steven2012

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by steven2012 7y ago
Calling external services "microservices" is fundamentally wrong. They are "services". All that will do is create a lot of confusion because you are utterly misusing terminology. You can't just decide to misuse term
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by steven2012 7y ago
It's absolutely a basic feature. It's the opposite of buying a share, and your profit/loss is easy to calculate. With options, you need to worry about premium, time decay, spreads and lower liquidity, etc.
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by steven2012 7y ago
For a brokerage managing short position risks are exactly the same as managing long positions. And the implementation is the same too. Do real-time checks and once a position has lost more than X%, sell the position immediately. The biggest
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by steven2012 7y ago
Yes, a pure short position is much cheaper than buying puts. You pay a lot of premium with options and almost no premium with shorts, depending on what the rate to borrow is. Also, liquidity is much better as are spreads. It makes a huge di
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by steven2012 7y ago
This is an incorrect statement. CPU utilization and memory matters because it limits how many other containers you can load on the same host, and means that it becomes more and more expensive to run that particular service.
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by steven2012 7y ago
It looks like it came from his Louis TV show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNo_Hhm5r8o
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by steven2012 7y ago
It would never have been prioritized. The time to convince others that this was more valuable than other tasks would have far outweighed the time that he spent working on it on his own time. He thought it was a cool idea and just did it wit
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by steven2012 7y ago
It's mostly raw passion. You can't get a 9-to-5 worker excited enough to learn something from scratch over a weekend just to do something she thinks is "cool". There's also a difference between a better programmer v
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by steven2012 7y ago
Louis CK once said "The only time you should look at what's on some else's plate of food is to check if they have enough." That really put things in perspective to me. If I'm not making enough for the amount of work
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by steven2012 7y ago
I've worked with 2 10x engineers in my career. I don't know if they were precisely 10x, but they were the most productive engineers I've ever seen. At the startup I worked at, this was the VP. When he left, the company almost
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by steven2012 7y ago
No offense to the OP but the syllabus is ludicrous. This isn't teaching anything. It's so packed with random software technologies, they will leave the course with nothing. Cut down on the syllabus and focus on a few topics. Make
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by steven2012 7y ago
Agreed. There is no way that a startup is capitalized enough to survive a payout. Their CEO and investors must be sweating bullets over the next few days, worrying if an earthquake hits closer to LA
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by steven2012 7y ago
Also sinkholes and flooding caused by global warming!
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by steven2012 7y ago
I just don't understand how people continue to believe that Bigfoot exists. The footage from the 1970s, once stabilized, looks embarrassingly like a man in a gorilla suit. Plus they admitted their faking it. The fact people still belie
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by steven2012 7y ago
Honestly, when you're dealing with the scale of the Internet, ie. billions of people, do the disgusting comments of a few dozen, hundreds or even thousands of people matter? It's not something you encounter in the "real"
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by steven2012 7y ago
I tried Impossible Meat last week and I was shocked at how tasty it was. There was a Better Meats option for hamburgers but I don't want to waste $8 in case it doesn't taste good. They would do so much better if they had a stand a
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by steven2012 7y ago
Google has become a big horrible disaster. I'm extremely disappointed in what is going on these days. I am a heavy user of Nest (7 cameras, other accessories). I've fully bought into the ecosystem. I literally have no idea what&#x
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by steven2012 7y ago
Google as a company is worth almost $1T. It's hard to argue that's the wrong approach when they are so ridiculously successful.
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by steven2012 7y ago
Right now I'm struggling with whether or not to leave. I'm currently at a well-known company, and I'm uncharacteristically happy because my WLB is the best it's been in my career. However, I'm getting a bit bored an
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by steven2012 8y ago
> Publishers are also concerned that they won’t have access to important data about the consumers — credit cards, email addresses and other subscriber information — as part of the deal. Why are credit card numbers important information?
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by steven2012 8y ago
My kid is 6 years old and all he uses is an iPad. I think the next generation will be using iPads and tablets and think using laptops are for old people.
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by steven2012 8y ago
This isn't a good article to post. It's just one person complaining about a change he didn't know about. It's really just a syntax change. I probably wouldn't have chosen that particular syntax using colons, or I wo
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by steven2012 8y ago
Did you do something about these terrible interviewers? Your company is particularly famous for a terrible interview experience because of interviewers such as this. I've personally experienced them a few times myself, and if you know
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Your TV Is Now a Computer, but Not in a Good Way(theatlantic.com)
17 points by steven2012 8y ago|2 comments
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by steven2012 8y ago
The waste company has people that go through the recycling and pull out all the salvageable bottles and get the deposit themselves, so you can consider it a "donation" to SF Recology or wherever you live.
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by steven2012 8y ago
It sounds like the OP got a second-hand storytelling of what happened, and the original storyteller didn't know the exact details or made things up. It doesn't make sense for the lawyer to not to suggest settling especially if the
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by steven2012 8y ago
How does an octopus know how to match its body with its background? All video I've seen have been with the octopus eyes up, it's not even looking at the background, so how does it know a) what the background color is, and 2) that
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by steven2012 8y ago
I'm thankful that I love programming even after 2 decades, and that I'm very well paid for it. And I still come into work every day and love the challenges. There was a time where I was burnt out and needed to take a year off, but
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by steven2012 8y ago
This sounds like it was written by a complete amateur. "Try and avoid bias" isn't even grammatically correct. Their part on bias is woefully inadequate. "We’re all human, and we’re all biased, so the best thing to do is
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by steven2012 8y ago
I would prefer one from Apple. I don't trust Google as much as I do Apple, simply because I know they don't make money from my data. The fact that the FBI couldn't get into an iPhone makes me trust Apple much more. If I start

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