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by meritt 12y ago
There's a blog/campaign to raise awareness about Saeed and efforts to free him: http://peoplewithoutnation.wordpress.com/ -- He's an Iranian who became a Canadian permanent resident in 2004; Returned home in
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by meritt 12y ago
I should have clarified that the concern with a routine work schedule and availability only came about after people were consistently not meeting objectives, and dropping the ball without letting anyone know, or spending days toiling away
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by meritt 12y ago
At my company, we've been struggling to "make it work" with remote workers for the past few years and it's been really problematic. We've had a lot difficulty getting remote employees to maintain consistent work sch
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by meritt 12y ago
It's worse in Washington. Legal weed is 3x the cost of medical and 6x the cost of street. It still brings in a vast amount of new consumers who won't pursue other methods, but the other methods will not die off until the price is
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by meritt 12y ago
Building retirement packages probably
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by meritt 12y ago
It doesn't matter who makes them disappear, the fact is that it happens, which makes the convenience of an all-streaming in-the-cloud solution not that ideal when it comes to media.
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by meritt 12y ago
Because we associate BuzzFeed with bullshit clickbait spam. It makes it difficult for an article to reach the right audience when you have such a large amount of negative association with a particular brand. It'd be like if the superma
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by meritt 12y ago
Is this people applying to their personal lives? Some sort of side-project that generates "recurring revenue" so they can stop working? I can see how that would be annoying if it's indeed a trend. On the other hand, our busin
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by meritt 12y ago
Great writeup. One suggestion on the nginx front I might suggest is you add an entry to drop requests for unknown hosts. e.g. http://104.131.41.220 https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs-nginx/blob&#x2
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by meritt 12y ago
I'd classify PHP as a Swiss Army Knife. Multi-purpose tool that's decent at a little bit of everything but for long-term and specific operations you should probably replace with a better-suited tool.
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by meritt 12y ago
The context was a RDBMS, not Redis. Redis makes a perfectly suitable queue, I agree. The problem with using a RDBMS as a queue is it results in a continuous polling loop, it's incredibly slow, guaranteeing only a single subscribers get
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by meritt 12y ago
Good to know, so more like a crontab entry for the database. Where's the actual queue though? zmq isn't a message queue, it's more akin to a protocol. e.g. if I have N workers and M jobs, and M>N, where are all the >N i
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by meritt 12y ago
Generally speaking, using a database as a queue is a particularly bad anti-pattern.
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by meritt 12y ago
I'm guessing the product roadmap looks something like: Point of Sale -> Inventory Management -> All of your physical inventory is also available for purchase on Amazon.com Brilliant.
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by meritt 12y ago
I guess AirBNB is also responsible for the vast number of high-paying jobs in the SF vicinity and the utter lack of housing development.[2] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8120070 [2] http://www.newgeogr
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by meritt 12y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8120070 There's 500+ other jobs available, you can just as readily find another one.
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by meritt 12y ago
Parse is a collection of backend services designed to make mobile app development easier. It provides things like cloud storage, authentication, social network integration, push services and analytics. Parse was also acquired by Facebook fo
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by meritt 12y ago
Curious what was the catalyst to switch from Redis to Kafka? Reliability that a given message was received and processed and replaying that to a different consumer in the event of failure?
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by meritt 12y ago
ORMs are great for simple CRUD operations. As soon as you want to do anything mildly complex or desire efficiency, you need to write SQL. As long as the ORM helps me with the former and gets out of my way for the latter, I'm totally ha
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by meritt 12y ago
You point out one example where it's somewhat separate and I can point out many where it's not. I can also point out numerous massive security flaws, utterly unused code, the obviously unprepared .DS_Store shit, and code which att
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by meritt 12y ago
Unescaped user input which reads/writes/etc to the filesystem. Intermix of PHP4/5 all over the place. Zero separation of presentation and business logic. It also has code which references a MySQL database and missing library
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by meritt 12y ago
https://30x500.com/ looks exactly like every other internet marketing "learn to make money online with our amazing course" that's circulated for the past 15 years. I guess "scam" is a bit hasty but
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by meritt 12y ago
Traditional scammy bullshit. Pay $2k to take a class to learn how to be a millionaire when the only route they're actually familiar with is selling online scams.
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by meritt 12y ago
My company hosted with Rackspace Cloud for nearly 3 years ($1k/mo average) but recently switched to AWS. Too much frustration and technical issues. My biggest suggestion? Drop your 24/7 support or hire competent people. We had to
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by meritt 12y ago
Because video cameras are arguably illegal. You can't face your accuser in court, therefore it should be thrown out. Got a speeding ticket from one of these lovely cameras in the state of Iowa, then I was sent a bill from some company
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by meritt 12y ago
This is a specific PostgreSQL command. While it is indeed faster it's not very maintainable and will definitely need rewriting for any other database. For example, with MySQL, you could write to a temp file and execute a "LOAD DAT
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by meritt 12y ago
I've always though it was a bit weird that Palantir is a "Luminary Level ($10k+)" supporter of the EFF. https://www.eff.org/thanks
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by meritt 12y ago
Yup. That's the conclusion we reached and also why I suggested approaching Linode with caution. They're attempting to compete with the "cloud" providers but running their business the same as they did a decade ago.
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by meritt 12y ago
http://i.imgur.com/UCPWdBq.png I was not confusing automated emails with direct contact from Linode support. I fully understand and can appreciate the need to be a "nice neighbor" in a shared environment but what
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by meritt 12y ago
Linode can't silo resources on a per VPS basis and constantly will harass you for over-utilizing your share of arbitrarily enforced limits. Just a heads up if you actually utilize your instances.

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