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by skewart 9y ago
Improving interview processes is great! What do you think are the best ways to interview candidates, as opposed to whiteboarding and code challenges?
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by skewart 9y ago
Any idea what's causing the revenue problem? I assume it's getting harder to attract students willing to pay for a bootcamp? Is that because fewer people are looking to learn to code than a few years ago? Or because they're
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by skewart 9y ago
> Now I know, there is a reason why hotels charge more, you pay for the safety, the standards and a 24 hours reception desk. Yup. I've pretty much only ever had bad experiences with AirBnB. At this point I've just stopped usin
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by skewart 9y ago
Yup. There seems to be a lot of focus on the NFL mistreating players, but college football seems far more exploitive.
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by skewart 9y ago
Very few NFL players make $10M over 5 years - most careers don't last that long, and/or compensation isn't that high. Then consider that few elite college players make it to the NFL, and very few high school players make it t
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by skewart 9y ago
> Several qualities of Kubernetes stood out from the other platforms we evaluated: the vibrant open source community supporting the project, the first run experience (which allowed us to deploy a small cluster and an application in the f
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by skewart 9y ago
> Edit: downvoters please explain why I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that you would suggest any ICO investor might let their financial position influence the way they talk about cryptocurrencies. These people are visionary investors
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by skewart 9y ago
I strongly disagree. I switched to Duck Duck Go about six months ago and haven't missed Google at all. Maybe Google was much better at some point in time in the past, but I haven't noticed any meaningful difference these days. Go
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by skewart 9y ago
> The problem is exclusive to serverless. That's simply not true. You can accidentally run up huge bills with EC2 instances too. One typo in your CloudFormation templates could spin up a ton of reserved p2.16xlarge's. Of cou
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by skewart 9y ago
Honest question, why is that hilarious? There is a huge amount of cheap, cookie-cutter housing in American suburbia. In fact, I suspect a large majority of single family suburban houses built in the last 50 years are rubber stamp clones fro
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by skewart 9y ago
> Central Park is a desirable place to spend time, unlike the artificial, pseudopublic spaces that separate highrise complexes. Have you ever lived in a high-rise surrounded by open space? A lot of people, myself included, really like it
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Ask HN: Biggest wins when reducing cloud computing costs
1 points by skewart 9y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: How do you manage cloud infrastructure and services costs?
1 points by skewart 9y ago|1 comments
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by skewart 9y ago
> From the results of the study, one would infer that if they adopt these 4 traits, they will become CEOs. Did you read the article? They were looking at what makes some existing CEOs more successful than other CEOs. Nowhere did they say
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by skewart 9y ago
Are you just looking for a list of company names? Or are you looking for more in-depth descriptions and/or case studies of how it's being used? Ben Kehoe, who works at iRobot, has written quite about using serverless in production
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by skewart 9y ago
I'm curious to hear more about why image representations of music are horrible. What are the problems or limitations? Is there a better way to perform a similar kind of "dimensionality reduction" on music?
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by skewart 9y ago
> Plus, NoOps conceals the risk to have a de-evolutions of devs into even dumber IDE users that can’t even type “sudo systemctl start mysql” at the terminal. You can say the same thing about ops people being "dumb command line users
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by skewart 9y ago
> Uber's success is due to the CEO being an asshole. That's simply not true. Uber's success is due to being in the right place at the right time and executing well in the early years. The combination of smartphones and wid
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by skewart 9y ago
I disagree. There are lots of different kinds of "comments" on blogs. I agree that pingbacks and one word reactions are awful. However, comments that are a few sentences, or a few of paragraphs, of good thoughts are fantastic. Oft
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by skewart 9y ago
> ...most people most of the time want music they don't have to think too much about or devote toouch attention to. I agree with that statement - dedicating significant energy to finding new music is a fairly niche hobby. However, I
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by skewart 9y ago
Yes! This. SoundCloud should have focused on helping musicians promote themselves, connect with fans and monetize their music. And yeah, this space is pretty wide open right now. The ways people create and consume music are changing, and
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by skewart 9y ago
I'm not so sure that's true. Their key problem is that they didn't understand how much value there is in up-and-coming, amateur, and underground music. The record labels only have power when it comes to their catalogue. Sound
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by skewart 9y ago
There's only so long that can last though. If nobody is buying at the high prices then the agents who refuse to list lower won't earn any commissions and they'll eventually decide to lower their threshold.
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by skewart 9y ago
Twitter is so disappointingly annoying to use. Reply threads are a pain. Tweetstorms get old. And all too often there is way too much spam. However, there are amazing communities of people sharing interesting content and having great conv
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by skewart 9y ago
> IMHO, the main reason Rails is declining in relevance isn't microservices or the productivity (!) of Java, but the fact that more and more development effort for web applications is moving into JS front-end coding. This. I also su
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by skewart 9y ago
> like it or not, microservices are here and they solve real problems Sure, sometimes they do. But more often than not they introduce more problems than they fix, or at best, they fail to fix the original problems. Most of the benefits
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by skewart 9y ago
They're replacing it with Java/Spring. That's hardly the new web-dev hotness. I suspect this change is less a reflection on Rails and more an indicator that there is a business opportunity to teach new programmers Java, beca
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by skewart 9y ago
What did you end up deciding? And what were you thinking the benefit might be? My sense is that for a small team a microservices architecture might be more trouble than it's worth, but I can definitely see how some kinds of applicatio
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by skewart 9y ago
The massive difference is that Kite is using manipulative, dishonest tactics. When I sign up for a service like Code Climate it's very clear that I am giving them access to some of my code. I also have easy control over what code they
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by skewart 9y ago
It definitely seems like there's quite a bit of luck in getting to the front page - submitting at the right time when people who would be interested happen to be looking at 'new' and feeling like upvoting. It's definite

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