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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
Bonds or bond funds? Those are two different beast with two different behaviors when crises hit.
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
Ubiquiti is one of those companies. They use MongoDB for their controller app, which has been a pain in my side for a couple of years now.
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
eBay has an api project that appears to have been half-completed and then abandoned. Trying to understand exactly how to use their APIs is extremely confusing because they don't have anything definitive and basically a frankenstein-lik
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
For my, it was 100% my mouse. I had my mouse off to the side, and I realized after debilitating wrist, elbow and shoulder pain that it was because my wrist was at an awkward angle all the time because of my mouse. The reason for it is obvio
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
My wife damaged the skirt at the bottom of the car, driving over a bump. It dented the skirt pretty badly, so we got it replaced. $10,000 and 4 weeks labor (but waited months to get it fixed), because they had to disassemble the whole damn
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
Despite their recent issues, Zoom is mostly innocuous and the single best video conferencing software I've ever used. I don't think it's that big of a deal. Skype on the other hand, I'll never use. If it's part of a
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
Relying on an eventual consistency database sounds like a huge challenge in terms of getting absolute consistency between Cassandra and Kafka. There seems to be many edge cases that could cause the data in Kafka to get out of sync, it doesn
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Why Young Koreans Love to Splurge(foreignpolicy.com)
1 points by pfarnsworth 7y ago|0 comments
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
> Time spent listening to hard books is for most children also more marginally useful than time spent trying to learn to read very simple books independently, especially at the earliest ages. I disagree about introducing hard books, espe
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
I'm very interested in this software. Does it do a bit check after copying to make sure that the copy can be read and is the exact same?
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
I have worked at well known tech companies and I personally dealt with some less-valuable-but-still-PII. We didn't store the PII because we cared about exploiting it or because we wanted to somehow sell this data to outsiders, that&#x2
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
Try is a terrible choice for a name exactly because of try/catch, I don't know why they decided on that.
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
I think "try" is a terrible name, because it overloads try/catch which is very common usage these days but it's nothing like that. It's basically a error checking macro, so give it a new name.
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
Private equity's playbook is very, very transparent. They will take massive loans and use the money to try to create fake growth, maybe by buying a high growth unicorn. Then they will turn around and IPO it and sell it to retail sucker
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
My friend says that WinZip makes $70M per year due to government contracts and inertia. There is zero development or costs, it's just a pure money maker for them.
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
Isn't there wind on Titan?
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
is there no wind on Titan? What if there's a windstorm and it crashes the drone? At least a vehicle could resist crashing, unlike a drone.
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
Did they send the leaders of those 10 countries, or just the representatives?
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
After seeing some autonomous cars in action, I believe they are 20 years away. In that sense I mean a fully automated driverless car that you can command to do what you want. It would be great if you could buy a car, have it bring you to wo
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
I'm sorry you feel this way. You lost out on a good opportunity because of an asymmetrically unfair legal agreement that you had to sign. I'm glad I live in California where it's not enforceable. If you came to California, yo
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
How is this still possible in 2019? These are well-known tactics and yet Youtube still allows this?
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by pfarnsworth 8y ago
Will Google guarantee a minimum number of years to support this platform? I would hate to dedicate time and resources to this (sounds pretty useful) and then have Google shut this down in the near future.
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by pfarnsworth 8y ago
Enterprise open source is bleak. There aren't very many enterprise open source projects with pure intent anymore, they are all looking for the big payday, which unfortunately companies like Google and Facebook have encouraged. Look at
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by pfarnsworth 8y ago
If they won't stop spamming you, you can sue them under the CAN-SPAM act.
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by pfarnsworth 8y ago
Exactly. It takes just one person who knows your phone number to upload their entire contact list and it's saved. The likelihood that Facebook doesn't have your phone number and name is 0% unless you don't have a phone number
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by pfarnsworth 8y ago
Request an new password, and then change the password on the Facebook account. I've done that myself.
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by pfarnsworth 8y ago
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by pfarnsworth 8y ago
Amazon gets away with this because it's practically impossible for small business owners or authors to police their site. It's similar to Google, where they let counterfeits thrive, but real content creators get fake DMCA notices
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Are the Super-Rich Ruining Burning Man?(bbc.com)
1 points by pfarnsworth 8y ago|1 comments

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