xchaotic

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by xchaotic 10y ago
The problem is that I can't use the 'nice' app in every city I visit that has Uber. It's the aggressive growth and VC that allows it to be everywhere. And at least where I travel, the existing taxi corporations are far w
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by xchaotic 10y ago
Fingers crossed that this is not a paper release. If AMD can deliver and I can actually buy, I will, to keep the x86 market competitive.
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by xchaotic 10y ago
It's really a good time to be a hobby sysadmin these days - an $5 server runs my VPN, blog, some mail, another website and serves as a basic fileserver too. It's very appealing and I know it will sell hearts of many, but I also th
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by xchaotic 10y ago
First of all that might be illegal - for example firing a pregnant person (because you are a 'conservative' and think that there shouldn't be a maternity leave). But in Pew's case it's hard to judge what's the
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by xchaotic 10y ago
React is built out of components
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by xchaotic 10y ago
Kubernetes
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by xchaotic 10y ago
+1 for OxygenXML - it is very actively developed and has its own CSS engine that goes above and beyond what browsers can do. So you can style your tree with CSS.
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by xchaotic 10y ago
Aaccurate 3-d scanning of 3d environments - houses, mines you name it. I think the tech is there in your pocket and with good software plus very accurate measurement of location, orientation + panorama/spehrical photo shoots, you could
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by xchaotic 10y ago
FWIW, reading this from the other side of the pond (which suddenly got way cheaper), I would not come to NYC or SV for $130k. I can cope much better on much less and I don't have to 'create $130k+" of value every to justify
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by xchaotic 10y ago
For every investor who buys based on what they read, there is another who will buy on fundamental value such as PE ratio, gross margin etc, but if both are selling then yes stock going down is the right direction
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by xchaotic 10y ago
Not sure why people expect a lifetime of gratitude for a menial job. You enter a contract the be paid right now and if the terms of the contract grossly differ from what has been agreed either side can (and should) break it.
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by xchaotic 10y ago
This is very true, it's all noble and such, but for now now markets and investors follow quarterly earnings guidance and most executives are not even allowed to make decisions that improve civilisation - the role of a company is to mak
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by xchaotic 10y ago
Sorry if I misread that as a movie title.
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by xchaotic 10y ago
You may have won an Internet Argument(TM) (or they gave up). The glory!
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by xchaotic 10y ago
When was the last time that hte entire data centre went out? One, two servers, maybe a whole rack, but an entire dc out for good, more like a few hours downitme
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by xchaotic 10y ago
While I like the idea for its steampunk appeal, looking at potential/kinetic energy delta, you have two ways really: build overcapacity for solar, immovable, uses rare earth minerals, but other than dust, maintenance free and then that
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by xchaotic 10y ago
I have a rental property, it's not much, barely breaking even on mortgage payments, but the hope is I will have the principal as an asset when the mortgage is paid off and any payments coming in will be pure bonus.
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by xchaotic 10y ago
True, but no income is truly passive. I think you also have to consider the savings of not having to own a house (or being able to rent out an existing one) so it's as good as any other 'passive' strategy posted here.
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by xchaotic 10y ago
How is this going to make my code better? As far as I remember attempts to use proofs in production were counter productive. For most systems knowing that print "hello"; will do that is good enough.
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by xchaotic 10y ago
Blue Yeti microphone + semi open sennheiser headphones.
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by xchaotic 10y ago
$15 is almost inconsequential if you're smart enough to have a programming or 'ops' job in the Western Hemisphere. What is far more scarce is the time to read and apply the knowledge from those books. So while I dutifully pur
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by xchaotic 10y ago
Not much at all in most cases, at least not in a way you can easily monetize. To sum up others can get some money from it, you don't. So you are getting the short end of the stick. This made me delete most of my social media accounts.
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by xchaotic 10y ago
I think there is some overlap with Jekyll. Personally, Jekyll works better for me atm, as it produces static content, can be hosted for free on github or cheaply on s3 and has a bigger community and backing of github engineering. So perhaps
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by xchaotic 10y ago
Fwiw I snagged lech.blog at list price (so $30 + 220), I wouldn't pay a cent more, but my main problem is that I still have no access to the domain and, unless I am provoven (or refunded) otherwise, my domain registartion runs from 28t
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by xchaotic 10y ago
I bet the OP can make loads more money in VFX than going back and doing some junior programming role, hence I'm with him.
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by xchaotic 10y ago
And that is less than 2 years after they abandoned Google refine.
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by xchaotic 10y ago
You should always approach the negotiations with an upper hand - an offer from somewhere else. If it doesn't go well, just move.
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by xchaotic 10y ago
I wonder how it scales beyond that. I've found that graph queries only have acceptable performance if the graph fits in local memory.
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by xchaotic 10y ago
It may be more or less, depending on how you count the, but what I'm really trying to figure out is whether the over engineering and the extra abstraction layers are justified in this case and in general. My experience so far is the o
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by xchaotic 10y ago
Do you need 20 microservices for that? If you choose to swap a video vendor, I guess you need to write wrapper API calls for the new vendor? Even if the new vendor provides that out of the box, NYT amortizes those costs one way or the othe

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