rycfan

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by rycfan 9y ago
Why an exponentially increasing rate? A device like this doesn't use much storage, any logs it keeps can be rotated out after a certain duration, and the cost of storage goes down over time, not up. So storing the same amount of data
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by rycfan 9y ago
He's working on his "Switching from Caddy to nginx article" right now.
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by rycfan 10y ago
If you deliver the same value to the company in 6 hours as you do in 8, then you should get paid 100% of your salary. You (should) be paid to deliver "X" value. Auto mechanics have this figured out -- we (developers) should be abl
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by rycfan 10y ago
You probably should have spent some time fixing that hole in the firewall that let you bypass your company's download restrictions. ;-)
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by rycfan 10y ago
Why would they charge the equivalent of transaction fees when they (Apple) pays those fees? How would they make any money if they only charged transaction fees? I've run the numbers on products like this before. In order to absorb tran
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by rycfan 10y ago
FYI, since 285 is a loop and 75 runs all the way through Atlanta, there are two 285/75 interchanges. While I think you're correct in your selection, here's the other one for completeness: https://www.google.com&#x2
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by rycfan 10y ago
That's a better reply to the OP, or perhaps directly to Dan Lyons. I didn't come up with the title of the book.
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by rycfan 10y ago
As others have pointed out, that's not unique to startup culture and completely demolishes Dan's point. Corporate America gave us "downsized, right sized, offboarding, redundant, outsourcing, reduction in force)". It mig
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by rycfan 10y ago
Great point on this actually being part of corporate America. I had neglected/forgotten that point, when I'm pretty sure buzzword bingo predated the rise of startups (synergy, touch base, strategic alignment were all part of the l
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by rycfan 10y ago
True, but the article implied at startups it was weird and wrong, when (as you correctly point out), it's actually part of corporate America as well. Which defeats his point that startup language is cultish and weird/wrong.
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by rycfan 10y ago
Two reactions to this article (and I say this as someone near 50): 1. Dan's obviously not cut out for startup life. When he meets Zack, he assumes Zack must be someone's assistant because he is young. Dan has no concept of the fac
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by rycfan 10y ago
How is it superior? Simple. How do I systematically make sure that I have the latest version of every stackoverflow code snippet? If it's a new post, it may not have all the edge cases fixed yet. So now I have to check back on each of
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by rycfan 10y ago
Yeah, there are a few shitty examples on npm. It's an open system and anyone can upload anything. The market speaks on how valuable those are. Cherry picking poor modules says nothing about the rest. Plus, if you think that's too
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by rycfan 10y ago
If I engage in as much hyperbole as the author, where does "write it yourself" stop? If I'm working on a team of two, should we each write our own left-pad? How about a team of three? Four? Five? Fifty? At a certain point, it
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by rycfan 10y ago
Which is great if you are one person and you fix the bug in your own code. What you're ignoring is that if everyone writes their own version, then the same problem exists. That bug has to be fixed across every (buggy) implementation. A
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by rycfan 11y ago
True, but that's for a 50% chance of a collision. In a single system, even a 1% chance of a collision is bad news.
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by rycfan 11y ago
Sorry for taking forever to reply. That's pretty much what I'm saying. I think the 5 races on the form conform to my understanding of race, so I think that part is right as well. I guess fundamentally I can't wrap my head aro
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by rycfan 11y ago
If it was a race as we contemplate race in its current definition, it would be on the government form I posted. It isn't. It's not a race like that (nor, really, in any other way). Yes, some Jews have a common genetic pattern. Man
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by rycfan 11y ago
> What do you have to support it? Is Christian a race? Also, this (PDF warning): https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf181.pdf .
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by rycfan 11y ago
The article is from 2013. We've already waited and seen. They're still around, and no reports of them being sued.
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by rycfan 11y ago
"The public has been made aware that programmers can be culprits. This will make it more likely that the next time something goes wrong -- a plane crash, a fire, a flood -- that the public will jump to the conclusion that some programm
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by rycfan 11y ago
Sorry, this is actually factually incorrect. As shown in another thread here, this service does not infinitely auto-scale (the recommendation was to use Kinesis), so you still have to know which services to choose, which is pretty much a fu
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by rycfan 12y ago
I have lived in Las Vegas for 6 1/2 years, including 7 summers. I'd rather live here than in Florida, where it gets nearly as hot, but which is way more humid and uncomfortable in my opinion. I'm not sure where this idea that
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by rycfan 12y ago
You've just described some possible flaws in a p-2-p system. Are there no flaws in the current cab system? Are there no flaws in Uber? You've pointed out why it can't be perfect. You haven't proven that it can't wor