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The majority of risk lies outside of Segment and they are damned serious about the risk they own

I just moved from San Francisco to Nashville, TN last week. For me, it was a combination of the cost of living and lack of family in the area. I'll always miss San Francisco, but o…

Does it look anything like https://github.com/dan-compton/ecsonnet How are you managing the registration of service and task definitions?

Genius is a dynamic thing rendered via the lens of social value. If scientific progress is our goal, then I would argue that forming cliques around a clique-governed definition of …

Time for a new keyboard and mouse. This combo: https://evoluent.com/products/vm4r/ http://www.typematrix.com/ in addition to smarter keystrokes in vim solved all of my issues. This…

Bah, cats were never domesticated.

My intuition tells me that neuroplasticity is largely driven by genetics. Outliers in this space are likely caused by mutations related to neurofibromatosis. I also imagine that th…

Let the frustration flow through you.

Yup. Issues with docker on osx caused me to move to a debian VM 6 or 7 months ago (that I ssh into from iterm). The main reason I still use it is because it would take several hour…

I'm not religious now, but grew up in an extremely religious (southern baptist) household. When I was young, my mother, family, and friends told me stories of demons and demonic po…

There have been aliens -- and they don't care about us. To assume that a collection of beings which have obtained the ability to travel amongst the stars would focus their attentio…

Well, Senseonics went public in Q1 2016. http://www.senseonics.com/

Is this a joke?

Is support for python worse than go or clojure? It seems unimaginable.

You should definitely give up on the position. Do you honestly want to work for a company who doesn't even respect candidates enough to give them an eval?

So, you went on a few dates and now you want a relationship? In life that might be reasonable, but companies (as a general rule) have no sense of loyalty. They don't owe you anythi…

There was recent speculation that alzheimer's was transmissible (prion thing). The transmissibility would make sense if it were actually the fungi causing the build up of the prote…