sbov

23 ms·

181.
by sbov 8y ago
Our controllers use APIs. This was common before SPAs became all the rage.
182.
by sbov 8y ago
Usually 1 job means 1 person-year worth of work. So 6.5 years of a tech worker would usually mean 6.5 jobs. The jobs also tend to include things like construction workers, etc. So if you hire 500 people to build the place over 2 years tha
183.
by sbov 8y ago
> Now, it feels like that creative energy is flowing through Minecraft-like games and massively improved freely available game engines. Is it really? I play a lot of strategy games on steam (civ, stellaris, crusader kings 2, eu4) and th
184.
by sbov 8y ago
> Something I learned the hard way when I first started out in business is to never make your business dependent on a single entity. Seems impossible. Assuming you're an internet business, how did you make your business not depende
185.
by sbov 8y ago
Well your original post made no mention of this. I know plenty of people with kids that have to travel for work. And they make it work. FYI, retaliation over parental leave is a thing too. I have a friend who took 2 months parental leave.
186.
by sbov 8y ago
That was written in July 27 2017. I doubt its still in Beta.
187.
by sbov 8y ago
They weren't saying its just IRC so it isn't a viable business model. They're saying its just IRC so it shouldn't be a CPU hog. Your link is not really relevant here because it talks of business viability not program pe
188.
by sbov 8y ago
This is one benefit of having a unique name. My good friend, "Robert Miller" is out of luck. Me, well, yeah. Only one person with my name in the United States, possibly the world.
189.
by sbov 8y ago
Then when it fails, you blame the programming language rather than your experience in programming.
190.
by sbov 8y ago
I'm always paranoid about this stuff. There's lots of fancy tech words in that article. Before you use ANY piece of backup tech you do not 100.0000000000% understand, back up your data with tech you COMPLETELY and UTTERLY underst
191.
by sbov 8y ago
> why you'd need 13,000 people to do that? From my understanding, creating 13,000 jobs means you will create 13,000 person-years worth of jobs. If you employ 1,000 people for 13 years you have satisfied the definition.
192.
by sbov 8y ago
Not every idea is a take-over-the-world multi billion dollar business. Something might be completely sustainable as a medium sized business but it will never have a large enough target audience to be able to scale (as the product was origi
193.
by sbov 8y ago
My pessimistic view is that nothing will fix SF or California in the near future because California's housing mess has been a slow moving continual disaster since the late 60s-early 70s. The problem predates prop 13, which was enacted
194.
by sbov 8y ago
I think at least part of the argument is that if the union spends time and money improving general working conditions, you're benefiting regardless of whether or not you're part of the union.
195.
by sbov 8y ago
A job doesn't have to be the highest status to still be high status.
196.
by sbov 8y ago
Its not so bad if you make good use of your hotkeys. E.g. on Ubuntu the "windows key" + number will switch to that program in your dock. I have it setup like this: win+1 = IDE, win+2 = terminal, win+3 = test browser, win+4 = d
197.
by sbov 8y ago
I'm curious - are skyscrapers really the cheapest option per person? I tried to search but haven't been able to find any numbers. I ask because recently I was reading about the old housing projects in the USA. One thing the writ
198.
by sbov 8y ago
I graduated from a no-name college shortly after the dotcom bubble burst and it was still easy for me to find a job paying $60k/year, which was plenty to live off as a single person in the SF bay area at the time.
199.
by sbov 8y ago
I have my own personal examples directory for each piece of tech I use. And where possible, each starts with just main() and zero libraries. I do have examples hooking it up to other tech, because that's important to know too sometime
200.
by sbov 8y ago
> What are the chances of both a 4 disk RAID failing AND a USB drive at the same time? Probably close to 100% if your house catches on fire.
201.
by sbov 8y ago
> "I was very surprised that such a high percentage of my group was laid off, because my group was running under budget and was exceeding its performance targets." Under budget, exceeding targets, so when you say changes with t
202.
by sbov 8y ago
Interestingly, from the article too: > Opposition to the resolution came mainly from Australia, Canada, the European Union and the US.
203.
by sbov 8y ago
There's lots of things like this spoken about real estate agents that kinda make sense if you view humans as 100% money driven logic machines, but these are not the way humans necessarily behave. Our real estate agent certainly told us
204.
by sbov 8y ago
Law Enforcement Officer
205.
by sbov 8y ago
Yeah, our last on call incident was like 2 weeks ago. Before that, months ago. A long time ago we had every little thing page us. Plz no. So many false hits. Things that can wait don't page us. It sends an email, and if we see it an
206.
by sbov 8y ago
Sure. But scheduling someone for 168 hours in a week means life will get in the way. The way its being phrased though makes it sound like its a privilege rather than a basic fact of life. Put another way: recognizing this gets you about a
207.
by sbov 8y ago
What do you mean by at scale? At what scale? In the past, I've supported a few million daily active users on a single MySQL database. Use cases obviously vary, your numbers may not line up. But I'm pretty sure there are lot of sta
208.
by sbov 8y ago
> Presumably other restaurants are thriving? Maybe some are, but a lot are not. From my experience the vast majority in SF only last a few years. I talked with a friend who lived in SF for 30 years and he said it's pretty normal t
209.
by sbov 8y ago
Depends on the time of day. At noon a hat does just fine protecting ears and necks.
210.
by sbov 8y ago
Here's my setup, it's pretty similar to the other person's: Followup: stuff that I'm blocked on (e.g. maybe I'm waiting on someone, maybe I have to let something run for some time, etc) Doing: stuff I'm activel

More ›