wisty

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by wisty 15y ago
If you are into python web programming, just a simple blog engine thingy would show you know a bit. Steps (you can cut out anything that ends up being difficult - it's just a demo thingy from a student): - hello world, using a web framework
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by wisty 15y ago
That's how the public service works, but only because they can't just demote non-performing managers and replace someone possibly more competent. Workers shouldn't be afraid that their project will get nixed, just because the project is run
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by wisty 15y ago
You could periodically run a script that checks all the records for errors (especially embedded records that might have drifted from their current value, and not been properly changed by the app-level constraints), and automatically correct
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by wisty 15y ago
For all the above: - an explanation of why this is relevant, written for someone who has never heard of network effects, minimal viable products, iterations, ab testing, google ads, virtual hosts, backups, recovery, testing, user testing,
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by wisty 15y ago
It's also good for people who don't have a mail guy, and just get a "while you were away" note on your door, forcing you to get depot. In Australia, the post depots are open 8:30-5:00 weekdays, and 9:12 Saturday. Tough luck if you happen
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by wisty 15y ago
I'd recommend GAE to people who are prototyping - it's easy to do simple stuff in. But mostly, GAE doesn't make sense for larger apps. You can't buy your way out of trouble, by putting your db on a dedicated server with fast drives and tonn
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by wisty 15y ago
It sounds plausible that "on demand" instances i.e. search servers are a bottleneck, while bulk offline processing (in the back-end) i.e. PageRank calculations is not such a constraint. Yes, those offline processing instances could be suspe
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by wisty 15y ago
Maybe they are worse at assessing value. If a VC has no real idea what the value of a company is, they have to make a conservative valuation, to avoid being conned. They will also take longer to do the due diligence. A good VC may be able t
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by wisty 15y ago
On the other hand, there's not a lot of Bayesian analysis taught in high school, statistics 101, or any of the other places that non-stats-nerds are likely to be. It's useful for a lot of things, easy and intuitive (thus its popularity amon
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by wisty 15y ago
You don't need any projects or open-source commitments to get a job, let alone an internship. Just find a company that you think is interesting, and ask around. If it's a small company, they might not have a formal internship program, and y
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by wisty 15y ago
You are too charitable. I think it's a medieval tradition, dating back to the days when lecturers were real authorities on the courses they were teaching. I'm not saying that lecturers are no longer competent at the stuff they teach, or tha
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by wisty 15y ago
Because you hadn't heard about Western Governors University, and thought you needed to enrol in a brick-and-mortar university to get a half-way credible degree?
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by wisty 15y ago
Creative use of unlimited BW - downloading the internet for data-mining purposes. You can't store it (as Linode's disks are pricy), but who cares? You can just download it again if you need to re-do your calculations.
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by wisty 15y ago
Restaurants rarely advertise "free unlimited napkins with any meal". They include them gratis, within reason. Nobody can provide "free unlimited" anything. There are always limits. In Australia, these claims could run afoul of consumer prot
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by wisty 15y ago
Arrington's influence as a writer does not rely entirely on him being at TC. If he started "ArringtonOnTech.com", HN and Reddit would still link to him.
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by wisty 15y ago
Also note, Math for Industry 201 always uses fish stocks as an example. Catch too many fish, and you get a suboptimal population growth - the babies that do get born do well (due to a lack of competition), but there's so few born that this
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by wisty 15y ago
It will be fun to see how the environmental movement takes this. I bet some pragmatists will love it, some will go ballistic due to the GM nature of it, and some will maintain that we shouldn't be eating any meat, even the humanely grown
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by wisty 15y ago
Ask Marla Wood, the "administrative assistant and bookkeeper" of Microsoft, who reputably got screamed at by Bill Gates when she had the gall to file an overtime pay dispute. I don't think she had any options.
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by wisty 15y ago
Interesting - a lot of people are saying that #2 has become more common with time.
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by wisty 15y ago
It seems to slow down, as you increase from: 111..111 11111..111111 and eventually crashes. I'm guessing there is some kind of grammar parser breaking horribly. There's grammar parsers that have extremely poor performance trying to parse
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by wisty 15y ago
I guess you want to focus on sales, not marketing. IMO, google text ads (and affiliate schemes, and other similar products) are sales. You find a person with a problem, drive them to a landing page, then pitch to them. Maybe you to do it a
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by wisty 15y ago
There's a lot of nice under-the-hood stuff (separating stuff into processes, autosave, that kind of stuff), but the UI doesn't look compelling.
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by wisty 15y ago
There's no margin in touchpads if you want to undercut Apple, but I bet Amazon doesn't care. They want eyeballs. Amazon is really good at datamining, and they already have your credit card details. If you interact with any channel they cont
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by wisty 15y ago
They are built on different EC2 instances. Ronin = Small Instance: 1.7 GB of memory, 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 Compute Unit), 160 GB of local instance storage, 32-bit platform. ~$60/month spot. Fugu = High-CPU Medium Ins
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by wisty 15y ago
In some ways, Valve manages to be more extreme, because it's smaller. 250 employees could conceivably be totally flat, if they are all committed and the boss is ... brilliant. Google has a few more employees. The idea that everything is s
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by wisty 15y ago
Team-player != team leader. She seems like someone who gets stuff done without making a fuss. In Belbin's Team Inventory, she'd be either be a Teamworker or a Specialist. A group of people who are all self-promoters smoothing each other's f
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by wisty 15y ago
And OS vendors. And whoever configures the computer. You buy a computer that was made in China, and it has root certs already in there (thanks to either Microsoft or Apple, or the shop who sold it, or the guys who assembled it - who knows?)
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by wisty 15y ago
I can't believe this wasn't upvoted more. Moving to this design is a step in the right direction. They need to do more - like ax the filesystem altogether (rendering this step meaningless), but that's another story.
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by wisty 15y ago
Administrators can be frightfully bad at capital allocation. They don't have much incentive to spend wisely, and they are often disconnected from what really matters to a university. Also, the more admins you have, the louder their voice wi
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by wisty 15y ago
MySQL was popular for the same reason No-SQL is - it lacked features, but it was fast as hell with no tuning. Postgres did more, so it had to be slower, and it was tuned to work on minimal resources (and not steal all your RAM). Like MongoD

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