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Why an exponentially increasing rate? A device like this doesn't use much storage, any logs it keeps can be rotated out after a certain duration, and the cost of storage goes down …

He's working on his "Switching from Caddy to nginx article" right now.

If you deliver the same value to the company in 6 hours as you do in 8, then you should get paid 100% of your salary. You (should) be paid to deliver "X" value. Auto mechanics have…

You probably should have spent some time fixing that hole in the firewall that let you bypass your company's download restrictions. ;-)

Why would they charge the equivalent of transaction fees when they (Apple) pays those fees? How would they make any money if they only charged transaction fees? I've run the number…

FYI, since 285 is a loop and 75 runs all the way through Atlanta, there are two 285/75 interchanges. While I think you're correct in your selection, here's the other one for comple…

That's a better reply to the OP, or perhaps directly to Dan Lyons. I didn't come up with the title of the book.

As others have pointed out, that's not unique to startup culture and completely demolishes Dan's point. Corporate America gave us "downsized, right sized, offboarding, redundant, o…

Great point on this actually being part of corporate America. I had neglected/forgotten that point, when I'm pretty sure buzzword bingo predated the rise of startups (synergy, touc…

True, but the article implied at startups it was weird and wrong, when (as you correctly point out), it's actually part of corporate America as well. Which defeats his point that s…

Two reactions to this article (and I say this as someone near 50): 1. Dan's obviously not cut out for startup life. When he meets Zack, he assumes Zack must be someone's assistant …

How is it superior? Simple. How do I systematically make sure that I have the latest version of every stackoverflow code snippet? If it's a new post, it may not have all the edge c…

Yeah, there are a few shitty examples on npm. It's an open system and anyone can upload anything. The market speaks on how valuable those are. Cherry picking poor modules says noth…

If I engage in as much hyperbole as the author, where does "write it yourself" stop? If I'm working on a team of two, should we each write our own left-pad? How about a team of thr…

Which is great if you are one person and you fix the bug in your own code. What you're ignoring is that if everyone writes their own version, then the same problem exists. That bug…

True, but that's for a 50% chance of a collision. In a single system, even a 1% chance of a collision is bad news.

Sorry for taking forever to reply. That's pretty much what I'm saying. I think the 5 races on the form conform to my understanding of race, so I think that part is right as well. I…

If it was a race as we contemplate race in its current definition, it would be on the government form I posted. It isn't. It's not a race like that (nor, really, in any other way).…

> What do you have to support it? Is Christian a race? Also, this (PDF warning): https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf181.pdf .

The article is from 2013. We've already waited and seen. They're still around, and no reports of them being sued.

"The public has been made aware that programmers can be culprits. This will make it more likely that the next time something goes wrong -- a plane crash, a fire, a flood -- that th…

Sorry, this is actually factually incorrect. As shown in another thread here, this service does not infinitely auto-scale (the recommendation was to use Kinesis), so you still have…

I have lived in Las Vegas for 6 1/2 years, including 7 summers. I'd rather live here than in Florida, where it gets nearly as hot, but which is way more humid and uncomfortable in …

You've just described some possible flaws in a p-2-p system. Are there no flaws in the current cab system? Are there no flaws in Uber? You've pointed out why it can't be perfect. Y…