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by jrumbut 4y ago
CockroachDB has been a font of cool ideas from the beginning IMO.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I've long wished for an RDBMS (or perhaps ORM, but I think it would be extra cool at the database level, see below) that does things that don't hyperscale. So many LOB applications (the part of the iceberg under the water) have mo
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I believe the idea is that many of those records were destroyed or distorted during WW2.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Profit is a tricky concept in any business, particularly a small software business. A lot of very successful businesses have zero or near zero profit (considering that paying the CEO reduces the profit, reinvesting reduces the profit, etc).
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Sure, but that's not the highest bar to clear.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I was in roughly the same spot but I had to switch when I transferred schools because I would have practically had to start from scratch in CE but I was halfway done with a CS degree. Not sure it's possible to design an ECE curriculum
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by jrumbut 4y ago
In the linked page he refers to it as a more memorable link and presents it as an easy way to comply with the terms of this book's CC license. "Oh you're looking for an algorithms textbook, have you tried..."
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Incidentally overhearing a conversation and recording 24/7 then uploading anything interesting to a third party's servers for them to do who knows what with it feels very different. I'm curious what others think of the ethic
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I feel exactly the same way
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by jrumbut 4y ago
The damages are what is limited to $1 billion, but I wonder what the consequences are if specific performance is ordered and Musk just doesn't do it. Can the Court of Chancery put him in jail, does it automatically fall back to the $1
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by jrumbut 4y ago
If you made me choose between having a raccoon or a bear in my attic, I might choose the bear.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
But if they do get in the attic it's a nightmare. I would take 100 mice over one squirrel.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Interestingly, they've picked up for me recently. I think they send one email to me before but now it's close to Amazon frequency. As annoying as it is to get tons of emails or have an unsolicited recruiter message pop up while yo
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Not sure why this is down voted. In the most developed and transparent countries cause of death data leave a lot to be desired.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I finally had an occasion to write a .sed script a few weeks ago and it was one of the highlights of my career.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Tongue firmly planted in cheek but... There's a guy in Rome still holding one of the Roman emperors' titles, pontifex maximus (held by some of them anyway). Meanwhile, there’s a powerful army marching all over the world with an ea
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I too remember that time and it left me terribly jaded about the utility of new languages. This is the first I've seen in a while where I think the offering hits a spot on the tradeoff continuum that is distinctive and where I can pict
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by jrumbut 4y ago
For a lot of applications there are pretty straightforward calculations to meet a desired frame rate. Also I've seen UX research that established some guidelines for how long something can take while still feeling responsive allowing a
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Never heard of them before but they talked about direct deposits and a debit card on the page linked above so if they aren't a bank they are acting a lot like one.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
There seems to be two subtly different definitions of steel manning. The first one, and the one I think should always be done, is to engage with the best argument that has actually been presented by someone holding the opposing view. The se
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by jrumbut 4y ago
For me, the heavy lifting here is being done by you having a network of people that recognize you as the right person to build the thing they need (productivity tool in this instance). Based on my (limited) experience with startups I would
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by jrumbut 4y ago
> one of the only aspects of blockchain that has appeal for me -- the full transparency of the system, such that you can see every exchange of BTC on the network. Which is interesting for many applications but kind of kills BTC as someth
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Regarding 7, working in such businesses I've often felt a tingling of "someone with greater mathematical sophistication could cut through the complexity I'm getting bogged down in and/or improve performance." If I h
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by jrumbut 4y ago
In any kind of freelancing you have to have a contract and you have to be careful what you say (especially in any form of writing, not just letters but email, chat, text, etc). It doesn't have to be the most elaborate contract. I know
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I agree with you and would be excited to see a resume like what some of these cert masters could present. However, I understand that some people shut down when they see a lot of extraneous detail. Think of it like reading a news article. Yo
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I wonder how many refugees could have saved themselves a lot of pain if they tried some of this advice before burning out and leaving.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
A surprisingly important item is limiting the amount of liquid you consume late at night. Also eliminating caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol altogether. For me there was a big difference between "a little caffeine in the morning" an
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Yes but among the four factors that are used to evaluate fair use claims are whether it is being used commercially (it is) and how it affects the market for the thing that was copied (it clearly would since one way code is used is being imp
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I don't think releasing a commercial product that copies people's code without complying with the license is anywhere near fair use. Also, the open source community has far less leverage to apply pressure to Google than it does to
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by jrumbut 4y ago
That was my experience with RN. The React ecosystem is nice but the RN specific libraries that come with native components have been nightmares. This includes libraries from major companies that were incomplete (as in didn't implement

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