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by rubyfan 8y ago
I agree with the sentiment, the United States is somewhat uptight especially when it comes to telling other people how to live their lives. Certainly this is a contributing factor. Minorities are also treated with extra scrutiny almost ever
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by rubyfan 8y ago
“Do it right” is what we want, “better safe than sorry” is what we usually get. “Better safe than sorry” in practice usually ends up looking like a tool for acquiring broad agreement with stakeholders and spreading accountability. I have se
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by rubyfan 8y ago
I thought this was the most interesting question also. My own experience bias suggests there is a scale problem related to skilled workers. That is to say there are fewer people with skills needed to achieve the work demanded (by the whole
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by rubyfan 8y ago
Square is focused on in person card transactions whereas Stripe is focused primarily on online transactions and supports multiple types of payment method (CC, ACH, ApplePay, Bitcoin, etc). Stripe also handles outgoing payments (marketplace,
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by rubyfan 8y ago
The little box you type your credit card in is a huge pain in the ass for companies larger and small due to some compliance requirements from financial institutions called PCI. I can’t understate the ass pain, system complexity, legal revie
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by rubyfan 8y ago
As a recent kidney stone sufferer I find it tremendously hard to agree with this headline.
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Because you’ve done something similar three times before in different categories doesn’t mean you’ve found a market. Solutions shouldn’t search for problems. Identify market fit without investing tremendous time and energy. If you have to c
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by rubyfan 8y ago
> It shouldn't be up to the billionaires to choose where to spend money that should be in the hands of national governments and workers. Yeah I couldn’t disagree any harder with this statement. The property rights are an essential
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by rubyfan 8y ago
Thanks for that, I realized I block web fonts and wasn’t seeing the badness.
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That last bit would be interesting. You’d want to tie it to average salary of startup workers though? “Available” is a relative term right?
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by rubyfan 8y ago
I agree, totally true even with some small trivial apps. The few places a Sinatra app have worked for me are highly specialized, single method and generally have been for performance reasons and could have been in any other framework due to
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by rubyfan 8y ago
We have blue coat as well. It’s a tool for tyrants. Every blog is blocked on ours and the reasons listed is “anyone can publish and content.” Yeah welcome to the Internet.
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by rubyfan 8y ago
That’s helpful, maybe I’m naive but isn’t that like an Excel workload? I haven’t seen scenarios where the entire database needs that kind of functionality. Can you elaborate on what kind of data and business problem one would be working on
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by rubyfan 8y ago
Can anyone elaborate a use case for something like this? I’m guessing there’s some blockchain connection but it’s not immediately obvious
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The article mentioned his story will be made into a TV series produced by 50 cent.
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by rubyfan 8y ago
I have used Splunk in the past on-prem. They are expensive and to your point and a lot of capability that wasn’t used. We had investigated Gray Log, Fluentd, Logstash and others. If we started now, I’d say the ELK stack (Elasticseach, Logst
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by rubyfan 8y ago
TIL: Haiku OS is still around.
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by rubyfan 8y ago
After about 2 months of endless “Johnny Johnny” and “Finger Family” videos which were bad enough, a video came up that used the MF word. My wife reacted appropriately and just deleted the YouTube app. Problem solved, no chance encounters wi
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by rubyfan 8y ago
Probably in the long run and it depends on the lead duties. Do you have actual HR responsibility or is it leading a project or deliverables team? The difference I’d draw is that HR is harder. People are complex and not always rational - HR
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by rubyfan 8y ago
Why do so many Rust projects lead with telling you their number one feature is type safety? It’s Rust we get it, stop telling us about your type safety! Also, what problem is this solving that countless other near identical web frameworks d
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by rubyfan 8y ago
Reach varies around 1 million give or take a few hundred thousand depending on the season. That’s similar to other ScyFy shows but from what I read there’s some dispute over cost and rights that they couldn’t get over. Hopefully Netflix pic
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by rubyfan 8y ago
It’s a pretty serious problem if public company executives who choose how to spend investors dollars actually believe SpaceX’s famous people are on Mars. Then they pay SpaceX to start carrying goods to Mars to sell to the Martians. SpaceX o
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by rubyfan 8y ago
Love this > When Jobs was asked what it was like to work with Rand, he said, “I asked him if he would come up with a few options, and he said, ‘No, I will solve your problem for you and you will pay me. You don’t have to use the solution
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by rubyfan 8y ago
That’s why I said “something like”, it’s not quite parallel construction but something like I already know it was you, and I can see part of your fingerprint in this photo The article is light on details about how the fingerprint was actu
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Sounded something like parallel construction to me. We think it’s this guy and we can match a small portion of his fingerprint with the picture. Maybe it’s statistically significant beyond reasonable doubt but seems like a little too much o
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by rubyfan 8y ago
I don’t understand the decentralized part of your comment. There’s a reason Facebook and perhaps AOL before it was successful - it’s easy and everyone is there. I’m a huge privacy advocate but the decentralized Facebook alternatives are a l
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by rubyfan 9y ago
I don’t understand why they don’t allow user to get a prompt and opt-in to the study.
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Was anyone able to spot which cleaning sprays were problematic?
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Am I reading it right that it’s Dart based? Seems like a non-starter for many.
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by rubyfan 9y ago
Technology choices at startups should center around ability to rapid prototype. People screw around with new technology too much at startups. Your job number one is to prove your business concept, don’t let the latest tech fad get in the wa

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