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by sologoub 8y ago
The sad part is that in many developing countries 100mbps is now quite common. Meanwhile, even in LA it’s not very consistent when you have this speed advertised on your contract. Only place where I reliably saw 100mbps down was in SFO on t
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by sologoub 8y ago
Haven’t ran into much as our needs are fairly basic right now. Biggest gripe for me is the lack of comparison period within the tiles that display numbers. For example you have 1k users doing X. Is that good or bad? Data in context is much
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by sologoub 8y ago
> When we asked them to demo, their presales consultant struggled to create anything other than a canned demo. The opposite experience is what sold me on Looker - super competent team and very clear in how “the magic works”. All logic an
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by sologoub 8y ago
Very curious - what do you think makes the image version superior to the text-based smiley? And as a follow-on, do you think the animated and personalized versions of these emojis make it that much more effective? For me, the text version c
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by sologoub 8y ago
Wonder if we are repeating the sentiment from 1958: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17184576
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by sologoub 8y ago
At $5.25 mil, how far are you hoping they’ll depreciate?
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by sologoub 8y ago
True, but then again Google/FB/etc offer better access to a more targetted audience at a reasonable price. I’d consider using something like this if I had already deployed marketing capital elsewhere and hit diminishing returns. T
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by sologoub 8y ago
To expand on that, say you want to market to only people within the ER room itself because you are an attorney for personal injury. You will most likely get everyone who’s phone was within the overall geofence +100yards or so (sometimes bet
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by sologoub 8y ago
Key paragraph: “He neglects to mention that many of them are actually just retirees. According to Saez and Zucman, whose data Stewart uses, more than 40 percent of all wealth belonging to Americans between and 90th and 99th percentiles is h
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by sologoub 8y ago
In addition to what others have stated, it’s also a question of productivity - when your team has to maintain ops, you are not doing something else. Is it your highest and best use to be tuning and maintaining Kafka? It could be, but only y
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by sologoub 8y ago
San Ysidro Ranch was severely damaged by the mudslide. Hopefully, they can rebuild and reopen.
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by sologoub 8y ago
The article states nothing of the cost inefficiency, that is cost of producing the good or service. Instead, the article tries to claim that the price of education makes it a questionable investment, given the monetary returns. Higher educa
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by sologoub 8y ago
Reading the article I thought to myself that it’s a crappy piece that oversimplifies the complex landscape and tries to draw sensationalist conclusions... but after reading the Tweeter thread by the very scientist who’s work is cited, the a
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by sologoub 8y ago
If there is a guaranteed delivery date, they have to honor it. This was a couple of years ago - I ordered replacement computer parts to get a failed laptop up and running for a critical timeline. The parts didn’t arrive so I had to search f
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by sologoub 8y ago
It’s not my solution, just a direct quote from PEP.
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by sologoub 8y ago
On the __slots__, the article claims that these do: https://realpython.com/python-data-classes/#optimizing-data-... EDIT: From PEP 557: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0557/#support-f
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by sologoub 8y ago
Data classes was an interesting read and will definitely save some time in the future, but I think the __slots__ mention is where I got the most value from (big memory and access speed savings!). Additional reading on __slots__: https:&#x2
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by sologoub 8y ago
Got super excited about this - I mean what’s not to like?! Then, decided to check my other big usecase for when on the road - Netflix and other entertainment... total flop: Resolution: - Up to 1080p on Google Chrome - Up to 480p on the Netf
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by sologoub 8y ago
That math really doesn’t work - $6,300 67 years ago (1951) in today’s money would be $61,478.82 ( https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm ). She would definitely have to do well in the market, but I wonder what
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by sologoub 8y ago
Seattle doesn’t have an equivalent of prop. 13, yet without enough supply, prices still have skyrocketed. With the current supply problem in Bay Area, realistically all you are going to get is marginally more displacement of people who anch
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by sologoub 9y ago
Don’t know if VR/telepresence has given any real benefit to typical tech work. That said, my team at a prior employer was distributed between our offices in LA, SF, Seattle, Bozeman MT, Toronto. We met in person no more than once a qua
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by sologoub 9y ago
As @tlb said - it’s temporary and it’s also not sustainable since it relied on essentially stressing your workforce more. Unless you have a fresh supply of “bodies” with equivalent (usually low) skills, you run the risk of burning out your
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by sologoub 9y ago
When it’s not attached to you, you start to tune things out. Most large cities are riddled with cameras and police presence. Granted, they aren’t just disappearing people in the states (most of the time), but that police cruise that just pa
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by sologoub 9y ago
Agree that the promise of remote work hasn’t quite panned out, yet. However, the article is also noting something related: > Today, operators sitting at computers hundreds of miles from the farm can easily steer gigantic harvesters via s
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by sologoub 9y ago
OP is probably referring to the fact that in wrongful death suits, society has put a very tangible financial number on the value of human life. This made it possible for corporations to make trade-off between profit and liability, giving th
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by sologoub 9y ago
Wonder how they controlled for the Hawthorne effect? Mass surveillance is often in the back of one’s mind, but there are few physical reminders. Being fitted with equipment that is intended to read your brainwaves definitely would alter the
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by sologoub 9y ago
This is so true and so sad that it’s actually funny! This issue is one of the things that drove me to utilize a dedicated VPS for each project. This keeps environments clean, ensures project/client isolation and allows me to utilize th
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by sologoub 9y ago
Unfortunately, can’t seem to edit any more. That said, I’d still like to see a source that specifically addresses the entire content of what’s sold in a US grocery store. The link simply refers to homogenization via the mechanical process.
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by sologoub 9y ago
Good call, I’ll edit to clarify that. In milk you still get natural separation: https://www.foodbusinessnews.net/articles/10654-stabilizer-o... It’s far more pronounced in milk products mixed with something else - choc
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by sologoub 9y ago
US run-of-the-mill milk isn’t even what most people would think it is. Typical “non-industrial” way of getting “milk” is to milk a cow into some bucket/pan to hold the liquid. It will start separating and cream will float to the top. I

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