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How Cognician uses Onyx(stuttaford.me)
16 points by lbradstreet 11y ago|1 comments
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by lbradstreet 11y ago
Most of the drugs he was gouging for were already out of patent, but they were low volume and it takes a while to bring a generic to market. During this time, he makes a lot of money. This is more of a market failure.
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by lbradstreet 11y ago
You're right, it's still an amazing deal. I'm just pointing out that it likely can't be produced and sold at retail for a profit for $10.
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by lbradstreet 11y ago
The article was updated with the correct results before you saw it.
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by lbradstreet 11y ago
Apple times the new iOS release to coincide with their next iPhone release (usually slightly prior). Therefore many users upgrade to the latest iOS at pretty much precisely the time of the new release. It doesn't mean that they deliber
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by lbradstreet 11y ago
How can the 99th percentile latency be lower than the 90th? That must be a mistake or the result of multiple test runs?
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by lbradstreet 11y ago
Is it locked to a prepaid carrier? If so, then it's probably being sold at under cost.
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by lbradstreet 11y ago
Isn't that against AppStore rules? It used to be that you couldn't charge a different price for an equivalent purchase.
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by lbradstreet 11y ago
In theory there should be a trade off when offering such a solution. Companies are more likely to trust you, and use your product if they can be sure there is a fallback plan (open source) upon your product being shuttered. Yes, you may los
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by lbradstreet 11y ago
Interestingly, Iran is the only country in the world that allows its citizens to pay for someone to give up their kidney https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney_trade_in_Iran . By some accounts it works rather well, see
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by lbradstreet 11y ago
I would love to see a similar proposition with proprietary products run by companies. If you run an infrastructure style product, there should be a living will involve where the product will become open source upon the bankruptcy or shutdow
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by lbradstreet 11y ago
I've had good luck with prismatic schema https://github.com/Prismatic/schema , which seems to be along a similar direction. It's fairly low commitment and can lead to big gains fairly quickly. I assume this wo
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by lbradstreet 11y ago
https://github.com/mefellows/muxy looks interesting, albeit for certain test types. I'll be trying it out in the near future.
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by lbradstreet 11y ago
I've always wanted a model like this to point people to. I don't have a dog in the buy/rent column, but I feel like most of these decisions are made without a regard for many pertinent considerations. The main one that bugs m
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by lbradstreet 11y ago
I guess you mean Hillary for the Senate
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by lbradstreet 12y ago
I've used Onyx, but I haven't used Spark, so take this with a grain of salt. A few key differences: Onyx aggressively uses data structures to define the structure of computation, defining the data flow (Onyx workflow) and paramete
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by lbradstreet 12y ago
I'm the author of the ClojureScript port. I'd really love to hear from anyone who eventually uses it, as I'm getting it into shape so it can eventually be merged upstream. All the tests pass and it works for my use case, but
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by lbradstreet 12y ago
I'm skeptical of the total loss quoted. If a stock drops from 2B to 0.3B market cap, it doesn't necessarily mean that investors lost 1.7B in the pump and dump. For that to happen 100% of the shares would have had to have traded ha
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Embrace the Log - The Onyx Distributed System Dashboard(lbradstreet.github.io)
7 points by lbradstreet 12y ago|0 comments
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by lbradstreet 12y ago
I assume you mean data outside the container? Maybe you could at least silo the utility that needs to delete so that it can easily be inspected and so you don't have to trust the whole program.
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by lbradstreet 12y ago
Definitely a bit on the whimsical side but has a lot of interesting stuff I respect. It'd work on me, but maybe not on a lot of people who might hire you - though that may act as a good filter for your sake. I'm not sure. A agree
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by lbradstreet 12y ago
The new webkit view (WKWebView) is JITed. I'm not sure about using JavaScriptCore independently of it though.
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by lbradstreet 12y ago
With Microsoft making moves like these for their open source projects, it seems like network effects are alive and well, and working for GitHub. Of course, it did require some change from above to get to the point where Microsoft is willing
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by lbradstreet 12y ago
I don't think that's correct as it is most of the point of the LGPL. I think it's how QT was able to sell licenses to closed source software despite being GPL'd as well (dual license).
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by lbradstreet 12y ago
Surely Bitcoin has an independent monetary policy, along with free capital movement. The monetary policy follows the block reward (currently 25 BTC). Of course with this monetary policy and free movement of capital, it is impossible to have
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by lbradstreet 12y ago
I'm not going to mention a specific paper, but Papers We Love ( https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love ) has some good stuff on it, and the meetups have always been interesting (at least for my local chapt
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by lbradstreet 12y ago
These deals are net positive for Nevada (tax breaks don't really hurt them that much if they wouldn't have gotten the facility anyway), and net negative for the US overall (revenue wise, at least). If nobody engaged in these kinds
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by lbradstreet 12y ago
I totally agree that it helps with callback hell / reasoning, but I think your argument was more about coordination. Hence the sliding buffer example - something that would be very, very hard to /coordinate/ with callbacks.
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by lbradstreet 12y ago
Addendum: if it weren't for Tim Pope and his Vimscript mastery, I would already be using emacs in Evil mode.
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by lbradstreet 12y ago
I've spent a fair amount of time in core.async, and I feel like I'm on the edge of enlightenment here, but I don't quite understand how CSP helps with this example. Is the point that you can take multiple puts off the channel

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