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If anyone who agrees with James Damore's point is motivated to see the reason these arguments are summarily dismissed by many, I recommend reading "the mismeasure of man", by Stephen Jay Gould.
The idea of biological determinism has one fatal flaw... the grouping.
And before you downvote me, realize that basically, this is a gimmicky product, even if you think it is cool.
While you are allowed to film anyone in public, the act of having an "always pointing highly visible camera", will elicit more negative reactions than positive ones... So unless snap is pretty tone deaf, this was known to be a non long term product, more of a product to appease their top producer base.
Just having the talent, a silicon valley doesn't make. Its about the culture of collaboration and openness.
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2009/10/31/the-valley-of-my-dreams-wh...
It'll be interesting to see how the Latin alphabet preference in computer languages changes over time. I'm sure whole different paradigms may be possible in different scripts.
And people complain about the differences between java and python now... Imagine python vs Aheui or similar lol
Latency ( 30ms vs 300ms) doesn't matter much in video playback, only throughput. Once you hit play, it isn't bi-directional.
But you're just nitpicking. This IS their core business, and they realized its "too core" to give to someone else.
So yes, you do "outgrow the cloud", and well, part of "outgrowing" can be cost structure. Gitlab offers a free service, their main competitor, github, runs their own datacenter. Why do you think that is?
so, you were saying?
Or do you think facebook,google,aol,tripadvisor and pretty much anyone beside HotNewStartup are incompetent?
This may seem harsh, but relying on random commenters shows a huge flaw in how you guys went about this.
Physical environments DO work well, but they do require experience to run them. I have used AWS for as long as its been around, but nothing beats physical environments for "known workloads", as long as you run them EXACTLY like you would run a cloud environment. This is why the hybrid approach is such a great thing. Run what you know well in physical and reap great savings, run what you dont know well cloud ( as well as take advantage of the analytics products), and reap the speed ;)
- This means thinking of physical servers are individual units. - This means redundancy at every level. - This means architecting for failure ( servers and switches do gie ). - This means no shared storage for performance critical parts ( shared storage as below the OS level ). - This means objects stores/sharding/etc as your storage layer. - This means real engineering - And this means exactly the same whether you're physical or not.
I've managed environments of 50 vm's and environments of 50000 physical servers. The methodology is always the same.
and yes, this means you can save some monthly cost, and apply it to staff, that can do a lot more than just maintain this infrastructure.
PS: for those that think that showing up to a datacenter is required, you're doing it wrong. Pretty much any datacenter has hot-hands service, and with the right redundancy, hardware replacement is something you can do at a slower pace.
PPS: im sure someone will nitpick some of my points. The reality is, there is real money savings here. For example, Snapchat spends MORE in cloud infrastructure in 2016/2017 per year, than ALL OF GOOGLE did in 2012... think about that for a second... even netflix runs openconnect to push bits..
If they are willing to wear all encompassing bio hazard suits, and bubble their house, fine by me if they care not to vaccinate...
It is our problem when people don't believe in herd immunity and other problems that can affect the community.
If your opinion is so valid, have the courage to back it up.
( sorry for the off-topic comment )
I love/like vi[m], I love/like emacs... I ... never mind lol
The new editing language does look great, and I like the idea of the piped filters... but I can't get over the name :-/
If hacker news is getting political, that is a function of it's users ( and the social climate ). A community is built by its members. For better or worse.
Work on addressing the issues that make the discourse toxic. What does covering the sun with the censorship finger actually accomplish?
The rest of the days were just blurry vision and general "pain". If you've ever wore contacts for too long, it's the burning sensation you get after you take them off, multiplied.
After those were mostly gone, then I was pretty sensitive to light, and for the later weeks, I had the problem of my vision being way too sharp, so I had trouble focusing.
But I would do it again in a heartbeat!
Local Dr in NYC is a huge proponent of it, and well, went for it. ( he's unfortunately known for his "odd personality traits", but as a doctor, he's top notch... )
re: recovery, I think 3 weeks was the time I felt OK enough, and better than i ever did with contacts/glasses. It definitely was a months long recovery.
It was a "fun" 3 weeks of healing ( versus 1-2 days for lasik ), but PRK based procedures have substantially less of these side effects.
edited: to note that i had lasek done.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photorefractive_keratectomy
Now just known as yum.
The first pattern was property ( as well as is used affects others ), the second pattern was a belief or similar ( others not affected ).
So, examples.
Car/Guns == Public Safety ( other people may be affected, socks was a joke, but you can argue that the buying of something, can be regulated by the seller as he wishes )
Fairytale/Sexual Preference/Religion/Red Hair == Does not affect other people... ( plus, some of these you can't change, and should have no bearing.. they are identifiers of people/culture/etc )
Violent Religious/Red Headed Person? We already have other methods/laws for this, it's called Laws against committing other crimes... The Red/Religion is superfluous...
I'm sure in this oversimplification I made bad analogy.. again, the analogy should not be needed ( but it unfortunately is.. )
Jared Kushner's dad was jailed by Chris Christie...[1]
But sure, go on about that not paying attention part...
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” - Isaac Asimov
So, no, sorry, a registration by ownership ( gun/car/fuzzy pink socks ) isn't the same as a registration by Religion.
This really should be obvious, but for some reason, it isn't.
I really wish I had the answer to that...
You can claim "users rights" all you want, but knowing people are using your service to break laws, and just refusing compliance, well gets you to exactly the position they are in.
[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023034803045795759...
They knew landlords were running whole buildings in nyc as pseudo hotels, and they did little until now. [1]
They knew individuals were renting whole apartments 100% of the time, and did nothing.[2]
They refused to give data to the attorney general, and instead, mounted an AD campaign.[3]
Only after they were harshly penalized, did they promise to clamp down on the actual abuses.[4]
So they willingly let their customers break the law, because nyc is their biggest market, and well, now want to play the victim.
The spirit of AirBnB and the "sharing" economy is to share under utilized housing. Not to create illegal hotels.
[1] http://gothamist.com/2014/10/16/airbnb_illegal_rapacious.php
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-07/wooing-go...
[3] http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-refuses-to-give-user-d... [4]http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/technology/airbnb-proposes...
I've stopped shaking some people's hand's after seeing them "drizzle some water" for a second after, well, you know what.
[1] http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/adult-health/in-...
This would be trivial to implement, but the ramifications could be great and save a ton of down the road health care costs. Preventive care and all that comes with it.
The US has 3-4M births per year. But ranks in the 70's for infant mortality. It's is not a stretch to think the 300-400M spent for this, is a small percentage of the medical costs that are saved... and if it doesn't, its not the big waste it appears, and the naysayers seem to imply....
That was my point.
No need to blame multiculturalism, no need to start micromanaging the biggest economy ( thats why costs seem large ), etc etc. Just simple cost/benefit that too often is sidelined by knee-jerk "'MERICA!" thinking.
A great deal are so fiscally short sighted, misguided, and downright hostile, that it really takes away any hope for the "average American". HN demographic should represent some of the best of the best of the US, and well... i guess this kinda explain the rise of Trump. </rant>
Well, nice to hear the ACME(tm) solar plant trap finally did the trick for Wile E. Coyote...
That's because many see domesticated crops as a different thing than GMO crops... and of course, use the assumed bad behavior of one company, as a detriment to the science behind crop enhancement.
Pointing out the attack on Gawker is wrong, does not mean I condone Gawkers' behavior. That's pretty much the definition of seeing the world in the shades of gray/color it actually is.