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by whopa 8y ago
I think this is why AWS promotes DynamoDB so much, because it's one of the few datastores that work sanely with non-VPC lambdas.
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by whopa 8y ago
I wonder why all the predominant RDBMSes are heavyweight connection based, and why this is presumably so hard to change. There's nothing in SQL that requires this to be the case, at least conceptually.
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by whopa 8y ago
I had to do similar a month ago, around $20k as well. It was from my account at BofA to an account at a different bank. I did it all online, and it cost $10 and cleared the next day, so within 24 hours. I did this all online without talking
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by whopa 9y ago
As a sibling comment has mentioned, there are high-skills immigration paths in the US, they just aren't very well known, and have a very high bar to clear. It's not great, but it does exist. I personally know 2 Indians who got the
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by whopa 9y ago
People keep saying that Node is async native, but the GC is global and synchronous, and that property will bite you on availability even at moderate traffic, i.e. sooner than you'd expect.
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by whopa 9y ago
> I feel that if you make the best choice you can given the information you have, you've nothing to regret. You did miss something. Trying to be a gymnast wasn't her choice, her mom made that choice for her when she was 3 years
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by whopa 9y ago
Modern AWS instance types are EBS-only.
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by whopa 9y ago
This is an informative and well written article, but seems incomplete in this day and age. In public cloud environments, network attached storage is far more prevalent, so the swap story may be different there (I honestly don't know th
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by whopa 9y ago
If you're in AWS land you can use Kinesis firehose to S3, which is perfect for Spark. Way more straightforward than any Kafka solution.
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by whopa 9y ago
At small scale just go with Kinesis. The base semantics are pretty much the same between the two, and Kafka is terribly complex to run. The hosted Kafka solutions are too expensive for small scale. Kinesis has a real auth story too, plus yo
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by whopa 9y ago
My point about Tejon Pass is that it's a steep grade mountain pass with heavy traffic including lots of trucks. There's no equivalent in PA. Highway trucking will be the first significant deployment of autonomous vehicles. One of
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by whopa 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Davis_(Pennsylvania) - 3,213 ft - highest point in PA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tejon_Pass - 4,160 ft Tejon Pass is on I-5 in northern LA County, and it is
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by whopa 9y ago
> they aren't biased by the immaculate freeways and roads in California -- Pittsburgh has a much wider variety of challenging driving situations, weather, and conditions than California so it is a great test bed for developing auton
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by whopa 9y ago
The Democrats adopted Romneycare with some tweaks as a compromise effort. They view it as a starting point, not the end goal. Any attempts to move beyond that starting point were obstructed by Republicans. The AHCA failed due to a small han
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by whopa 9y ago
I'm specifically not making a value judgment on the approaches of the two parties. Health care is a complicated topic, and there are many approaches of with pros and cons to each. All I'm saying is that the parties have fairly dif
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by whopa 9y ago
People who can't distinguish between the meaningful impact of the differences between the two parties approach to health care are not paying attention or willfully ignorant. Bringing out the trope perpetuates this. It's a real pro
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by whopa 9y ago
The differences between Python and Haskell only affect programmers and people who employ programmers. The difference between the two parties approach to health care affects everybody in the US. It's not simply a matter of perspective.
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by whopa 9y ago
I completely agree. I was just pointing out to the poster I was replying to that with regards to one of the most important economic issues the US currently faces, there are meaningful differences between the two parties, despite the fact th
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by whopa 9y ago
Health care is squarely an economic/business issue that affects nearly everybody, and there are clear, meaningful differences between the two parties here.
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by whopa 9y ago
I 100% agree: people are different and have a continuum of preferences. However, a frequently brought up point is that remote really only works well if the organization is "remote first", which excludes people who prefer to work i
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by whopa 9y ago
Except you won't be able to do that in Denmark anymore per the article that this thread is about. And there's a number of other places in the world where Uber does not have coverage. Uber doesn't even tell you where they are,
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by whopa 10y ago
> Ditch the defaults and Reddit's median skyrockets. Ditch some of the more popular non-defaults, it skyrockets some more. Start building a list of well-moderated subreddits with a strong sense of community, and it jumps some more.
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by whopa 11y ago
A bit of contrary anecdata: I'm throwing a party on Sunday. I don't throw parties very often. The last time I did was a little over a year ago. I created a Facebook event for parties as I usually do, and about half the people I in
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by whopa 11y ago
These escrow services would be centralized targets too just like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc.
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by whopa 11y ago
People do lose their physical keys though. And in pretty much all cases, there is a recovery mechanism to get at whatever the physical keys are protecting. This may involve drilling a hole or the like, but there is a fallback. With any digi
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by whopa 11y ago
Don't know about the OP, but I've tried it with Python and Go. The Go stuff works pretty well, the Python stuff is buggy and incomplete (and the code looks overengineered)
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by whopa 11y ago
Yeah, I have a firstinitialverycommonlastname@gmail.com address which is full of misdirected email. I don't use it either, though it is my default throwaway email for access walls (enter your email to read this article!) and the like.
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by whopa 11y ago
You're misremembering. The speed of light in miles per second is ~186,282.396. The speed of light in meters per second is 299,792,458, but the meter is defined using the speed of light: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by whopa 11y ago
The Silver Line in Boston is exactly that: dual mode buses ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-mode_bus ), and part of the line is a dedicated tunnel for the buses, while the other part is normal streets.
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by whopa 11y ago
A bit of personal anecdata: After the first bubble burst, I took a jib at $BIGCO for a slightly higher salary than I was making at the startup I was laid off from. $BIGCO was pretty stingy about raises and bonuses though during the bust, an

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