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by seiji 11y ago
It solved the "rolling upgrade" problem years ago. Did it? For simplicity, http://deis.io should be preferred for modern "deploy-by-buildpack" architectures.
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by seiji 11y ago
I posted https://matt.sh/disrupt-tech-interviews a month ago surveying different approaches/tactics people could use to improve interviewing. (spoiler: it requires actual processes and formal methods to improve th
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by seiji 11y ago
"practical" as in: the programing model fits the problem domain model of modern systems. But, "practical" doesn't show up on everybody's radar much these days with so much effort focused around fads-of-the-half
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by seiji 11y ago
That's a very HN comment. Completely wrong but delivered with strong convictions. Lisp doesn't actually exist. Lisp is just axioms. You run an implementation of Lisp allowing various operations. Some flavors actually have (pra
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by seiji 11y ago
The most curious part about Stripe Atlas is they are just ε away from doing it all themselves now. Doesn't take giant leaps of the imagination to see where it could be headed next. The whole "apply" stage is probably just be
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by seiji 11y ago
Most programmers actually hate computers and now just want "cloud APIs" for everything so they don't have to think about how networking/systems/storage all works together. Most law enforcement officers actually hate
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by seiji 11y ago
You could compare the clerkly offerings https://www.clerky.com/offerings to the currently beta stripe offerings https://stripe.com/atlas/faq#What-documents-will-be-created Both systems are ways to get
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by seiji 11y ago
job placement is also an NP-hard problem.
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by seiji 11y ago
A few places offer "Company in a box" but without the automatic bank account (e.g. search google for any "Register a company" keywords or even the more startup focused https://www.clerky.com ). The most amazin
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by seiji 11y ago
well, the "type" is presumed by a schema or somewhere by the time you hit your decoder, so it's technically there even if physically absent (and "LV encoding" doesn't seem to be a thing with any meaningful sear
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by seiji 11y ago
That's clever too, but it seems we're back to masking/shifting things all over the place too (which seemed to be an anti-design goal listed above. These can also have the "avoid 10 bytes" optimization by just readin
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by seiji 11y ago
Just one summer of study and it'll be solved, right? It's always been "one summer away" for the past 60 years. Get back to us when you have an algorithm for love and art and petrichor.
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by seiji 11y ago
The encoding actually used is that the first bit of every byte is a flag for if there's a next byte, for a maximum of 10 bytes. Fun facts: those are commonly known as "vbytes." They are the slowest kind of variable width i
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by seiji 11y ago
working on strong AI is, in my mind, the ultimate challenge. So is working on antigravity, free energy, and backwards time travel, but people don't do that because they are no reasonable approaches we can try. Glorifying "AI A
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by seiji 11y ago
a mile long issue list on github, If you have enough users to have "too many issues to handle," then you're big enough that you need an official governance and contribution structure. You're also big enough where you&
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by seiji 11y ago
It's a matter of scale. Of course you can put anything you want up online (and you should!). But, if you have (or expect to have) millions of users, then one person sitting alone saying "ME ME ME" doesn't cut it. It sto
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by seiji 11y ago
nanomsg was an interesting successor to the bloated/C++/LGPL zmq, but it succumbed to old ways that don't work anymore. It's 2016 and you can't run an (intended) global-scale open source project by just being "
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by seiji 11y ago
seize some resources, invent a necessarily preposterous myth, then in exchange for demonstrating belief in the myth, re-distribute the resources arbitrarily among a minority of people who are easily replaceable and know it. Startups? how
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by seiji 11y ago
The trick is, I think GitHub stopped being a software company. At some point (after Tom left), GitHub was taken over by finance people to just pump money out of the VC system. Is there any other explanation for why GitHub The Corporation
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by seiji 11y ago
I would think that the resulting failure to achieve then triggers depression. ~1500 years ago: desire is the root cause of suffering.
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by seiji 11y ago
There's two lines of thought. Either a.) an AI will have the mental capacity of a 2 year old with the powers of a god — or — b.) an AI will have the mental capacity of a god (not a dumb Abrahamic god, but more like a universal atman)
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by seiji 11y ago
Doesn't this exactly describe human sensory input? Well, consider having a 360º array of 30 cameras all integrated into a perfect spherical sensory experience. It's something we can't really imagine experiencing natively,
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by seiji 11y ago
Drawing a smiley face on a rock doesn't make it "happy", even if your primate neocortex tells you so. That's one of the best analogies we've got with regard to "deep learning" versus reality. People aro
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by seiji 11y ago
One problem is "TLS" isn't just one thing to understand and test against. TLS involves dozens of optional cypher suites and each one has a unique performance profile. Just for fun, add !kEDH to your server's list of a
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by seiji 11y ago
Don't forget the excellent http://nymag.com/news/features/laundry-apps-2014-5/#print too. Plus, https://angel.co/laundry-1
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by seiji 11y ago
I brought its charger with me, yet I’m too lazy to connect it to the outlet, take off my watch and connect it to the charger. Not sure how that's the watch's fault? I don’t suppose to take off my watch every night and charge it
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by seiji 11y ago
Yeah, the weird thing about NYC is it's more heavily actor/waiter/bartender focused on the youth spectrum so everybody you meet is almost maximally different from everybody else. It causes a strange effect where people form
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by seiji 11y ago
But open source code is all about "no patent restrictions" and free licensing even with retained copyright (or even outright copyright assignment/dumb CLAs). Iterating those concepts don't seem to fix the issue of Twitte
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by seiji 11y ago
Yeah, it's like focusing on writing 100% test coverage for all code you use so your company is more reliable while ignoring all your code is stored on just one 10 year old HD that could fail at any moment (or fire, flood, cloverfield,
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by seiji 11y ago
Stack Risk. We need to know how much CPU power entities have at their dosposal. That's actually a great idea and almost impossible to make reliable. We could measure "stack risk" for registered, 100% above board companies

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