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by mabbo 4y ago
Given the history of WeWork, my best guess is that Neumann's chief skill is convincing people to give him money and let him do whatever he wants with it. He ran WeWork poorly. He convinced the board to let him scam it (legally). And he
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by mabbo 4y ago
Normalized schemas are less prone to certain kinds of hard-to-solve issues. Example: When you have the same data in two places, which is authoritative? If they disagree, which one is right ? And querying data reliably is much easier when y
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by mabbo 4y ago
My Modem can support 1.5 gbps to the internet. The cat5e cable between the modem and my router can support 1.0 gbps (rated to that at least), and the one between the router and my desktop is the same. Over wifi, I can get around 600mbit to
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by mabbo 4y ago
In 2004, I started community college program and had a professor teaching intro to databases. He was retired from industry and had lived through the rise of RDBMS's and made his money in that. Teaching was just his hobby. He liked to h
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by mabbo 4y ago
Because they stopped. Because they made it sound like everyone was getting Gigabit internet by 2018 and then just... didn't do anything. They had first movers advantage and were offering something incredible. And they gave up. It'
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by mabbo 4y ago
I want to criticize Google Fiber, but I will give them this: they proved gigabit internet was completely possible to offer to consumers directly to the home, inexpensively. They proved there was demand for it, that there was a potential bus
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by mabbo 4y ago
That sounds a lot like the complaints about Java from a decade ago. Have you used it lately? Java's GCs are incredible and you have a menu of algorithmic options that let you avoid whatever problem you're worried about.
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by mabbo 4y ago
It's 9:15am. I just spent 10 minutes helping my 5-month-old daughter fall asleep for her first nap of the day. Now I'm sitting with my wife and eating breakfast. At 9:30, I'll walk 20 feet to my office and start work for the
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by mabbo 4y ago
I joke mostly. Coming from a REST based background it was really foreign and convoluted to me. Until I understood the point, the organizational decoupling. Then it clicked why it's great.
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Honestly it's mostly just lack of familiarity, which is getting better every day.
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Whether it was the intention or not, I find GraphQL solved a fascinating problem: it let front end developers move faster by greatly decoupling their data needs from the backend developers. Backend developers describe the data model, expose
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by mabbo 4y ago
The interpretation I have come to use, which I'm sure isn't a perfect one, is that a Monad is a means to wrap Data in a Context before applying Computation to it. A Maybe monad's context is that the data might not be there. A
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by mabbo 4y ago
Put very simply: Edmunds, the experts on cars, give the ID.4 an 8.2, and the Ioniq 5 an 8.3. They're both great cars. Here's a review comparing the two. https://insideevs.com/reviews/586981/hyundai-ioniq-
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by mabbo 4y ago
Just in case anyone isn't seeing through the bullshit of Elon Musk, let me lay this out for you: On April 14th: Twitter stock was worth about $45. Tesla stock was worth about $985. Elon's contract said he would sell $13B worth of
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by mabbo 4y ago
My wife and I just agreed to put our deposit down so we can join the 2-year waiting list to get one of these cars. It's honestly just such a great vehicle for the price point it's at. Guess it'll be 3 years then.
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by mabbo 4y ago
I think calling this a Captcha isn't a greay way to explain what this is about. Bots spamming your sign up page are playing an economics game. Can I quickly and cheaply enough do whatever this bot action is so that the end result is wo
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by mabbo 4y ago
Do you have any evidence that it does ? We live in a culture that wishes passion lead to success. It's what we're taught as children here. It's what we want to be true. And yet I find no strong evidence anywhere supporting t
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by mabbo 4y ago
It makes for a very nice sci-fi story setting though. A very far flung future in which some very post-humans are attempting to break the universe in this way.
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by mabbo 4y ago
> it’s because you’re either very lucky (and congrats to you) or you’re very passionate. It's never because you're very passionate. Passion has basically no correlation with financial success. Millions of passionate artists, mu
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by mabbo 4y ago
Can one theoretically increase the spin of a black hole by adding mass at the right angle? IE: give it more and more angular momentum until you achieve the naked singularity? Perhaps that is the final experiment of Kardashev level whatever
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by mabbo 4y ago
> People who are driven and smart don't suddenly earn their first $5m go off and buy an annuity I guess I must not be driven, because I would. Or at least something close enough to that. $5m just earning interest at 5%ish is way mo
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by mabbo 4y ago
I would love to see a similar article diving into Amazon's use of RHEL5, and the eventual slow move to "Amazon Linux". At one point, I had a RHEL5 desktop in Seattle, which I could (and had to) develope remotely on from the T
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by mabbo 4y ago
> There is a relativistic limit, as faster rotation eventually is not possible without adding ludicrous amounts of energy that would make the neutron star too heavy. That is exactly the kind of thing I'm here for. Spinning so fast t
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by mabbo 4y ago
Fun question: can spinning this fast allow for larger neutron stars? The neutron star keeps growing, and eventually may have too much mass, causing it to collapse into a black hole. The forces pulling inward are just too much. But if it&#x2
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by mabbo 4y ago
One of the Star Trek films included a moment where they asked a bunch of extras some question. She wasn't supposed to answer, but nobody told her that, so she replied totally normally. I mean, they were back in time in the "presen
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by mabbo 4y ago
Yeah, and I bet after we send that, they stay off our lawns, right?
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by mabbo 4y ago
I think it's more complex than just "burned out". If Shopify had laid me off on Tuesday (as it did to a few great people I worked with) I'd have been given 16 weeks severance. I doubt I would have looked for a new job fo
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by mabbo 4y ago
I tried to read LoTR when I was 11. I got to Tom Bombadil and just gave up. 70 pages of him singing with no real point. I just couldn't go on. I finally read it in full around 5 years later.
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by mabbo 4y ago
2042: Earth receives a message from an alien intelligent species 32 light years away. 2109: Aliens receive a reply, which includes a map of their own world, including where their largest cities are located. I'm just saying, this is tot
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by mabbo 4y ago
Right, but what if my mother wants to start a business? She's not a developer. Should she avoid Stripe? What kind of company builds itself as only being a product usable by developers ? We're a small niche market at best.

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