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by meritt 8y ago
Why is it a poor example? I'm comparing a car company that, over 100 years ago in 1914, was producing 714 vehicles a day by hand with 13,000 workers [1] to a company in 2018 with 37,000 employees utilizing robots yet manages to only
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by meritt 8y ago
Ford literally invented the assembly line. Tesla has a century of expertise to learn from. Tesla has also been producing ~2000/wk S&X's for almost two years now; however they just recently (last week of March) exceeded 2,000 3
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by meritt 8y ago
> successfully implementing Model 3 mass production For comparison on mass production : "more than 15 million Model Ts were manufactured in all, reaching a rate of 9,000 to 10,000 cars a day in 1925, or 2 million annually" [1]
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by meritt 8y ago
Klout was acquired by Lithium Technologies just over 4 years ago for $200M in stock. > Klout is not a universally loved company in social media spheres; its notion of measuring online influence by tracking social media activity has been
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by meritt 8y ago
In my experience, panel-based traffic measurement services (SimilarWeb, Alexa, Hitwise, Quantcast, ComScore, Nielsen) are useless when it comes to reality and their primary role serves to make misleading news articles or convince advertiser
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by meritt 8y ago
fwiw, MySQL has supported JSON [1] and also allows nested indexes via functional/virtual indexes [2] since v5.7.8 (August 2015) 1. https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/json.html 2. https:/&
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by meritt 9y ago
I'm confused how a list of clever ways to get executables to initiate other executables is somehow an "exploit" of a programming language offering a system(3) call? How about we just don't run system calls, especially no
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by meritt 9y ago
I personally prefer person_id to be the primary key name (instead of id ) in both the person table and any table which has it as a foreign key. One reason is for join syntax: select * from person join team_member using (person_id)
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by meritt 9y ago
Under current law, you can take the exclusion every two years: https://www.irs.gov/publications/p523#en_US_2017_publink1000... Are you referring to the over-55-once-in-a-lifetime exemption that was replaced in 1997 wi
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by meritt 9y ago
Coinbase provided 1099-Ks to the IRS. If filers didn't also provide an 8949 (cost-basis statement) to demonstrate their net gain/loss, they're likely going to be on the hook for taxes on the entire amount reported in the 1099
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by meritt 9y ago
> I am not sure which feature you refer to here The same complaint that every single person brings up about MySQL when being compared to Postgres, including in this thread: DDL changes made during transactions cannot be rolled back.
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by meritt 9y ago
The big features that MySQL has been lacking, MariaDB has had since at least 10.2 (Apr 2016) or earlier. Specifically I'm talking about Windowing functions, CTEs, JSON support, GIS support, Metadata in transactions (DDL statements). At
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by meritt 9y ago
I've always had good luck with Maxmind's local database [1] offering. It bewilders me how many companies today create SaaS offerings and refuse to offer on-prem versions. It's like they intentionally want to avoid customers w
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by meritt 9y ago
This can't be overstated enough. Finding people who understand SQL is difficult enough, but finding people who intuitively "get" data is nearly impossible. And lately anyone who completed a few tensorflow tutorials thinks the
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by meritt 9y ago
I think the inability to write effective tests is single biggest contributor to technical debt over the past decade. Ineffective tests are arguably more dangerous than no tests at all, due to what you pointed out: the "100% Coverage&qu
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by meritt 9y ago
If you're quoting John Bolton as someone who wants to avoid war, you probably should do a bit of research on John Bolton. https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2005/04/28/boltons-conservati... John Bolton
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by meritt 9y ago
And that desire to work on algorithm optimizations and solving fun problems is why we have such utterly complex web development toolchains today.
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by meritt 9y ago
I'm not very familiar with the React ecosystem but I thought the entire point was letting the client-side handle rendering and passing structured data via API calls? renderToString() sounds like it's doing what every scripting lan
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by meritt 9y ago
And exactly the same can be stated for Blue Apron and Stich Fix, thus the point of my rhetorical question. Just because the two in question aren't as sexy as Spotify or Dropbox shouldn't exclude them from being considered a tech c
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by meritt 9y ago
Is Spotify a tech company? I thought they were just sending an audio stream to subscribers with a website/app for searching?
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by meritt 9y ago
weev attempted to extort and blackmail AT&T. To paint him as an innocent well-intentioned security research is a slap in the face to everyone who is. Charging him under the CFAA was a ridiculous abuse of that law
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by meritt 9y ago
Annual Run Rate. I'm just adding this for posterity since there 3 completely different yet acceptable definitions of ARR, so telling someone they are "wrong" for not using the same definition as you is a tad silly.
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by meritt 9y ago
> Annual Run Rate is different from ARR though What exactly does ARR mean if not Annual Run Rate?
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by meritt 9y ago
Evangelism that embraces hyperbole while demonstrating ignorance does little to further adoption of nascent technologies.
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by meritt 9y ago
Marines think outside of the box because we rarely have enough boxes and the ones we do get don't have lids. That's why we have the unofficial motto of "Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome".
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by meritt 9y ago
> hypothetical loss There were massive losses. It was only after Shkreli's scheme was unraveled and he realized was likely going to prison for his crimes that he gave disgruntled investors Retrophin stock to make up for their losses
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by meritt 9y ago
Their individual homes? Not at all. They invest in companies that build, sell, and lease single-family, multi-family, and commercial real estate in the SF/SV area.
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by meritt 9y ago
This has been happening for the past decade. Why do you think so many VC/PE firms and incubators have a hard requirement of people relocating to SF/SV? You'll also find that many investors will very strongly encourage your st
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by meritt 9y ago
There's definitely inefficiency but I was replying to the notion that this would be a cure for blue-collar unemployment. It's not even going to make a dent. The article itself shows a lot of screenshots which are specifically serv
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by meritt 9y ago
> If they can get this right, this could end blue-collar unemployment. Blue-collar unemployment isn't due to the lack of a sophisticated job search engine, it's due to not having enough jobs. Those jobs have been lost to proces

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