Maascamp

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by Maascamp 5y ago
1) It's pretty clear then that you don't have much experience with planning at level beyond a few people if you've never heard the term KPI come up in software 2) Agile still comes with meetings
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by Maascamp 5y ago
If you had no KPIs and no meetings how did you know what to work on and what the company needed? Osmosis?
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by Maascamp 6y ago
Feels like this person completely missed the point of choose boring technology. The point isn't to never use anything new or exciting, the point is to save the excitement for your core value prop so that you're not wasting time e.
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by Maascamp 6y ago
I wouldn't call that being a crap shield. I'd call that executing on the non-technical aspects of your team's strategy. When teams don't see (and/or frame) those things as key part of achieving their goals the resul
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by Maascamp 6y ago
But doing so wouldn't make that developer's software unusable on Windows.
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by Maascamp 7y ago
Just wish these articles would address the amount of content and utility we get in exchange for our data (instead of our money) and speak to the trade-off. Until we find a better way to financially support all of the things we consume on th
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by Maascamp 9y ago
I think everyone has their own ideas on who's the victim. People seem to care about a 70 year old billionaire getting "bullied" by the media for example.
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by Maascamp 10y ago
> I'm not sure I really believe that. I can believe it. I once worked at an investment bank where, during bonus time, I needed to deal with an issue at a trading desk. While there I had the following conversation with a particularly
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by Maascamp 10y ago
How come the millionaire Duck Dynasty cast member isn't an "elite," but everyone brought in by the Democrats was?
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by Maascamp 10y ago
The amount of garbage Scala generates doesn't get enough airtime IMO. There are at least five instances I've been part of where an underperforming Scala component was rewritten in Java for significant performance improvements, mos
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by Maascamp 10y ago
Not sure if this applies to their use case since they mention FIFO in the context of it being a simple eviction policy, but if you _require_ FIFO semantics then both Redis and memcached are out of the question since they use nondeterministi
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by Maascamp 10y ago
The use case in mainly deduplication of a high volume data stream (though it's got a few other uses). The write volume is fairly stable so it's sized in such away that we'll never emit dupes even when the upstream source cras
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by Maascamp 10y ago
I confronted a similar caching requirement (in my case the cache needs to be much larger) in Java recently and chose to implement off-heap for some of the reasons you mention. It avoids GC and heap size concerns entirely and makes it easy t
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by Maascamp 11y ago
An important difference with the web is the barrier to entry. Testing an idea for the web is orders of magnitude cheaper (time and money) than an idea for an app.
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by Maascamp 11y ago
I wonder if this has implications for the higher levels of hypertension found specifically in African Americans.
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by Maascamp 11y ago
Just use Windows Defender. It's built in. You're already done.
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Tim Hunt hung out to dry(theguardian.com)
3 points by Maascamp 11y ago|0 comments
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by Maascamp 11y ago
If you're an enterprise you're using github's on-premise appliance and aren't affected at all.
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by Maascamp 12y ago
They were never making money off the pirates anyway. This way they can get more people on their services, on a more secure OS that will be evergreen, potentially paying for extras, and at the very least helping their ML algos.
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by Maascamp 12y ago
The "intellectuals" who watch sports are interested in strategy. This encompasses on field strategy, personnel choices, and beyond. The fact that you ignored (or are ignorant of) this side of sports tells me that you've not a
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by Maascamp 12y ago
Apple's laptop division and the appeal of OSX have very little to do with these revenue numbers. At 6.9B Mac sales are only a few multiples of Microsoft's fledgling Surface business, let alone the laptop market in general. IPhones
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by Maascamp 12y ago
I'm on the same page. Chrome locks my computer around once a day on Ubuntu. Startup is horribly slow as well.
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Academics worry over Microsoft's Silicon Valley research lab closing(zdnet.com)
1 points by Maascamp 12y ago|0 comments
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by Maascamp 12y ago
Is it? It quotes Altman as saying, "Going way out of our way to invite people to apply who don't fit the stereotypical start-up mold has worked really well for us." Sounds exactly like they're just attempting to cast a w
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by Maascamp 12y ago
If your non-geeky "friends" are telling you to get a life, I suspect they aren't actually your friends.
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Google finally agrees to fix Chrome bug that drains Windows laptop batteries(engadget.com)
4 points by Maascamp 12y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft's image-recognition AI is a stickler for the details(engadget.com)
7 points by Maascamp 12y ago|0 comments
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by Maascamp 12y ago
Wow. What garbage. The premise of this book seems to be, "We need to stop people with different values from becoming developers (regardless of how skilled they are at actually writing code)." Really? This seems like a tech equival
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The next thing Silicon Valley needs to disrupt: its own culture(qz.com)
1 points by Maascamp 12y ago|1 comments
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Darpa's 2 Million Dollar Cyber Grand Challenge(cybergrandchallenge.com)
2 points by Maascamp 12y ago|0 comments

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