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by oillio 9y ago
I think the OP covered this argument with is comment about Linus' "benevolent dictatorship." That is an extreme outlier. If your organization is run by someone like Linus, it can work, maybe.
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by oillio 9y ago
Good article and great tech. However, I don't know if I believe the results are as good as they claim. Many of the pictures look a bit off to me, like they all have dead eyes. Maybe celebrities generally look like that anyway, so it
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by oillio 9y ago
Banks and large investors need to offload billions of dollars worth of assets. Orders of magnitude more than what the average amateur will generally be working with. If an amateur can actually guess when the downturn starts (a really big i
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by oillio 9y ago
The Ceed is arguably the most mediocre car since the Pacer (with the possible exception of the Yaris). It is less expensive because it is cheaper, in every sense of the word.
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by oillio 9y ago
Hybrids lose so many benefits of a pure EV vehicle. EV drivetrains are much simpler. No complicated transmission or ICE. Easier to produce, scale, and maintain. Hybrids require all the complexity of both systems, and the weight.
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by oillio 9y ago
I am showing my age here. I destroyed a CRT monitor once when I used the wrong incantation for xorg.
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by oillio 9y ago
Agreed. Both PoS and Sharding are difficult problems that are still very experimental. The fact that they need to support backwards compatibility just compounds the difficulty. Then add the difficulty of deploying these new concepts on a s
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by oillio 9y ago
Is the answer, "a really hard problem?"
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by oillio 9y ago
Right. My understanding is that the clever bit of CAP is that, from the perspective of a single node, a true network partition is indistinguishable from a bunch of nodes failing simultaneously. If, as a node, you find yourself in a minori
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by oillio 9y ago
I read the paper and I don't understand this passage: For example, any database cannot provide availability if all of its replicas are offline, which has nothing to do with partitions. Such a multi-replica outage should be very r
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by oillio 9y ago
This is absolutely false. For credentials, I have worked for several years in the industry testing slot machine software. One of the things we test for is ensuring the game always pays out at the correct payback rate, which is always skewed
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by oillio 9y ago
> If the company needs the investment, it needs the investment. Agreed, but it might not. The fact that it is taking the investment does not mean it is needed, or that it is good for all stakeholders. Investors, founders, and employees
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by oillio 9y ago
I didn't say anything about anti-dilution. There are complexities, but as you explain, if you take more money, you need to give the investors something. If you look purely at the accounting, and ignoring voting rights and other complic
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by oillio 9y ago
I hear this argument a lot. Mostly from people trying to sell the idea of a highly dilutive funding round. Sure, further rounds are a sign the company is doing well. The important word being "sign," they don't actually make
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by oillio 9y ago
At a previous employer I worked at, this was pretty common. If you left your computer unlocked for any amount of time, you were pretty much guaranteed to be screwed with. Because it was so common, it wasn't a big deal. If you got an o
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by oillio 10y ago
Awesome article. Thank you.
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by oillio 10y ago
Agreed. Also, this is nothing new. Consumers got the same bennies in 1999. I remember getting a bunch of $1 DVDs from some Amazon wannabe (can't remember the name now). They were trying to buy customers by subsidizing DVD sales. It
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by oillio 10y ago
As a counterpoint, it is possible to distribute windfall profits from natural resources in an equitable manner, and keep a functioning democracy. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-can-tiny-norway-afford-t... It is r
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by oillio 10y ago
I just recently worked with the AWS IoT MQTT SDK. It was pretty nice.
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by oillio 10y ago
Why not? I wonder if you could construct a polar orbit that followed the daylight around the earth. Add higher concentrations of satellites to the orbits that correspond to the higher traffic hours of the day.
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by oillio 10y ago
Yeah, but they are not so great to use compared to the competition. They also have monitoring through CloudWatch, but again it aint great. My question is, how did Rancher Labs get on the list, but Hashicorp didn't? Also, Google deserve
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by oillio 10y ago
I agree the systems part is the hard part. The software to monitor and control thousands to millions of automated cars. Ford has a large learning curve in order to figure out how to do that. It will take a very different workforce to buil
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by oillio 10y ago
The takeaway I get is that Uber has an edge on Google in the race for a fully automated taxi service, because the have had more time to work on a more sophisticated routing algorithm. I am skeptical. As the article points out, it will take
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by oillio 10y ago
Spot on. There is an old Joel on Software post that goes into detail on this issue: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.htm... The last paragraph is the money quote: Ten years ago, we might have
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by oillio 10y ago
Personally, I would be interested in this service when I am job hunting. Having a trusted third party between myself and the prospective employer would help shift the power dynamic significantly. Also having a trained negotiator would take
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by oillio 10y ago
Rachio | Denver, CO | ONSITE, Fulltime | Server-side Software Engineer, QA Engineer Rachio is a mission-based startup that is changing the way people water. Our smart sprinkler controller makes running sprinklers easy while saving water and
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by oillio 10y ago
Patents don't need a working prototype. Maybe they calculated a theoretical limit of the smallest pixel size possible and used that number.
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by oillio 10y ago
Good comparison. Every time the Tesla autopilot comes up, someone mentions that it is all hype and that other luxury car makers have had the same system for a while. Apparently not so much. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by oillio 10y ago
I'd go with Heathers. You know Slater is screwed up, but you only gradually realize the true depth of his violent angry insanity.
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by oillio 10y ago
Yeah, recent events show the lack of leadership causes its own problems.

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