mojoe

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   by mojoe 10y ago

   Thank you so much, that's gratifying to hear! At this point we're evaluating 300-400 submitted stories every month when our submission window is open, so creating a single issue takes a decent number of person-hours. I'm happ
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   by mojoe 10y ago

   The fact that there is so much concern over how to differentiate mined diamonds from grown diamonds seems like insanity to me. I understand that the diamond trade has a vested interest in differentiating, but why would end consumer care? Th
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   by mojoe 10y ago

   In case you were confused by the introduction of the acronym NPS, (as I was) it means "Net Promoter Score". It's a customer loyalty metric: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Promoter
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   by mojoe 10y ago

   I'm sure you're correct, but encryption has never stopped movie villains. Kidnapping and coercion is usually the plot device used
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   by mojoe 10y ago

   Never underestimate the street value either. I wonder if they have an armed escort for this truck -- the hardware must cost on the order of 10-20 million, and the data itself could be worth many multiples of that. Could make a great heist m
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   Ask HN: Would your company sponsor a science fiction story?

   2 points by mojoe 10y ago|0 comments
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   23 Books Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Recommends You Read(medium.com)

   6 points by mojoe 10y ago|1 comments
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   by mojoe 10y ago

   I'd love to talk shop with your friends, if they're interested please direct them to the site or have them email me at joe@compellingsciencefiction.com!
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   by mojoe 10y ago

   This looks cool -- I'm using Python right now, but if I ever use javascript lambdas I'll give this a try.
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    by mojoe 10y ago

    I'm glad that tools like this exist, I wasn't aware of them, thanks
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    by mojoe 10y ago

    I'll check this out, thanks!
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    by mojoe 10y ago

    Thanks, I may take you up on that down the road!
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    by mojoe 10y ago

    If I was the only person in the organization, that might work fine. However, there are two main drivers of this methodology: 1. I need to allow other people to simultaneously evaluate stories, and a database works well to coordinate multipl
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    by mojoe 10y ago

    Vendor lock-in is very much a spectrum -- in my case, it's the same amount of work to move my Python lambdas to a self-hosted server now as it would have been when I first decided to use AWS Lambda. The only overhead was figuring out t
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    by mojoe 10y ago

    Have you written anything about this, or can you point me to any resources that might help me avoid pitfalls? I'd appreciate it!
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    by mojoe 10y ago

    Has anyone used the AWS API Gateway service with lambdas to set up a small backend for a web service? The next thing I'm thinking about setting up is a slush reader with a GUI, and I'm wondering how difficult it will be to pipe bi
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    by mojoe 10y ago

    It works really well, and was easy to set up since I use AWS Route 53 for DNS.
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    Going Serverless: AWS and Compelling Science Fiction(compellingsciencefiction.com)

    96 points by mojoe 10y ago|56 comments
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    by mojoe 10y ago

    the tragedy of the commons
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    by mojoe 10y ago

    Interestingly, I got a job as a senior data scientist at Oracle via a "who's hiring" post, and I found out later that my hiring manager wasn't aware of it at the time. A contractor at an Oracle acquisition posted that th
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    by mojoe 10y ago

    My first thought was that it's incredible that these startups exist, when the majority of the US population isn't even willing to eat more vegetables. Then I was curious about how many vegetables Americans eat, and I discovered th
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    Silicon Valley Is Coming for Your Lunch(theringer.com)

    2 points by mojoe 10y ago|1 comments
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    by mojoe 10y ago

    I always enjoy seeing stuff like this. While it may not make a ton of economic sense for a guy working at Google, I'm happy to see people fill niche knowledge spaces because they can. It's interesting that the paperback copies sol
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    by mojoe 10y ago

    I'd recommend digging in to the raw data from the stackoverflow developer survey, there's some good stuff in there
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    Star Trek Fans Make More Money (In This Specific Situation)(compellingsciencefiction.com)

    6 points by mojoe 10y ago|2 comments
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    by mojoe 10y ago

    I would very much appreciate it if someone could explain to me the appeal of this art form. I understand that many people enjoy experiencing it and discussing it, but I don't feel like I have the context to understand why. Is it just t
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    by mojoe 10y ago

    I'll certainly try this -- if it catches on it could have some significant global effects (global warming, food production, water usage, etc). I just hope it digests smoothly. I tried "Beyond Meat" and it gave me some pretty
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    by mojoe 10y ago

    He was my "academic grandfather" (I did research in Amy Palmer's lab at CU Boulder). The number of applications of the fluorescent proteins he helped develop into research tools is staggering. The article mentions their use i
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    by mojoe 10y ago

    There's a video at the bottom of a blog post that was linked to from this article that does a pretty great job of explaining the subsystem for Linux: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/04/22/w
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    by mojoe 10y ago

    "Poor musical taste"? What is an objective measure of that?