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961.
by rosser 10y ago
Pointing out an author's bias isn't fallacious. Using that bias to disregard facts is.
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by rosser 10y ago
Mine is fairly simple: an UPDATE without a WHERE clause on a table tracking Other People's Money. Except that was how we discovered that backups weren't working... Really posting to share one that happened to me, though: At a prev
963.
by rosser 10y ago
You have no idea what my friends may or may not have protested, or otherwise done, in the past. I'll thank you to reconsider your projections of people you've never met.
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by rosser 10y ago
Go re-read "Letter from a Birmingham Jail". The relevant bit has been quoted elsethread.
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by rosser 10y ago
I think that's a little reductive. Everything you say is true, but those "implementation details" aren't just implementation details. You say that like the actual implementation of a thing is immaterial. That's th
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by rosser 10y ago
Regulation of a private service does not obligate the operators of that service to offer it, unless those regulations specifically require it.
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by rosser 10y ago
Some of them, sure. Maybe even most, though I don't think so; all of the people I know who are involved in this stuff are very well aware of Obama's militarism. But all of them? That's just lazy. And wrong. You don't h
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by rosser 10y ago
What about the million dollar donation to the ACLU Lyft made? Does that count for anything?
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by rosser 10y ago
Did you miss that the strike was only against picking up fares at the airport?
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by rosser 10y ago
That's specious. The subway is a utility provided by the city.
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by rosser 10y ago
"Appease"? Whom?
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by rosser 10y ago
I have a friend at Uber. We have had conversations involving the word "geofencing".
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by rosser 10y ago
If you're going there to protest, take the subway. It's not like you've got luggage or anything. And the work stoppage was only against picking up fares, anyway.
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by rosser 10y ago
> All I'm saying is that it would really suck to be someone caught at the airport in the mess... Then imagine how it must feel to be one of the people affected by the ban. That's the point of the strike: "Oh you think t
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by rosser 10y ago
I don't think the pricing is the extent of people's concerns, or even the majority. I'm not a fan of Kalanick, personally, but I was prepared to have been wrong about him when I saw his Facebook post about taking care of the
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by rosser 10y ago
44, myself. I tend to interview well, which frankly surprises me, because I'm on the whole not as good at people as I'd like to be. I think, though, the thing that has best served me in that regard is walking into every interview
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by rosser 10y ago
The false negative/false positive question is more about the costs of hiring a "bad" engineer than how hard it is to find a "good" one. I've been in that situation: Once, at an old job, I had put in for a new r
978.
by rosser 10y ago
You say this garbage every time this comes up. "Mom and pop shops". Yes, those exist, but they're the minority. You're generally either dealing with EnterpriseDB, or you're dealing with a company that is run by peop
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by rosser 10y ago
Okay, sorry, you're right. In my head "multi-master" is N > 2, for some reason. Probably because of Bucardo. Also, we're only on 9.5, so I haven't gotten to play with BDR yet, though I do have a meeting next week
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by rosser 10y ago
Postgres has two-phase commit, which can be used at the application level to implement distributed transactions. It does not have multi-master replication natively, though there are companion projects that enable it.
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by rosser 10y ago
The thing you need to understand about Oracle is that it's never — well, never in my experience, and I've worked as a DBA (mostly postgres, but I have had my hands on some Oracle) for a decade now — chosen by the technologists. It
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by rosser 10y ago
It's less that there are two types than it is that they're complementary aspects of a larger thing. You can avail yourself of one — to great (if incomplete) benefit, even — without availing yourself of any of the others.
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by rosser 10y ago
Two people are dead and the context you think I was concerned about is some poor CEO playing damage control?
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by rosser 10y ago
Then say something like "means things like the Glowforge", instead of "probably means a Glowforge". One denotes membership in a certain class, providing an example. The other unambiguously suggests the example is the cul
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by rosser 10y ago
[citation needed]
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by rosser 10y ago
From The Fine Article: > Mr. Engel, a Brooklyn-based journalist who writes for Vocativ, a media and technology outlet, was among those charged with felony rioting and released. He said by email on Wednesday that he was unable to comment
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A Vigilante Is Warning Admins of Open Databases Before They Get Hacked(motherboard.vice.com)
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by rosser 10y ago
I can confirm this. My cousin and his wife met as senior staffers for sitting senators. (They're now both lobbyists; go figure.) This mirrors — even significantly expands — their counsel.
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by rosser 10y ago
How did I know this was going to be Lexmark, before I even clicked to read The Fine Article? Oh, right. Because Lexmark.
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by rosser 10y ago
That's probably a relevant variable I don't have a lot of exposure to: I tend not to use the pool/line fares often.

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