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@sama has raised lots of $ so why risk these types of issues by outsourcing what you have the funding to build and control in-house? plausible deniability? (similar with their prev…

same HN book list for the past 15 years

Love the concept, and nicely executed! But what is Kafka-specific here? It seems like this illustrated guide describes any highly scalable, persistent pub/sub system

I take the slippery slope argument seriously, however, maybe there is a compromise: we could (at least attempt to) come up with a measurement of content risk and (at least attempt …

DigitalOcean is no longer a simpler AWS; it may have been at one time, but no longer. If you check community voting, they have ignored moving toward a serverless model, and this is…

Brain Drain is about networking. Why would most give up the opportunity to relocate around the top thinkers in their field? Inhibiting this movement would arguably slow down progre…

I made the switch to a refurbished 6s a couple of months ago when we started work on a new iOS app, and I am happy that I did. For the foreseeable future, I'll be purchasing iPhone…

A good heuristic: if you’re not dealing with “state” (i.e., Games, DB ORM, Reinforcement Learning), then don’t use OOP

"...with better than-human average performance". Hmm. Is this a task that humans currently do well?

In case anyone else was wondering about the power requirement for the sintering furnace: 208V 3-phase, 30A. The 3-phase requirement may be an impediment to some hobbyists; they sho…

Nope. I was flagged for "secondary inspection" at the southern border. (Mind you, I am as white as you can get). Long story, short. I acted like a bit of an entitled jerk, and was …

Based on the headline, I expected the site to return the name of a TV series based on a search of subtitles. i.e., "shootin some bball outside of the school" For me, "find" implies…

I understand what you're saying, but it's not intuitive (for me, at least) to map variable in-app purchases to a fixed monthly expense model.

Is the revenue plan based on a monthly subscription model? If not, then I don't know why you'd want to think in terms of "X USD per month"[1]. That being said, kudos, the app looks…

For the past 4 years, I've worked remotely for an employer based in India (it's been a great experience). I'm on the IT Mailing List, so I often receive emails pertaining directly …

I am surprised that so many of the comments seem to be ignoring the obvious: more experience generally means higher wage in the tech industry. It's a money issue. I've personally w…

I tend to use Facebook as a social blog already. It's "free" hosting (oh, I know: I am the product), and many of my friends are coerced to view my musings (if they want to see thei…

Welcome to a prettier online discussion. I don't intend to be an active contributor, but so long as the content is indexed by the search engines, then I am sure I'll benefit as an …