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by nieksand 10y ago
Is this really considered obscure? I'm pretty sure I read about it in a Nolo book on small business. Anyway, be aware this applies to shareholders. Having an option to buy shares is not the same thing.
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by nieksand 10y ago
I really appreciate this article. It feels like envy has become a major driver over the last few years in the US--it's obviously always been around, but now it feels like both an obsession and something that is broadly socially accep
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by nieksand 11y ago
Exactly. The article is an exercise in optimizing for the wrong metric.
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by nieksand 11y ago
Were the Koch brothers actually implicated in the Panama papers? I have not read anything about that.
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by nieksand 11y ago
I'm not sure this is true. Many decisions you make today can be changed/fixed-up later. The company I'm at started as a WA LLC before re-incorporating as a Delaware C-corp and taking a $9.2M A-round. Bit of cost and hassle
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by nieksand 11y ago
My favorite bit of learning with Rust strings was the WTF-8 format: https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/ Implemented: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/libstd&#x2
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by nieksand 11y ago
The bankruptcy prohibition is why you even see loans in the single digits. You have a typical 18 year old with zero credit history and zero real income. You have a loan that may take many years to repay, but unlike a mortgage there is no h
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by nieksand 11y ago
Good post pointing out probable hanky panky behind these claims: http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2015/09/job-interview-ques...
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by nieksand 11y ago
If you honestly believe this premise of risk-free profits, then why not toss your life savings into a residential leasing firm? An example stock is Equity Residential (stock EQR). Easy way to put money where mouth is. (For the record, I do
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by nieksand 11y ago
Neat! That's five hundred MB more than my cellphone.
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by nieksand 11y ago
It's really sad that the author feels the need to be so defensive. Apparently the idea that ancient Europeans, "Oldest Dead White European Males", had a massive contribution to culture is somehow considered wrong and offensiv
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by nieksand 12y ago
For the NLTK idea, I think you can get a long way by adapting one of the examples from the (free) book: http://www.nltk.org/book_1ed/ Raft is conceptually deep, but code wise isn't actually that hard to do. Howev
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by nieksand 12y ago
Consider doing some language processing using the excellent NLTK library: http://www.nltk.org/ It wasn't on the lists of "wants", but implementing the Raft consensus protocol could be neat too. It was design
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by nieksand 12y ago
For my use cases, CloudFront beat out EdgeCast quite a bit in price. (~20 TB / month commit with a request mix heavily biased towards NA and Europe).
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by nieksand 13y ago
If the impact of global warming is significantly smaller than predicted and the human-induced contribution to that reduced warming is also much smaller than claimed, then expensive "green" policies indeed need to be reevaluated.
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by nieksand 13y ago
As of a few years ago, the USA is the only G20 nation that taxes corporations on their overseas earnings. (Japan was the last other holdout).
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by nieksand 13y ago
It's a distributed key-value store with durability. If you're looking for something to do ad-hoc queries against this is not for you. Think of it as memcache + disk persistence. (So rather than erasing things by purging cache wh
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by nieksand 13y ago
Having followers redirect to the leader is how the paper describes the algorithm. But I don't think there is anything stopping you from having followers service committed log entry reads, provided you're willing to live with being
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by nieksand 13y ago
At a minimum, you should use at least two availability zones if you care about high-availability on AWS. The vast majority of issues (including the current EBS hiccup) tend to be limited to one AZ. For us, today's outage triggered a b
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by nieksand 13y ago
The "lazy pirate pattern" was added to the Guide a while back. It explains how to deal with this robustly. http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all#Client-Side-Reliability-La...
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by nieksand 14y ago
Umm. If AWS is working fine, why should the status page show anything of note?
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by nieksand 14y ago
I think part of the issue why so many people have gone with Hive is that good, production-ready column stores are expensive. Redshift is posed to change that. If you're shopping in this space, Infobright is also worth checking out. And e
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by nieksand 14y ago
Comparing Redshift against Hadoop+Hive is reasonable. As you pointed out... the technologies are very different. However, there is a large overlap in use cases.
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by nieksand 14y ago
I don't see your python code defining a distribution or sort key for Redshift which is an important design consideration. (For my own use case of log analysis, I sort on datetime and use an "even" distribution). Also doesn't look like you
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by nieksand 14y ago
It's a bit more complicated that that. The at-birth life expectancy for males is currently 75.5 years. But that includes everything that kills younger people: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=life+expectancy+for+usa... The life expec
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by nieksand 14y ago
So should you be allowed to have any overnight guests in your home? These same arguments apply to family and friends coming for a visit and crashing at your place. Or to a kid's sleep-over for that matter.
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by nieksand 14y ago
Still ugly, but at least it won't crap out if your data has duplicate values: $copy = array_map( function($v) { return $v; }, $original );