My interview performance actually got better once I stopped overdressing. I got more offers wearing a grey hoodie and jeans. And this was at big tech (not just startups).
The FIU bridge is truss bridge, not a cable-stayed bridge, see this NTSB update [1]. The bridge collapsed because it relied on a single truss with no backup to support the weight if it failed. This created a single point of failure where the collapse of any member (diagonal segment) would collapse the entire bridge.
There is no indication that ACB contributed to this collapse, rather, this was a faulty design that would have also posed a risk using traditional construction techniques.
The volatility has quite a few causes, among them:
- Other currencies are used for all sorts of things that don't involve trading them–i.e. when have you last thought about exchanging those USD in your pocket for Euro? That creates stability. Compare to bitcoin, where almost everyone owning any keeps an eye on the market and is principally willing to buy or sell when they think they see an opportunity.
- Markets for real currencies operate under government supervision and regulation, and the facts that influence their value, such as employment numbers or GDP growth, are public, and reliable. For bitcoin, some rumour from China can move the market because nobody knows which information to trust.
In another thread I was commenting about the volatility of the currency and how it could be a vanity metric how we give value to it based on its USD conversion rate.
I think this issue will be solved when there are more places accepting BTC. Then you wouldn't need to keep an eye for when to buy/sell it. You would be able to spend it.
I read on /r/btc/ someone saying that "currently, BitCoin are like Magic The Gathering cards". And it really does!
For a worldwide market Bitcoin is tiny. It doesn't take that much real money to significantly shift its value. Regular currencies are padded by the fact that trillions of it are spread across the globe in billions of accounts. With Bitcoin you can have one guy making a measly $50m buy and the market will go crazy. Same with a sell. And then there's all of the pileon effects when the market starts to move fast and people panic.
The smaller a market is the less buffer it has against volatility.
A stock share is partial ownership of a for-profit venture for gain. Bitcoin is more akin to a precious metal or commodity, except that btc doesn't have any utility value like gold, silver or copper do.
Stocks pay dividends and entitle the owner to certain rights. Btc gives you some crypto that others trust.
Gold, platinum, silver and copper all have use in electronics manufacturing and jewelry. Platinum is used in catalytic converters for exhaust treatment. They are very useful.
Btc is actually a detriment to the environment without any real utility. The evidence of work algorithms burn fossil fuels and add CO2 and other pollution into the atmosphere, and at the end of the day, all you have is a bunch of useless 1s and 0s that we attribute with value that are incapable of doing anything other than represent a finite portion of a really complex math problem that we attribute value to.
> Gold, platinum, silver and copper all have use in electronics manufacturing and jewelry.
From my understanding their "actual value" is massively inflated through a similar monopoly as De Beers for diamonds (except it's China as opposed to a single company).
I agree that BTC is a massive determent to the environment and so on, but rare earth mining isn't a picnic either. While all of those materials do have practical uses, their perceived value is massively over-inflated.
Yes, they are both detriments to the environment, but precious metals provide value. Not only do they provide value, but in many cases, once they are used, they may be recycled and used again. You get to amortize the pollution over the lifetime of utility of the material until it can no longer be recovered.
The thing I love about bitcoin is that a $500 swing in a single day (or hour) is completely normal and par for the course. Sort of amusing in how ridiculous it is.
i don't think its crashed at all in the last 8 months. we've seen some shakeups, sure. But I can think of two crashes in the entire history of bitcoin.
June 2011. from 30 down to under $1, and Feb 2014 when MtGox finally imploded.
These last few have been sell offs and market manipulation which only lasted a few days.
NeXT's usage of BSD predates BSD being available under any open source license, and as such macOS/iOS's use of it seems like a direct consequence of that rather than it being under a non-left license.
By which metric is Linux more advanced than FreeBSD? Companies like Netflix use FreeBSD because its networking stack blows Linux out of the water. Further, how about Xorg, Apache, BIND, Nginx, etc? Significant amounts of userland tools and applications are written under more liberal licenses.
FreeBSD had "containers" aka Jails, more than a decade before Linux. Linux is merely more popular than FreeBSD, and that popularity has zero influence on its quality, I'd argue it might even have a negative impact on its quality in a statistical sense, when you take into consideration all the badly maintained SoC implementations of Linux.
There's a lot of talk here about TCP vs UDP vs SCTP vs x protocol.
It's important to keep in mind that this is all optimization. Don't lose sight of the big picture.
On one RTS we ended up just serializing world state over a TCP socket. If you can get away with the brute force approach then just do it. Don't optimize until you have a measurable performance problem.
I wish this was true. I am locked-in with Firebase and would love to self-host now that I have resources. Sadly I will have to rewrite the API.
It's not that Firebase is not great, I just want to take control back.
To be fair, I think Horizon is one of the more promising Firebase alternatives. However, it has completely different semantics, and is quite immature at this point (look at the limitations: http://horizon.io/docs/limitations/). But if Firebase remains proprietary and Horizon continues to improve I could certainly imagine that rewriting my app will eventually start to look attractive.
Yep. The WHATWG recommends just using the term URL instead of URI.
> Standardize on the term URL. URI and IRI are just confusing. In practice a single algorithm is used for both so keeping them distinct is not helping anyone. URL also easily wins the search result popularity contest.
Thank you so much! I needed an authoritative source to throw at people when they try to belittle me for using URL, instead of URI. To me, URL just sounds better.
