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by kopos 7y ago
Or to paraphrase while the “dark patterns” require moment of inspiration creativeness, being better most of the times rehires diligence and discipline which are much lower hanging fruits. But it’s also a real danger to just thinking in abso
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by kopos 7y ago
Or if it's at the non webscale level just store it in your own filesystem and serve from your filesystem instead of doing it from S3.
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by kopos 8y ago
Gtalk - the very lightweight IM +1 XMPP - in still finding it puzzling that it's not deployed and used more often
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by kopos 8y ago
Yes the big bag of data which is generally the value in the kv store is a json (either as a serialized string or a map if it is natively supported by redis). Yes, the usefulness of SQL always is the join or group but with something like ses
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by kopos 8y ago
So lets consider one use case. We have a website where people login and we create a session to track that user across different pages on the website. Now the session will have data like user name (to display on the website), the user's
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by kopos 8y ago
Isn’t this what xmpp promises?
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by kopos 8y ago
Even in countries like Japan, organ meats are relished along with the muscle meats.
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by kopos 8y ago
WeWork ;)
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by kopos 8y ago
Interestingly, in India, Uber paid drivers upwards of $1700, in in the initial 1-2 years, as incentives to get them onto the platform. Drivers took loans and mortgages to buy cars which they couldn't pay after the incentives were taken
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by kopos 8y ago
Please spend reading High Output Management by Andy S Grove - the best reference book for would be managers. The biggest difference from developer to manager is understanding the value of leverage. As a developer, the biggest feedback &#x2F
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by kopos 8y ago
I'm not sure if this sounds preachy, but I think you'll have great answers from reading 'High Output Management' by Andy Grove. - Have an agenda in mind. If there were older 1-on-1's use them as a direction to set a
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by kopos 8y ago
Another thing I've found is that food videos (food pron) is very well suited for these sort of micro video format.
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by kopos 9y ago
And the only thing I remember was that students / people started using to create the longest wave.
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by kopos 9y ago
Scrapy [ https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy ] works really well.
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by kopos 9y ago
Not necessarily. The math for video slots can be changed to handle that functionality, but it has to be fair and RNG driven. And of course has to be audited.
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by kopos 9y ago
It is highly regulated. The software has to go through stringent gaming reviews every year, the RNG has to be re-certified, the software cannot be updated without prior regulatory approval, the game math has to be certified. You cannot chan
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by kopos 9y ago
Not really. The graph for payout would be jumping up and down. With an exponential decay, you would mean no player would make any money. You should remember, the industry would not have been so lucrative or addictive if there were no wins a
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by kopos 9y ago
That is the wrong interpretation - atleat the math says so. The 97% payout is a payout over millions (billions) of 1$ bets made on the machine - called the game cycle. You have to remember that players win and lose too. Theoretically, if I
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by kopos 9y ago
Yes, that is a typo (I had 100$ in my mind ...). Since these machines are fixed odds games each result of a spin is completely exclusive of the result from the other spin. So a 97% avg payout for a spin or over a billion spins (a game cycle
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by kopos 9y ago
Sadly, the article does disservice to a lot of actual mechanics of the industry. And the amount of hard work that goes on to actually makes these games addictive. It is not for no reason that these are called one-armed bandits. * This indus
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by kopos 9y ago
Thank you. This is the first time I heard about ROCm. I sincerely wish that ROCm adoption takes off - been a AMD / ATI fanboy - so have been wanting to see AMD make a great dent. Any numbers / etc to get more info on adoption of R
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by kopos 9y ago
AMD vs NVidia novice here. My untested understanding has been that even though AMD is performance-to-dollar higher performance than nVidia, it is plagued by not having a stellar software support that nVidia enjoys either via CUDA and conseq
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3 points by kopos 9y ago|3 comments
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by kopos 10y ago
Yes - that is what is being said about Drupal 8 but I see it more of a shoehorning a CMS into a framework. Custom modules can be written - but doing the same in Django is much easier. One approach that you can also look at is build the plat
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by kopos 10y ago
So I've experience of working with both and technically you are comparing apples to oranges. Drupal is a CMS built in PHP while Django is a Python framework to make web-apps (one of them being a CMS). * A framework works at a lower lev
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by kopos 11y ago
His point about Type 1 and Type 2 decisions - so telling. Been there, seen it in action. Every line of the letter was so well thought out. And he is big on India! Flipkart has a lot to worry about.
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by kopos 11y ago
Yes, it is a problem that Facebook is not the saviour. 1. But with a huge untapped market like India, won't there be any other corporations who would step in to build a Mozilla Phone or the Grameen Phone style projects in India? 2. N
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by kopos 11y ago
Took me rushing through all those years of insane coding in the last company I worked for. By the time I had quit, a fully functional game engine had undergone 3 rewrites with 2 more underway and with one of them not seeing the day of light
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by kopos 11y ago
If a Python class overrides __getattr__() or has a complex deeper hierarchy of inheritance, pickle sometimes fails in spectacular ways. Sometimes the fixes were extremely painful and sort of nullified the purpose of having a __getattr__() i
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by kopos 11y ago
Used it on a huge project where I wanted the interfaces clean between the Python project at runtime and to serialize the Python objects to the database. Using pickling gave me sleepless night until I moved to Marshmallow. Whilst Django REST

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