makoz | 9 years ago | on: GitLab Database Incident – Live Report
Go sleep man, shit happens
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makoz | 9 years ago | on: The internals of PostgreSQL
What resources have you been using to familiarize yourself with Postgres?
makoz | 9 years ago | on: Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still Out of Control
Out of curiosity do you really think the prime minister just made a decision to reject help without consulting other people in the field?
makoz | 10 years ago | on: Amazon Reports Surge in Profit
Transit pass is partially covered as of last year in Vancouver. Unless something's changed, you might want to double check on the benefits for Vancouver. If I recall correctly you get approximately 80 dollars give or take.
makoz | 10 years ago | on: Amazon open-sources Ion – a binary and text interchangable, typed JSON-superset
Amazon's mainly a Java shop, not sure if that helps you.
makoz | 10 years ago | on: Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4
Some pretty questionable moves from AlphaGo in that game, but I'm glad LSD managed to close it out.
makoz | 10 years ago | on: GM to Acquire Autonomous-Vehicle Technology Developer Cruise Automation (YC W14)
Wasn't Twitch around one billion as well?
makoz | 10 years ago | on: AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5
I think people in the Go community wants to see AlphaGo play against the top ranked player. Otherwise I hope they'd at the very least release it as an AI for people to play against.
makoz | 10 years ago | on: AlphaGo’s ultimate challenge: a five-game match against Lee Sedol
Thanks for this! Loved the discussion.
makoz | 10 years ago | on: From non-technical to hired developer in 5 months
For their graduates. What's the attrition rate from people initially in the program to people graduating? I've heard of other local programs that kick people out of the program and refund the prorated difference if you can't keep up or fail tests. For reference, the program I'm talking about boasts of a 100% placement rate for graduates.
makoz | 10 years ago | on: A Course on Automata Theory
Only really matters for certificate.
makoz | 10 years ago | on: Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace
Do you know of any distribution warehouses that have air conditioning?
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