ProblemFactory

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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
Mailing lists for these technologies or projects, especially if the core developers frequent these lists.
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
On OSX there is the fantastic http://postgresapp.com/ . It installs into /Applications so it is easy to remove, and comes with a start/stop GUI and taskbar icon. Great for local development. But installing and con
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
The Risks sections are always like that. Any advertisements for stocks must have disclaimers about a wide range of possible risks, and that despite promising historical data you could lose your entire investment. Otherwise they could face e
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
If it's a time-based contract, then testing and bug-fixing is part of the billable time - it's a normal part of development. The client can decide how much testing and bug-fixing they want, often there is a point where the softwar
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
If he takes the job, then this is certainly wise. But it is still most likely a bad idea to take the job. * As an undergrad on summer internships, and in your first few years of professional work, it is better to optimise for learning rat
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
It seems surprising that the architecture is spread over so many different service providers. CDN from Fastly, servers from Rackspace, file storage on AWS, database from Heroku, ElasticSearch from Elastic, log storage on Dreamhost, DNS from
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
The problem for Github was that the best place to "keep backups yourself" was Bitbucket. I archived a number of inactive projects from Github to Bitbucket. But that gets tedious, so why not start them on Bitbucket in the first pla
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
> But I'd appreciate if their PR department didn't expect us to swallow this as a positive change. I don't have any numbers on how people structure their accounts on Github, but my feeling is that this is a positive chan
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
You are not spending 100% of your income, right? You only need to double or triple the income you spend on rent and living costs, not the portion left over for savings to keep the same standard of living. That said, if you are earning $100k
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
> This rests on the VC assertion that Uber is playing a winner-take-all game. They certainly seem to be playing a winner-take-all game, by heavily subsidising rides when they first launch in a new city. But it seems questionable to concl
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
Google I/O tickets are difficult to get - you apply, and they choose who can purchase a ticket by lottery. One of the reasons for this is that they used to hand out swag worth more than the ticket price (latest Nexus phones, etc). This
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
In the release notes they mention that they will upgrade to Nginx 1.10 when it is released: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes#Nginx
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
That's true, but most of the time you can express the "new" stuff in terms of existing fast libraries. I've had a few cases where you can't, and have become a big fan of Cython for that. It lets you add C typedefs t
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
Bluetooth audio works perfectly fine on OSX with some Sony BT headphones I recently got - even through a wall at 5+ meters.
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
But compatibility with C extensions is a major selling point. 25% speedup for pure Python code is not that appealing in numerical analysis code, when you can use NumPy, or sprinkle a few typedefs into a critical function and compile with Cy
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
It is probably a reference to the (in)famous launch review of iPod on Slashdot: https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i... > No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
You might enjoy http://www.stupidhackathon.com/
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
> Drivers are contractors, responsible for their own hourly wage. Sometimes they will earn below the minimum wage, and at other times, well above it. Aren't all taxi drivers in most cities of the world also self-employed? Even with
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
Sure. But by forcing you to go through RDS even if you migrate X->RDS->Y, they are halfway there. In the process you need to set up an AWS account, create a RDS database, import your data into it... and perhaps you stop there despite
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
Clever, but they could easily detect this on their servers.
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
Better handling of Unicode was also why Python3 adoption has been slow. Upgrading a library or project from Py2 to Py3 is very simple if you already handle bytes vs unicode carefully everywhere in your program . But for projects that mix u
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
Most real-world contracts have a clause saying "if any part of this contract is ruled invalid, the rest stays in effect."
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
If you are getting funding, then you will certainly need a separate LLC. The agency will have many deals and contracts with people you have worked with, and the investors will want these to be separate from the actual product they are fundi
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
> The biggest thing is that people drive when they shouldn't. It is extremely common to drive beyond your actual "in complete control" speed. You are supposed to drive slowly enough in snow so that you can correct for un
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
I'm using Fabric for the Twitter SDK on Android, and it is just the same there. No, I don't want an IDE plugin that rewrites (read: messes up) my config files to "help" me install things. All I need is a website to gener
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There are converters, and it's not too difficult to even write code that runs in both Python 2 and 3. The main roadblock in upgrades is unicode text vs bytes handling. Python2 was lax about using bytes for text. You could do unicode an
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
> Who can prove that there was such a notice, long after the packaging is gone? The notice does not matter. Patents cover not only manufacturing and sales, but also use of the invention. The patent owner does not need a contract with y
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
They are not listed because the extra taxes are not levied by Estonia. Almost every country in the world taxes their residents' income, even if it arrives from a company abroad. And US (in)famously taxes their citizens' income, ev
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by ProblemFactory 11y ago
No, and all scientists want everyone to find insights and come closer to truth. But the reality is that both the career advancement and funding for further experiments is almost entirely based on the number of publications in prestigious
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It's not just the batteries: heating the cabin takes considerable energy in -20C, but but the heat is "free" on fuel-burning engines. Hopefully there will be more data available and released in the future, as Tesla and Nissan

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