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Thank you for this! I think SQL is a great language, and I've always wanted to write straight SQL with compiler guarantees, as projects like Esqueleto almost let me do. For rapid prototyping, I think ORMs are still the best solution. H
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Bob Hoffman at the Ad Contrarian called this in January: "P&G To Online Ad World: We've Had Enough" - https://adcontrarian.blogspot.com/2017/01/p-to-online-ad-wor... Digital advertising is rife
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I don't think I'd outsource my cooking because I enjoy it. However, I think it makes perfect sense for someone who doesn't like cooking to do so, such as the author. It was certainly an interesting read. It took me a while to
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If you go deeper, then we start to see a lot of similarities. Functional programming strongly resembles circuit logic. Maybe a strange loop? See also http://www.clash-lang.org/
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One on ones are important to me, and have been among the most enjoyable interactions in my professional life. My favorite point on this was by Andy Grove, who suggested that there's a limit to the number of your direct reports because
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The most recent resource I've read on this was The Alliance by Reid Hoffman. In it, he postulates that both employees and employers are lying through their teeth: employers tell employees about the benefits, investment in its people, a
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Here's a great piece by Ben Thompson discussing the economics and markets of such services: Both limit growth: regular agents with a stake in the current system steer home buyers away from Redfin properties, and hiring an
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Buying a house is among the largest purchases of many peoples' lives. It could be worth the $5,000-$50,000 (~6% of value in U.S.) for the piece of mind. People are used to using realtors. I don't think enough economists and busine
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MongoDB is an interesting database for sure. It seems that they made a deliberate product decision to optimize developer experience and ease of use over things like consistency and database joins. Frankly, I think it's working pretty w
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Kept a small list here, including codebase changes made for scaling and references: https://www.wyc.io/posts/just-build-it-in-django-or-rails/ Instagram, Disqus, Bitbucket, Pinterest. Apologies in advanced for any
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A great piece called "Disruption is not a strategy" by Jerry Neumann ( http://reactionwheel.net/2016/05/disruption-is-not-a-strateg... ) illustrates the difficulties of taking the lofty ideas from The Inno
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Is Kotlin the New Java?(justabloginthepark.com)
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This is pretty old school, but I recommend Multiple View Geometry by Hartley and Zisserman ( http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/hzbook/ ) to get through the fundamentals...it's really good to understand the geomet
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How to Lie with Statistics is a classic on this: https://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/03...
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I think this post should be renamed to something like "The Self-Driving Car's Impact On Edge Computing." I thought that the most revolutionary thing about self-driving cars would be the economic impact and resulting cultural
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by wyc 9y ago
Great work! Segfaults are horrible, but bugs like these are even more so. Crawling, sneaking, living in your walls. Stealing precious CPU cycles and memory from millions of machines at once--petabytes and petaflops when you add it all up. W
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I agree there are differences, including transit route and format. Here are the similarities I saw: - Payload is encrypted client-side by the sender - Encrypted payload is decrypted client-side by the receiver - 3rd party provides the unloc
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I believe SendSafely ( https://www.sendsafely.com/ ) claims to have a somewhat secure/streamlined implementation of this. Browser non-plugin JavaScript crypto is always sketchy, but possibly better than nothing if the li
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Thank you for your research into this! I found it difficult to locate good sources too, and that fact is worthy of more disclaimer than I gave. I think you're right in giving any claimed causality in new territory a good hard knock. Th
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I think that the core value crypocurrencies and blockchains provide is a distributed system of trust. I also think that we people in developed nations have been spoiled by our trustworthy institutions, relatively speaking. I don't know
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Sure, we can agree that (almost) everything's a file. However, through their related programs and daemons, we can ask files for more useful functionality such as indexes, versioning, and yes, socket communications.
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You are technically correct. The best kind of correct!
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I know that SQLite performs exceptionally on embedded devices including most phones, IoT devices, and more. However, for better or worse, it's a flat file. Does anyone know of a TCP/IP-speaking SQL database that would work well on
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“When we looked at their offerings and what Smartsheet does, it is two totally different worlds,” said Mader. Using Amazon’s logic, Mader said that Smartsheet would be a viewed as a competitor to Amazon Prime because both
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Kudos to the Reddit engineering team. I've been really enjoying their quality posts as of late, and I wish more companies of that scale were as transparent with their engineering problems and solutions. Thank you.
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Wouldn't this result in increased risk of delivery failure, package damage, or even non-professional delivery-driver injury? If anything, this is low-end, but yes, it sounds cheap. I think it'd be a good practice to examine compet
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Agreed. I have the privilege to consider employee conditions very important. An honest "opt in" is not detrimental to that, but there's definitely potential for this to make it into the company's culture as a new job exp
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Eerily similar to the controversial Instagram bug last year: Post: http://www.exfiltrated.com/research-Instagram-RCE.php Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10754194 Leak your cloud provider ke
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In case you're interested in seeing a project that does something, I wrote an IRC bot in ARM: https://github.com/wyc/armbot
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On a general level, no systematic accounting of assets. Can you get me most or all of the following in an hour or so? - List of people with production API credentials and which ones per person - List of accounts with weak passwords or lacki

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