officelineback

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1. 61.▲
   by officelineback 10y ago

   "Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to incompetence."
2. 62.▲
   by officelineback 10y ago

   I believe both services stopped exposing that information to the driver pre-pickup to lessen the problem of cherrypicking.
3. 63.▲
   by officelineback 10y ago

   Can't possibly be true if you hear all the shade Andy Jassy throws towards Oracle.
4. 64.▲
   by officelineback 10y ago

   Moore's law is, but the cost of a given amount of computational ability is still going down quickly.
5. 65.▲
   by officelineback 10y ago

   What are your results like? What did you hope to accomplish when you started, and what actually happened? Can you name some of the biggest benefits and some of the biggest pitfalls?
6. 66.▲
   by officelineback 10y ago

   So two different Districts, basically?
7. 67.▲
   by officelineback 10y ago

   Can someone explain why Microsoft doesn't have to but Google does?
8. 68.▲
   by officelineback 10y ago

   It took several attempts at doubling down on the deception (riding the course on her bike and posting the Strava trace) and being repeatedly called out before she gave up and admitted it. Not nearly as laudable as admitting it as soon as so
9. 69.▲
   by officelineback 10y ago

   One of the things about human software engineers is that they can make assumptions based on what the system is for. For example you may say that "this system has to accept payments from counterparties" and they will intuitively k
10. 70.▲
    by officelineback 10y ago

    To me the most interesting thing that came out of this article was exponential backoff-retry. I've always used e (natural log) as the base for my exponential backoff, and never used jitter (all my apps are single clients that are just
11. 71.▲
    by officelineback 10y ago

    Well it's all carbs. I don't see how adding water changes the macronutrient makeup.
12. 72.▲
    by officelineback 10y ago

    A big part of it is going to be whether major cloud providers adopt these.
13. 73.▲
    by officelineback 10y ago

    Didn't he fund Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker which essentially put that horrible rag out of business?