twblalock

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by twblalock 8y ago
I went to the Mastodon website and clicked "Get Started" and was brought to a menu where I needed to choose a server. Many of them focus on niche interests, and it was not very clear what to do if I wanted to be a member of more t
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by twblalock 8y ago
It's clearly an attempt to make people think about "tweet" without infringing copyright/trademark, much like the way the generic Dr. Pepper at the grocery store might be called "Dr. Skipper". Mastodon should co
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by twblalock 8y ago
Ironically the Amazon store in Santana Row is across the street from a former Border's location that closed years ago.
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by twblalock 8y ago
Threatening to file a civil suit is not extortion. If it were, it would be pretty much impossible to ever send a cease-and-desist letter.
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by twblalock 8y ago
The bottom line is that it's not possible to compete on price with Amazon. Amazon does not need to operate storefronts (although ironically it is starting to open them), has a massive selection, and offers very fast shipping. Amazon al
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by twblalock 8y ago
The problem is not data modelling. The problem is ensuring eventual consistency and synchronization of data in multiple datacenters around the world.
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by twblalock 8y ago
Frankly I blame the SQL DBs for the rise of NoSQL. They didn't move fast enough for this kind of environment, and stuff like Cassandra fit that need pretty well.
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by twblalock 8y ago
People just love to drop phrases like "submarine", "dark pattern", "so-and-so's law of headlines", etc. Doing so adds nothing to the conversation. The only thing more annoying is "relevant XKCD".
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by twblalock 8y ago
It's a lot more than just a reliable offsite -- it invented collaboration features that didn't exist in pure Git. Github's pull request and code review workflow has become pervasive in the industry. It's also not sustain
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by twblalock 8y ago
> So I believe the answer to that question is to build better, easy to use, decentralized platforms. I think that given a real choice, people would be happy to use open systems. Up until now they haven't been given easily usable alt
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by twblalock 8y ago
Centralization is so useful that people will create it wherever it does not already exist. One example is Github, a centralized service that makes it easier for teams to use a source control system that was originally designed to be decentr
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by twblalock 8y ago
I'm a Wells Fargo account holder. I haven't closed my account. I don't really see a reason to. The other big banks are just as amoral, and they would screw their customers in a heartbeat if they thought they could get away wi
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by twblalock 8y ago
It's going to be difficult for you to get a junior-level job if recruiters think you are senior. You'll be competing with new grads who got out of college in June. I think your best course of action is to spend time preparing for
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by twblalock 8y ago
The popularity of Redbox demonstrates that some people really do appreciate being able to drive to a store and rent a DVD. Blockbuster probably died because enough people switched to Netflix that the overhead of running stores outgrew the r
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by twblalock 8y ago
Plus you need a vehicle that can tow the boat.
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by twblalock 8y ago
I expect there is going to be a bit of a chicken and egg problem during the evolution of car charging infrastructure. For example, if electric cars become popular we will need tons of public charging stations, but nobody will be willing to
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by twblalock 8y ago
It's better to throw out insecure software. Computers with security problems get hacked and end up in botnets.
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by twblalock 8y ago
Today one can buy electric and/or hybrid cars from Ford, GM, Toyota, Honda, Nissan, BMW, Mercedes, VW, Volvo, Audi, and even Jaguar. They are not going to stop making gas guzzlers, but they are steadily increasing their commitment to e
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by twblalock 8y ago
> My guess is that the federal government wouldn't end up paying substantially more than it does now, although I'd like to see a study/projection on that. How could the government maintain current welfare payments and also
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by twblalock 8y ago
If UBI is not universal there is no point to doing it -- it would just be a complicated welfare system, and we already have one of those, and we certainly shouldn't throw it out just to end up creating another one.
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by twblalock 8y ago
Peer-to-peer lending pretty much involves lending to people who can't get loans from banks, and the banks are actually pretty good at deciding who is too risky to lend money to, so why should this be a surprise? The only way peer-to-pe
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by twblalock 8y ago
The big problem with UBI, aside from how to pay for it, is that it will not survive as either universal or basic once the voters get their hands on it and decide that, say, UBI benefits should be cut for felons, increased for single mothers
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by twblalock 8y ago
> Short answer: No. Shitty people will be shitty people. Where I've worked, shitty people get fired. They don't need to be tolerated.
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by twblalock 8y ago
With all the hype around the original preorder, I suspect a lot of people who preordered were not serious anyway, or fell victim to wishful thinking about their ability to afford the car. So in any case, even without the production delays,
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by twblalock 8y ago
Are people quitting because they don’t want to move?
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by twblalock 8y ago
Plenty of people happily rent for their entire lives, all over the world. Many of them could afford homes but choose not to buy them. It’s ridiculous to say that happiness depends on home ownership, and equally ridiculous to pick an arbitra
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by twblalock 8y ago
He could have gone to Best Buy, drove the TV home himself if he had a car a 65-inch TV would fit in, dealt with the packaging and setup himself, and then found out it was defective. It sounds to me like he got pretty good service and avoide
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by twblalock 8y ago
Because in traditional object-oriented design you would extend rather than patch. It's the open-closed principle. There are many benefits to enforcing privacy, and one of the biggest ones is that you can make changes to the internals o
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by twblalock 8y ago
People in the Bay Area fight against decent transit because they know it will lead to the increased density they oppose.
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by twblalock 8y ago
I prefer my type errors at compile time. You have to reason about types in any language because passing the wrong type to a function can result in errors. You have to do all of that mental work by yourself in a dynamic language because ther

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