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by raphaelj 7y ago
Something the author didn't address in the article is opportunity cost. It might be that the employee supply at Valve is limited, and that as a for profit company, it has to allocate this limited resource the most profitable way. Makin
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by raphaelj 7y ago
These user-space TCP stacks usually use an user-space driver or a driver that minimizes system calls with packet aggregation. For example DPDK.
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by raphaelj 7y ago
I worked on such a TCP stack while doing my MSc. thesis a couple of years ago [1]. Handling TCP in the kernel has some overhead due to system calls. Also, the way sockets are designed does not make them very scalable, as you have lock conte
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by raphaelj 7y ago
Indeed. Also, I remember that when the GDPR got implemented in the EU, I had to agree on a new contract amendment in which the company legally had to list all the data that was collected on its employees (e.g. emails, personal info like age
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by raphaelj 7y ago
You can remove returns generated by the housing economy and while still providing housing. Some cities and countries (e.g. Vienna, or the Netherlands) provide public housing through gouvernement and/or not for profit organisations (i.e
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by raphaelj 7y ago
Because that's market collusion, and that is illegal.
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by raphaelj 8y ago
This does not take into account the fact that in most countries with an universal health care system, you will only contribute to it during your +/- 40 years career while you'll benefit from it during your whole life.
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by raphaelj 8y ago
No European? I'd expect elite US schools to beat EU schools, but non-elite EU school to perform better compared to their US counterparts.
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by raphaelj 8y ago
Market values profit, not produced value (i.e. revenue).
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by raphaelj 8y ago
That is only true if it also works for smaller companies. Small corporations can't negotiate such deals, which will make them unable to efficiently compete against these larger companies.
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by raphaelj 8y ago
While financing innovation could explain the higher costs, it does not explain why the US performs bad in almost any health-related metric.
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Ask HN: Current state of statically typed web framework
7 points by raphaelj 8y ago|8 comments
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by raphaelj 8y ago
They did: https://www.google.com/moon/ Last time I used it, Google Earth provided a 3D view of the Moon and of Mars.
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by raphaelj 8y ago
IIRC, Postgres use a key-value store internally, so it does not really matters if you store records (i.e. tables) or objects (i.e. JSON documents). There was an article on HN a couple of months ago that was comparing Mongo and PgSQL perform
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by raphaelj 8y ago
I really like TablePlus too and bought the premium version a couple of weeks ago. The native UI is very nice. It's a very nice and cheaper alternative to Navicat. I still experience bugs from time to time. But it's improving.
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by raphaelj 8y ago
Interestingly, they show a capture of a "bad" dashboard on their "About us" page that IMO displays way more useful information than what their product can offer as of today: https://unubo.com/static/
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by raphaelj 8y ago
We currently have a Dropbox Business account with 16 users. We use their API to do some data pre-processing in the cloud on some of the data when it is being pushed in the Dropbox. A few days ago we reach the monthly 25.000 API calls limit,
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Sorry, upgrading your Dropbox Business plan will take 11 months(twitter.com)
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by raphaelj 8y ago
While this kind of commodity products might not make huge profits, it might still be a huge provider of low to mid class jobs.
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by raphaelj 8y ago
Does anyone know about any Slack alternatives that support bots, GIFYs and emojis ? And above all that is not ridiculously slow.
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by raphaelj 8y ago
We started having issues connecting to Slack 4 hours before they reported a status.
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by raphaelj 8y ago
Try to fly with American or United.
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by raphaelj 9y ago
In the case of a bankruptcy, the assets will be sold to reimburse employee wages, contractors, suppliers and banks first. Only what's left will go back to the stakeholders.
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by raphaelj 9y ago
To put this accident in perspective, Uber self-driving cars totaled about 2 to 3 millions miles, while the fatality rate on US roads is approximately 1.18 deaths per 100 millions miles [1]. [1] https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-re
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by raphaelj 9y ago
The Japanese space agency did something similar a few years ago. They sent a probe to an asteroid that was passing near our planet, and collected some samples back to Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa
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by raphaelj 9y ago
Yes, but the fine should only cover Qualcomm's EU activities. EU account for about 15% of the smartphone market sales, so it's more like one year worth or EU profits.
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by raphaelj 9y ago
Most probably, they could ban Qualcomm-based deviced from the EU market, which was 17% of the iPhone market in 2017.
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by raphaelj 9y ago
I don't understand. Are we really talking about personal savings? Why are banks having anything to say on what an individual can or can't do with his/her own money?
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by raphaelj 9y ago
Could it be a combination of several transmission methods? Like rats + lice?
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by raphaelj 9y ago
Couldn't Nvidia add the same clause to their product's license (instead of the driver's one) and thus having it enforceable even if you use some 3rd party drivers?

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