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by mvc 8y ago
I read the bit where the statistics deliberately excludes people who do it in addition to their regular job so e.g. folks renting out a spare room on airbnb don't count but that is definitely work.
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by mvc 8y ago
> Whenever you have data be converted from an unstructured format to a structured format and then back into the identical unstructured format, the detour in the middle is always going to seem like a pain in the ass because data entry is
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by mvc 8y ago
> (IBM..they did have a lot of meetings) Seems like this might have been one of the more productive ones.
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by mvc 8y ago
Can't see datomic itself ever doing that though because they'd have to support those features in all the backends.
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by mvc 9y ago
All the work has been done already by the suckers who joined 4 years ago but won't get the exec jobs because they're not part of the VC club.
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by mvc 9y ago
Oh please. If you think Boeing don't get subsidies from the US government I have some land to sell you in Florida. https://www.upi.com/Boeing-receives-983M-contract-for-aircra...
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by mvc 9y ago
> the importance in optimizing the system, and the use of other technologies. If folks knew how to get the most out of their databases, 90% of them wouldn't even need the other systems and the complexity of the system as a whole wo
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by mvc 9y ago
Only if you never want to eat out or be waited on now and again.
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by mvc 9y ago
Generally establishment movements just start brand new wars (or re-open old ones) in order to create a current narrative for their nationalism. See e.g. Thatcher, Blair, Bush (1 and 2), and now Trump
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by mvc 9y ago
Are they going to make people use their local restaurant 30% more? Otherwise it's just eating the restaurant's profits (pardon the pun).
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by mvc 9y ago
They do. git log --no-merges
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by mvc 9y ago
All those good things like maximizing productivity, capital utilization etc are theory based on markets with perfect competition. How many "free markets" satisfy all the assumptions made about perfect competition? https:/&#x
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by mvc 9y ago
> A new required field _with a default value_ In what sense is this field required when you attempt to produce a value using the new schema, and everything is fine if you omit the "required" field? > And, frankly, if you&#
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by mvc 9y ago
> Through its various protocols Kafka topics can be configured to be guaranteed forwards, backwards, or bi-directionally compatible. Sure but backwards and bi-directional compatibility inhibits the evolvability of schemas. Something as s
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by mvc 9y ago
I dunno man. The money spent on infrastructure at companies like these is more than the GDP of most countries.
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by mvc 9y ago
Absolutely! I'd justify it by the potential risk of discomfort those guests pose to my other tenants.
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by mvc 10y ago
As a global population, we reproduce plenty. Why should we non-kid producing folk have to subsidize your energy/water guzzling sprog?
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by mvc 10y ago
Probably smart to bring one to court with you but maybe not required for drawing up a standard will where the few assets you own should just go to your next of kin
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by mvc 10y ago
Maybe America isn't so willing to put all their infrastructure eggs in one basket like the UK is with London. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/23/london...
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by mvc 10y ago
I think it is a reasonable default governance framework if you're a maintainer or group of maintainers who don't have strong opinions on something better and just want to focus on building a healthy open source project
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by mvc 10y ago
You also need to enable them each time you connect.
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by mvc 10y ago
I dare say that it has also been said before that just because something is the law, don't make it right. Do you think that while slavery was legal, it would have been improper to criticize the companies that engaged in it?
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by mvc 10y ago
> Conceptually, it does this by constructing a new copy of the result for every addition, since conj is not destructive That's not how persistent data structures work http://hypirion.com/musings/understanding-p
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by mvc 10y ago
That last point is why the rich should quit whining about paying proportionately more tax. They have more to lose given a leviathan state.
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by mvc 11y ago
Seems like a good time for Western governments to invest in infrastructure then. Every cloud...
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by mvc 11y ago
> If you believe a 90% cache rate is an incorrect assumption for your workload For people wondering as I did about how you might monitor for this, it looks like the data you need is in pg_statio_all_indexes
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by mvc 11y ago
Do you work on more than one in a given week? How do you test a feature which requires co-ordination between several of your services?
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by mvc 11y ago
Who's "we"?
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by mvc 11y ago
This is pretty close to my story. Had a lot of fun programming CL. Even worked with "His Kennyness" and Hans Huebner for a while. But I was young and needed to experience different dev cultures so I went and did some Rails for a w
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by mvc 11y ago
You'd have to pay a lot more.

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