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by pacala 10y ago
We are playing a global game of poker where a handful of global surveillance corporations know our hands to the utmost detail. Good luck ever winning again.
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by pacala 10y ago
50 miles from Downtown London places one in Brighton or 5 miles away from Oxford. The diameter of London is about 50 miles, hard to believe that the average commuter moves from one end to the other on a daily basis. I'm also fun at par
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by pacala 10y ago
No access to the Internet? How then can we [make money by spying on you] provide you a better service?
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by pacala 10y ago
Dataflow [aka Flume]: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/DataflowJavaSDK http://research.google.com/pubs/pub35650.html
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by pacala 10y ago
A lot. We're running a small <10 team on a tight budget, we don't have time [or money] to waste. Looking towards the next several years: * https://cloud.google.com/container-engine [docker in the cloud] * http
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by pacala 10y ago
For $50 / 5 years, you can register for https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/nexus . Hopefully it reduces the hassle a bit.
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by pacala 10y ago
> Google is not as general as AWS and therefore has serious vendor lockin. Presumably you are talking about Google App Engine, which is just a small part of GCP. Amazon's comparable offering is Elastic Beanstalk. The core building b
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by pacala 10y ago
I've been vaguely following JPython's story, and the limit is less the Python language, and more the Python runtime environment and its reliance on C APIs written with the GIL assumption in mind. http://jyni.org doesn&
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by pacala 10y ago
For development history, we're using good PRs and good PR comments on GitHub. We've started using GitHub squash commits, but not enough long term usage to say how reliable it is. No need to manually rebase or fix someone else&#x27
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by pacala 10y ago
I've been using git for 7 years now, never had the need to go deeper. Lately, I'm using github and pushing / saving my work every so often [kind of like CTRL + S in Windows Office in the '90s]. If something goes wrong, h
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by pacala 10y ago
Deep knowledge of git is a sign of immaturity :) There are literally 10 commands one will ever need, which can be conveniently aliased to something more sane. Keep the brain space for something that produces higher value add.
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by pacala 10y ago
You are absolutely right. We live in Seattle because it was the smallest / least dense city where both me and my wife could find work relevant to our skills. Across the lake, in the Redmond area, there are plenty of jobs and even less
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by pacala 10y ago
Kids.
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by pacala 10y ago
> There are benefits to density as well, as most people who live in a city will attest. Anybody that lives in a city that can attest to the benefits of density? Living in Seattle with kids, can't think of any.
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by pacala 10y ago
Absolutely. One can reinvent any part of the Docker [+ GKE] setup from first principles on either dev or prod axis. That being said, it's nice to spend a day to setup Docker [+ GKE], and have [most of] the "babysit apt-get" a
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by pacala 10y ago
The speed differential is what make me scratch my head as well, from both safety and traffic engineering perspective. In the USA lots of mountain highways have turnouts and "Slow vehicles must use turnouts" signs [0]. On the flip
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by pacala 10y ago
PS. After getting past the initial hiccup, we've setup our basic monitoring and infrastructure in a few hours. Coming to working with ops after a couple years hiatus, Stackdriver is incredibly comprehensive and easy to use. Let's
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by pacala 10y ago
I've setup a Stackdriver account today. My colleagues [Editors on the monitored project], when navigating to [0], were prompted to create a new Stackdriver account. They could not see the one I just created, nor were they presented wit
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by pacala 10y ago
Next Big Thing: Knowledge. As a product, not as a loss leader for ads.
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by pacala 10y ago
addiction + adverse effects on one's brain/life. There are a lot of benign addictions, which we call habits. We should be a bit more careful in casually classifying marijuana as benign on grounds that is not as bad as heroin. Edit
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by pacala 10y ago
Not a doctor and sample size of one. What worked for me was resetting the rhythm itself, by under-eating over long periods of time, 2 weeks at least, up to 1-2 months. I keep telling myself hungry is the new normal, and in the long run it b
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by pacala 10y ago
> Normally going from no calculus to the multivariable chain rule as applied to differentials or as a best linear approximation takes at least three semesters in university. Multivariable chain rule is much simpler than the 18 months lea
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by pacala 10y ago
A lot of math is simple and logical. Notation is a major obstacle, because of a. the sheer amount of various notations which are rarely used by a non-expert in a particular subfield, thus easily forgotten and b. un-searchability. Reading a
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by pacala 10y ago
These are some great points. In particular, we need to reduce the stigma on addicts, especially those that [try to] recover. Mind you, reducing the stigma is hard, because the stigma doesn't come from a void, or from laws, it comes fro
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by pacala 10y ago
The point of laws is not to make an undesirable behaviors disappear. The point of laws is to discourage undesirable behaviors, and, hopefully, reduce their incidence. There are still thieves and murderers and rapists and pedophiles out ther
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by pacala 10y ago
I hear this argument a lot in young liberal circles, can't wrap my head around it. In particular given how much well deserved flak the tobacco industry has gotten, industry also driven by addiction. Drugs are addictive, messing up peop
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by pacala 10y ago
The pragmatics are all against rewriting the network stack, as you have thoroughly explained. Though I have a feeling of unease. The network stack implementations are lacking diversity. They improve slower than they could otherwise do. The
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by pacala 10y ago
CFG parsing can be done better than O(n^3), reducing to Boolean matrix multiplication, which is about O(n^2.37). http://theory.stanford.edu/~virgi/cs367/papers/valiantcfg.pd... https://en.wikipedia
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by pacala 10y ago
There are two distinct meanings mushed together under the "messaging" umbrella: A. One way communication, aka events, goto. Very useful as an implementation concept, but generally a poor idea for structuring applications, as it ma
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by pacala 10y ago
Nice spin in the title, under the huge assumption that voting preferences stay fixed over a lifetime. Or we could simply read the results as a confirmation to the old adage: "If You Are Not a Liberal at 25, You Have No Heart. If You Ar

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