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721.
by saryant 11y ago
The onboard wi-fi and IFE are provided by external vendors (Panasonic, LiveTV, etc) and United probably doesn't want to pay for their bugs.
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by saryant 11y ago
I was just pointing out a piece of historical trivia.
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by saryant 11y ago
Well, Hilton used to be owned by TWA and later United.
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by saryant 11y ago
The biggest weakness of Akka (Erlang for the JVM) is the GC. If you aren't really careful about memory usage it's easy to trigger big GC pauses that render your node unreachable by the rest of the cluster. CPU-intensive operati
725.
by saryant 11y ago
Hello fellow Trinity alum! I too suffered at the hands of Howland. That's why I sat in on Eggen's FP class after he took over the course (he's probably the one who taught you Scheme?). He was a good guy but he scared years o
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by saryant 11y ago
Location: Boulder, CO Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: maybe Technologies: Scala/Akka/Play, CoreOS, Docker, Neo4j, ElasticSearch. Generalist etc. Resume/CV: ryantanner.org https://github.com/ryantanner/
727.
by saryant 11y ago
Tokyo has two competing subway systems as well, the private Toei and the municipality Tokyo Metro. Fortunately those are so well integrated the average visitor would never even know.
728.
by saryant 11y ago
Only for international arrivals. Domestic->domestic or domestic->international transits usually don't require reclearing security (other than screwball airports like LAX that just don't have airside connections between ever
729.
by saryant 11y ago
It was great. Definitely looking forward to 2016.
730.
by saryant 11y ago
Last weekend at LambdaConf (functional programming conference in Boulder) we were joking that all programming is fundamentally just a function of String -> Any. Fewer weird looks when you make that joke surrounded by Haskellites and Scal
731.
by saryant 11y ago
I'm not an economist, but leasing an asset like land or machinery doesn't allow a company to lever up its balance sheet.
732.
by saryant 11y ago
How is that property damage?
733.
by saryant 11y ago
When I was in Japan last fall locals were astounded to find that I (an American) didn't have a LINE account. I'd never even heard of it.
734.
by saryant 11y ago
Confirmation bias? The cancer rate in the US is roughly in the middle of the pack for rich nations.
735.
by saryant 11y ago
Thanks, I wasn't aware of all that.
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by saryant 11y ago
None of that has happened. An amicus brief has been filed, that is all. An amicus brief is not law and the Supreme Court has not yet ruled one way or another.
737.
by saryant 11y ago
I know of a fintech startup that hired a guy who had been convicted of embezzlement at a previous company. If I could short that company...
738.
by saryant 11y ago
My email is in my profile.
739.
by saryant 11y ago
I was let go a few months ago from a small startup. I had two good offers on the same day just from putting out the word that I was looking. Both were more than a 50% pay increase but I turned them down because neither interested me much
740.
by saryant 11y ago
Note that Twitter's Scala School is very out of date, though I'm told an updated version is on its way.
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by saryant 11y ago
The point, from the project page: > The goal of Metascala is to create a platform to experiment with the JVM: a 3000 line JVM written in Scala is probably much more approachable than the 1,000,000 lines of C/C++ which make up HotSpo
742.
by saryant 11y ago
Some of it is definitely misleading. Saying that Akka forces you into a logging library when it can be used with log4j, logback, provides a bridge with slf4j, etc, is just being uncharitable. As is claiming that "commercial tools&quo
743.
by saryant 11y ago
Because they have legacy Hadoop to support?
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by saryant 11y ago
So we'll compare Vietnam, which is 2.7x larger than North Korea. Vietnam still has 200x more paved roads than North Korea. Measuring paved road per capita, Vietnam still comes out several orders of magnitude ahead.
745.
by saryant 11y ago
You're taking one tiny stretch of (empty) road as evidence of the quality of infrastructure across the entire country. India has 2.53 million kilometers of paved road. Vietnam has 148,000 km. The CIA's 2006 estimate for North Ko
746.
by saryant 11y ago
United doesn't send out 1099s.
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by saryant 11y ago
The Continental website isn't pretty but it's very functional. Old United's site was called united.bomb for a reason.
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by saryant 11y ago
My guess is wifi and entertainment are excluded because United doesn't build those. Depending on the aircraft they're provided by Panasonic, LiveTV, etc. in the case of LiveTV (United's vendor for DirecTV) it's even sell
749.
by saryant 11y ago
Of course some Airbnb hosts give up their entire place. There's a big button to limit your search to just those properties. Airbnb shows 667 out of 918 rentals in Santa Monica are for the entire place, i.e. no host present. The vast
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by saryant 11y ago
Plenty of people tried to blow the whistle. The SEC and Fed were warned but were unable to comprehend the overarching microeconomic problems brewing within each firm. And that doesn't change the overarching problem of defining the ri

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