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by wildwood 11y ago
Kinesis isn't a good idea for low-latency queueing. It can handle high throughput, but it can often take anywhere from one to ten seconds for a message to make it through the queue. Given that DynamoDB can reliably write in the 4-5ms
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by wildwood 11y ago
What you're describing reminds me a lot of Padelford Hall at University of Washington, another product of the late 60s. ( http://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/june07/content/view... ) It was awful
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by wildwood 12y ago
I could see Amazon using this as a NYC media presence, as much as a store. They could do readings by authors, launch events for Amazon original video content, Kindle product launches, and so on. Also, six foot HDMI cables. Everybody needs
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by wildwood 12y ago
I think this is the first time I've seen the phrase "post Edward Snowden world", used like "post 9-11 world" has been for the last decade-plus. I hope that catches on. Edit: can't believe I got the name wrong.
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by wildwood 12y ago
They're a bit vague when describing the "I-was-going-to-buy-it-anyway" problem, but it sounds like they're mainly talking about PPC ads on search engines stealing from SEO links on the same pages. (Some of it seems to b
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by wildwood 12y ago
I think this study fails to give serious thought to the phonetic differences of the left-side and right-side letters, and the possibilities for co-correlation there. The right side has 4 out of 6 of the vowels and 3 out of 4 of the other so
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by wildwood 13y ago
I suspect that people in southern California would share your confusion about the pronunciation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Jolla
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by wildwood 13y ago
I completely agree, it's interesting how many people love to jump to economic theorizing about how people will act, and how few people look at the actual cost to implement. I read through a breakdown in one of the Basic Income books, o
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by wildwood 13y ago
There's really nothing new about hostility to immigrants in the United States. The last generation's wave of newcomers is the next generation's "old guard", saying that the new wave is "lazy", "unski
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by wildwood 13y ago
This is becoming my biggest concern about these Basic Income plans, too. Giving this amount of money to every person in Switzerland would total almost half of the country's GDP. Even if you exclude children and get the total amount dow
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by wildwood 13y ago
You're only paying 35% in US federal taxes if you're making over 400K a year. Someone making $100K to $150K is in the 28% bracket. And you're probably only paying 10% in state tax if you live in California. Most other state
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by wildwood 13y ago
Gravity can be tested just by dropping your pencil. The invisible hand takes a lot more faith and fervent wishing, IMO.
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by wildwood 13y ago
The catalogue will list the build-year of the property you're looking at, but will it give much information on the build-years of the other nearby buildings?
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by wildwood 13y ago
DoubleDown Interactive - Seattle, WA - Full time, permanent ( http://doubledowninteractive.com/ ) We just want everyone to have a good time. DoubleDown is an on-line casual casino, currently on desktop, Facebook, and numerous
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by wildwood 13y ago
If you were born in Bulgaria, Hungary or a hundred other places and your first exposure to English in bulk and attempts to speak it started at the age of 10 or later you'll have a fairly strong accent no matter what. Sorry, but this
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by wildwood 13y ago
Agreed. One of the things I liked best about Matter was how it took all of Star Trek's hand-wringing about "first contact" and turned it on its head - there were right and wrong ways to initiate contact with a primitive cult
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by wildwood 13y ago
DoubleDown Interactive - Seattle, WA - Full time, permanent ( http://doubledowninteractive.com/ ) We just want everyone to have a good time. DoubleDown is an on-line casual casino, currently on desktop, Facebook, and numerous
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by wildwood 13y ago
They're contractors. Treating contractors like they're full-time employees, without giving them full-time benefits, can get a company sued, not to mention dinged by the IRS for back payroll taxes. One way to keep the contractors
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by wildwood 13y ago
If the workers are being classified as contractors, then it's important to have an arbitrary cut-off that limits how long they can work at your company. Otherwise some people can get kept on as contractors indefinitely, when they shou
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by wildwood 13y ago
I can almost guarantee that the 11-month max is Amazon's policy response to the Microsoft permatemps lawsuit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permatemp - scroll down to the Vizcaino v. Microsoft section.
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by wildwood 13y ago
I would recommend that your friend: * make a list of technologies/skills that he would like to learn; * make a list of technologies/skills needed in his job, and in his upcoming project; * look for any conceivable overlap in those
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by wildwood 13y ago
There's nothing requiring you to specifically test every function in a class - though, as others have said, you can set the access level to default or protected to have package-level access for tests. Strictly speaking, though, refacto
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by wildwood 13y ago
This is a percentage chart, which only shows that mobile traffic is eating into desktops' _share_ of the total traffic. This chart says nothing about whether mobile is eating into the absolute traffic that desktops are getting. More l
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by wildwood 13y ago
The main difference is the margin. IPhones sell, reportedly, at a 58% margin. The profit margin on Windows has, in the past, sometimes exceeded 90%. Amazon is retail. They make 12% margins in a good year. Which is one big reason why Ama
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by wildwood 13y ago
That sounds like it could be generalized to [noun] [adjective] [adjective]. Notice the lack of verbs, prepositions, or markers for subordinate clauses. This seems much closer to a code than an actual language.
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by wildwood 13y ago
Agreed, one of my favorites. I do this so many times every day: hg diff -b <filename> hg commit -m "comments" !$
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by wildwood 13y ago
1) Test your APIs. A public API, especially one that is key to your business, should be near 100% coverage. And attacked to look for security/usability/load problems. 2) Test enough during development to support later regression tests, an
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by wildwood 13y ago
And also be sure to be "that guy" who insists that every single request be made into a ticket, instead of handling simple walk-ups informally.
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by wildwood 13y ago
There's some research[1] that suggests that some dialects of Old English used double negation reliably, but that this got phased out in 'proper' Middle English. It's interesting that double negation is standard in French, but not used in Ge
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by wildwood 13y ago
Where are you seeing that earlier data? I can only get the graphs to cover 2012 and 2013. This is a good example of how deceptive a percentage-change-only chart can be, without the absolute value of the portfolio also figuring in. If the

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