ranrotx

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by ranrotx 4y ago
It’s also not so much about RealPage, but the consolidation that has occurred in rental property ownership and management over the years. Now take what RealPage is doing with apartments and imagine if every major airline used the same reven
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by ranrotx 4y ago
Just about every new housing development in the greater Houston area starts like this: Acquire some cheap farmland not too far from a highway, come in and sub-divide the lots, build some kind of neighborhood amenity (pool, rec center, etc.)
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by ranrotx 4y ago
I’d take a file system that can be indexed by my local operating system (MacOS). The last MacOS update broke Spotlight indexing for my Google Drive folders. Really annoying not being able to use Spotlight (and by extension Alfred), so the o
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by ranrotx 5y ago
Their apparel brand is a joke. It’s run by Foley’s wife. Unless I messed something, what experience or qualification does she have in apparel? Never mind the fact that I’ve maybe seen only 3 people in the real world wearing anything that is
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by ranrotx 5y ago
I personally feel like Kubernetes tries to be all the things, which creates feature and complexity bloat to be able to accommodate any possible workload you can throw at it. “Cloud Native” is a bit of a misnomer. It’s more like trying to ru
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by ranrotx 5y ago
By that same logic, I wonder how many times Facebook and Instagram have been reported for making teens so conscious about their self-image that they commit suicide?
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by ranrotx 5y ago
You know what else is tilt-up? Most big box stores. Not sure why Amazon is being singled out here as I’m sure this building complied with all local building codes.
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by ranrotx 5y ago
PTO is a form of compensation. Every place I’ve worked at has paid me for unused, accrued PTO when I left. But I’ve also never been terminated, so don’t know if that matters.
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by ranrotx 5y ago
Fresh food isn’t just more expensive, but it’s also harder to handle and stock. Processed food comes in neat packaging that can be unit priced, and kept frozen or shelf-stable for long period of time.
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by ranrotx 5y ago
Fuck Home Depot. First they killed off all the mom-and-pop hardware local stores. Now we shop there because that’s usually the only choice. Are we supposed to feel sorry for them? It’s bad enough that they’ve turned me into their employee w
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by ranrotx 5y ago
I mean, how else are we supposed to know the CPU is busy?
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by ranrotx 5y ago
Apple effectively did the same thing with AirTags and turning everyone’s iOS device into a listening post for the Find My network, but there’s no uproar there.
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by ranrotx 6y ago
Yep, this is the thing no one is talking about. Dallas has easily added 10k apartment units in the past 5 years. Almost all of them are all electric (no gas heating). Considering it’s more energy efficient to cool with Air Conditioning on t
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by ranrotx 6y ago
Another thing worth noting: HEB is privately (family, I believe) owned. The difference is night and day between their stores/employees and those of the competing grocer in my area that is owned by private equity.
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by ranrotx 7y ago
Yes, sadly so. I worked as a vendor to a retail company. Every time I went to their office (which was attached to one of their facilities that held product) I had to undergo a bag check. I never had to do the bag check if I went to an offic
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by ranrotx 7y ago
I’ve been on Southwest flights so sparsely full (maybe 40 people on a plane with capacity for 120) where the flight attendants have to repeatedly tell people to “spread out for weight and balance.” That’s about as scientific as their calcul
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by ranrotx 7y ago
You don’t need to allocate instances in advance if you use Fargate.
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DockerCon 2020 moves from Austin, TX to a “virtual event”(twitter.com)
4 points by ranrotx 7y ago|0 comments
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Elliott Management discloses AT&T stake, questions wisdom of past acquisitions(activatingatt.com)
2 points by ranrotx 7y ago|0 comments
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by ranrotx 7y ago
I have this feeling that 5G is more about cheaply deploying faster Internet (ie. comment about these things going up next to people’s bedrooms) versus a more expensive fiber deployment to the premises. Having driven around Dallas and seen a
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by ranrotx 7y ago
That’s the problem with a lot of franchise agreements. So many things are set and specified for you that you have no room to optimize your business as an operator. In a way, you’re almost just like an employee of the franchisor, but without
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by ranrotx 7y ago
AWS employee here--thoughts and opinions are my own. Prior to AWS, I was in IT Operations at a large financial services company. I saw the writing on the wall that over time, companies would not want to manage this part of their IT infrast
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by ranrotx 7y ago
I’m surprised no one has mentioned AWS ElasticBeanstalk. It supports Docker (ECS behind the scenes) and is very close to Heroku in terms functionality but with EC2 pricing.
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by ranrotx 8y ago
Looking at the photos, it appears that Texas is well represented (and not in a good way). My fear is that in 20 years, these buildings will be a stain on the landscape, as many owners will not spend a dime on aesthetic upgrades.
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by ranrotx 8y ago
Car owners pay registration fees and and gas taxes for the privilege to use the public roadways. Bird and the like just dumped their property (which makes them money) on public right-of-ways without paying for the use like every other indus
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by ranrotx 8y ago
My gripe with SiriusXM is their pricing model (worse than the cable company). You only buy it when they have a special which makes it 50% off, that is actually a fair price. However in 6 months it will auto-renew at the public rate, snd the
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by ranrotx 8y ago
The signal to noise ratio in the hiring process is horrible. I work at one of the FAANG companies and do a lot in the hiring process. I can tell you that getting a phone screen off of a resume that you submit is a crap-shoot. There are peop
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by ranrotx 9y ago
One of the things preventing Puerto Rico from becoming a state is the balance of power in the US Congress. The thinking is that a majority of the Puerto Ricans will align themselves with the Democratic Party. That would result in 2 new Demo