MagicWishMonkey

I don't see how this is a middle class failure issue. We should prescribe less opiates, full stop. Without over prescription this issue would not exist.

2008 wouldn't have happened if the banks did their due diligence, they got greedy and the rest of us had to pay for their mistakes.

I don't think it's legal to import prescription drugs from overseas, FYI. So it might not be a good idea to discuss the transaction with your CC provider.

Well if they doubled the price of iPods in order to manufacture them inside the United States, no one would buy an iPod and the product would fail.

That's not to say American manufacturing would cause the price to double, just pointing out that where you manufacture something is an important part of the product planning process.

Agreed. Sounds like there's something else at play with this guys inability to find work. Maybe he doesn't interview very well?

Not every class is graded on a curve.

Do you know which funds are available to non-employees?

Chrome worked wonderfully on my iPhone 5, up until the point where I installed IOS8. It was unusable after that, so I had no choice but to switch back to safari.

Did they remove some low level API's in 8 that were available in prior versions?

How long before we see widespread browser support?

Well that is how our existing broadband infrastructure was brought into existence. The big cable companies were given billions in subsidies for expanding their high speed networks.

It worked well except for the fact that they were allowed to form monopolies/oligopolies after expanding into new markets.

Isn't marketing/advertising a huge cost center as well?

Yea someone should totally press that magic button to fix all of the things wrong with Indian society. That's a realistic way to look at things.

Did you try Solr or ElasticSearch before deciding to go with Algolia? Comparing them to MySQL is a bit of an apples/orange comparison, I would like to know how they compare to other search platforms.

It's just another way to shift the tax burden from the rich to the poor.

There's a big difference between what WoW was in the beginning (presumably when this guy played) and what it turned into over the following decade. I played 8-10 hours daily for the first 2 months after release and I only reached level 30 before realizing I needed to kill my sub (too much of a time sink).

Opportunity cost, how does it work?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost

How did you find your clients? Mostly through word of mouth?

That's pretty slick, and it's much more competetively priced than Navicat.

This looks pretty nice, thanks!

The closest thing to SQL Server Management Studio I've found is Navicat. It's not as solid as Management Studio, and it's incredibly expensive, but it is much better than most of the other tools out there.

If you can expense the cost of the license you should definitely check it out.

A new system? This is how society has been since time immemorial. It is the basis of our capital punishment system.

People only point it out as being some sort of new phenomenon when minorities are the ones lashing out.

And the cops helped start the riots by throwing rocks at protestors. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/27/police-throw-rocks-...

Doing well in performance reviews doesn't mean much. It was pretty clear that she was not easy to work with, and a lot of her coworkers didn't like working with her. I have no doubt that she was a brilliant employee, but that doesn't really matter if no one wants to work with her.

There's a reason why so many companies put a lot of emphasis on "culture fit".

That was part of the payoff, though. You're confused at first, wondering wtf is up with the vocabularly people are using, it all starts to make sense about 3/4 of the way through the book.

Damn, I need to read that one again. It's been too long.

Anathem was kind of a slog for the first 200-250 pages, but then it started to get good, and then awesome, by the end of the book my mind was thoroughly blown.

I've heard from one senior engineer at Google that he likes to ask candidates to sketch out the implementation for a red/black tree on the spot.

I guess I could go dig up my old data structures and algorithms book that I haven't touched in 15 years to refresh my memory, but I don't want to work at Google badly enough to bother with that.

Depends on the app. My previous job required processing thousands of address book contact records uploaded to the server in a massive list. It was not unsual for some of these objects to exceed 10mb (when serialized to disk).

The default json module took close to 5 seconds to deserialize the payload once it hit the server, while ujson could do the same work in a fraction of the time (less than a second). 5 seconds might not seem like a whole lot when the import process as a whole could take 30 seconds or so, but when the user is stuck staring at their device it makes sense to cut down the response time any way you can.

It kills me that the default JSON module is so slow, if you're working with large JSON objects you really have no choice but to use a 3rd party module because the default won't cut it.

Desalination is incredibly expensive. At this point, they aren't completely out of water, as the crisis continues desalination will become more viable (expensive or not, people need water to survive).

On the way to the airport in Mumbai we were flagged over by a cop and he told us that having luggage on the roof of the car was "illegal" and he issued us a 200 rupee "fine" for it.

If we had been running late we might have missed our flight because that jackass wanted to shake us down for a couple of dollars. I love India but the amount of corruption is really depressing.