alexandercrohde

I am no lawyer, but I would assume that posting as another person online by filling out their name, en masse, is illegal. I would imagine it's slander, fraud, and a number of other crimes.

It's actually worse than that. It's apples to oranges because it's asking one service to do X and one service to do Y. You can configure postgres to behave more like Redis, and it will …

I had a highschool calc teacher who told us "Show your work. If you get the answer correct you get full credit. If you get it wrong, and show your work, I can give you partial credit for the step…

Eh, I don't really agree with "you can't hire devops." You can hire somebody with extensive experience in jenkins, and building and integrating tests, deploying, logging, diagnosin…

Makes me wonder if we could ever live in a post-plastic world.

The odd thing about this topic is that I think nobody has articulated the fear of legalizing sex work well. The reason most men don't want to make sex-work legal, deep down, maybe so deep they do…

We like to think that, don't we. But the more I think about it, the less true it seems. We seem to be able to measure every other form of talent. I think those with power vehemently resist measur…

But how can we quantifiably score the talent of executives?

Commentary published in Environmental Health Perspectives in April 2010 suggested that PET might yield endocrine disruptors under conditions of common use and recommended research on this topic.[26]

yeah, the thing is NOBODY knows. If anybody ever knew the market was going down, they'd keep it a secret and short it. And if they KNEW it was going up they'd keep it secret and buy. A good …

Views are another way to gain reuse.

The article answers this

tl; dr: - Neurological studies show actual damage to the same region of the brain for these diplomats - Pesticides (organophosphates) are put out as a candidate theory. - Research shows people whose r…

I think Snowden's point is that America has no authority over him. Seeing as he has leverage, he's trying to raise the bar on what's fair.

I've seen another article like this, and it just seems like nonsense. I mean great, if you can hire an engineer who is both incredibly competent at his job and can do product's job too, then…

I don't think even this is true. The nicotine isn't really what's bad for you, it's the smoke and 600+ carcinogens in cigarette smoke. I'd imagine it'd be safer to vape 1…

Not really. Understanding comes in degrees, and most things that the average person doesn't truly understand (the market, index ETFs, your startup equity agreement) give better ROI than those you…

"Doomed" is not a scientific term. It's my understanding less than 1% of scientists think it's likely mankind will go extinct from global warming. It's a very real problem, bu…

Why cry at all? Isn't this the point of open source? Can't the same be said for Git? Linux? Python? (That they didn't make the creator billions, and the creator is fine with that)

I think we like to believe that judges are impartial, unemotional, and objective. And they should be. Maybe this idea is too ahead of its time, but: I wonder if there could be an automatic test of jud…

I don't get the methodology. If you have a short-story, and translate it into 10 languages (and translate very well), it should have the same amount of information in it in each translation, no? …

Yeah, don't get me wrong, I haven't used SQL alchemy and I'm not trying to besmirch it. I'm not even sure we disagree. What I'm trying to challenge is the philosophy that an O…

> Whatever the DB engine can do with queries hand-written on top of views, it can also do it with the query generated by SQL Alchemy. No, on two levels. Firstly, there are many features in SQL that…

On the one hand the article itself is offering a anecdote about being unhappy with ORMs. On the other hand you have an experience in which you were unhappy with views. That would leave us at an impass…

So I want to respond to this because there is a genuine question behind your rhetoric. And that question is "How do I cleanly do complex things in SQL without an ORM?" And there is an answer…

>> I've read it, and while it starts with a request for a double-blind study, it immediately moves on to listing a subset of interviewing techniques. Uh, what? It start by saying "I ca…

For those of you not reading this article (appears to be most) - this is a META article: 1. Main thrust is that all the HN posts on this topic are stupid and formulaic 2. Argues that numerous the OTHE…

Meh. I don't buy it. I agree with the parent that it's usually people not getting hired being mad about it. - "interviewing is broken" is a meaningless linkbait title. All you can …

> queue sending to dead endpoints This is a subcategory of "app fails post-queue." Suppose you build a happy working queue, and someday somebody releases a new version of the queue consum…

100% Every time I work somewhere I have to play shepherd and ask the very basics: - Who's monitoring queue uptime, setting alerts on it if it goes down, waking up in the middle of the night to fi…