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by meritt 8y ago
I read an article yesterday about some trillion dollar company and it didn't even explain what they did!
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by meritt 8y ago
I think it's fairly safe to assume that, if someone landed on your article, they had some sort of interest (or perhaps possessed the information literacy to figure out context) in the first place and you don't need to reintroduce
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by meritt 8y ago
When was that? The stock has split 4 times so a bit hard to calculate his return
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by meritt 8y ago
You must have never read anything from Neil Cybart before. The entire purpose of his newsletter, Above Avalon, is to support a long-only viewpoint of Apple. Just take a look at some of his daily updates: https://www.aboveavalon.c
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by meritt 8y ago
I didn't feel the need to answer your question because it was abundantly clear in the code that it's not using pipelining. You posted the exact curl option that he's not using.
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by meritt 8y ago
Through $1.2M in philanthropic funding primarily led by a Facebook co-founder, Chris Hughes [1]. It is not funded whatsoever through taxation. [1] https://economicsecurityproject.org/
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by meritt 8y ago
What? That's factually incorrect.
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The 100 has nothing to do with HTTP pipelining, it's just a standard REST style "&limit=100" hard limit
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I very much agree. I do not at all think people should self-censor nor hide under the guise of anonymity. They should stay true to their beliefs. However, if those beliefs are one of a terrible person, as judged their local social and profe
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by meritt 8y ago
If someone isn't ready to face the consequences of being of shunned professionally or socially, all they need to do is stop being a terrible person. https://xkcd.com/1357/ sums it up quite well.
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by meritt 8y ago
> What are enterprises supposed to use? We run Mattermost on-prem. We've been quite happy with it. They have well-defined [1] migration plans for Slack, Hipchat, and others. [1] https://docs.mattermost.com/administra
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by meritt 8y ago
> Not sure how someone becomes this irredeemable at just twenty-seven year old. Bro culture.
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by meritt 8y ago
Stay away from any websites or apps (there's numerous) powered by Metabrite's SDK. They data mine and resell [1] the receipts scanned. [1] https://www.metabrite.com/use-cases/
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by meritt 8y ago
I'd love to get a NYT sub but they operate like SiriusXM when it comes to cancellations. You have to talk to a human, during business hours, and you have to fight with them for 15 minutes to get cancelled (meanwhile they offer you cont
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by meritt 8y ago
> Writing a SQL equivalent example of that query is, at this point, beyond my SQL capabilities. Let me get this straight, someone who doesn't know SQL is going to solve all of the deficiencies of SQL by inventing something new? Infl
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by meritt 8y ago
If the markings were formerly large wooden posts, those would have decomposed over time and the enriched organic matter simply retains more moisture. Separately, if they had dug trenches and lined with clay or something that retains water,
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by meritt 8y ago
That would be extremely interesting to see. I really wish votelogs were public. The invisible hand is precisely why active measures [1] are so effective. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_measures
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by meritt 8y ago
The problem you're describing is precisely why containers are so popular. You can install and deploy any app even if it doesn't provide user-level installation choices (such as php native extensions)
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by meritt 8y ago
The first shift was 3-months, as of Nov 2017 [1]: "We currently expect to achieve a production rate of 5,000 Model 3 vehicles per week by late Q1 2018". When that was missed, it was pushed back again to Q2-18. It looks like those
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by meritt 8y ago
> Several months ago this would have been unthinkable Unthinkable? Their Q4-16 Shareholder letter [1] (Feb 22nd, 2017) stated: "Our Model 3 program is on track to start limited vehicle production in July and to steadily ramp product
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by meritt 8y ago
Because a large proportion of "software engineers" are simply people who know how to use popular libraries/frameworks to crank out a simple website or app (which often satisfies the needs of most companies anyway). Some compa
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by meritt 8y ago
3. Everything critical to your company is a 3rd party SaaS accessible via public IPs. #1 and #2 have been symptomatic of the tech industry since at least the 90s. The difference back then was the surface area was generally limited to your p
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by meritt 8y ago
You seem to be forgetting that during this time period the world population grew from 2.5B to 7.5B. That's faster than the fertility rate decreased. > Globally, the population of young people has decreased. The proportion of the pop
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by meritt 8y ago
It's the additional fees above and beyond the base service. Carriers don't have to advertise these, which makes it incredibly difficult for the average consumer to reasonably compare plans side-by-side. Consumers sign a multiyear
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by meritt 8y ago
Tangential to the point of the article but when did writing a select query become an "ETL process"?
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> How do we know? We don’t need to Pulumi looks like clever technology but the complete detachment from the underlying services and associated costs seems like the perfect storm for an extremely expensive disaster. How does Pulumi keep t
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> What happened? I think it's due to the popularity contest that has taken over our communication mediums. Everything is based upon likes, stars, upvotes/downvotes, retweets, and shares. This social influence leads to herd beha
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by meritt 8y ago
That's true but they aren't arbitrary decisions designed to make one area look bad for the purposes of an article. They are well-defined areas [1] [2]. > Q10. What does the term "HMFA" mean? > HUD Metro FMR Area. T
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by meritt 8y ago
Oh, that is great news. I have an XPS 13 (9350) and the whine is incredibly frustrating.
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Netscape launched a doomed portal in 1997 and relaunched in 1998 after they started losing significant browser share to IE. There were already plenty of better portals at the time (Yahoo, Excite, Lycos, Infoseek, Compuserve, Prodigy, AOL, e

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