tgarma1234

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by tgarma1234 10y ago
It took decades to construct the images of "success". I know that whenever I am associated with one of these awesome brands in a super sterile corporate location I feel like I have made it. Even though I hate admitting that.
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The schools are extremely valuable to americans as research centers and hubs of networks of power. There is ultimately no reason why Stanford or Harvard couldn't move to India or China if there were higher quality students willing to p
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by tgarma1234 10y ago
I was a big fan of "Thinking fast, thinking slow", like pretty much everyone, until the replication crisis came along. Now I see a lot of the work in this field as a sort of scientifically informed stereotyping that might someday
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by tgarma1234 10y ago
I went to Oxford and even though everyone else there seemed pretty smart too I still didn't really make friends or develop meaningful relationships. It took me many years of basically just being isolated from others before I learned a
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by tgarma1234 10y ago
Yes... the two languages requirement is A LOT easier in technical field than in the humanities. Try being fluent or functionally fluent for an exam in two human, spoken, academic languages vs learning a couple of programming languages. At
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by tgarma1234 10y ago
Please, don't do a PhD. The tenure track treadmill is brutal and on the wane. You would be much happier just getting a job. A normal job. With ordinary people. And I say that after a masters degree, many years in a PhD program and
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by tgarma1234 10y ago
Sort of thought that anything you put in Drive belongs to or can be used by Google according to their TOS. Correct me if I am wrong but that is the main reason no rational business would ever connect anything to Google if they can avoid do
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by tgarma1234 10y ago
No. Absolutely beginner level blog post. You would use a third party tool like http://www.datavalidation.com/ or mailgun's email validation service or BriteVerify etc etc. There are a ton of validation services now.
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by tgarma1234 10y ago
I agree that for an average american child to invest time in studying math as opposed to learning to play a musical instrument or doing sports or learning how to cook has very little utility. I think one of the main reasons people push mat
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by tgarma1234 10y ago
Sorry man, you are about 15 years too late. Everyone knows what Linux is and uses it pretty much all the time along with everything else. The single best way I have found to switch to Linux as a desktop user is to dual boot my main home co
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I don't agree with that because you really just query the keys for users that have the attribute in question without inserting a ton of nulls and having to work out changes to the attributes when you realize "I wish I would have t
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by tgarma1234 10y ago
Thank god someone finally said it.
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by tgarma1234 10y ago
Well yes the comment about spending 10 or 15K on a computer wasn't that big of deal was certainly true. A sun Sparc in 1995 with awesome specs would cost you vastly more... and by awesome specs we are talking "256 megabytes of RAM
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by tgarma1234 10y ago
You will never think of all the attributes anymore. For example 8 months later you want to score your contacts based on derived or imputed values. Who knows what you will want to slap in there when you scale up to 5 billion rows and start
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by tgarma1234 10y ago
The fact that you can pass attributes for a record into the JSONB field without defining the table structure in advance is really the decisive feature because then you never have to bother with changing your data model. For example, if you
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by tgarma1234 10y ago
Thanks for the comment and the edit.
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by tgarma1234 10y ago
I genuinely don't understand the use case for this since, for example, Dropbox already just syncs the changes you make to a file and not the whole file, automatically and does so bidirectionally, which this tool does not. So, if anyon
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by tgarma1234 10y ago
Social Capital is what makes the generation of content valuable. I have no doubt there are millions if not billions of people who could write poetry or songs alive right now who have never done so and even if they could, nobody would read.
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by tgarma1234 10y ago
Yes but for comparison you would need to code something in Go that's really complicated now. At the time being a Geocities user put you in an extremely rare cohort, which is of course why they originally sold for a billion bucks. Tho
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by tgarma1234 10y ago
Or a rating system like how Uber works. I mean the idea of getting into a car with a random stranger isn't that awesome of an idea and yet it works. Maybe like "Perv: 3 stars. Politics: 2 Stars." So that people who want
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by tgarma1234 10y ago
Yes indeed. Libraries. Walking around the stacks looking for books in college and not necessarily knowing what would be in the book other than what was briefly described by the card catalog. You couldn't wikipedia a topic, so you ha
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by tgarma1234 10y ago
I definitely remember using the phone at the bar I used to hang out at to call home to check my messages on my answering machine to find out where everyone else was planning to be. Or just walking around to familiar places to see if anyone
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by tgarma1234 10y ago
I never got far with FreeBSD on the desktop because every time I thought I would give it a try I ended up just thinking Linux is easier to use and my Mac is already basically the same thing but pre-configured, so it's a pretty expensiv
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by tgarma1234 10y ago
Mailgun is a transactional email service that is basically free unless you are doing huge volume. The api sets the standard for documentation. If you need more features with your transactional emails you can sign up for Sendwithus.
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by tgarma1234 10y ago
AWS and Digital Ocean basically beat them. Mailgun is awesome though. Love using it. I see rackspace as being a perfectly wonderful private company that makes good money but they don't have enough glitz to really make it as a public
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by tgarma1234 10y ago
I live in Chicago, where there are a zillion dogs, and I feel honestly like the history of humanity will one day be rewritten to clearly and correctly explain that human beings were in fact domesticated by dogs so that we work to support an
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by tgarma1234 10y ago
Well I am by no means a great computer programmer or anything so I can certain accept other people saying node is crap but as someone who has used node my reasoning was simple: if you are going to use javascript in the browser and pretty m
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by tgarma1234 10y ago
Still need something other than powershell to access a linux server from a windows machine, which seems ironic... ssh : The term 'ssh' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check th
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by tgarma1234 10y ago
Windows can have a neat-o shell all they want but when you open powershell on a windows computer you still get the following when you try to ssh... so, not really seeing the point here: ssh : The term 'ssh' is not recognized as th
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by tgarma1234 10y ago
In other news: people who have to focus on detail oriented tasks often make mistakes. Happy now? Sheesh.

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