meatysnapper

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by meatysnapper 11y ago
liVIn la VIda loca
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
There have been a number of little rounds since summer 2014.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
Hop Schweiz!!! But seriously, let's not forget about Luxembourg or Lichtenstein!
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
Since the stealth layoffs last year at the same time, Twitter has been bleeding engineers left and right. The writing has been on the wall since August 2014. Of the people I knew well when I worked there, the more talented ambitious has bee
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
The other benefit of a microservice is you can understand it. You can have the entire thing in your head. It's easier to maintain. With a monolith, good luck.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
Strongly agreed with your sentiment, but eyewitness testimony is far less reliable than 24/25, so it's not just the conviction rate that's totally screwed up. I assume getting death penalty is also big-swinging-dick status fo
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
Management has two goals: 1) Make themselves look like they contribute value: Micro-manage projects, track time spent, etc. Even if there's nothing achieved, they can claim to be doing something and organizing meetings. 2) Swap out pro
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
Here's the problem. Twitter has to decide whether it is A) algorithmic (facebook style, they show you content they think you'll like an optimize it by the time you are engaged with it), B) curated - someone else decides what you m
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
Almost certainly. Twitter's user base is not growing, and their product basically hasn't changed in 5 years. They have a valuable brand, but they need to figure out how to fundamentally improve the ease of use of the whole thing a
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
I'd be very interested in the bullets recovered from the scene, but it sounds like that's not happening. The whole talk of long guns and a police trap sounds sadly totally expected with American police.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
Soylent?
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
Yeah, the electronics slipped my mind. I was chatting with a sensor guy the other day, and he said by far and away the best stuff for a particular application he had was Bosch. Nothing from out east or the US could touch it.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
What about a Bayesian search?
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
The US has almost no precision machinists. Those guys are in Germany, Swizterland and Japan. There are all sorts of things you can't build over here or in China because we don't have the people who can do it precisely enough.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
I know at least 5 people off the top of my head who gave up with Google maps because of battery life. Apple Maps is not great, but it doesn't totally kill my phone.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
Shade and water would go some way towards that. To your point though, the big desert cities (whether in Texas or Arizona or elsewhere) would not exist without AC.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
If I remember right, the team that wrote Heron was most comfortable with C++, and that was a major reason in choosing it.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
because the Bart, which better than most of what the US has, is basically a shambling 3rd world disaster. It's slow, uncomfortable, constantly delayed and doesn't go that many places.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
That's nothing. In 1998 (I'm pretty sure) Seattle had 96 days of light drizzle with nary a ray of sunshine. The suicide rate went up massively, and I decided to move to CA as soon as I had the means.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
The gypsies would like to have a word with you. Now it's true the modern nation state puts a damper on them (the essential conflict between nomadic and sedentary societies) it can still be done.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
For people who like big dense cities, you have NYC and SF. That's it. SF has all the 99% of the good tech jobs and great weather. However, as soon as my employer opens up an office in Berlin, I'm out of the US. Even denser, even c
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
If I was very very rich and I really hated other people, I'd start a company making miserably slow, unintuitive project management software. Say what you will about the Aussies, their software is slightly less awful.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
What about the pollution, road maintenance, time spent commuting, and accidents? I think you are making a similar argument to taxpayers footing the bill for stadiums.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
Clearly you aren't a Calvinist.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
The cost of 1) transportation 2) education 3) healthcare is insane, in the US. Unfortunately, I don't see any of these changing anytime soon.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
If I become a billionaire, I will hire my own personal metal band to follow me around and rock out extremely hard. Alas, I am not a billionaire... yet.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
Go is definitely a good language for high turnover chop shops. A Cobol/Java for the 21st century, if you will.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
Strongly agreed. If you are running an 1) illegal cab company or 2) illegal hotel company, you have to expect this. At a certain scale you are tolerated, but when you are a major player you will get some scrutiny that cannot just be "d
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
Open plan offices are the work of the devil + management + architecture. Probably the worst idea since "Let's delay our invasion of Russia a few months later in the fall".
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
I've given up and just gotten used to it. I loathe Apple's desktop management system, but here we are :( I stopped using TotalSpaces a while back to some bugs (cannot remember which, but did contact them).

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