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by kevstev 6y ago
I agree with all of these statements. JK IMHO set their e-commerce business back 3 years at least. He was the champion of a horrific monolith that was delivered years late. Not quite sure what you are referring to in terms of making changes
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by kevstev 6y ago
That timing coincided with two pretty big unrelated things. Walmart had been rebuilding their backend systems on this monolithic system called Pangaea that was several years late and drained most of the resources of the engineering org duri
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by kevstev 6y ago
Just read the first one- it reads more like a novel than a textbook IMHO, though I may be biased- I have always been fascinated by networks and when I was coming of age this was the "high tech" of the time- I used to read RFCs for
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by kevstev 6y ago
I guess I just feel there is a real lack of creativity in gaming these days- There used to be a rich variety of games- puzzle/adventure games, RTSes, Simulation games, Flight/Space games of all kinds, and now its just kind of cond
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by kevstev 6y ago
I will even go farther and say that I feel like I have now been playing the same game for 25 years. The FPS genre gets some new tricks, but it's still the same basic game with a few new mechanics and tricks- I can pick up a game I have
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by kevstev 6y ago
Its a hoop to jump through to get things to work- and an external dependency. I mean I remember the days when I first got a cable modem, I could just start up IIS or Apache and immediately have a web page on the internet. With a little hack
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by kevstev 6y ago
What online tailor do you use? I have a local guy who charges fairly reasonable prices but it would be interesting to compare...
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by kevstev 6y ago
I ordered stuff from Banana Republic Factory about a year ago. I was on their email list, saw something I liked in the ad, clicked on it, bought it. It was on sale, a shirt for like $30. I had good experiences with stuff I bought from them
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by kevstev 6y ago
This was likely in the works for months- I worked on a similar project while there, and lining up the integrations with external partners was time consuming across corporate boundaries. Actually a second read of the article shows that this
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by kevstev 6y ago
Thanks for making me aware of this- I missed the Deep Glacier announcement last year it seems. Glacier is already cost effective as is, but this will make it even cheaper! I use this as an offsite backup- that as long as disaster does not s
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by kevstev 6y ago
With backups, my assumption is that you will never need to restore except in real "oh shit" moments- fire, electrical system zapping, etc- and if those moments happen, you are willing to pay. I have been using synology for 13 year
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by kevstev 6y ago
I was trying to see if this was now better than Glacier- and aside from the SLA's being much better in terms of retrieval, I am not sure they make sense for a backup use case- where you are only really planning on downloading that data
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by kevstev 6y ago
While I agree that the Fed may be overplaying their hand, I disagree that Taleb has an otherwise outperforming strategy. The cost of hedging against black swan events is not zero, and has increased substantially since the financial crisis-
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by kevstev 6y ago
For more investor funds. Also, his style of investing is supposed to make a killing during times like this- but when you are flat to down a few percent for all the boring years in between black swan events, things don't look great. The
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by kevstev 6y ago
After having a soda stream for almost 10 years, someone left a CO2 tank on my property. It's a 10 lb canister, which will supposedly last me literal years at the rate I drink carbonated water, and costs about as much to refill as a sod
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by kevstev 6y ago
There is a small "spin up" time to get everything hot and hot water pouring out. This is pretty minimal IMHO, and dwarfed by the amount of time it takes to get cold water flushed out of the pipes. Recirculating systems exist to pr
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by kevstev 6y ago
Natural gas tankless exists: https://www.homedepot.com/b/Plumbing-Water-Heaters-Tankless-... I have this in my house.
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by kevstev 7y ago
Was this a relatively recent thing? or ages ago? I ask as its interesting to me how much less stuff goes into a PC these days. When I built my first box around 2000, it had so many components inside: Motherboard/CPU/RAM Graphics C
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by kevstev 7y ago
You didn't find that there was pressure to work later? I tend to prefer to come in late because you can control your bound on that, but leaving early makes you look bad (despite the irrationality of that), and its just easy to fall int
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by kevstev 7y ago
I interviewed there a few years back- I actually really liked the team there and came close to taking a less lucrative offer to work there. To the best of my knowledge, this is not in any way secret information, its just not widely known. F
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by kevstev 7y ago
I have always felt I have not really understood things from the bottom up in terms of CS- like how do we really get from bits to software? I have been building Ben Eater's 6502 computer, which has been mostly enjoyable (cutting/st
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by kevstev 7y ago
Right- but if I was unable to enter my home, I would not be paying rent. This isn't a "the service is there, but I am choosing not to use it" situation, unless I am misunderstanding something- this is a "I am legally not
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by kevstev 7y ago
I don't understand- they are not providing the service but also not reimbursing fees? That makes zero sense to me- do you pay monthly, and ahead of time?
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by kevstev 7y ago
Dealing with paid software in corporate america is a terrible experience for all involved. As a user: I see some software I might be interested in trying. I have to go to generally some nameless, faceless group to get them to buy it. I open
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by kevstev 7y ago
What is considered a medium problem? Is this in terms of equivalence of problem levels found on leetcode and such? I have yet to do the grind. My current job is great and pays FAANG level- I hope to not have to engage in this crap.
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by kevstev 7y ago
I see a lot of people recommending Halliday and Resnick, but I used Serway- Physics for Scientists and Engineers in college and that textbook was one of the best I felt I ever read. Its been quite some time since I was in college though, ma
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by kevstev 7y ago
It seems almost funny now, but in the late 90s there was a lot of talk about how the internet could fail under its own load. The arguments never made that much sense to me, but they attracted attention...
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by kevstev 7y ago
In terms of grocery stores seeing more revenue, This is likely largely explained by a shift in spending of food dollars from restaurants to grocery stores. You go to work, you generally buy lunch somewhere, and people can't go out to e
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by kevstev 7y ago
My wife ordered a monitor since she is now wfh indefinitely and only has a small macbook- It originally said April 21st but showed up on our door about 2-3 days later like our other shipments do. Its possible that they may have reclassified
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by kevstev 7y ago
Those e-bikes also have special cheaper pricing for trips that start or end outside of Manhattan, in order to stimulate this type of trip. Something correlation... causation... can't remember the rest... :)

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