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by mtkd 10y ago
Having seen teams try and fail to optimize late - I fully buy the concept it is never too early to optimize the architecture. If you get to the point you can't optimise because the fundamentals are too baked-in to realistically change
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by mtkd 10y ago
in '08 or '09 I met a guy who was creating 100s or more accounts and paying an overseas outsourcing company to curate longterm timelines properly (so not just spam) he genuinely didn't know why he was doing it at the time (he
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by mtkd 10y ago
employee turnover is why enterprises rarely build any useful software and have to buy startups to more forward projects or operations with fragmented continuity because of turnover contribute near zero additional value and existing value de
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by mtkd 10y ago
They mention it has been a complex undertaking and not complete yet - does anyone know why they can't just sit a traffic manager in front of everything with SSL offloading? Also does anyone know what the new personalisation features ar
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by mtkd 10y ago
dude, you're a critical thinker - I liked the text classifier post, I'll have a proper read when I'm next on a train - Milo is a first class troll - Breibart has perspective on some current topics - there are no longterm gain
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by mtkd 10y ago
is that startup going to force 1,000s of creative people to stop what they are doing and think about something broader for a few minutes? it's genius
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by mtkd 10y ago
who defines 'fake news' and 'hate speech' when it comes to mass-media? - I don't invoke Orwell lightly - but there seems to be no consideration of how such concepts could be (mis)used in 4 or 14 years time - against
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by mtkd 10y ago
You can stop incentivising off-shoring of jobs - it's too easy for companies to close down profitable activities and move them abroad to make more profit If you drive out of any city in US or EU you'll see the devastation that has
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by mtkd 10y ago
I don't see how it is viable to launder through a restaurant Some simple peer benchmarking of %cash vs %credit card transactions or looking at spend on produce vs revenue would likely show suspect operations quickly - I was talking to
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by mtkd 10y ago
a == 1 || a != 2 needs a warning but it's not necessarily a bug sometimes I may keep overlapping expressions in a statement to remind me of the triggers I'm looking for at this point - and would likely use some meaningful constant
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by mtkd 10y ago
> living there Most of the home owners referred in the article don't live there for more than a few weeks a year - if at all - there is a material inbalance I live in a village where people buy 2nd homes or they buy to retire - the
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by mtkd 10y ago
I walked from Kings Cross to Marylebone at dusk recently - half way, I took the road up from the main Euston Road - walking through mostly residential - barely an apartment window with a light on - it's just money parked in property -
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by mtkd 10y ago
I doubt this message will propagate further than technical forums - you're just going to have suck up the homogenization, pasteurization, retail branding and consumer promotion of a once great technology
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by mtkd 10y ago
On any project like that many engineers involved will have invested more than regular hours and pushed their work life balance - losing it all a couple of days from launch into space - that's harsh dude
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by mtkd 10y ago
Just putting some kind of velocity protection on the BitGo side could have had the same effect - if transactions from a client are running a few deviations above normal then start to quarantine until confirmation from client they are valid
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by mtkd 10y ago
*JRuby A lot of good things going on in this space like Helix ( http://blog.skylight.io/introducing-helix/ ) The concept of using Ruby with external optimisations using Rust or whatever feels a lot like C with inline ASM
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by mtkd 10y ago
So much unnecessary negativity on Pascal Much of what exists in contemporary dev tools can trace some DNA back to Turbo Pascal and Delphi 1.0 Anders Hejlsberg is a footnote in the story of a few tools - but was as instrumental as DHH in cha
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by mtkd 10y ago
I guess the devops team can view all of them
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by mtkd 10y ago
The affiliate tracking payloads are a disgrace - someone like Google really needs to build an affiliate tracking proxy where the host can opt-in to what client information is passed to affiliates and all affiliates use that source only So m
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by mtkd 10y ago
I was going to post it feels like the last days of Digg, but thought I'd check the comments first It's unfortunate Reddit can't leave a working formula alone - HN has barely changed in 7 years - I really respect the control t
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by mtkd 10y ago
If a primary player, like Google, created a micropayments mechanism for content - that worked like Google Voice - where users can make a $10 payment and automatically topup - it would solve a lot of the issues This would allow Forbes etc. t
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by mtkd 10y ago
The combination of populist/sensationalist/clickbait articles with subtle marketing seems to have some merit - see the Daily Mail with their "buy a dress like this for less" panels on the celeb articles - but that forces
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by mtkd 10y ago
Welcome perspective After 30+ years of coding, my first encounter with Rails, a summer morning I received a ripped draft of a very early book on it remains one of the seminal moments of my career - so many elegant solutions to so many issue
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by mtkd 11y ago
Just delete the post dude, it's for a court to settle not a forum
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by mtkd 11y ago
Courts exist so that both sides of situation can heard I briefly read the original post - it mentioned a month - a lot of strategy and insight can be transferred in a month
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by mtkd 11y ago
Anyone around over 20 years or more will likely agree. It's not a bad thing in my view. Watching an inexperienced and enthusiastic team lurch forward with some new hotness, often different angles on old problems, is one of the things t
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by mtkd 11y ago
But less of a mess today than it was 17 days ago.
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by mtkd 11y ago
A lot of things they were getting in to like cars just didn't fit. It's going to remove the 'is this a thing Google should be getting in to?' question when evaling ventures/acquisitions.
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by mtkd 11y ago
Sometimes you need to step away from something completely for a while
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by mtkd 12y ago
HN really needs to show a 2nd level to some domains in the headline: BankAPI (trustly.github.com) not BankAPI (github.com) Always takes me a moment or two to work out if it's a Github specific link or a project on Github

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