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by vosper 6y ago
> a factoring company: which buys unpaid invoices from freelancers for a fee or a percentage of the invoice-amount Getting way off-topic here, but I’ve never heard of this. Is it like a bill-collector for freelancers? Who do the non-paye
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by vosper 6y ago
I’m sure it depends what you’re doing - our cluster is medium-largeish, I’d guess (wish there was more info on the clusters that are out there!). Several hundred big EC2 instances, all NVMe, billions of documents, indexes in the terabytes,
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by vosper 6y ago
> cloud defying broken AWS Elasticsearch abomination Heh, I'm pretty sure our attempt to use AWS-managed ES went badly, and we quickly gave up on it and stuck with self-hosted. And this is at a company that's pretty keen to use
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by vosper 6y ago
Offtopic: Was 2020 YC's Year of Developer Tooling or something? Seems like there have been lots of launches for YC-backed dev-tool startups in the past few weeks.
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by vosper 6y ago
> my bots have tweeted [...] U.S. Forest Service AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters fighting fires I had to Google that. I'll await a correction from a more knowledgeable HNer, but as far as I can tell the US Forest Service does not hav
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by vosper 6y ago
Perhaps an integration with their marketing / tracking / targeting / attribution businesses, which they’ve been spending billions on? This article could have been co-written by Oracle PR, but still, it has some relevant detai
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by vosper 6y ago
> telling your superior to do a better job is an outstanding thing to do for your long term work prospects. I would hope there's a way to approach that conversation which doesn't involve telling your manager to "do a bette
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by vosper 6y ago
I believe that this kind of work environment must exist, because it's such a strong trope, but honestly I've never really worked in a place like this. I'm sorry for people who do, and who feel stuck there. Not all software en
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by vosper 6y ago
> This blog is not about how Jira is too complex and over-engineered with features I don’t need. This blogpost is a microcosm of engineer arrogance (it's also an ad for their product, so all of this is basically a strawman to drive
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by vosper 6y ago
When Firebug came out it was such a big deal that it was the sole reason our IE-only product (which was not a simple application, it was fully-fledged fleet management, tracking, mapping, and reporting platform, entirely web-based) got cr
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by vosper 6y ago
For JS and Typescript there’s Quokka, which I haven’t tried and doesn’t really seem to be in the style of a notebook, but might be helpful? https://quokkajs.com/ There is actually a JS adaptor/extension for Jupyter but
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by vosper 6y ago
Does striking count as civil disobedience? This is essentially an employment dispute.
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by vosper 6y ago
> I am discouraged by UCSC essentially walking back any penalties for violating their no-strike clause. They agreed to terms, and actively chose to violate them. Their contract is with the university, which is within its rights to decide
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by vosper 6y ago
> one might have interest in the recent series of threads over in r/devops about people's differing experiences between datadog's _product_ and datadog's _organization_. I briefly tried to find some of these, but I&#x
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by vosper 6y ago
I think it is actually a database, so it seems they haven't committed the cardinal sin of putting "DB" in the name of something that's not a database. > JuliaDB is a pure Julia analytical database. It makes loading la
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by vosper 6y ago
Or did they accelerate it AND profit disproportionately from it? There are more than two possibilities here.
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by vosper 6y ago
> it hasn't actually changed the market value, except temporarily, in whats effectively a hack All market values are temporary. Walmart absolutely has changed the market value in this scenario. It might be anticompetitive in the Wal
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by vosper 6y ago
Ahh, please don’t let my cynicism stop you!
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by vosper 6y ago
> Perhaps adding "battleshort" to our lexicon would make it clear that "doing things that don't scale" is often necessary but not without its costs. ... And 6 months later marketing people will have commandeered
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by vosper 6y ago
If I've understood Wikipedia correctly, what it's calling "Phase 2" of the Hawk missile program [0] is when some vacuum tubes were replaced. There are 12 countries (including some rich ones) listed as using the Phase 1 u
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by vosper 6y ago
I hope we will see cleaner air in cities! But the time it takes to replace a country’s vehicle fleet is sometimes measured in decades, and no-one is even starting on a project of massively reducing fleet emissions. I think / hope you a
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by vosper 6y ago
> don’t try to turn your workplace into your social life I think this advice is too absolute. So many people, in my experience, make positive and long-lasting friendships at work that I just can’t see your advice as being generally good.
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by vosper 6y ago
> I may move to Hawaii when the plague passes, and then my day would start at 6am. That'd be rough I do this, but from New Zealand: 5am (in winter) is 10am in SF, so I wake up at 4:50am. I'm usually online by about 5:15am. I ma
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by vosper 6y ago
You can smell car exhaust even when there's not many cars on the road; if it's bad enough you can virtually taste it. Sitting at the lights is the worst. All that shit going into your lungs. And I don't even live in India or
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by vosper 6y ago
> The facade people put up is good. You don't want to know what's behind that; you didn't pick these people, you're not marrying these people, you're working with them on a temporary basis then moving on. This st
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by vosper 6y ago
"a8c" is Automattic (makers of Wordpress) for anyone who was confused. Obligatory "Mean Girls" ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pubd-spHN-0
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by vosper 6y ago
Thanks for looking into that :)
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by vosper 6y ago
> Exactly but Facebook the platform can but they choose not to because it's convenient for them regardless of whether someone spreads misinformation or maligns another person. You've gone way off topic, missed the point of the
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by vosper 6y ago
Some of the examples pass what appears to be a JSON string to a function called `jsan`, and some use a function called `json`. I would have put this down to a typo, but there are several examples of each. I'm curious, now: can a Scala
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by vosper 6y ago
I've been trying to figure out where I should place a shelter belt on my property, as I've heard that the wind will rise up over the belt and then "dump" downwards. I don't want to position the belt so that the wind

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