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by meritt 8y ago
A significant portion of his compensation was via recurring Amazon.com stock grants (RSUs). By year 4+ most employees are looking at least 3 separate stock grants vesting every single year. Had you bought $100,000 of $AMZN in 2010, it'
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Cool. Thanks. So I take it you primarily write code leveraging the Unreal engine but the point-n-click functionality of the Unreal editor is more utilized by people doing the world design and artists? I've explored Unity a small amount
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by meritt 8y ago
Curious, do you guys use an engine (unreal, unity, godot, etc) or something in-house?
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Hah! I'm in a similar position. I have a really old machine at Rackspace ($20/mo) from about 2010 that's running websites for some family and friends. I could easily transition to a ~$5/mo VPS elsewhere but I really don&
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by meritt 8y ago
AirBNB: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=426120
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lambda gets incredibly expensive for anything that approaches even modest usage levels. Once you exceed about 10 requests/second, you'd be better off with the lowest tier virtualized instances ($2 - $5/mo from most providers
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If the lawsuit fails he could always create a employer review site, post a bunch of negative reviews of Yelp, and then offer to remove the offending reviews if they purchase an annual subscription.
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My guess is the inventory data itself is real but stale. The developer was using a static dataset to build out the forthcoming "purchase cars from inventory" and it was inadvertently pushed production before it was ready. So the
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Hah, yeah they did. I had them open when I typed up that comment. I guess that argument is moot now.
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> Notice this guy joined Twitter in December. Leakers have good reason to protect their identity. Especially when Tesla fans get so clearly agitated about anything that can be even remotely construed as negative toward Tesla and/or
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A bot absolutely can, you just need to use a more sophisticated bot. This article [1] is from August 2017, so the arms race has escalated and techniques improve, but the gist is the same: You just do a better job of simulating the "hum
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by meritt 8y ago
It claims to cover IAP [1] only, which wouldn't include Amazon nor Uber as those payments go directly to those entities. Also many companies who formerly relied on IAP, like Netflix and Spotify, are starting to bypass it entirely [2].
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I'm not following how $380k is the baseline. Were the grants based in dollars or in AMZN shares? I assume it was based in shares and if the stock had fallen you'd have made less?
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No, not in the slightest. https://www.mattermost.org/why-we-made-mattermost-an-open-so...
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We're under no legal requirement but I simply don't trust Slack employees to be good stewards of our data. On a UI/UX basis, Slack and Discord are far superior to Mattermost, so hopefully they can use this funding to close th
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by meritt 8y ago
1) People can travel between states, or even to other countries, during a lifetime. 2) MA legalized medical usage in 2013. 3) "Drug abuse" has nothing to do with the legality of the substance. It's whether or not the substanc
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by meritt 8y ago
> "marijuana abuse" > "illegal drug" Holy fucking bias. 1) There's nothing to support that the study participants were abusing marijuana 2) Medical marijuana was legalized in California in 1996 and numerous
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Disclosing security vulnerabilities that aren't part of a bug bounty program takes a large amount of either courage or ignorance. Until there are protections in place for a given jurisdiction, far safer to leak it anonymously or just s
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Unless it was for the sheer joy of doing the work yourself, is there any particular reason you didn't buy a gently used motorhome for $15-20k and upgrade as necessary (e.g. the solar array and lithium batteries)? You cite the $50k cost
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Unless you've also ceased usage of Google search, maps, and YouTube they didn't lose your business. You're still helping deliver 84% of their revenue.
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> It's great at what it does but I think you've out grown it. There is absolutely no justification for him to be running into these sort of issues at such an incredibly low load. Let's pretend he gets 50,000 hits per day
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On the contrary, I didn't go far enough. I didn't talk about Apache Gearpump, NiFi, Beam, Ignite, or Trident. I know there are subtle differences in each specific technology, and that's probably the same justifications used t
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by meritt 8y ago
Apache Flink, Flume, Storm, Samza, Spark, Apex, and Kafka all do basically the same thing. I feel like this is a bit overboard. And this is before we talk about the non-Apache stream-processing frameworks out there. * Apache Flink is an ope
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by meritt 8y ago
Open borders simply means people can travel freely, similar to the Schengen Area [1] in western Europe. It doesn't mean they have some sort of automatic dual-citizenship or whatever it is you're talking about here. [1] https:&#x2
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As a kid, I earned a considerable amount of money (sometimes $5+ per day) riding my bike around and collecting cans and bottles during the summer. Those bought me a lot of MTG cards and layaway payments on the latest SNES game. Now I just s
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GraphQL has nothing inherently to do with graph databases. It's a client-side declarative syntax where you specify what result you want, usually including composite relational objects. The server-side database would be any supported da
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> I'm appalled by the number of ressources I see online which are using the old mysql api Recently authored articles? We have an internet filled with 20 years of PHP tutorials, and unfortunately for beginners there's not an eas
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I'm not following your logic. Game companies copy other successful games all the time. Why would using their engine make it more vulnerable? They don't own your game nor gain access to your code.
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I know correlation doesn't imply causation, but I'm going with it: https://i.imgur.com/fyveqs3.png edit: chart of AAPL stock price for the past 12 years

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