staringispolite

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by staringispolite 11y ago
An error that large may be rare, but the overall experience of massive/unexpected financial load is fairly common via my experience hearing from customers (full disclosure: I founded a medical tourism startup called Emissary two years
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by staringispolite 11y ago
I was also thinking through which rules would apply here. (What entity owns a Stripe account? What constitutes a transfer of data? How does this case differ from say, an acquisition?) The medium article only shows info you can get from a St
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by staringispolite 11y ago
Interesting case study - he's "just" a full-time gamer, but there are tons of parallels in market timing, luck, peristence, positioning yourself in the market, getting to your first $100K revenue, and balancing founder-level
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Pro Gaming as Entrepreneurship – Cool Behind-The-Scenes Look from TwitchCon(thehustle.co)
1 points by staringispolite 11y ago|1 comments
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by staringispolite 11y ago
Just verified this myself... pretty cool! I searched for the following: * Mutex lock (from the article) * Mutex lock C++ * Python list comprehension Third time's a charm! The prompt came up, and now I've got a simulated
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Google Has Secret Interview Challenges Based on Your Search History(thehustle.co)
34 points by staringispolite 11y ago|2 comments
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by staringispolite 12y ago
Haha I don't mind. Was more worried about having to scale up my little blog server if it took off :) Do I know you in real life by the way?
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by staringispolite 12y ago
lol. uh oh.
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by staringispolite 13y ago
If your position is that the word censorship does not have a negative connotation, I don't know anyone who would agree with you, including, it would seem, your earlier comments. I'm positing that filtering has neither a positive
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by staringispolite 13y ago
Filtering is not always bad, especially not when it's done transparently, and in pursuit of a better community. To claim that filtering out those low-quality sites, when there are many higher quality sites covering the exact same topi
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by staringispolite 13y ago
A couple problems with your analysis: the population down-voting that post was preselected for those who had not already left/unsubscribed as /r/politics went downhill for the last couple years. "Censorship" is a
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by staringispolite 13y ago
This is a good point, and one I hadn't thought of. But I wasn't smelling cat pee often either. If we had two sets of items, one of which we had some cats pee on, and one of which we had some humans pee on, you think you could sort
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by staringispolite 13y ago
Users do vote: with their subreddit subscriptions (also PMs to moderators, and/or text submissions complaining about policy). I don't get the sense that this was unwanted from the community either. I don't know if this makes
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by staringispolite 13y ago
Specifically cat urine, not other urine? I must be thankfully smell-deficient because I wouldn't be able to tell the difference, and I grew up with cats for 20 years
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Day-Makers Wanted(medium.com)
1 points by staringispolite 13y ago|0 comments
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by staringispolite 13y ago
Thanks for the article. It seems unlikely that you could scale the first step: harvesting the iPhone profiles in the first place. I was under the impression this is a one-time download. Is there any realistic way to get a significant number
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by staringispolite 13y ago
"Growth slackers", perhaps. You know, because rhyming :)
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by staringispolite 13y ago
Somehow I don't think my mom would trade her iPad for an e1505 with a broken display, external monitor, plus the periodic need to upgrade the hard-drive and install/upgrade Ubuntu :)
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by staringispolite 13y ago
Two friends and I are working on exactly this! Would love to talk. I'll PM you with my contact info. Another good place to start understanding the (dis)incentives in US healthcare pricing is Time magazine's "The Bitter Pill&q
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by staringispolite 14y ago
Heh, yeah in this first case the optimal economic choice would've been to bid, then lose the auction but get the 10% off code, then buy at slimfoldwallet.com for a price of $18. EDIT: But then again, one point of auctions is that the retail
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by staringispolite 14y ago
Bug report: I got the email Subject: "Your graph has been updated!". But the link inside took me to http://knowitapp.com//graph
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by staringispolite 14y ago
Is that an employee trying to sell? Or a dealer trying to get employees to buy? Because that would be an ingeniously evil strategy, had it been timed close to IPO.
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by staringispolite 14y ago
I don't know how I feel about a blog that drives you to click an Amazon affiliate link. Nevertheless, the points seem valid and thought-provoking. Thanks for sharing.
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by staringispolite 14y ago
Google works for me... Gmail still down.
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by staringispolite 14y ago
Feedback incoming! I enjoy the idea, it makes me imagine being a better, happier person, given the context I already have with gratitude and journaling. Looking forward to the invite! A few points that come to mind from my past usage of sim
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by staringispolite 15y ago
This is a very good point, and one I didn't address in the post. In fact I may go back and add this. From my understanding in talking with some of the ex-employees: it doesn't seem to have been the issue in this case. But it's a huge point
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by staringispolite 15y ago
Do you have a reference for the 150M number? Disclaimer: This would've been over a year ago, and I don't remember specifics. I was an engineer, so my main focus was elsewhere. 1) We had a TON of users across many apps and not just our games
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by staringispolite 15y ago
20x'ed the RAM & CPU. Should be resolved
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by staringispolite 15y ago
Perhaps not surprising, but I think those are drastic mischaracterizations of the company. I was there for the merger and the almost-Facebook-ban From anything I saw, numbers weren't cooked. The Facebook ban was due to one of many small ad
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by staringispolite 15y ago
...and going up another two server sizes. Rackspace Cloud is easily scalable but painfully slow in practice. Lesson learned.

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