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Goldman faces probe after entrepreneur slams Apple Card algorithm in tweets(news.trust.org)
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by sturgill 7y ago
“[S]harding alone is very painful even without introducing a ton of new application-level constraint logic at the same time.” I typically espouse app logic to check state and use foreign keys to ensure enforcement (eg, race conditions that
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App level data integrity is usually critical. Ingestion into a reporting database is an entirely different construct (where I agree FK constraints are burdensome).
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by sturgill 7y ago
I’m pretty confident that GitHub doesn’t use foreign keys because it was built as a Rails app. And the “Rails Way” is to create these constraints in the model. Foreign key constraints weren’t a first-class member in Rails until v4 (if memor
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by sturgill 7y ago
Not necessarily a universal solution, but our family primarily shops at Aldi. You have to pay for bags, so you either bring your own or use the empty cardboard boxes from stocking the goods.
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by sturgill 7y ago
I’m pretty excited for the Disney+Hulu bundle. That and the content I get from my Prime membership (not to mention the ability to rent the odd movie/show from Amazon) is pretty close to everything I want. Marvel/Disney/Star W
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by sturgill 7y ago
But should Ebony be allowed to market ads on Facebook and exclude white people? I honestly don’t know where I come down on this issue: it feels different to say, “we have a better ROI if we exclude certain demographics from seeing our ads”
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by sturgill 7y ago
Hard pass. If you aren’t smart enough to open a free email account at any other provider just for the sake of your resume then I don’t want to work with you on anything important. I don’t care what your personal email address actually is, b
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by sturgill 7y ago
I got an MBA from a fairly small private university. Speaking to the head of admissions he only wished the school had a D1 football team so that more people had heard of it. There is a strong history of associating the identity of the schoo
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by sturgill 7y ago
I don’t know the particulars of your company but this got me thinking. There is a necessary shift somewhere in the spectrum: [start up] —- [enterprise] where you don’t know everyone who works with you nor does everyone know you. Everyone is
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by sturgill 7y ago
I don’t mind text notices, but it will always have a higher latency than ringing my doorbell. The best though is getting alerts about a delivery and then going on a scavenger hunt to find the package. Will it be on the front porch? Will it
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Additionally, I have yet to ever have a driver ring the doorbell. They throw it at the house, mark it as complete, and trust that I’ll stumble across it later.
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by sturgill 7y ago
S3 was (and is) amazing. But for me AWS as an infrastructure replacement started when EC2 was launched (at least in the context of the current discussion relative to WeWork).
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It’s also never a convenient time to buy a new physical server and set it up in a colo facility while managing DR. Especially when your bread and butter is a CRUD app.
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by sturgill 7y ago
AWS in the early days wasn’t that different than many other cloud providers of the day: you had Rackspace, Linode, Slicehost, etc. And then there’s the oversold shared hosting... WeWork isn’t a brand new offering; Regus has been around for
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by sturgill 7y ago
In short: yes. A $1k monthly expense is a lot easier to book than a $12k purchase that depreciates over time. And from an investor point of view, if the business fails you don’t have to worry about the sell off / write down of any hard
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by sturgill 7y ago
I thought his AWS comparison was more favorable than it seems you did. I remember launching a startup in 2009 and our head investor (who was a CFO at a bespoke insurance firm) was floored when he saw our financial docs and that we were able
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by sturgill 7y ago
Sounds like the plot line for Avengers vs Thanos... Life would just be so much better if there was less of it.
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by sturgill 7y ago
Use a WSJ link from Bitly into Outline and it works again...
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by sturgill 7y ago
It’s much harder to side load apps on an iPhone.
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by sturgill 7y ago
“Could you please align these variable definitions so they’re easier to read.” Is considered a polite imperative [0]. [0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/question-mark-...
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by sturgill 7y ago
To be fair to LookML, it does some great things (kind of like SASS vs CSS). It's great defining constraints in a single variable and then being able to reuse those constraints in any query. It's also wonderful being able to set bo
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by sturgill 7y ago
I'm a huge fan of Looker, but I'm not sure how I feel about this news. The best parts of Looker: - It connects directly to your existing data warehouse. Most BI tools suck in your data into their datastore; Looker queries your dat
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by sturgill 7y ago
Apple has argued that developers are its customers (in the Pepper lawsuit). What options do developers have? Ignore the iOS market (those most likely to pay money)? There isn't a choice here: you let Apple have 1/3 of all of your
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by sturgill 7y ago
Only if they grandfather existing apps. We made the decision a long time ago to support FB login. That decision now requires us to either stop having an app in iOS, remove FB login (which a good portion of people use exclusively), or implem
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by sturgill 7y ago
And Apple Sign In helps this user, how?...
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by sturgill 7y ago
My problem is that I don’t get to choose if your business is worth the implementation cost. Because we’re already in bed with FB we will be forced to implement. It’s the “have to” I’m arguing against, not the feature.
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Because thousands of people already have an account tied to a specific email and are going to click the Apple button and get really mad when we can’t log them in.
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We let people create a username/password but can also use FB if they prefer. Turns out having their email is nice; we need to send them notices and reminders from time-to-time. I’m not a FB fan. I post on social media maybe twice a yea
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by sturgill 7y ago
But someone who has already signed up via FB is going to click that button and then get angry when we can’t log them into their account. I personally don’t use FB login. And I use `+merchant` to keep track of bad actors. But from a merchant

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