stephancoral

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by stephancoral 10y ago
Not to get political, but I thought as far as name anagrams go Rex Tillerson -> Risen Ex Troll is pretty amazing. Not sure how it would score with the OP's metric though - typing this as I'm on the ski lift lol
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by stephancoral 10y ago
One of the issues is that modern source control practices weren't really in play for 90s game development. The code for many Origin games, for instance, were stored on floppies that are long gone.
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by stephancoral 10y ago
The most effective and proven way to deal with "fake news" is to establish a Ministry of Truth.
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by stephancoral 10y ago
>Getting no feedback, not even a rejection, after an onsite. This happens all the time even when you are senior (10+) years like me. It's maddening and I think one of the rudest things an org can do.
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by stephancoral 10y ago
$381 million in 2015. I'd be interested in seeing where the 81 mil goes
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by stephancoral 10y ago
Craigslist has nearly $300 million in profit and only around 30 employees. Why on earth would they ever want to go public?
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by stephancoral 10y ago
this is awesome, thank you!
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by stephancoral 10y ago
Just use elasticsearch. It's easy to set up, fast, customizable, and has a lot of dev / community support. At my last company, we used kafka as our log to handle the incoming messages and then we just forwarded everything to Elast
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by stephancoral 10y ago
Thank you for the clarification. I was told by my manager that new projects could only be written in the three above-mentioned languages so I was just going by that. And yes I was part of the Clojure lobby haha. I really do hope they stream
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by stephancoral 10y ago
Because it wasn't a widely-used language in the part of the org the decree applied to. It was purely chosen to seem cool and trendy and also because it's one of the higher ups favorite languages.
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by stephancoral 10y ago
Hahah thankfully the usage and number of DSLs has dropped significantly. I still had to write stuff using Drools ( https://www.drools.org/ ) tho which was the worst thing I've ever had to do in my dev career I believe th
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by stephancoral 10y ago
I worked on cross platform services, essentially building out APIs and data delivery for both the newsroom and other tech orgs. I'm happy to answer any questions people might have about the Times - it's an interesting place to wor
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by stephancoral 10y ago
As someone who worked for the NYT until recently, I can tell you a major thing holding the Times back is the sheer amount of bloat and middle management in the business, especially tech, side of things. Useful, even revenue-generating proje
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by stephancoral 10y ago
Some might say thats a downward trajectory
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by stephancoral 10y ago
>To get the embarrassing statistics out of the way first, the survey found that 51 percent of respondents believe that stormy weather can interfere with cloud computing. To be fair, power outages at data centers caused by storms and hurr
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by stephancoral 10y ago
Look into Google's SyntaxNet - https://research.googleblog.com/2016/05/announcing-syntaxnet... Should help you break down sentences into their semantic parts. The transformations are then made by walking the
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by stephancoral 10y ago
"Threat" Lol, did you even read the article? He used it during your typical anodyne corporate speech at some event in Australia. This sentiment is as old as trade itself - "If goods don't cross borders, armies do."
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by stephancoral 10y ago
Similar to mine, tho I usually have my smoke at 16:20
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How to make 60,000+ printers print whatever you want(kur0sec.org)
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by stephancoral 10y ago
>There is no excuse for it in 'cooperation' Yes, there is. A) it is a perfectly grammatically and orthographically correct usage of the di B) There is no prescriptive body which governs usage of American English - there's
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by stephancoral 10y ago
Lol typical hacker news blowhard going off on something they have no idea about . "Orthographically" speaking there IS a justification and you would've found it if you spent three seconds of effort: diaeresis ‎(plural diaeres
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by stephancoral 10y ago
But people...run corporations! And since we live in a country has decided that corporations are persons and have rights to free speech and participation in the political realm, why not use this privilege to advance civil rights?
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by stephancoral 10y ago
Politics are involved in everything. Each business decision made by a company the size and scale of YC has political ramifications. Even something 'innocuous' as funding Scribd is a political move - why? Think about copyrights, th
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by stephancoral 10y ago
Indeed, but there is research underway to find evidence: << Black holes are extremely dense and compact objects from which light cannot escape. There is an overall consensus that black holes exist and many astronomical objects are ide
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by stephancoral 10y ago
A one hour strike at one of the busiest airports on the East Coast with NO taxis available? Probably a lot. The point is you hold a strike to STOP work, not work for less money. That's called scabbing and is the opposite of solidarity.
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by stephancoral 10y ago
It's not a show of solidarity - it is in fact the opposite. It's called scabbing.
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by stephancoral 10y ago
Everything uber does is about money and they aren't afraid to flout the law / custom and "disrupt". They swooped in during a strike. They are scabs. They are obviously doing it to grab money. Their CEO is buddy buddy wit
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by stephancoral 10y ago
Bannon is not a founder of Breitbart, but came on after Andrew Breitbart's death. But yes, he is a terrible danger to the states. This is like a bad movie.
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by stephancoral 10y ago
A library card is free in many cities.
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by stephancoral 10y ago
And in a democracy such as the US, there are certain inalienable rights to peacefully assemble and protest against perceived injustices. Blindly supporting a president isn't what a democracy is all about. That's called a dictators

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