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Not yet, mostly just kicked the can down the road due to costs. Like you said in another post, careful indexes on postgres get you quite far, but not nearly as flexible as a columnar DB.

I think your project is great. I suspect incremental updates will be a big feature for most uptake (one we would need to try this out at least).

Agree! What got me into programming was building/running my own Counter-Strike server and corresponding stats website. Now with companies running their own servers internally, that isn't nearly as common.

This is where I'm confused as well and yours is the first comment mentioning it.

A more plausible scenario is that IT reset their AD/IDP password because of the lost device and gave them the temp pw over slack + some MFA token.

> In our use case, having attribute model as the primary key in one of the GSIs (Global Secondary Index) which always indicated the type of row was very helpful. With a simple query where model was a hashKey we could get all Members, Channels, Roles, Audiences, etc.

Won't this cause problems with having every item of a type on a single node in AWS since the hash keys are the same? Or, are they suggesting that on the GSI they use KEYS_ONLY, and even though every item lives on one node, the size of all are only the keys (even so, I don't see how that's very useful short of counting number of items).

Half-Life: Alyx 7 years ago

Doubt it, the website says it was built 'from the ground up' for a VR experience.

It doesn't want a squeeze though, it needs resistance/feedback on turning the wheel. Having your hands on the wheel isn't enough, you actually have to give it a little tug, so the alert happens pretty often unless you have a good cadence of tugging on the wheel randomly while in Autopilot.

"Can't go" is probably the wrong term, but rather it's not very practical without a Tesla. "fast-charging" just isn't that fast in the US for non-tesla setups. 50kW max (which you don't normally get, usually it's something less) requires you to stop for at least an hour every 2-3 hours in a Bolt.

Add in winter conditions and driving at the usual ~75MPH and it gets worse than that. I wouldn't attempt any trip longer than ~200 miles in anything but a Tesla because even the superchargers at 130kW make it just ~bearable once the supercharger novelty wears off.

Sometimes I think that half of HackerNews didn't even know solar or battery backups were a thing before Tesla. These are competitive spaces where Tesla has essentially no market share (just like cars).

I'm genuinely curious if the numbers reported by SolarCity represent the full picture. [1] shows SolarCity with ~35% national marketshare while the closest competitor is at just over 10% (Vivint). This was in 2015, but it still appears to have a significant lead.

[1] https://www.greentechmedia.com/research/subscription/u.s.-pv...

Agreed. For business I always prefer hotels because I know what to expect and it always has the services I need. For vacation (especially with large groups) AirBnB is much better because I'm able to book more custom housing (entire houses, multiple rooms connected with a shared space, etc).

Congrats on the release!

@nehanarkhede was there a specific reason the new consumer is written in Java? The previous consumers are all written in Scala.

Amazing photos. Normally I can't make it through long picture streams, but your captions really seemed to keep me interested. I actually thought the lazy loading + scrolling worked very well.

On one slide, you mention the locals setup a toll checkpoint. It looks like you just drive right through without paying. Is it just a one way 'courtesy' checkpoint?

I don't think waking someone up every night at 3am for a question/idea is 'seamless' or productive at all. Delayed email for when they wake up is what we generally deal with, but it definitely creates friction when working across large time zones.

Git 2.0 12 years ago

I've been using git-svn for workflow the past 2 years or so. It's not perfect, but it seems to cover all the use cases I've had and integrates well with the regular svn workflow.

Employee Equity 12 years ago

Going for long term capital gains will only destroy you if the stock falls, which can happen in any investment.

If there is enough confidence in the stock, a happy medium can be to sell enough ISO's at the time of exercise to cover the tax cost for that year. However, if the stocks you have are a massive % of your overall (potential) wealth, short term tax on a big # is still better than long term gains on a volatile #.

I'm not sure I agree. This morning and yesterday, I saw several news articles about how Tesla was being sued for lemon laws. It seems reasonable to me for Tesla to defend it's position both to the public, and in the courts, which they are doing.

The comparison to Ford or GM doesn't really work as they wouldn't have such widely popular articles about being sued for lemon laws.

Question - is it possible to have Chromecast play urls directly to flash files? For example youtube gives out embedded links such as "www.youtube.com/embed/26UvdxUII-0". I realize that isn't a .swf file url, but it works in my browser. Since youtube already has an app that plays to chromecast.. I'm more thinking of random flash players on websites.

I use them for different rewards. If I'm out grocery shopping, I'd use the card that gives me 5% back on grocery purchases. Similar with flight purchases with a different card.

Coin 13 years ago

I've had the same issue in the past which can be frustrating (though now I always travel with enough cash).

I actually called Visa about it and they told me that any vendor accepting Visa transactions is required by their contract with Visa to accept swipe transactions. She said it was there because the US was still rolling out chip and pin cards.

It was quite the opposite way for me. Almost all of my engineering courses were in metric. In fact, most of us considered it a 'trick' when english units were used.

Conversions for the metric system seemed much more intuitive for me in math. However english units seemed much more noticeable since they are mostly unique (didn't miss a 0 in a conversion).

Lastly, I agree with a comment below that this is largely a problem of getting rusty. After living both in Europe and the US for significant portions of time, I still have trouble between Celsius and Fahrenheit.