juliusmusseau

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by juliusmusseau 5y ago
Good fiction is not usually judged for how true it depicts a real living person. Heck, even actual Biography (non fiction) isn't even judged that way. Cat Person succeeds because it captures a deeper truth. And boy does that story tou
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by juliusmusseau 5y ago
You're so vain You probably think this song is about you
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by juliusmusseau 5y ago
This reminds me of my father's advice to every client (he had a corporate litigation practice): "When you feel the urge to write an email, pick up the f*king phone instead. When in 5 years you're being cross-examined you can
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by juliusmusseau 6y ago
80TB on AWS is $44K USD / year on their crappy (cheap rotational) "st1" volume.
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by juliusmusseau 6y ago
Re: dogfooding - The word nice apparently comes the latin word for ignorant but do you mind if someone says you're a really nice guy?
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by juliusmusseau 6y ago
The ambulance rates where I live (Vancouver, BC, Canada) always make me blink: Insured: $50 flat rate, ground or air. Uninsured: $848 flat fee (ground service) $4,394 per hour (helicopter) http://www.bcehs.ca/about/bil
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by juliusmusseau 7y ago
You clearly don't study any subjects in the fine arts. :-p
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by juliusmusseau 7y ago
> stakeholders wanted an over-the-top bridge design [...] Nothing wrong with that! > They were so focused on building a nice looking bridge — and meeting deadlines These are also good things. To me sounds like the civil engineers star
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by juliusmusseau 7y ago
Fighting against an HTTPS endpoint on 443 returning data in response to a query is kinda futile. Might as well argue against using windmills to grind wheat.
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by juliusmusseau 7y ago
My ssh server runs on port 443. That way I can connect to it when I'm on the Tim Hortons WIFI.
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by juliusmusseau 7y ago
Very neat idea. But I worry that it's vulnerable to bad people. Got a hefty personal bill coming up, and you're pretty confident your SaaS business will be dead within 6 months but Stripe has no way of knowing based on current num
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Too much fun with “Git pull –rebase”(mergebase.com)
1 points by juliusmusseau 7y ago|0 comments
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by juliusmusseau 7y ago
Joking aside, "git pull -r" is pure magic in the face of upstream rewrites. It always does the right thing: https://mergebase.com/doing-git-wrong/2018/03/07/fun-with-gi... After I wrote that b
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by juliusmusseau 7y ago
I'd like to see the performance of growing the list (a common scenario): ArrayList list = new ArrayList(); for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) { list.add(i); } (Forgive me, Java is my mother tongue).
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by juliusmusseau 7y ago
I think the data-structure is careful to make sure the main array is at most SQRT(N) and all linked queues also SQRT(N). It's a neat restructuring of the vector into a SQRT(N) * SQRT(N) arrangement.
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by juliusmusseau 7y ago
Yes, I was running Windows 10 on a 7200rpm drive. Reinstalled onto a cheap $50 SATA 256GB SSD (AOPEN SU800): night and day difference. Blew me away. Obviously M.2 or NVME or PCIE would be a lot better. But even old SATA still made a huge
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by juliusmusseau 7y ago
Is true master-master replication across continents even possible? I guess partitioning can help, but then isn't it just turning the DB servers into pizzas of master-slave where the Hawaiian slice is master only in Hawaii, and slave ev
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by juliusmusseau 7y ago
I remember plugging my windows box directly into my internet cable modem around 1999. My printer started printing dick pics (that I had not asked it to print) -- I had not even clicked on Internet Explorer. I wasn't a computer person
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by juliusmusseau 7y ago
Monetizing our work is not strange. It might require some contortions compared to the most direct approach (step 1. write software. step 2. git push), but that doesn't make it a bad thing. Here is Charles Dickens writing about his ow
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by juliusmusseau 7y ago
You also probably can't be a director of a private or public company until the bankruptcy is discharged (2 years?). If student loans became dischargeable through bankruptcy, I imagine that could put pressure on bankruptcy laws in undes
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by juliusmusseau 7y ago
> Five days to do what? Five full 8 hour days? Does it take 5 days to cut a GitHub release and push it to NPM? I'm not OP, but I gotta say whenever I've faced questions like these in my career, I find I'm not actually bein
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by juliusmusseau 7y ago
Even bad_user's assertion that "Once a piece of software is [legitimately] released as open source, it can be freely distributed" is not 100% true. There is a mechanism in US copyright law through which copyright holders and
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by juliusmusseau 7y ago
Copyright law prevents package repos from being truly immutable. Fortunately a copyright takedown request is not a typical scenario, but it does happen, even with "immutable" repositories like maven-central.
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by juliusmusseau 7y ago
Suppose the key allows mysite.com to let you see your emails, send more emails, and send money to people, etc. Basically mysite.com let's you see and do interesting things after you've authed. Even if evil.com gets you to register
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by juliusmusseau 7y ago
What a beautifully structured, thoughtful, surprising, and helpful document! These in particular jump out: - Risk profiles for diverse users can be very different: Any discussion of the pros and cons of disclosure should take into account
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by juliusmusseau 7y ago
Maybe eject the card between tests?
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by juliusmusseau 7y ago
Good point. I am presuming the test suite is comprehensive. Does it cover 100% of all JSON mines? Probably not. But it surfaced about 30 bugs in my own implementation - things I would have never dreamed of. So it certainly helped me. And j
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by juliusmusseau 7y ago
Do you get the user to choose? Great, now the UI is 2x more complex. Do you just go with what the browser or client locale says? (User lives in Canada but their laptop is set to Turkish locale). Go with the locale tied to the geo location
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by juliusmusseau 7y ago
The founder already personally owned the trademark to "We" well before they made that decision? That's lucky. In that case wouldn't he simply have to divulge that fact early on in the decision-making process? "Guy
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by juliusmusseau 7y ago
This is a classic due-diligence item during early funding rounds - up there with "does the company actually own its domain name or do one of the founders own it"? I suspect either due-diligence caught it and decided to live with i

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