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by saryant 10y ago
Also the 27 million people living in Texas.
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by saryant 10y ago
Could the more modern games my generation grew up with be more immersive, having a larger effect on mental development?
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by saryant 10y ago
Fair critique. I was thinking of an acquaintance who fits the mould I described. He lives in a shithole town where the are no jobs and no prospects. He complains endlessly about how he'll never find a career. Why doesn't he tak
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by saryant 10y ago
I'm a 26 year old male and never got any deeper into video games than some intense rounds of Mario Kart in college. I've played others but generally lose interest and move on quickly. Doubt I've played a video game in a few
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by saryant 10y ago
Isn't this also solved by just load balancing so that the customer ends up reconnected to a healthy node while the downed node is replaced? We run our Scala apps on Aurora/Mesos behind a load balancer (hundreds of instances for ju
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by saryant 10y ago
A text file with the force of law behind it. Power changes with men with gens are empowered to enforce it.
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by saryant 10y ago
Is Japan really the poster child for ethical corporate/government relationships given the TEPCO debacle around Fukushima?
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by saryant 10y ago
I had an account in France for a while without any trouble. BNP Paribas.
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by saryant 10y ago
Houston uses it occasionally. Probably picked it up from all the oil expats in town.
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by saryant 10y ago
Enron employees called it "rank-and-yank."
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by saryant 10y ago
1979? American frackers didn't exist yet. North Sea production had only become significant a few years earlier (the Brent field was discovered in '71). Petrobras was irrelevant. Venezuela had nationalized its oil industry just th
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by saryant 10y ago
I was able to step up to a major tech company because they noticed my blog posts, Stack Overflow answers and conference talks. That nearly doubled my income.
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by saryant 10y ago
Without exit immigration, none of our airports are configured in a way that makes this workable today. There's nothing stopping someone in transit from just walking out the door. Some airports are designed in a way to quickly facilita
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by saryant 10y ago
Colorado with Geico. $300k/$300k bodily injury, $100k property damage, $300k uninsured motorist injury and a few other miscellaneous coverages.
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by saryant 10y ago
I have a 2011 Fit Sport. Great little car. Doesn't hurt that it's dirt cheap to maintain and insure. I have maxed-out liability limits on my policy and only pay $35 a month.
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by saryant 10y ago
The java.net package already exists. And there's Netty, which is more battle-tested than likely any networking library save BSD's.
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by saryant 10y ago
Having seen the giant ice cream-stuffed crepes they sell in Harajuku, I'm not sure how true that is anymore...
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by saryant 10y ago
I have chronic anxiety. Last year I moved to a new apartment and—more importantly—to a quiet side street. My old apartment was right on the busiest road in town. After a few days of adjusting to the new noises, my quality of sleep dramati
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by saryant 10y ago
map and getOrElse are syntactic sugar for fold, not the other way around.
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by saryant 10y ago
Tillerson's predecessor Lee Raymond (who had a far bigger impact on the industry) had a PhD in chemical engineering.
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by saryant 10y ago
Twitter has not moved away from Scala.
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by saryant 10y ago
Dynamically scaling a Kafka cluster in seconds is generally not something you're going to want to do anyways, regardless of what it's implemented in. Rebalancing partitions isn't fast.
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by saryant 10y ago
I knew some of the devs (they were in the same TechStars Cloud group as the last company I worked for). Brilliant team that lost the wind in their sails after the acquisition.
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by saryant 10y ago
In 2011? Yeah, I think that was reasonable. The same company is now offering 400Mbps and up to 1Gbps in select areas.
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by saryant 10y ago
San Antonio's internet service is quite good in large parts of the city—some areas are served by two cable providers. When I lived in Olmos Park a few years ago I think I paid $40/month for 50mbps.
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How Did Gnip Get the Twitter Deal?(one.valeski.org)
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by saryant 10y ago
In middle school, an orthodontist refused to take me on as a patient because my father worked for an oil company.
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by saryant 10y ago
I grew up in California. Bay Area. There's plenty of intolerance there too. Anyone who thinks it's a utopia is deluding themselves.
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by saryant 10y ago
My 401k has better funds than I could ever get in my IRA. Yes, many 401k's have terrible fund choices but by no means do all of them fall prey to that. Also, if you're maxing out both your IRA and 401k limits, even if you hav
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by saryant 10y ago
Is it really unreasonable for someone to read something like Bernstein's "If You Can"? It takes an hour. https://www.etf.com/docs/IfYouCan.pdf

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