jpatokal

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by jpatokal 9y ago
There's one for App Engine Standard, but not for Flex. (Disclaimer: I work at GCP.)
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Factoid of the day: the 140-char limit originates from the SS7 MAP signalling protocol used for SMS, which allows a message payload of precisely 140 bytes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS You can actually cram up t
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by jpatokal 9y ago
> Every company I've worked at has needed more great engineering managers. Has every company you've worked at been successful or at least rapidly growing? There's plenty of cake to go around in a company doubling in size
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Here's the simple formula for startup success: build a company that earns billions. The hard part is working out how to do that.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
> A couple of months ago I moved from a senior engineer position to being an engineering manager There's some useful advice here for newbie managers (manage your time!), but as a manager, most of really important things you work w
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by jpatokal 9y ago
SPG (Sheraton, Westin and friends) has had a similar partnership with Uber since last year.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
I'm somewhat amused by the idea of booting an operating system from scratch to service a single request being described as "much more simple" than the alternative of, y'know, having a single instance serve many requests.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
See also, when Wikipedia editors make a clock: http://pageoftext.com/wikiclock And they're up to >13,000 revisions already... http://pageoftext.com/PH_page_revisions&nm_page=wikiclock
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Easy: Direct international flights, particularly for tourism. For example, in Thailand, the airports of Phuket and Krabi are only ~2 hours apart by car, yet cater to 15m and 5m pax/year respectively. Now I'm sure it made no sense
820.
by jpatokal 9y ago
That was a completely sensible thing to build (and I even flew in once!), it was just destroyed by Israeli bombing.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Illegal migrants are easy to pay under minimum wage, because they're under the radar. However, illegal immigration to NZ is (comparatively) minuscule and you don't really hear about payments under the table, except in small busin
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by jpatokal 9y ago
One thing worth noting is that, with a theoretical max capacity on only 1 million, this airport would actually be pretty tiny by world standards. (The largest do >100m, and even Colombo Airport pulls in nearly 10m.) By comparison, anoth
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by jpatokal 9y ago
I wouldn't describe LocalBitcoins as having "strong KYC"...
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Sure, there are words like this, but they're very much the exception, not the rule. An analogy would be English words like "flabbergasted", which is clearly composed of "flabber" and the past tense of "to gast
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Edit: Nvm. Alex3917 defines it better than I did.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Liquidity. There's enough demand for ETH-BTC that you can convert $30m worth pretty fast; for ETH straight to Monero, you would be in for a much longer wait.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
A more accurate description would be "cryptocurrency confusion among Chinese startups attempting to float ICOs". Exchange rates for BTC and ETH vs USD (or CNY, for that matter) have barely budged: https://www.tradingv
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by jpatokal 9y ago
One point not mentioned in the article, but obvious from the photo: her natural hair is black, and the blonde hair was also dyed.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Good riddance. I was in New York recently, and hailed a taxi for the ride to EWR instead of Uber/Lyft because my phone's battery was flat. The same ride that cost me <$50 on the way in on Uber was over $100 the way back, in
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Is doing interviews in an IDE and expecting fully functional code actually a thing? My company uses a simple text editor: perfection is not expected, and it's still way better than a whiteboard.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
I think you meant East Coast? But as far as immigration is a factor, it would make more sense to optimize for access to Asia.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Generally speaking, this is a sign of a bad Chinese restaurant practicing what I call "matrix menus": you've got one array of sauces (soy, oyster sauce, teriyaki, sweet and sour, satay, etc) and one of proteins (chicken, beef
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Huh, color me surprised (I used to work in the GIS space, but have moved on to cloudier pastures). Then again, Microsoft's now all gung ho about open source at least on paper, so perhaps ESRI can change its spots as well...
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Ha. It's powered by ArcGIS, the Oracle of the mapping world, meaning it's all proprietary, locked down and expensive. If you want freer alternatives, check out CartoDB, Mapbox and QGIS.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
The RFP is rather more interesting than the marketing page: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/Anything... The 2nd criterion is basically the total amount of sweet, sweet taxpayer dollars ava
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Relevant random factoid: the Baltic Sea is almost completely enclosed by land and consequently unusually brackish (low in salt), which means a number of sea creatures common in saltier seas, most notably the shipworm, can't live there.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
So, um, what do they actually do? The only words in that that make any sense are CRM (customer relationship management) and CPM (business process management), and those are also hopelessly waffly business bingo buzzwords.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Note that he asked a random salesperson for permission, and it was the salesperson's manager who reported him.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Originally Initial Coin Offering , but that's been retrofitted to a less securities-y definition.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
> Traditionally they actually worship money - By burning fake money. Burning hell money is a symbolic offering to the deceased, not an act of worshipping money itself. Or do Westerners "actually worship flowers" because we plac

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