jrarredondo

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by jrarredondo 11y ago
Texas Education Agency (TEA)'s Accountability Report shows "NO DISTINCTION" for Science at MacArthur High School in 2015. You would think these teachers would appreciate all the help they can get to earn some distinction in S
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by jrarredondo 13y ago
I work for Rackspace. On [1], you can actually keep your app in AWS and connect / migrate your data to OR over Direct Connect. On [2], you don't have to shard. There is an option to scale vertically when you need to. You can call
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by jrarredondo 13y ago
I think that is the point. I would tweak the definition a little and say "Legacy is anything that's not fashionable anymore, but working and still being used just because it's working."
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by jrarredondo 13y ago
Mason55, I work for Rackspace. The ObjectRocket service does not run on the cloud servers you get from RS. It's actually a different architecture just for MongoDB: flash drives all over, containers, pretty much tuned for MongoDB across
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by jrarredondo 13y ago
But wouldn't the experiments at least indicate the possibility that they reflect reality?
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by jrarredondo 13y ago
Customers of any product rarely care what the people involved with the arts and sciences behind those product's creations do. That observation is not restricted to coding or comp sci.
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by jrarredondo 13y ago
Sometimes you just bet on red AND on black to stay safe while keeping the wheel rolling and the drinks coming.
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by jrarredondo 13y ago
After reading this, i know I am unworthy to comment. However, I will be forwarding this to my wife who gives me a hard time when I, before getting rid of an old computer, remove the HD and give five or so well placed hits with a hammer on t
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by jrarredondo 13y ago
Two things are striking: - The amounts under debate are small - The DFAS agency's budget is huge (1.36B) Why not eliminate the agency altogether? If we divide $1.36B by the number of active military members 1,429,995, that results in $
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by jrarredondo 13y ago
You were really learning through playing. Learning is an investment. Not all play is learning. Another distinction is that children are fed by their parents. So if you have a "parent" in your company who "feeds" you
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by jrarredondo 13y ago
Maybe the title for this should have been "Building a simple app is easy"
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by jrarredondo 13y ago
After a while, most HN posts just fade away in my memory. I will remember this one forever.
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by jrarredondo 13y ago
Minority Report? The Matrix? Office Space?
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by jrarredondo 13y ago
Which is what bennyg said, except in negative numbers.
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Austin’s Shift to Software Could Offer Glimpse of the Future(slashdot.org)
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by jrarredondo 13y ago
The worst database design mistake is starting database design after development is almost done!
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by jrarredondo 13y ago
Going back to school does not automatically make you "look bad" at all. It shows your commitment to education and to finish what you started. There has to be some other reason you are not being called back. Maybe it's a bad r
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by jrarredondo 13y ago
I agree. Basically, do something. Don't just sit there. Too much reality for some.
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by jrarredondo 13y ago
Where is data that link political persuasion and clothing preference? I see all kinds of people at Babies'R'Us making the same color choices.
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by jrarredondo 13y ago
That is a simplistic definition. You exclude actions or systemic patterns, just to name a few things to think about. Go to implicit.harvard.edu for a couple of eye opening experiments and tests.
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by jrarredondo 13y ago
Probably as much as google did for search back in the day.
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by jrarredondo 13y ago
The purpose is also to... Learn.
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by jrarredondo 13y ago
Not to mention that you end up knowing a lot more about [the tool] than you knew before the project, given that it is such an unusual project.
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by jrarredondo 13y ago
I don't know if this is obvious, or if it applies to all kinds of jobs. Something I do is give all candidates an assignment: here is a problem, solve it, and let's discuss it over Skype/Webex/etc. The best solution typic
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by jrarredondo 13y ago
At some point you do have the phone screen though.
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by jrarredondo 13y ago
There is an implicit big assumption there, that HR actually determines who is screened in and/or hired. It's typically the hiring manager who does.
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by jrarredondo 13y ago
I recommend this submission: If Correlation does not imply causation, then what does? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6030627
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by jrarredondo 13y ago
Landing a real airplane is a little more complicated than landing the one in the video game.
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by jrarredondo 13y ago
My brain always thought that was a no op, but the rule says infinite loop. Why would void be true? Not sure, but there likely was a good reason.
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by jrarredondo 13y ago
It's interesting that there seems to be a lack of appreciation for having a single way of doing things. I think there are very few applications for which the performance gains of additional flexibility are significant, whereas the prod

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