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onefuncman
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I got started 15 years ago without my degree via a small consultancy giving me a shot like this, best of luck.
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The first thing I thought of was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenn_treasure
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7y ago
I thought this was prevented by brake fluid being hygroscopic?
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What's the logic behind the current pricing model? Shouldn't you derive much greater LTV from a subscription model? Also, isn't it too early to monetize? Don't you want to accrue users before introducing premium? For a
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7y ago
Right in the readme it describes how to launch interactively via `safelife play puzzles`
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7y ago
You don't make incompatible updates, via adhering to service contracts. You can use protobuf or Avro as the schema for these service contracts and get varying levels of forward and backwards compatibility guarantees for schema changes
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7y ago
Microlending ventures clearly demonstrate the existence of under served markets. Also, I think instead of "solved problem" you mean "solved for white people in rich countries"
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7y ago
You've clearly never tried to use "a free country's financial services" in this context. Even as a US citizen it is prohibitively difficult to open even the simplest of checking accounts from overseas. There is no globa
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7y ago
Unless you have insight into the end users DNS deployments I would say this is the appropriate amount of caution to apply. Besides just TTL being low, a frequent issue I had when first migrating to AWS years ago was CNAME to CNAME records
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7y ago
i have no affiliation but like the product -- try https://airtable.com/
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huh, i just posted before i saw this comment that I never saw anyone plan out their access database like this, kudos
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Sure it is ... the database underlying Access uses JetSQL which has its own fun syntactic quirks It's also very bad at concurrent users if you do go down the path of dropping it on a network share if it's a normalized schema, sinc
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Mirror Maker is fine for small scale, or you upgrade into https://github.com/uber/uReplicator ... region-homing data is generally more practical You should provide examples of either better or cheaper to substantiate y
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You must have missed the Amazon Corretto announcement— there’s an Amazon JDK now.
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Expensive compared to what? DynamoDB has the cheapest 4ms writes I can find... But yes, absolutely prototype and measure costs with real workloads
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7y ago
The og-aws Slack or ##aws on freenode But really, you should understand what kind of data store you need based on your use case is first and then decide on an implementation later...
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You can certainly create a simulation in which the laws of physics are mutable, or have different immutable values than in our perceived reality.
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I don't know what a high profile conservative is, can you reinforce your point with specific examples?
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7y ago
I looked at his site and he's pushing game state over websockets. I think he could eliminate almost all of his back end calls to his servers besides game initialization by using DynamoDB directly via Cognito, though the logic for prop
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Shoulda just FaceTime'd...
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Fargate is serverless because the compute is abstracted away completely. A lambda runtime is just a specialized container and they've added similar customizability to it lately with Layers/Runtime configuration.
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I love the approach of digging into the underlying pattern rather than fixating on the details of the routine. I used to struggle with Agile and daily standups at $JOB until I started keeping a private journal daily. Now I have several yea
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Tumblr has the nicest Feed API out of all the social networks, compared to Twitter Firehose, Facebook Public Feed, and Instagram (we built our own ghetto feed for Instagram by scraping with tons of api tokens). It would be pretty amazing to
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> (I work at OpenAI.) Can you do an AI CTF like the Stripe distributed systems CTF sometime?
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no, businesses win or lose based on sales & marketing, not how productive their engineers are.
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We used to all hand-edit binaries in the 90s when we were cracking copy protection by passing around text files indicating which hex codes to swap between JE/JZ and JNE/JNZ...
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7y ago
this complaint is almost as old as the Java language. you should use Jodatime if you can't upgrade to Java 8+ yet -- see https://www.joda.org/joda-time/
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7y ago
this is already true
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>In Visual Studio 2019, hit Ctrl+Q nope. Who picked this shortcut?
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7y ago
Actually, their electricity usage makes this everyone's problem, just like antivaxxers.
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