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Welcome to AirSpace (2016)(theverge.com)
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by wskinner 8y ago
From the Signal blog post: > To prevent abuse, clients derive a 96-bit delivery token from their profile key and register it with the service. The service requires clients to prove knowledge of the delivery token for a user in order to t
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by wskinner 8y ago
Signal does store encrypted media on their servers until your client downloads it (and for some time after).
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Can anyone working on this project comment on how HopsFS compares to similar alternatives? The post and the paper compare it to HDFS, but that's not really fair - HDFS was not designed to handle huge quantities of small files, and if y
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by wskinner 8y ago
This question would be better asked to AWS support. Barring that, why not just test it with an few instance types and measure the results?
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Agreeing to Agree (2006)(overcomingbias.com)
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Pack Experience(ribbonfarm.com)
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by wskinner 8y ago
I was in the same place as you. When I started my sabbatical I had some vague ideas, but mainly just planned to drive around the western US and experience the outdoors. After a few weeks I realized I missed thinking about technology, so I s
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The Living Dead: Thoughts on Macro and Depressions (2010)(daviddfriedman.blogspot.com)
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by wskinner 8y ago
> Networking is the other reason. Google is miles ahead of everyone here. Similar story with HA and scaling. Does anyone know what the author is referring to with this claim? I don't see anything in the sheet to back this up. At lea
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by wskinner 8y ago
Single instance. And we have small scale.
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Burning Desire for Efficiency (2012)(dothemath.ucsd.edu)
39 points by wskinner 8y ago|1 comments
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We run the official Postgres docker image as a StatfeulSet. Very easy to setup, and we haven’t had any issues with it.
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This is also a great piece - it’s how I found the article myself.
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by wskinner 8y ago
Can you elaborate on why the sale broke your heart? Was it because the beer itself changed? Or you were concerned that future development of new, different, beer would cease or move in a direction you didn't like? Or was it a political
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by wskinner 8y ago
This is actually from FT Allhaville. I posted the archive.org link because sometime since 2015 the article has been placed behind a login page.
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The Man Who Could Own Aviva France (2015)(web.archive.org)
21 points by wskinner 8y ago|14 comments
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The Magnetar Trade: How One Hedge Fund Helped Keep the Bubble Going(propublica.org)
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by wskinner 8y ago
Engine ML | San Francisco, CA | Business Operations Manager | Full-time | ONSITE # About the company - Engine ML is a platform for building deep learning applications faster and at a lower cost. We give your engineers their own state of the
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by wskinner 8y ago
> If it does offend anyone at all, why not change it? If it might offend anyone at all, why not change it? Did you read the article? He answers this question. He devotes the last four paragraphs of the article to exactly that. Edit: tl;d
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The Twenty-Five Year Journey of Magic the Gathering(newyorker.com)
61 points by wskinner 8y ago|48 comments
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The argument is not really whether it’s easy to get up and running with some trivial app. Clearly it is easy in purging. Parent’s point is about the longer term development cycle, when you have more dependencies, more project complexity, an
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by wskinner 8y ago
> Settlement - once the reporting has been complete, and it’s verified by the community, the bettors who bought shares on the correct outcome are paid - as is the market creator. Can anyone comment on how settlement actually works? A per
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Uber Petastorm(github.com)
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by wskinner 8y ago
The flavor of this post is chilling. It reminds me of the fictional, satirical rhetoric of 1984, The Diamond Age, and Brave New World. I think it is the matter-of-fact dismissal of free expression, captured beautifully (horribly?) in this s
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by wskinner 8y ago
What you are describing has been touched on by a few other commenters here, and it really works for me too. Psychology even has fancy terms for why this works: devision fatigue and the paradox of choice.
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I handle my clothes as a combination of LRU cache in each drawer for clean clothes and min heap for dirty. Ish. I agree with you that most people probably do something like this as well. It’s not rocket science, just computer science.
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by wskinner 8y ago
I store physical items in my home in an LRU cache. Items I use all the the time are close to the places where I use them. Less frequently used items are stored further from the place they are used, for example in a closet or the garage. Thi
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by wskinner 8y ago
I used an iPhone 5S until iPhone 8 came out last year. I'm still using a MacBook Air from mid 2012. Do the amortized cost math and it comes out to be way cheaper than the internet & mobile data costs for those devices.
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by wskinner 8y ago
This argument is a red herring. People like new things. People like things that work all the time without modification. Almost no one actually wants a phone or computer that lasts twice as long but is bulky and requires maintenance. The dis

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