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by simonrobb 4y ago
That's correct in my experience. Galvanic corrosion was never a problem for the capacitive sensors I developed a few years back (unlike the resistive sensors linked by the parent). However you typically want them more rugged than a bar
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by simonrobb 6y ago
Unreinforced masonry is weak in tension because of the weak binding interface between the masonry unit and the mortar. The reason masonry is used in wall construction and not in, say, a suspended floor, is precisely because walls don't
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by simonrobb 6y ago
Link text should match the article headline; City of Sydney is a much smaller municipality than Greater Sydney, as this title suggests.
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by simonrobb 6y ago
Matt Estlea is only young but he has a real talent for teaching. Fun to watch, goes pretty deep into the basics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxWzA3ZlYEOLr1JkKH0ZMyg
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by simonrobb 6y ago
Spectacular! Well done on shipping a product/service which I've wanted for a long time. In particular the financing option will enable me to take the leap into the world of fine art for the first time.
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by simonrobb 6y ago
I mean, anecdotal data ra ra ra, but this is super appealing to me, and I'll probably be making my first art purchase >$500 as a result.
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by simonrobb 6y ago
M3 provides local storage but is not experimental, on top of that with cluster replication which VictoriaMetrics does not provide, and has a kubernetes operator to help scale out a cluster. Disclosure: I work on the TSDB underlying M3 (M3DB
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by simonrobb 7y ago
Are concrete crossties pre-stressed? It makes sense now I think about it, but I'm just surprised more effort than "pour concrete into a mold" goes into such an unassuming structural member.
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by simonrobb 7y ago
Chronosphere ( https://chronosphere.io/ ) was recently started by ex-Uber engineers to build a commercial ecosystem around M3. M3 is Uber's metrics platform and isn't going anywhere. M3DB (the TSDB built to suppor
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by simonrobb 7y ago
Which is built on Mattermost.
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by simonrobb 7y ago
Yes and no. I would love to use Slack over uChat, don't get me wrong, but uChat is a skin/integration of an enterprise chat app not a greenfield build. Look familiar? https://mattermost.com/
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by simonrobb 7y ago
Yeah absolutely! It's a successful project and pretty integral to Uber, I love what I do and have a lot of faith in my manager/director. I don't anticipate any reason for our situation to change.
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by simonrobb 7y ago
To my mind this quarter shouldn't be used at all in this kind of discussion since its so messy. e.g.: I take your point, but that $2.56B is the culmination of over ten years of R&D compensation. It's not at all representative
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by simonrobb 7y ago
> So cleaning up code, making sure no sensitive info, swear words and such, documentation, lawyery stuff, icons, PR copy, blog post, basic website, wiki, and much more nitty gritty I'm glossing over. I'm the manager of one of U
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by simonrobb 7y ago
Of course. But compare that cost to (say) six full time engineers pumping out code for a couple of years. It's not the dominant cost by any means. Not to mention you're paying those other folks a salary regardless. If it helps you
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by simonrobb 7y ago
It doesn't really cost anything to open source something though. These are all projects which are developed for a reason: the commercial version might be prohibitively expensive at Uber scale, or not technically capable of operating at
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by simonrobb 7y ago
+1 Appreciate you avoiding the usual "it's just a little smartphone app" I'm not going to try and give an exhaustive list, but as a rough explanation: things get really, really hard when you're operating at Uber sca
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by simonrobb 7y ago
Fact check: R&D spend for three months ending June 2019 was $3.06B. Reported loss for three months ending June 2019 was $5.24B. So, already false. Now take away the one-time IPO expense of $3.9B, and we're not even close to being t
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by simonrobb 7y ago
This is exactly what happened in LA toward the end of 2018. Uber tried raising fares in order to pay their drivers more, but Lyft didn't follow suit and consequentially the market shifted toward Lyft in response. Ridesharing consumers
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by simonrobb 7y ago
We have a similar minimum in Australia to the UK, and our airfares are considerably more prohibitive than the US.
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by simonrobb 7y ago
I've almost finished reading "Good to Great" (an excellent read, for whoever hasn't read it already) which analyzes Nucor's company culture. Nice to hear the reality matches the analysis.
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by simonrobb 7y ago
Uber | Backend Engineer | New York | VISA We are looking for talented engineers to join the NYC Core Storage team to develop and support M3DB: our open-source distributed time-series database, designed for massive write throughput. As a sma
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by simonrobb 7y ago
The sentiment of the article leaned more toward praise than any of those you enumerated.
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by simonrobb 7y ago
There is value in vocalizing a guiding principle, even if it doesn't prescribe the exact way every single situation should be approached.
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by simonrobb 7y ago
I think “in LA” deserves a mention in the title.
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by simonrobb 8y ago
It takes a whole lot more to build a business than technical chops.
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by simonrobb 8y ago
Point well made. Nit: meeting the requirements of law isn't barely collapsing; that requirement has so many safety factors built-in because the building code has to approximate so much. The approach isn't that dissimilar from how
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by simonrobb 8y ago
First - architects shouldn't be lumped in with engineers in this context. It seems like there's some confusion around how far the responsibilities of an architect extend, which makes me wonder if things are different in the US? Wh
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by simonrobb 8y ago
Fume events are rare as long as you define them as being above regulated threshold of contaminants in the cabin. This is fine for most people, but others (my partner included) have sensitivities to the contaminants, which trigger neurologic
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Afterpay accessing electoral roll data under laws designed to target terrorism(smh.com.au)
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