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by robbyt 7y ago
And a likely increase of people posting "+1" comments on bugs...
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by robbyt 7y ago
As an American without any foreign language skills... How do I find a job there?
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by robbyt 8y ago
This was called Chef, and every time I've encountered a Chef infrastructure it's been a complete mess.
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by robbyt 8y ago
I do not agree that data science is a bubble. However, I think everyone who uses Linux professionally would benefit from training, (and the redhat training/certification is quite good).
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by robbyt 8y ago
Google Cloud has SLAs with reasonable depreciation schedules. Google's free consumer services, not so much...
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by robbyt 8y ago
It's on my LG TV, and it's great
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by robbyt 8y ago
Call me skeptical, but I don't believe he automated this to the degree described in the article. There's no code, some of the technical writing is a bit weird and non-idomatic, and according to the author's GitHub he was just
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by robbyt 8y ago
Can anybody explain to me why NIMBY is the common explanation for high rent in SF, but in other cities with high rent have tons of development? There's tons of development in NYC, London, but prices are higher than ever. To me, NIMBY-h
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by robbyt 8y ago
I almost agree. Have you talked to anyone who does professional entertainment/movie work about their thoughts on unions? Unions are expensive, corrupt, and don't actually do much to help most of the workers. The unionized workers
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by robbyt 8y ago
re: traffic There are multiple larger US cities that have less traffic than Austin. The reason why people cite Austin's traffic as a problrm is because it's horrible relative to the population of the city. Most of Austin is very s
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by robbyt 8y ago
I'm currently working working with another publicly traded SF company that you've heard of, and yes. They have really big, old, codebases, and yes parts of them are nearly incomprehensible. The thing is, they recognize the bad par
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by robbyt 8y ago
A well run service run by a world-class team will provide global availability performance and service that small teams are incapable of. However, in this case, I don't think the service is very well run, so there's downtime. Not r
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by robbyt 8y ago
I felt the same way when I worked on a large Azure project years ago. It seemed that nobody uses it for anything serious, reliability was awful (their API would return 500s in the middle of the day, no notice of downtime, VMs would lose net
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by robbyt 8y ago
Yeah, agreed. When I first read about it, I thought they were going to sell an adapter to plug the existing pocket ops into a Eurorack module.
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by robbyt 8y ago
I'd guess that the design is the most expensive part of building these products. Their marketing for this product is arguably better than Apple. The design for the actual product is unparalleled. The electronics and software developmen
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by robbyt 8y ago
The components are very likely made in China, but I'd guess that the pick-and-place likely happens in or near their HQ in Europe. As someone who owns a business that has designed and sells a similar product, I'd guess their raw co
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by robbyt 8y ago
I produce a some what similar Eurorack module. Ours is electrically more complicated, but mechanically much simpler. The final assembly is the most labor intensive part of our process. When we get an order from one of our retailers for 10+
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by robbyt 8y ago
I use a Lynx Aurora with CV from Bitwig, and it works wonderfully.
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by robbyt 8y ago
Lawyers move slower than software engineers. There could have been years of exchanges between the company prior to this.
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by robbyt 8y ago
Realistically, I think that a large portion of that 300M went to sales and marketing at MongoDB... However, I agree with everything else you said.
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by robbyt 8y ago
Have you tried Google assistant? I find it to be much more useful than Siri.
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by robbyt 8y ago
Security s/fixes/features/g coming in 2020. Does this mean HW fixes for spectre/meltdown?
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by robbyt 8y ago
Why did they buy it?
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by robbyt 8y ago
Buying a mobile phone with a large notch at the top of the screen?
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by robbyt 8y ago
With that attitude, I'll bet your IT guy thinks you're a bunch of complaining idiots. If you're actually respectful to him, and work with him to fix problems, your relationship will likely improve. Managing Windows 10 is hard
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by robbyt 8y ago
If they never removed features, Apple computers would still have serial ports and scsi busses. I'm not saying I don't miss many of the features in this article, nor am I being an Apple apologist, but sometimes you need to take a s
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by robbyt 8y ago
A friend of mine is a commercial landlord in NYC. He told me how this works... Companies will seek extremely high rent, and make concessions to the tenants to offset the high rent. E.g., rent this space for $50k/mo, and we'll give
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by robbyt 8y ago
They're probably still talking to their lawyers.
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by robbyt 8y ago
They've added a feature nobody asked for, so there must be another hidden reason why they've decided to add this. Any ideas? Is this really just a "UX enhancement", or is there a bigger strategy behind it?
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by robbyt 8y ago
Yes, I run a small synthesizer company on the side and do our own assembly, which has become 30% more expensive because the tarrifs cover things like capacitors, resistors, potentiometers, which are all components for our products. We'

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