically as you started taking on more responsibility as an adult? To acknowl
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by josiahpeters 9y ago
> If not using/having credit cards is what works for your family, more power to you. But don't assume just because I use a CC for my purchases I'm in debt or foolish. In fact there's a whole subculture of making money
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by josiahpeters 9y ago
> This is a really bizarre assertion: my bubble is such that I've literally never met someone (that I'm aware of, just as with your claim) who _doesn't_ pay their credit cards off in full each month. I'm probably half
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by josiahpeters 9y ago
Its not like you're just pulling free money out of thin air by using a credit card. And it seems likely that the finance institutions behind the credit cards are offering them as a product that makes money and not as an act of goodwill
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by josiahpeters 9y ago
I think they'll have to figure out the IP out first. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_The_Wiza... Sounds like WB and Disney both have claims to different aspects. Interesting bit in the Wikipedi
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by josiahpeters 9y ago
We recently used API gateway to publish our first "public" facing API for some of our partners to integrate with. We we're using swagger to describe our internal APIs. A subset of those APIs needed to be exposed to partners.