zdmc

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by zdmc 10mo ago
@sama has raised lots of $ so why risk these types of issues by outsourcing what you have the funding to build and control in-house? plausible deniability? (similar with their prev? use of auth0)
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by zdmc 3y ago
same HN book list for the past 15 years
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by zdmc 5y ago
Love the concept, and nicely executed! But what is Kafka-specific here? It seems like this illustrated guide describes any highly scalable, persistent pub/sub system
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by zdmc 7y ago
I take the slippery slope argument seriously, however, maybe there is a compromise: we could (at least attempt to) come up with a measurement of content risk and (at least attempt to) agree upon some threshold of what constitutes "extr
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by zdmc 7y ago
DigitalOcean is no longer a simpler AWS; it may have been at one time, but no longer. If you check community voting, they have ignored moving toward a serverless model, and this is where the Cloud is moving. With each passing day, they beco
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by zdmc 7y ago
Brain Drain is about networking. Why would most give up the opportunity to relocate around the top thinkers in their field? Inhibiting this movement would arguably slow down progress, while making the country more robust (much like the pros
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by zdmc 8y ago
I made the switch to a refurbished 6s a couple of months ago when we started work on a new iOS app, and I am happy that I did. For the foreseeable future, I'll be purchasing iPhones. (I even purchased the recently announced Mac Mini
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by zdmc 8y ago
A good heuristic: if you’re not dealing with “state” (i.e., Games, DB ORM, Reinforcement Learning), then don’t use OOP
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by zdmc 8y ago
"...with better than-human average performance". Hmm. Is this a task that humans currently do well?
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by zdmc 9y ago
In case anyone else was wondering about the power requirement for the sintering furnace: 208V 3-phase, 30A. The 3-phase requirement may be an impediment to some hobbyists; they should probably offer it with a buying option of their own bran
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Venture Capital for Middle America(usatoday.com)
2 points by zdmc 10y ago|0 comments
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by zdmc 10y ago
Nope. I was flagged for "secondary inspection" at the southern border. (Mind you, I am as white as you can get). Long story, short. I acted like a bit of an entitled jerk, and was surrounded by 15 CBP agents, had my head slammed o
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by zdmc 11y ago
Based on the headline, I expected the site to return the name of a TV series based on a search of subtitles. i.e., "shootin some bball outside of the school" For me, "find" implies search, while "discover" impl
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by zdmc 12y ago
I understand what you're saying, but it's not intuitive (for me, at least) to map variable in-app purchases to a fixed monthly expense model.
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by zdmc 12y ago
Is the revenue plan based on a monthly subscription model? If not, then I don't know why you'd want to think in terms of "X USD per month"[1]. That being said, kudos, the app looks really fun. It seems to me that you sho
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National Skills Registry - India
5 points by zdmc 13y ago|1 comments
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by zdmc 13y ago
I am surprised that so many of the comments seem to be ignoring the obvious: more experience generally means higher wage in the tech industry. It's a money issue. I've personally worked with older programmers, and there has been
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by zdmc 14y ago
I tend to use Facebook as a social blog already. It's "free" hosting (oh, I know: I am the product), and many of my friends are coerced to view my musings (if they want to see their news feed). I'd really love for Facebook to integrate anal
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How To Attribute Creative Commons Photos w/ Infographic(foter.com)
1 points by zdmc 14y ago|1 comments
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by zdmc 14y ago
Welcome to a prettier online discussion. I don't intend to be an active contributor, but so long as the content is indexed by the search engines, then I am sure I'll benefit as an active consumer (much like I have with Stack Overflow). From
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by zdmc 14y ago
Obviously there may be different requirements in different contexts, but I don't understand why anyone writes large web apps entirely in one language. I, too, once believed the mantras that "multiple languages present a maintenance nightmar
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Twitter's new censorship plan rouses global furor(hosted.ap.org)
1 points by zdmc 15y ago|0 comments
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by zdmc 15y ago
I've been working remotely for the past 2.5 yrs, and our Team is globally distributed (Chennai, US East Coast, and I am in Hawai'i)... Multiple time-zones, multiple languages, no issues. I do not understand why so many companies are still s