Relational DBs have been around a very long time, and I suspect the processing/transfer time was not the bottleneck, while data access was, so redundant data with the standard relational model wasn't the primary concern.
maybe this is a good thing though, where someone with a huge, legitimate contribution and legacy gets to cash in on their status, vs. the typical influencer.
true - my first reaction was this seems like a weird milestone, as people like Vint Cerf don't really retire and stop, just change how & where they contribute. This seems like a nothing story pushed by TC and Google PR,…
we're going to need a lot of very tiny syringes and band-aids!
No doubt there's great programmers with philosophy backgrounds, just like I've worked with many from chemistry, physics and music. The conversation here though, is a bunch of pompous arguing over minutiae and…
Russ: "Anyway, next thing you know, we IPO, stock triples in a day and AOL gobbles us up. All of a sudden, I'm 22 years young and I'm worth 1.2 billion. Now a couple decades later, I'm worth 1.4. You do the math."…
>> 150M at 5B revenue is not great: that's 3% margin! and yet everybody - including Microsoft - is in a big rush to sell us AI services, which could look an awful lot like a historical utility business. 3% will be a…
>> receive 2–5 support tickets per week. I read every one of them. I don't think reading 5 tickets a week is the flex you think it is. Now if you responded with lettermail to every one, that would be impressive.
We have a larger family and Costco combined with access to a decent grocery store that's within walking distance is great: get deals on larger quantity staples and milk, eggs and bread several times a week.
Walmart does this too, and it's one of the worst experiences/value-propositions I've ever experienced. It might be better in the US but in Canada it's expensive, poor quality and painful: pick three.
What about the price-quality aspect? Costco blows Amazon away here IME. Plus there's the fact that someone can become an employee of Costco out of high school and spend their entire career there, with decent wages and…
so Step 1: Be Bobby Fischer? super helpful for us mortals...
except that was never used against the powerful and wealthy, just the same poor who pay the price today.
Maybe - or is this closer to the naked theft we saw out of the collapse of the Soviet Union? That's still playing out...
I'm not typically a fan of government intervention in markets but Canada's marketing boards do stop this sort of concentration, so while we have higher average prices we do not get massive swings in prices, nor the…
I first read this in 2001 on an outhouse door while treking in Tasmania: ODE TO THE WOMBAT As you pound along the track Eyes wide open and ears pinned back You may have noticed those queer square turds And thought, if…
almost like it's by design!
"Google was a different company n years ago" where n is how long they've been there + ~6 to 12 months
I think it's fine if a person (1) recognizes and appreciates the situation, and (2) can make it work without starving to death. There are a million examples of luxury in the first world and we're ignorant of most of…
Post covid many bike companies were in big financial trouble so new bikes cost less than used, but that's mostly resolved or the companies are just plain failing, so definitely look for a newish (aka few years old) used…
commented directly above this before seeing it. I've always been bike-crazy but over the past ~year ridden A LOT including my first solo international bikepacking trip. My plan is to do something new in the fall but…
I quit last August for similar reasons, and lest everyone here think it's all amazing ICs vs. clueless managers, I was at the director level of a midsize company caught between the developers I deeply cared for and…
most people are paid as full time salary employees, aka 35-40 hours/week. You may feel that you personally do way more work than everyone else (80%+ plus of people do) but you don't get to define what "the actual amount…
I'll be the person who says what a lot of us believe, and even more know: the internet was cooked when the general public started to use it. The magic, community and naivety were all washed away when the socioeconomic &…
Please provide 3 examples where layering on MORE of the offending technology has solved the problem. Spam? Malware & Viruses? Customer Service? Hiring & Recruitment?
Relational DBs have been around a very long time, and I suspect the processing/transfer time was not the bottleneck, while data access was, so redundant data with the standard relational model wasn't the primary concern.
maybe this is a good thing though, where someone with a huge, legitimate contribution and legacy gets to cash in on their status, vs. the typical influencer.
true - my first reaction was this seems like a weird milestone, as people like Vint Cerf don't really retire and stop, just change how & where they contribute. This seems like a nothing story pushed by TC and Google PR,…
we're going to need a lot of very tiny syringes and band-aids!
No doubt there's great programmers with philosophy backgrounds, just like I've worked with many from chemistry, physics and music. The conversation here though, is a bunch of pompous arguing over minutiae and…
Russ: "Anyway, next thing you know, we IPO, stock triples in a day and AOL gobbles us up. All of a sudden, I'm 22 years young and I'm worth 1.2 billion. Now a couple decades later, I'm worth 1.4. You do the math."…
>> 150M at 5B revenue is not great: that's 3% margin! and yet everybody - including Microsoft - is in a big rush to sell us AI services, which could look an awful lot like a historical utility business. 3% will be a…
>> receive 2–5 support tickets per week. I read every one of them. I don't think reading 5 tickets a week is the flex you think it is. Now if you responded with lettermail to every one, that would be impressive.
We have a larger family and Costco combined with access to a decent grocery store that's within walking distance is great: get deals on larger quantity staples and milk, eggs and bread several times a week.
Walmart does this too, and it's one of the worst experiences/value-propositions I've ever experienced. It might be better in the US but in Canada it's expensive, poor quality and painful: pick three.
What about the price-quality aspect? Costco blows Amazon away here IME. Plus there's the fact that someone can become an employee of Costco out of high school and spend their entire career there, with decent wages and…
so Step 1: Be Bobby Fischer? super helpful for us mortals...
except that was never used against the powerful and wealthy, just the same poor who pay the price today.
Maybe - or is this closer to the naked theft we saw out of the collapse of the Soviet Union? That's still playing out...
I'm not typically a fan of government intervention in markets but Canada's marketing boards do stop this sort of concentration, so while we have higher average prices we do not get massive swings in prices, nor the…
I first read this in 2001 on an outhouse door while treking in Tasmania: ODE TO THE WOMBAT As you pound along the track Eyes wide open and ears pinned back You may have noticed those queer square turds And thought, if…
almost like it's by design!
"Google was a different company n years ago" where n is how long they've been there + ~6 to 12 months
I think it's fine if a person (1) recognizes and appreciates the situation, and (2) can make it work without starving to death. There are a million examples of luxury in the first world and we're ignorant of most of…
Post covid many bike companies were in big financial trouble so new bikes cost less than used, but that's mostly resolved or the companies are just plain failing, so definitely look for a newish (aka few years old) used…
commented directly above this before seeing it. I've always been bike-crazy but over the past ~year ridden A LOT including my first solo international bikepacking trip. My plan is to do something new in the fall but…
I quit last August for similar reasons, and lest everyone here think it's all amazing ICs vs. clueless managers, I was at the director level of a midsize company caught between the developers I deeply cared for and…
most people are paid as full time salary employees, aka 35-40 hours/week. You may feel that you personally do way more work than everyone else (80%+ plus of people do) but you don't get to define what "the actual amount…
I'll be the person who says what a lot of us believe, and even more know: the internet was cooked when the general public started to use it. The magic, community and naivety were all washed away when the socioeconomic &…
Please provide 3 examples where layering on MORE of the offending technology has solved the problem. Spam? Malware & Viruses? Customer Service? Hiring & Recruitment?