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by lyqwyd 7y ago
GATTACA
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by lyqwyd 7y ago
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943 Mayor’s claim doesn’t seem any more credible than Watson’s. Mayor might wind up being right, but not due to any deeper insight. It w
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by lyqwyd 7y ago
What do you consider non-trivial? I transfer money to Africa on a regular basis, and I don’t have these same issues other than the difference between published exchange rate and realized, which is about 1-1.5%. Transfer fees are minimal. I
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by lyqwyd 8y ago
This is not new. They’ve been eying this tax for quite some time. It’s due to the difficulty in fighting over the gas tax. It is extremely flawed, but politically expedient. At some point it may make sense due to electric vehicles and auton
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by lyqwyd 8y ago
I would say it depends on your goals. If performance is your primary concern, then go with rust, one of rust’s primary focuses is performance. I don’t think of Haskell as the best language for command line dev, but I’m far from expert in ei
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by lyqwyd 8y ago
I recently installed Mattermost open source, but will likely move to something else. This is a trial for me, but the lack of google authentication in the free version, and particularly that it is only available on the enterprise version wit
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by lyqwyd 8y ago
The fact that you could operate the mongo instance, but not the DB is definitely a cultural issue, or more likely a managerial issue. Definitely NOT a DB issue. I’ve worked at places where we could manage the DB ourselves, and other places
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by lyqwyd 8y ago
This article really captures the risks of a rebuild. I’ve been through a number of them, all but 1 abject failures. The one success was driven by the executive understanding that the company would fail without a rebounds, and it was still 6
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by lyqwyd 8y ago
My suspicion is the statistic is too vague to be meaningful. I would bet that the key here is the average person in LA commutes every day, but I suspect the person in Jakarta does not commute in a way that is easily measured for the purpose
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by lyqwyd 9y ago
That's even better regeneration than Wolverine
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by lyqwyd 9y ago
The website was down for about 5-10 min for me when logged in, although their homepage was working, and I was able to push changes. The site is now back up for me.
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by lyqwyd 9y ago
It's almost 1984
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by lyqwyd 10y ago
It's unfortunate that this is the sort of means by which these issues are addressed, but it's more unfortunate that are society does not take action on issues like these until these sort of means are used. It's horrible that
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by lyqwyd 10y ago
It happens to all of us, last time I was interviewing I was asked the exact same question two days in a row, the first time I answered it without trouble, but the very next day I choked. It wasn't even a difficult question. After that
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by lyqwyd 10y ago
I don't believe a government can have concern for its own citizens if it does not have concern for people outside of its own borders.
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by lyqwyd 10y ago
Yes, SF's process is incredibly broken. It's not just that they are too expensive and time consuming (which they are!), it's also that the rules are arbitrary, and there are multiple departments, which often have the exact op
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by lyqwyd 10y ago
Definitely red tape. I'm doing an expansion on my house in SF. 1 year in already, and at least another year to go before we get permits, if we even wind up getting them. It will probably cost over $10,000 just in planning review /
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by lyqwyd 10y ago
I'll agree with your last, but your first statement is as incorrect as well. How do you know they care about it? If somebody is passionate, then they certainly do care about it, but you are correct lack of passion does not equal lack o
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by lyqwyd 10y ago
This is a very poorly reasoned article. First it frames the options as either poor people are lazy, or rich people are exploiting them into poverty. There are many possible causes of poverty, other than either option. The title is also ridi
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by lyqwyd 10y ago
I don't think this is about passion, I think it's about a culture mis-match. Lyons is looking for a place with stability, and that was not HubSpot. In this case it was probably HubSpot's error in hiring him in the first, as t
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by lyqwyd 10y ago
The use of a framework Does not mean the code is better, i would argue the opposite, many a new dev learns on a framework and often doesn't know the underlying language, whereas choosing not to use a framework is usually a conscious de
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by lyqwyd 11y ago
I'm not surprised... He's been a disappointment from a civil liberties perspective.
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by lyqwyd 11y ago
I have the same tendency, when I eat breakfast I get ravenously hungry within an hour unless it's a massive breakfast. Even with a large breakfast, I'll be just as hungry by lunchtime as I would be without the breakfast, sometimes
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by lyqwyd 11y ago
No tool will ever solve the problem of being over-burdened, as becoming more efficient just means doing more in the same amount of time. Being over-burdened is a personal / social problem, and the only solution is not taking on /
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by lyqwyd 11y ago
This isn't about fixing email, it's about building big things off small ideas. Microsoft didn't just turn into the biggest BASIC software company. The point is that the outcome can often be unrecognizable from the origin, and