novembermike

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by novembermike 9y ago
Castles create a different strategy. A walled city is an egg, you have a lot of area to attack and when you get through there's a treasure inside. A castle is a pebble. It can be crushed, but you have to put in a lot of effort, you get
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by novembermike 9y ago
I'm not really sure that Europe was that helpless. IIRC the mongols basically couldn't take European castles. As you go further west in the 1200s you start seeing higher population densities. Poland, Germany and France are all rou
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by novembermike 9y ago
Programming is about defining requirements in excruciating detail. A business person says "I want this data stored somewhere" and a programmer has to define where it comes from, what the schema is, what transformations happen, how
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by novembermike 9y ago
An individual is an individual. Individuals make up a group. You can apply statistics to individuals in a way that you can't apply to an individual. I'm repeating the word to make a point. Your second quote might say "individ
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by novembermike 9y ago
IIRC the original concept of DRY wasn't "Don't Repeat Yourself" (that's the pithy version that's easy to remember but wrong). I think it was more like "A piece of knowledge should be found once in a code b
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by novembermike 9y ago
Right, but it's the default state of the database.
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by novembermike 9y ago
Yeah, I was surprised to see that Neuroticism was a technical term for a phenomenon with a well studied gender gap. If you don't know that it sounds pretty mean.
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by novembermike 9y ago
Employee gets sexually harassed by manager, tries to retaliate but can't prove anything. S/he leaves the team, but now they can't find any work in town because the manager put them on the blacklist.
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by novembermike 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroticism#Sex_differences Neuroticism is an actual measurable thing and the research seems to indicate that women typically measure about half a standard deviation above men on it. I hon
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by novembermike 9y ago
In fact, this might be legally protected speech. I don't know how applicable they are but there are a few old pro-union laws on the books that prevent people from being fired because they were talking about improving the workplace or b
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by novembermike 9y ago
I'm not sure I understand you. He's trying to make a statement about Google's hiring practices. The obvious discussion would be about whether he's right or wrong, and I don't know if that's the case. You seem t
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by novembermike 9y ago
This is one that really misses the mark. The First Amendment of the United States Constitution says that the government can't persecute you for your speech, but Free Speech is a separate principle that says that we should allow a free
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by novembermike 9y ago
These aren't sub applications, they're more similar functionally to classes, although they tend to end up a little larger in a lot of cases.
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by novembermike 9y ago
I don't like to think of a lot of these languages in terms of "functional". Haskell specifically does follow a functional paradigm, but Erlang/Elixir is more about the actor model and the functional aspects support that.
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by novembermike 9y ago
> 1. If the employee is only motivated by money, he will be gone rather sooner than later as there is always a higher offer around. Do you have a lot of millionaires trying to join your startup as an employee? If you don't, then mon
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by novembermike 9y ago
Christopher Tolkien is also qualified to fill in the gaps. He was one of the original editors of LOTR and I've heard that he may have been the one typing parts of it. He's essentially a co-creator of Middle Earth, although definit
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by novembermike 9y ago
To be fair, there's also a general purpose option for both AWS and GCE. AWS has the M4 and GCE has the n1, something in the middle for either should be good enough for most applications.
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by novembermike 9y ago
From what I remember, oddly shaped houses were actually pretty common. Remember that most cities didn't have central planning so you'd just get a plot and build something that matched.
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by novembermike 9y ago
What about the slave?
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by novembermike 9y ago
Dynamo != DynamoDB.
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by novembermike 9y ago
What are the recommended configurations then? If I want to survive multiple node failures could I have 9 replicas?
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by novembermike 9y ago
Balmer's reign also coincides almost perfectly with the anti-trust actions taken against Microsoft. He was given the worst Microsoft to do anything with.
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by novembermike 10y ago
You do realize that the object model is just data bundled with functions, right? If I'm using Erlang I can pass in a map that has something like #{ data => [(data)], methods => [(functions)] }. The object style approach is orthog
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by novembermike 10y ago
What he wrote is a comment in a forum, not an article. This is his opinion.
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by novembermike 10y ago
I read it as a versioned standard. You'd have a SOTA:1, SOTA:2 etc.
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by novembermike 10y ago
For a single host that you know you'll want in 3 years it probably isn't worth it. If demand grows 10x in the next year though, how does that look? What if the host has a sudden failure? What if the business dies and you want to g
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by novembermike 10y ago
I seriously doubt you could do that. Those SSD's are ~1.5k each right alone and the power/infrastructure to keep it running reliably with a fat connection to the internet isn't cheap.
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by novembermike 10y ago
IIRC the money was restored pretty quickly. If you read the CDC research it was pretty shoddy so I have a hard time being too angry about it.
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by novembermike 10y ago
I think the argument is that most guys like Jobs or Gates aren't jerks. They might be a little abrasive but people often want to work with them over long periods of time.
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by novembermike 10y ago
Wikipedia has a misleading description. Red side had completely unrealistic technologies, things like motorcycle messengers that could travel at the speed of light and fishing boats that could launch missiles as large as the boat. The Day 2

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