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by pbecotte 7y ago
Because the way that adtech takes credit for sales has very little to do with whether it actually influences you. So they claim to be effective at the same time as doing the stupid stuff you point out.
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by pbecotte 7y ago
I don't understand articles like this. Do they really think it helps their case to say fracking is bad because of climate change? The fact that the technique is effective shouldn't be a reason to ban it! If you want to regulate ca
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by pbecotte 7y ago
The department of defense, and any contractors in the running for that "cloud-agnostic architecture" do not have the capability to provide a service the would be 50% as good as what they would get out of the box with AWS. (or azur
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by pbecotte 7y ago
Imagine a query - `select * from users`. Now, in my webapp, the user can pass a username, in which case I want to do `select * from users where username=<some string>`. In naive sql land, people solve this with string concatenations.
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by pbecotte 8y ago
Having been one yourself very recently, you must be aware that every founder is "crushing it" right up until the put up that blog post about how it didn't work out, right?
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by pbecotte 8y ago
Halving it for dilution is not actually enough. Remember that the valuation that an investor is paying is what the investment is worth _to them_. Any investment is worth more as part of a well diversified portfolio. As an employee, you lack
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by pbecotte 8y ago
So long as there are things that can be done with software that are more profitable then what it costs to hire an engineer there will continue to be upward pressure on engineer salaries. Anecdotally, there are SO MANY things that could be d
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by pbecotte 8y ago
Fair industry wages INCLUDE the RSU's / Bonuses at larger companies... and is often more then your base salary. You can't say that it is a fair salary PLUS equity unless the fair salary is comparable to BigCo Total Comp.
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by pbecotte 8y ago
But- recycling is by its nature an economic activity! The whole sales pitch is "If you recycle, less stuff will have to be manufactured, therefore our environment will be better off". But- if that statement isn't true, recycl
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by pbecotte 8y ago
This is a fun trope- "the US unemployment rate is made up and let me give you reasons it may not be accurate..." Yes, turns out that there are a LOT of ways to measure this, and the people whose jobs it is to do so have chosen som
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by pbecotte 8y ago
This may have been the best comment I have read on HN. Sounds like the foundation of a blog post.
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by pbecotte 8y ago
Titles, in my mind, reflect duties and responsibility rather then level. Not everyone can be in charge of the same things and have leadership responsibilities...therefore they cant all be staff engineer. They CAN all be top performers at th
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by pbecotte 8y ago
The really fun thing is that my Dell Precision on Ubuntu runs our test suite twice as fast as a latest model MBP
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by pbecotte 8y ago
Well...yes and no. For example, page scraping is something I have been pricing recently. The companies I have spoken to cost WAY more than it would cost me to build...because I need one simple solution with limited accuracy...but their comp
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by pbecotte 8y ago
I have taken the same stance. Have had lawyers tell me that I am wrong. Have had other lawyers telle the opposite. -shrug- when it specifically lists IP address as an example of PD in one section, the fact that another says things are only
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by pbecotte 8y ago
Yeah, I switched and am pretty happy.
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by pbecotte 8y ago
So your employer pays 48k for 50 hours a week of labor. Yes, if they suddenly paid you 60k instead you'd be doing better. But that doesn't mean they benefit from unpaid labor, just that the current rate is less than you think it i
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by pbecotte 8y ago
Lol, finally someone with the same opinion as me. Yes, climate change is real, but it would be more expensive to stop it than to adapt to it
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by pbecotte 9y ago
Narrativ | New York, NY | Distributed Systems Engineer | Onsite Narrativ is moving search forward. Our AI-powered platform is transforming content with our award-winning SmartLink technology. We’re democratizing access to a $60bn pipeline w
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by pbecotte 9y ago
Yeah, but the public transit options make it realistic to live in lots of different suburbs that are much cheaper and much better for family life, which seems to be something you can't say about most of the other contenders.
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by pbecotte 9y ago
That is kind of the point, however, the value isn't created by making the toy or the btc. The value is created when the perceived utility of the underlying goes up. Imagine you own a well. Later they discover a way yo get oil from that
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by pbecotte 9y ago
I agree- Sqlalchemy without the ORM is pretty much the best code I've seen.
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by pbecotte 9y ago
The same way we fund it currently- by allocating money from the budget. While it may feel good to talk about "this tax pays for this program" it is not a law of nature that a decrease in a specific tax will lead to a corresponding
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by pbecotte 9y ago
This is true, but there are steps between the two. It would certainly be possible to, for each query, record both the first time and the fastest time. You could also add a couple queries that are a little harder- a query with a self-join an
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by pbecotte 9y ago
Which is an exact copy of the Joyent service from the year before :)
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by pbecotte 9y ago
> One release with three breaking changes is better than three broken pushes. Why? Each of those pushes you have one thing to check, and if it is messed up only one thing to revert. With a batched release you have multiple things to chec
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by pbecotte 9y ago
Add new features in the backend first...then the clients can add the new features over time. The feature toggle is that the web client just hasn't added the feature yet! I usually put integration tests in the client repo but it doesn&#
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by pbecotte 9y ago
So put the new feature behind a toggle, let trusted power users play with it, and schedule the removal of the toggle for when it is appropriate.
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by pbecotte 9y ago
Do you not see salaries going up?
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by pbecotte 9y ago
Seems like you would have to disable emissions systems to get what you described, which would be illegal ;) The actual solution to that problem, of course, is to use smaller generators?

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