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by papito 4y ago
Michael Stonebraker is a prodigy in this field. He did something very rare - he took a concept deep within the academia and made it a blockbuster product in the real world. The man writes small databases for fun over a weekend, I mean, come
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by papito 4y ago
First they came for the sacred microservices, now they are after Bid Data. What. Is. Happening. Don't get me wrong, I love it. It's about time people got off these stupid and shockingly expensive bandwagons.
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by papito 4y ago
Oh, that's right. Sometimes containers full of bananas will set off radiation alarms at shipping ports.
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by papito 4y ago
It's as if the shareholders are of one mind and there are absolutely no investors out there in it in for the long-term. If they want to get rich quick, they are free to try the OTC market with high risks and high rewards, or Vegas.
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by papito 4y ago
"Jeff Bezos explains to Amazon investors why no profits are a good thing" https://www.theverge.com/2013/4/12/4217794/jeff-bezos-letter...
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by papito 4y ago
Yes, let's treat the sacred shareholder as a needy spoiled child. So, make "as much money as possible" while building a solid and sustainable business long-term, or make as much money as possible within a quarter or two and t
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by papito 4y ago
No, they failed to prove damages, not that there wasn't any wrongdoing. Stay with the group.
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by papito 4y ago
Dropbox provides other value. I started using their password manager, for example, and I am glad I don't have to pay for ANOTHER service for that. Also, Dropbox has Vault - a more secure folder behind a pin that everyone with access to
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by papito 4y ago
I know people here have a lot of issues with the word "abuse", but that is true. I only had a few days in my life where I was productive in the office for that long. Just after three days in a row of 8:30AM to 6PM would burn me ou
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by papito 4y ago
You can't lose money if you are not making any money. Elon Musk is BRILLIANT.
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by papito 4y ago
That is horrible . I quite often click on embedded tweets and then end up spending more time on the site. It's literally a cheap lead in for ad exposure. Musk does not seem to understand how this whole Internet thing works. "If M
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by papito 4y ago
Is this the guy who promised to "thermonuclear name and shame" the advertisers who no longer want to do business with him? Oh, it is! https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588676939463946241
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by papito 4y ago
I created a bunch of lists and basically just follow those, rarely engaging. In a way, I am thankful to Elon for helping me shed my compulsive Twitter usage. He unwittingly performed a public service.
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by papito 4y ago
The Glass Onion comes to mind. - "It's so dumb - it's brilliant!" - "No! It's just DUMB!"
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by papito 4y ago
Make AltaVista Great Again
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by papito 4y ago
We are coming in full circle hard . I started using newsletters aggressively - it's a good way to keep on top of your interests. Mastodon is similar to the old decentralized discussion boards - each server run by its own admins, and s
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by papito 4y ago
Seems like the giants that were nearly synonymous with "Internet" - Google and Amazon, are rapidly deteriorating and creating a massive market opportunity. Pure speculation, but innovative companies at first, they started over-hir
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by papito 4y ago
People were exactly fine with it. The regulations only became a thing after "Unsafe at Any Speed", 1965. Cars had no seat belts and people drove drunk ALL the time. Coincidentally, I randomly just listened to a Stuff You Should
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by papito 4y ago
1982 was still early days of the push for car safety. It was better than before, but the standards are way higher now. 50 years ago, 40% of all fire department calls were related to car fires. Now, a car catching fire, especially spontaneo
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by papito 4y ago
It's not only a problem in schools. I am shocked by how employers and employees do not care about stifled air and poor circulation in offices. I had to literally bring a CO2 meter in to show that the air in the office was not conducive
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by papito 4y ago
I wake up at 4-5 in the morning to see my wife out the door. She comes home early. We still get our 8 hours of sleep because we start winding down at around 19:00 and are in bed by 20:00-21:00. I live in the U.S. so perhaps you can apprecia
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by papito 4y ago
They were genuinely curious ("which cruise!"). It caused so much commotion that all three tellers got out of their seats - one of them went in the back to look while the others wanted to know more. My teller held the bundle in his
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by papito 4y ago
I asked at a bank recently for 100 $2 bills (I needed it for tipping on a cruise ship). The tellers were extremely curious about what it was for. I got 100 still-bundled bills, like in crime movies!
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by papito 4y ago
Well, imagine you are walking by a restaurant, you see the menu. A dish that you are interested in is $15.99. "Not bad", you say. You walk in, finish your meal, get the bill, and realize that with all kinds of taxes and fees it ca
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by papito 4y ago
And Node evolved much later than the other stable frameworks. I was going to use NodeJS in 2014 for a startup, but after evaluating the absolute nightmare of ways you could do async programming in JavaScript, I went with Python and Tornado,
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by papito 4y ago
The origins of SQLite are pretty wild. This was one of my favorite episodes.
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by papito 4y ago
Exactly. The Javascript ecosystem is a special kind of hell. What gets me torqued is that we have an entire generation of young devs now who us old farts have to work with, and they think that the constant state of chaos and insane complexi
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by papito 4y ago
Hashi repos was my go-to place to study Go best practices and good patterns, but there are not that many places out there can pull off a large Go codebase without it being a complete mess. It requires a LOT of discipline and coordination. P
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by papito 4y ago
Then why mention EBIDTA? It exists to basically say "we are bullshit artists and we are using creative accounting to LOOK profitable".
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by papito 4y ago
Exactly. It's remarkable that people on HackerNews, of all places, output drivel like "it's just a 140-character messaging app". Twitter probably has dozens of office-facing apps to maintain before you even get to the

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