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by teej 9y ago
In case anyone else was suspicious of the 20k file size for a 512x512 PNG with essentially two colors - it's way off. I dropped it into Photoshop and exported as PNG and it spit out an identical file that weighs in at 6k.
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by teej 9y ago
This post is written by the creator of the wonderful game Papers, Please.
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by teej 9y ago
There can be 10 people willing to spend $inf for a loaf of bread and only 5 loaves. Supply of skilled work isn't immediately elastic.
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by teej 9y ago
What went into your decision making process for using Poisson disc sampling? Did you try other sampling methods? I'd love to know anything else you can share about how the preprocessing works.
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by teej 9y ago
It’s worth noting that there are companies who will front you the cash to buy your options and cover tax, in return for a cut of the proceeds. People in this situation have options.
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by teej 9y ago
There’s simply no way that a sport that requires a court and a hoop is going to beat Soccer as the most played sport in the world.
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by teej 9y ago
I have almost exactly your use-case and I solved the problem very similarly. I use a lambda to write the events to S3. I have another lambda that can read the files in S3 and produce them to replay. It's designed so I can replay many y
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by teej 9y ago
Except for the $5+ tax per pack. What a ridiculous assertion.
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by teej 9y ago
Net promoter score is a extremely common and very valuable gauge of customer loyalty to a product. It sounds dumb when you look into it but sometimes the simplest thing works and this is one such case. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by teej 9y ago
I hate to be this guy but Steve Jobs would have fucking eviscerated the team that produced this. The first time he used the calculator and got 24 instead of 6, he would’ve walked straight to whoever wrote the software and gotten it fixed. T
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by teej 9y ago
My persepective is completely different. I still see him as a brilliant and hard working guy. I think he was given an opportunity to take something crappy and transform it into something else, something worthwhile. What an incredible challe
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by teej 9y ago
One of the major drivers of this new age in BuzzFeed has been driven by Ze Frank[0] of all people. He ushered in an era of "viral" content before that was even a thing. I'm surprised there hasn't been more discussion of
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by teej 9y ago
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by teej 9y ago
If MasterCard isn’t going to offer lower rates for card present w/ signature vs card present w/o signature then you can guarantee smart retailers will choose to opt out of signatures. Instantly shave 5-30 seconds off your average
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by teej 9y ago
JJ Abrams supposedly got inspired after finding a book that was left purposefully for someone else to find. He channeled that inspiration into a book titled "S." by Doug Dorst. I'm not a huge fiction reader but I have found t
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by teej 9y ago
6x revenue seems like a really high valuation, right? There's a physical product distributed via retail, we aren't talking tech margins. What's the value to Kellogg's? My only guess is that Nutra Grain bars are being des
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by teej 9y ago
This is really insightful. Thank you for the thoughtful reply. A lot of my perspective comes from living in a post-GA world. I can see there being value for companies who are reliant on GA and Adwords data for their day-to-day operations -
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by teej 9y ago
> Most of what you are saying is unsubstantiated. You're welcome to your opinion. > 1/ How easy is it to get data in? Seems standard. It supports a MySQL adapter and a PostgreSQL adapter and then a bunch of Google property a
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by teej 9y ago
From a capabilities perspective, Tableau and Power BI have everything and the kitchen sink. But they tend to be $$$$ because of licensing costs, paying for extras, and because you need lots and lots of training for devs, analysts, and end u
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by teej 9y ago
There are dozens of things like this now, so Google is pretty late to the game. I suspect that the play here is to keep people in the Google ecosystem by competing with Amazon on product offerings. Having looked at a lot of these things, he
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by teej 9y ago
If you're trying to decide if this book is worth picking up, a number of HN commenters recommended it the last time it was brought up - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15185663
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by teej 9y ago
From what I can tell, this doesn't really help you know when your queued up lambdas have all completed, which is what GP wants.
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by teej 9y ago
Most of the things I've added are for logging and orchestration. The most important unlock for us was the ability for us to enable chaining of Lambdas that worked seamlessly with our orchestration. So Orchestrator kicks off 25 lambdas
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by teej 9y ago
Amazon doesnt really give you any direct access to the underlying "worker" so it doesnt work like that. It's really as simple as: - the active lambda decides to stop performing work once there's only 30 seconds left - it
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by teej 9y ago
What we do is a separate Python process, not in Lambda, that polls status. Status is persisted in Redis. It supports lambdas calling other lambdas so dynamic workflows just work and can live for longer than 300s. This has been working fine
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by teej 9y ago
At my company we created a queue for Lambdas. The pattern we use is to monitor the execution time left and queue up a follow-up once there's <30s left. Not every job we do can be composed this way but it helps a lot.
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by teej 9y ago
Thanks for sharing! I ended up building a similar featureset in Python but using invocation type Event instead of RequestResponse. This ended up being a pain in the ass because Event type has these awful baked in automatic retries that you
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by teej 9y ago
99% of my Siri usage is "Hey Siri, google search for X." I'm happy that they'll be switching.
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by teej 9y ago
This limit is anything but arbitrary. There's a few things to keep in mind: - This code was written for the XBox 360 which only has 512MB of memory. - Because the game was made for a console, it needs to go through the notorious Xbox c
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by teej 9y ago
It really depends on how sticky the patrons are, which I would guess is very sticky. A dollar in advertising revenue that Snapchat books isn't as valuable as a dollar that Patreon books for a lot of reasons, but primarily because they

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