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811.
by spydum 11y ago
it's not all about uptime. It's about upfront capital costs. It also highly depends on the service and solution you build. I know in traditional EC2 space, over the long term you absolute can self-host for far less money, but you
812.
by spydum 11y ago
i think this hits the nail on the head. The real problem is the terrible managers, where the only time they even considered their direct reports performance, was during the annual performance reviews. Now, since there is no formal mechanism
813.
by spydum 11y ago
i think the largest obstacle is that performance bonuses are still paid ANNUALLY. If I have an amazing Q1/Q2/Q3, but a terrible Q4, guess what happens when payouts come around? Manager remembers the last thing you did. if the indu
814.
by spydum 11y ago
I get your meaning now, fair enough. I think most of what you are interested in are financial/accounting terms, I don't know how specific they are to startups, other than most startups are built upon promises of finances. How abou
815.
by spydum 11y ago
literally query that search phrase, and the top 5-10 sites answer your question https://www.google.com/?q=startup%20jargon%20for%20dummies
816.
by spydum 11y ago
Ahhh, no.. I was looking at line 57 and somehow missed the actual call to $2 on 59. Clear as a bell now
817.
by spydum 11y ago
I'm missing something, what actually "executes" the command here echo "$2" > "$btrfs_path/$uuid/$uuid.cmd" Is something watching for .cmd? Is this some behavior of util-linux (for which, my fe
818.
by spydum 11y ago
true.. the problem i suspect is people tend to idolize brands and products when they are young, precisely because they are young and are seen as the underdog. As they age, its incredibly difficult (I dare say impossible only for the sheer l
819.
by spydum 11y ago
wow, thanks! great line: "It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!"
820.
by spydum 11y ago
i think the sad pattern I see in a lot of these code golf implementations is the solution score is based on Lines of Code, which we already agree is a POOR representation of either complexity or simplicity. I think it would be far more inte
821.
by spydum 11y ago
Sort of like the truth in lending documents you get when signing off on a loan? Interesting idea
822.
by spydum 11y ago
would be interesting to see vehicle age by geography. I suspect all the rural farmers are the ones skewing the average (it's not unusual to have a 20-30yr old truck out on the farm.. You can fix them with the same tools as your tractor
823.
by spydum 11y ago
This does raise the question though: when is it appropriate to drop old platform support for any OSS project, and how do you even measure it? User surveys seems insufficient.
824.
by spydum 11y ago
as long as they continue to route traffic out to the real destination.. who would notice latency jump from 50ms to say.. 120ms? I don't know if they did this, but you could absolutely be covert about this, and be nearly transparent to
825.
by spydum 11y ago
i hate to admit, there are a lot of places I thought cloud services could be leveraged, this just wasn't one of them (keep in mind, I say useful, not necessarily best fit). This is such a cool idea, makes me realize what other creative
826.
by spydum 11y ago
Same here.. I have been on occasion caught staring off into a blank editor with white background and just assumed the yellow was some eye strain related thing. Also..totally agree and I do the same: Circular polarizer for camera can ineed m
827.
by spydum 11y ago
mm superH. reminds me of the old HP Jornada's.. they also ran on SH3 processor (well, some did). back in the day these were mindblowing to me.. a real pocked-sized PC, with a modem no less!
828.
by spydum 11y ago
I suspect explaining that pricing model is a sales risk. flat fee or price per contact is far more intuitive I suspect. Even reading your explanation, I'm not clear on what it will cost me -- this sounds more like pre-paying? how long
829.
by spydum 11y ago
The problem there is that the person/group conducting the test (presumably security team of a 500 person org) doesn't know if it will cost 500 x PerClickRate, or 5 x PerClickRate.. They don't yet know the stupidity of their u
830.
by spydum 11y ago
I dunno about parent, but I find skipping lunch and maybe just having a very small snack does tons for my productivity.. The swing in blood sugar after lunch makes a noticeable dent in my work output quality and volume. It also usually mean
831.
by spydum 11y ago
well, disappoint.. show a shiny tool, then say how it took 6+ years to develop, and wont likely be open sourced. yes.. lot of us would like to implement something similar, just dont have the engineering resources to flush it out. if I had t
832.
by spydum 11y ago
if i were playing the black hat, i would have targeted the reporters who have the document dump. they are least likely to have the technical know how to keep it secure. i think i recall that snowden gave them some instructions around how to
833.
by spydum 11y ago
full table leaks happen ALL the time. The reasons you dont notice or hear about it is: - the providers which do this by accident are too small (multiple asn hops away from a major transit provider) to become the best choice for most peopl
834.
by spydum 11y ago
Absolutely. You don't have to look far to see h1b sponsors lourding it over their captives heads. Further, if I recall, green card application clock can get reset if you change jobs.. So even if you aren't being abused, you might
835.
by spydum 11y ago
does reddit not have some sort of posting throughput limit?
836.
by spydum 11y ago
I think a lot of people tend to over-estimate how "scalable" they need their platform to be. Or worse, they spend so much effort on what they think will be a bottleneck, only to find they spent optimizing something which could ha
837.
by spydum 11y ago
Exactly this. While the concepts had no reasonable explanation of "how" they work given our present understanding of biology, that does not mean there wasn't a real mechanism at play here. Heck, this exact linkage could entir
838.
by spydum 11y ago
Very likely I will get downvotes for this but: I suspect we will find there was far less quackery in some of the eastern medicine practices than we thought.
839.
by spydum 11y ago
Have you never encountered such a bug? It isn't difficult to understand how hard a bug might be to track down when it only affects such a small subset of your users and only under specific circumstances. It is the dreaded Heisenbug
840.
by spydum 11y ago
really the whiteboard interview is about telling the story of development.. not solving the problem. it would be interesting to see two scenarios up online in video format: scenario 1: dev writes out very elevant well crafted/optimized

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