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811.
by mason55 10y ago
The same way that the unions in NYC have forced the MTA to keep the hugely expensive, 100 year old backup control & signaling systems on the fully-automated lines even though it's 100% not necessary.
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by mason55 10y ago
> Dictatorships are hell. Not necessarily, look at Singapore. A benevolent dictatorship can be the best kind of government, the problem is finding the benevolent dictator.
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by mason55 10y ago
You wouldn't be able to enforce password rules. I could send my own hash of a password that wouldn't meet your password policy and you'd never know.
814.
by mason55 10y ago
What if there is a breaking change in lib3 and only lib2 upgrades? Does that mean lib1 can just never be used again because of something lib3 did?
815.
by mason55 10y ago
Is there a list of these places somewhere?
816.
by mason55 10y ago
Wait, how? I tried to hook it up to the global accessibility pop up but couldn't figure it out. Triple-press home would be awesome
817.
by mason55 10y ago
> Even with the new color temperature adjustments on the iPhone, looking at the screen in the dark is quite unpleasant. It's annoying to turn off and on but there is a fake night mode that you can use. Go to General > Accessi
818.
by mason55 10y ago
You misunderstand. For V9 it won't matter, there's only confusion because "V8" already evokes other meaning. I don't think "V9" has the same issues.
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by mason55 10y ago
> you can do an analysis of the "non-realized gains" and the age of each fund then compare that to benchmarks of other funds of the same year. Just so I'm clear, the idea here is to look at all funds that started in the
820.
by mason55 10y ago
> Working on Google+ today is probably not worse than say working on the Ads Platform Ads funds everything else that Google does. That is where the top engineers are working.
821.
by mason55 10y ago
Doesn't seem much different than Ashton Kutcher's VC fund
822.
by mason55 10y ago
> Any reasons why I should not use this? If your use case can't handle eventually consistent data or you have no way to successfully resolve conflicts/never cause conflicts then this product is not for you. They've chose
823.
by mason55 10y ago
Sounds a lot like Pentaho Data Integration
824.
by mason55 10y ago
Walmart.com is a pretty big user of Scalia already
825.
by mason55 10y ago
The idea is that with UBI people don't need to work 40 hours per week at a miserable job if they don't want to. This in theory causes prices for stuff like McDonalds to go up which should reduce consumption. In addition, people
826.
by mason55 10y ago
Depends. Netflix doesn't get any kind of sweetheart deal with AWS. As far as I'm aware the prices they pay are exactly the same as what any other high volume customer would pay.
827.
by mason55 10y ago
> If there is a product that does what they need, why spend resources improving another. I would hardly say MySQL does what they need without any improvements. They built an entire second platform on top of it. https://eng.
828.
by mason55 10y ago
We ended up going with Terraform because it's much easier to handle more complicated use cases. When we were using Cloudformation stacks everything had to be done through hooking together JSON. I found that to do anything complex I n
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by mason55 10y ago
When Oracle bought NetSuite there was a special committee put together to handle all the negotiations exactly because of Larry Ellison's personal investment into NetSuite.
830.
by mason55 10y ago
It turns out to be great for sanitation. People carry their garbage out with them and so you don't end up with overflow and rats. NYC is trialing it for the sanitation reasons alone
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by mason55 10y ago
This is a candidate for something like a schemaless datastore or a PostgreSQL JSONB column. Depending on your choice of datastore you can still at least get some indexing and schema help if you choose. With EAV you generally throw all of
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by mason55 10y ago
> "Reconciling" the data isn't my job; the user can use the custom fields for whatever they want. I disagree strongly here and see this attitude a lot. It's easy to say "not my problem, you fucked it up, you f
833.
by mason55 10y ago
One of the keys to having a valuation that's higher than your discounted cash flow is whether or not people think you can grow. Twitter, LinkedIn and Snapchat are all growth-stage companies so there is less relation between their valu
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by mason55 10y ago
> There's no official path from view layer -> complete app (no guidance for data flow, how to communicate with the server, server side rendering, routing on the client). Every time I've decided to take an afternoon to poke
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by mason55 10y ago
You can do all of those things on iTunes or Amazon Video. Why would the movie studios run their own content distribution when it gives them little competitive advantage.
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by mason55 10y ago
Good monitoring (which I expect the SO guys to have) would have triggered on a spike in 95% or 99% response times so probably almost as quickly
837.
by mason55 10y ago
Yeah I think that my key was automating the big pieces. By the time I automated retirement savings, short-term savings, long-term savings, and all my big expenses (really just rent since I don't have a car). With all that automated, a
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by mason55 10y ago
This was my experience as well. I used Mint and YNAB off and on through my 20's when I was less responsible with money. As I got older and was able to consistently reduce my expenses and my salary went way up I found that my spending
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by mason55 10y ago
Can you tell me about some of the differences in the Continental system? As an American is love to learn the nuances
840.
by mason55 10y ago
> In fact, it’s possible that you are just now learning, from this article, that needs verbed isn’t the way everybody says it. I am from Columbus but moved to NYC awhile back. I am just realizing that at some point I switched from &qu

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