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by wyc 9y ago
A lot of the value comes from getting opportunities through the AWS Partner Network (APN, https://aws.amazon.com/partners/ ). To advance through the partner level hoops as a company, you need more and more 1099 or W2 em
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Fixing FreeBSD Networking on Digital Ocean(wycd.net)
3 points by wyc 9y ago|1 comments
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by wyc 9y ago
Your transparency is really appreciated. Wishing you well!!
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by wyc 9y ago
I agree with you completely that these frameworks are old. They don't get features like websockets immediately. From a performance standpoint, they are lacking with respect to compiled languages. Statically-typed choices have come a lo
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by wyc 9y ago
Wrote about this here in an article titled Just Build it in Django or Rails: https://www.wyc.io/posts/just-build-it-in-django-or-rails/ It's just really hard to beat the reliability, community, ecosystem, and
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by wyc 9y ago
Completely agreed. Here's another way to look at it from an economic perspective: It's usually best to focus on propping up your differentiation and competitive advantages, going stock with everything else. If you rely on standa
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How Google tests for pay equity(rework.withgoogle.com)
2 points by wyc 10y ago|0 comments
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by wyc 10y ago
The style reminds me of some J implementations! #define DO(n,x) {I i=0,_n=(n);for(;i<_n;++i){x;}} http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum
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by wyc 10y ago
Looks spiffy. I like the approach of keeping even the database as part of the application. I think it makes projects a lot more like appliances, which can really be more plug-and-play. I see a lot of databases moving towards the application
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by wyc 10y ago
Re: tech creates jobs, Tyler Cowen's Average is Over has an interesting passage about automation: "Keeping an unmanned Predator drone in the air for twenty-four hours requires about 168 workers laboring in the background. A larger
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by wyc 10y ago
The funny thing is that these incidents are probably what it takes for those particular companies to beef up their security culture. Everyone else will likely keep their heads down: "How asinine of them! This dumb thing could never
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by wyc 10y ago
It seems that these large distributors that aggregate from many sellers are once again having quality issues. However, they'll still get my business because of their many conveniences. I'm just less likely to use them for critical
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by wyc 10y ago
Language-level sum types are something that I miss a lot when I'm writing Go. I find myself using this error-prone pattern whenever I'm trying to represent state: type PersonType string const ( EmployeePersonTyp
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by wyc 10y ago
Performance. Storing to and retrieving from registers are typically much faster than writing to and then accessing memory. It's like keeping things in your 16 hands vs. keeping them in your backpack en transit. I believe this to be Lin
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by wyc 10y ago
Good point. I wish we knew how to convince vendors to use secure defaults and actually care about their users' security. Public shaming seems to be one way that's working, so thanks for the post! :)
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by wyc 10y ago
Many of the points in this article are only relevant to solutions that network wirelessly, with poorly implemented custom RF solutions at that. WPA2-supporting devices are very secure against many of these attacks, except for RF jamming. Is
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by wyc 10y ago
If you've been successfully freelancing for 7 years, then it's likely that you already know much of what I'm about to write. I'd say scrap partnerships and salespeople, and focus on what sales channels are best for you,
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by wyc 10y ago
I meant that historically, Walmart's money-making pursuits were not bastioned mainly on technology, but supply chain and leveraged buying positions. This does not preclude them from having highly-competent specialists (e.g., technologi
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by wyc 10y ago
I think the most commercially successful application of computer vision has been quality-control devices (citation needed). Agriculture is very interested in CV for a return-optimization technique known as precision farming. Manufacturers p
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by wyc 10y ago
I think there's definitely truth in what you're saying, and that $3BB is surely a lot to hire an individual. However, a company is more than just its employees and cash on hand, and I think Walmart saw value in paying for a team t
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by wyc 10y ago
From my understanding, the Jet.com deal was more of an acquihire to get Marc Lore to work for walmart.com[1]. The Jet.com numbers didn't look good at all, and they were rapidly burning through capital. Walmart didn't have technolo
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Haskell for All: “Hello, core” (2012)(haskellforall.com)
1 points by wyc 10y ago|0 comments
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by wyc 10y ago
The online book Real World Haskell[1] has used a more integrated form of annotation via comments directly under each passage. It's pretty fun to observe how the comments play into the content...sometimes they're wonderfully constr
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by wyc 10y ago
I find that Django composes a lot more nicely than Rails, and of course that's not necessarily good nor bad; really depends on the use case. To me, Django feels like a Ford F-150 where everything is more or less exposed and easy to hac
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by wyc 10y ago
Cool release! Thank you for this. It's always great to see production code get released as opposed to pet projects. What's interesting to me is that even though it's a flask app, it seems to be re-implementing large chunks
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IBM Data Science Experience: Whole-Cluster Privilege Escalation Disclosure(wycd.net)
103 points by wyc 10y ago|10 comments
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by wyc 10y ago
Some hidden wisdom in here: Too much flexibility for a runner, on the other hand, may not be desirable. The ankle, knee and hip joints stay within the mid-range of motion during endurance running, so maximum static ROM will no
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by wyc 10y ago
I remember The Unix Programming Environment by Kernighan and Pike as an excellent introduction to Unix shells and general Unix programming. IIRC, throughout the chapters, it has you build some kind of interactive command line music organize
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by wyc 10y ago
I truly applaud the efforts of the funds. I don't think I could come up with any more noble endeavor, and I know there are some very capable people throughout their organizations who are dedicated to spending the funds wisely and impac
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by wyc 10y ago
Agreed. I don't know all the details, but it sounds like you're really doing right by your people. I don't hear about this enough.

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