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by pwaivers 8y ago
One suggestion: There should be some positive feedback when you solve a puzzle. Like prints "Congrats" and play a little jingle. Overall great game!
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by pwaivers 8y ago
From the applicant side: Why are you hiring for this role? Is it a new position, or did someone leave it?
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by pwaivers 8y ago
> After all, if you are in sales why would you work on something which has 5 or 10% margin when you can work on something with 30 or 50% margin? It isn't that simple I think. You need to know the volume of each "something&quo
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by pwaivers 8y ago
The overload indicators are strange to me. For example, one indicator is "IO thread idle below 20%: this means the pool of worker threads used by kafka for handling client requests are too busy to handle any more workload". How
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by pwaivers 8y ago
Their core product is still storage, even if you had a bad experience. You may think Dropbox is a bad product, but OP's point still stands.
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by pwaivers 8y ago
Noooo. I was excited to look at the site, but it is not up: http://extramaze.com/
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by pwaivers 8y ago
Amazon banning your account is not the same thing. They don't have a monopoly on retail (despite what a lot of people think). The No Fly list is an anti-terrorism precaution and very controversial. The Drone Strike List seems bad, but
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by pwaivers 8y ago
There is a similarity and Americans can be hypocritical, however the Chinese-style oversight is more dangerous. Big tech companies cannot prevent you from traveling, living at certain places, and buying stuff. The Chinese system can. To m
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by pwaivers 8y ago
This really strangely sounds like an advertisement for Ruby on Rails. It doesn't even give any specific advantages of RoR. > If you look at GitLab, it has an enormous amount of functionality. Software development is very complex a
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by pwaivers 8y ago
They should be incentivized to have a good UI. If people don't enjoy using the app, then those people are more likely to cancel the subscription. I don't think Netflix wants to discourage people from using the app.
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by pwaivers 8y ago
No you're talking about the first example. On the second example he says > But—gettier!—the email service that the code relied on had itself gone down, at almost the exact same time that the change was released. So the error was c
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by pwaivers 8y ago
I will still happily pay for Netflix. I can share an account with my family, and the quality is still very high IMO.
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by pwaivers 8y ago
> I could have had a JTB that the code change had caused the emails to stop delivering, but still we wouldn’t want to say I “knew” this was the cause, because it was actually the service outage that was directly responsible. He is wron
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by pwaivers 8y ago
> "While much of Wall Street missed out on fees from that deal—a typical IPO has far more underwriters than a direct listing has advisers—the three were paid about $36 million in total for their work on Spotify." Why does it co
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by pwaivers 8y ago
I think the argument from this article is that the core business for AWS is not the OSS. Their core business is to provide "performance, scalability, and availability". So it is a financial reality that they can (and should) r
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by pwaivers 8y ago
I assume if the internet goes down, then they can start storing video locally. Just replace your DVR with a hard drive.
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by pwaivers 8y ago
This is a really cool and well written post. Thank you!
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by pwaivers 8y ago
As the article says, it is surprising how easy and cheap it is to shut down a world-class airport and disrupt 100,000's of people. They haven't even caught the last person.
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by pwaivers 8y ago
Again?
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by pwaivers 8y ago
Since JavaScript is a prototype language, doesn't reflection come in automatically?
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by pwaivers 8y ago
> "I will probably ve sticking with my Subaru and get my wife (who is looking for a new car after hers died) an early 00s vehicle that I can still repair for less than ridiculous prices." A simple counter-argument is that an ea
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by pwaivers 8y ago
> It's only "Okay" to not deliver on non-client facing services. Anything else is an unmeasurable risk I disagree. The ability to handle data loss comes from the nature of the data, not whether it is client-facing or not.
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by pwaivers 8y ago
>"Failing to send one of those messages has consequences, whether that’s a missed receipt or—even worse—a missed notification letting a user know that their food is ready." This may be tongue-and-cheek, but it is not true. Tha
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by pwaivers 8y ago
Hello Fresh is down ~48% since its IPO in July. In that same period, Blue Apron is down ~70%. Blue Apron is doing even worse than the competitors.
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by pwaivers 8y ago
Another interesting topic in the derivatives markets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_derivative . Basically you buy futures or options on the temperature, rainfall, and cloud cover. Super interesting!
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by pwaivers 8y ago
> -h Help. This is actually less common than one might expect offhand — for much of Unix's early history developers tended to think of on-line help as memory-footprint overhead they couldn't afford. This one does surprise me.
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by pwaivers 8y ago
Which classics are you talking about? I think more people want to watch "Thor: Ragnarok" than they want to watch "Casablanca".
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by pwaivers 8y ago
> Who thought $5/movie was a good idea? Is $2 vs $5 really that much different? You saved the time you spent going to the rental store and using a DVD. Plus, $5 to rent practically any movie on demand without trailers is pretty
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by pwaivers 8y ago
Here is a really cool chart\tool: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/04/14/upshot/drug-o... .
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by pwaivers 8y ago
I believe releasing it to open source makes the code more trustworthy. Now, anyone can go in and verify how it works. Any backdoor would be visible in the code.

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