nickstefan12

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by nickstefan12 2mo ago
This describes a lot of people with young kids pretty accurately
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by nickstefan12 5y ago
Seriously laughed out loud when the ending brings it back to the junior engineer and the engineering processes. Well done!
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Amazon RDS for Postgres Integrates with AWS Lambda(aws.amazon.com)
3 points by nickstefan12 5y ago|0 comments
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by nickstefan12 5y ago
AOE2 (Age of Empires 2) is _still_ going strong some twenty years later. Active reddit, youtube, and twitch communities. Still releasing new civ expansions on Steam. I think it's success is due to just how balanced the game is. It&#x27
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The Cult of Cryptopunks(techcrunch.com)
12 points by nickstefan12 5y ago|2 comments
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by nickstefan12 7y ago
Same! Another industry they could play monopoly with
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by nickstefan12 7y ago
GPS spoofing is a big part of the Bond movie “Tomorrow Never Dies”. Funny that in a movie it seemed totally fake, something invented for the plot, and yet here I see it’s a real thing. Interesting how truth can be too much for fiction somet
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by nickstefan12 7y ago
Nothing is particularly “bad”. I’ve used them in python a number of times. I’m more just commenting that it’s a strange / interesting code based worth sight seeing. It was written in a style that seemed like from another language.
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by nickstefan12 7y ago
I will never forget what I found when hacking the internals of Handsontable many years ago... JavaScript For loops with - :label (eg go to) - continue - break It was definitely an interesting sperlunk!
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by nickstefan12 8y ago
My cynical answer is that engineers often work with “yes”/“no” about feasibility. Leaders usually keep the conversation above that level and think in terms of which problem needs solving rather than yes/no’ing specific implementat
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by nickstefan12 8y ago
> What full stack means in the market is front end with a little back end So much this. I believe in full stack development skills, that someone can have them, but I don’t believe in the job role of full stack developer. At small medium
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by nickstefan12 8y ago
> alternative computing reality This such the perfect description. I was working on a Django feature last year that had to work on all DBs and testing the oracle stuff was like entering a new reality lol.
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by nickstefan12 8y ago
This is important. I agree that taxing / mandating one house per person / family is probably the only way to reign in rent seeking.
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by nickstefan12 8y ago
You may argue that the solution either way is to build more, but I think its important to take problems on at their source. The debate about supply and demand just seems to be the wrong level of abstraction when there's a more sociolog
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by nickstefan12 8y ago
Your analogy is logically sound, but it doesnt match what I've seen in reality. I think the extra factor is that rich people seem to attract more rich people. That is the number that I think can't be out built. The rise in prices
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by nickstefan12 8y ago
Not the OP, but I would think he's describing: You can't out build rich people. There may be a supply of ten houses and a demand of ten people who need houses. However, that doesn't take into account that one of those ten peo
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by nickstefan12 8y ago
My argument would be that the demand is created by where the jobs are. What has changed "recently" is that jobs are being more concentrated post invention of the internet. The internet has removed the need for regional companies a
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by nickstefan12 8y ago
People are going to accuse me of "got mine", but I have none! What I'm saying is to consider that wanting cheaper housing today is throwing away a lot of natural beauty, vistas, and life, forever, just for a short term easeme
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by nickstefan12 8y ago
The problem with "just build more" is that eventually you run out of space the same as now, only you get to do it with a worse quality of light / space / light / traffic / noise / etc. I wish more cities f
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by nickstefan12 8y ago
"How I won The Lottery" (joke tech talk) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_F9jxsfGCw
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by nickstefan12 8y ago
I've learned that the housing crisis is really just a wealth inequality crisis. Basically every city in America now thinks it has a housing crisis. Big. Small. Cheap. Expensive. Seriously, talk to people in every city and state and the
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by nickstefan12 8y ago
> Everywhere else, the best policy is to increase supply. As long as homes are scarce, only those with deep pockets will be able to afford them. I've changed my mind on this: I think as long as there are people with deep pockets, an
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Stay Away: Ban Second Homes? (2016)(economist.com)
1 points by nickstefan12 8y ago|1 comments
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by nickstefan12 8y ago
> Our society isn’t designed for average to poor people to be healthy. The truth. Capitalism isn't about needs and wants but miseries you can tolerate. Unfortunately a bunch of people raced to the bottom on lack of sleep and now tha
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by nickstefan12 9y ago
Our app models directed graphs in Postgres with a closure table (the transitive edges between nodes). The advantages are that it's just sql, has good performance, and we can query the graph using relational logic rather than n+1 traver
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by nickstefan12 9y ago
If you're looking for a website builder that doesn't load megabytes of JavaScript, lock you in to the platform forever, or feel like a Fischer price toy, check out: https://www.brandcast.com
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by nickstefan12 9y ago
You don't like that models.CASCADE fakes it with extra requests to the Db? Or you don't like that the default is models.CASCADE instead of something like models.DO_NOTHING? There's talk of making the on_delete kwarg required
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by nickstefan12 9y ago
If anyone wants to see "Database level -- on delete cascade", here's my PR to Django that's been open since July/August: https://github.com/django/django/pull/8661
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by nickstefan12 9y ago
I love the idea of citus. An abstraction on top of sharding sounds amazing. The docs are clear. Their learning material is solid and actually gave me plenty of ideas. I was really excited about citus... until I saw the price! Hosted citus i
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by nickstefan12 9y ago
Definitely could be this as well. The answer to "can the product do _____" may entirely depend on who's asking. If its a big enough customer at a high enough price, they may want the ability to say "yes".

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