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by pzh 10y ago
Using the visa refusal rate as an excuse sounds a bit like circular logic: "We're not going to give you online rubber-stamped visas, because we're currently not giving you many visas." I'm not saying that the refusa
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by pzh 10y ago
Why are you downvoting? This is how search works and it's not like Comcast hasn't tried the other technique either. https://www.google.com/amp/www.infoworld.com/article/2925839...
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by pzh 10y ago
Maybe they can offer Google Cloud entirely running on ads, where they inject them at the load balancer. That way they won't have to deal with customer support.
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by pzh 10y ago
Do you have any plans regarding how you'd implement resilience and the equivalent of Spark's concept of 'lineage', where you keep a history of how a given RDD was computed, and then you can recompute it if it gets lost?
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by pzh 10y ago
Does anybody know how this is different from Spark? These Distributed Immutable Arrays sound suspiciously similar to Spark's Resilient Distributed Datasets. Is it just the choice of C++ as opposed to Scala that would make this more eff
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by pzh 10y ago
I'd also heartily recommend Gilbert Strang's Linear Algebra video lectures (OCW MIT). They seem to have the same goal--to develop a very strong geometric intuition.
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by pzh 10y ago
It's not just Delaware. There are a bunch of other states, e.g. Wyoming, Nevada, Florida, etc. Having said that, it's not a tax haven if you're a US resident for tax purposes (then you're completely screwed). If you&#x27
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by pzh 10y ago
Oh god! Robert Ver got a passport from St Kitts and Nevis. I remember reading this book about survivalism ("Emergency" by Neil Strauss--a really awesome read in investigative journalism btw), and he had a whole chapter on how to g
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by pzh 10y ago
That would be really awesome if he did that, even though he would be doing it purely to help out his friends from the banking lobby. FATCA is pretty bad because it imposes a one-sided requirement that everybody report to the US, but the US
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by pzh 10y ago
That's because Eritrea doesn't have the US's military, and its ability to project power is limited to sending a couple of goons to harass a few rich expats they're aware of. Also, the stick that the US uses to enforce FA
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by pzh 10y ago
The Guardian is doing something similar but without tracking the hours spent. They just say "Hey, we see you spend a lot of time around here. Why don't you help us out a bit so we can stay afloat?"
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by pzh 10y ago
So basically somebody can write a script to put this Build file in gitignore, save the company millions of dollars, and get promoted for it?
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by pzh 10y ago
Maybe in his own cocky way, his disaster recovery plan was to be smart enough to never have a disaster. The problem with this approach is that it only works for a small company, and many people figure out the hard way that smarts don't
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by pzh 10y ago
I know somebody who knows the guy who deleted the data that caused the outage, and in his words (the guy who knows the GitLab employee), the GitLab engineer is one of the smartest people he's ever known--in fact, he's actually bri
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by pzh 10y ago
So after losing a ton of user data and repositories about a week ago, because a remote engineer couldn't bother to check to which remote machine he was issuing 'rm -rf' commands as superuser, now GitLab is teaching us its &#x
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by pzh 10y ago
Nothing. On the contrary, it's the most marketable skill, judging from the number of Bootcamps that prepare for it.
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by pzh 10y ago
I guess they can all become Javascript developers and fulfill the big tech companies' dreams of having hordes of cheap engineers on the labor market. That would help save some of the money poured into various initiatives like 'Dol
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by pzh 10y ago
Does nobody else find the report cringeworthy? Apparently, there are some junior engineers fumbling around and committing serious errors, but where are the senior ones and the process/failsafes to prevent all this?
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by pzh 10y ago
I remember it used to be an advanced OS class about a decade ago. I'm not sure why it would be considered that challenging as opposed to any other graduate-level class (especially the theory ones)...
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by pzh 10y ago
> If another developer comes on board, will their English be fluent enough to know those terms? That's why my startup uses language-neutral variable names like i, j, k and x, y, z.
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by pzh 10y ago
> It turns out it isn't illegal not to hire based on previously being sued by someone. I thought there were laws to prevent Google from retaliating against somebody who sued them, and it would be illegal for them to not hire you on
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by pzh 10y ago
> Since I don't live in NYC, I don't want to give my CC number to some random theater employee over the phone I seriously wonder why people are so paranoid about their CCs. Most cards have really good fraud protection with pret
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by pzh 10y ago
It's not about function over form. It's more about whether you want to risk damaging a $3000 piece of equipment, because you're too cheap to replace a $100 charger.
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by pzh 10y ago
I've come to the conclusion that the problems with the power cord are mosty due to its design rather than any abuse or user action. The second layer of wiring that twists around the core wire is going only in one direction (a simple he
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by pzh 10y ago
I wonder how many people opted out just to protest the 'opt-in by default' law.
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by pzh 10y ago
Aren't you effectively saying that it's pointless to lock your house, because if a thief is immoral enough to enter and steal your TV, they'd be immoral enough to break the lock as well?
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by pzh 10y ago
Why is this downvoted? I think it's a valid concern. How do you know that in some small village somewhere the local government isn't so corrupt as to make sure the organ donation process gets 'speeded up' to serve the ne
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by pzh 10y ago
The point is that corporations practice geo-arbitrage all the time, and you'd have to be a fool not to do it as well. Those $200k salaries are probably not going to last forever, and it makes sense to maximize your earnings while you c
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by pzh 10y ago
The pay is shit, though, if you don't bring a remote job with you. For comparison, prepare for sth like 40k EUR vs SV's $200+k.
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by pzh 10y ago
The code in the article doesn't implement DCCP. It simply requests that the OS create DCCP sockets to use for their client-server example: int listen_sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DCCP, IPPROTO_DCCP); If the OS doesn't support DCC

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