juliusmusseau

Good fiction is not usually judged for how true it depicts a real living person.

Heck, even actual Biography (non fiction) isn't even judged that way.

Cat Person succeeds because it captures a deeper truth. And boy does that story touch a nerve - a mirror that is hard to look at because of its truth.

You're so vain You probably think this song is about you

This reminds me of my father's advice to every client (he had a corporate litigation practice):

"When you feel the urge to write an email, pick up the f*king phone instead. When in 5 years you're being cross-examined you can say 'I don't remember saying that' and you won't be lying, because we're too old to remember things, and I won't have to bill you for the time it takes to read all the f*king emails."

80TB on AWS is $44K USD / year on their crappy (cheap rotational) "st1" volume.

Re: dogfooding - The word nice apparently comes the latin word for ignorant but do you mind if someone says you're a really nice guy?

You clearly don't study any subjects in the fine arts.

:-p

> stakeholders wanted an over-the-top bridge design [...]

Nothing wrong with that!

> They were so focused on building a nice looking bridge — and meeting deadlines

These are also good things.

To me sounds like the civil engineers started behaving more like software engineers. The independent peer reviewer they hired was not qualified to do the review.

> Louis Berger was not qualified by the Florida Department of Transportation to conduct an independent peer review and failed to perform an adequate review of the FIGG Bridge Engineers design plans and to recognize the significant under-design of the steel reinforcement within the 11/12 node, which was unable to resist the horizontal shear between diagonal 11 and the bridge deck.

This whole business of the engineers ignoring the cracks that the contractors kept needing reassurance about is also insane.

Fighting against an HTTPS endpoint on 443 returning data in response to a query is kinda futile.

Might as well argue against using windmills to grind wheat.

My ssh server runs on port 443. That way I can connect to it when I'm on the Tim Hortons WIFI.

Very neat idea.

But I worry that it's vulnerable to bad people.

Got a hefty personal bill coming up, and you're pretty confident your SaaS business will be dead within 6 months but Stripe has no way of knowing based on current numbers?

Thinking of getting a divorce (startup or marital)... maybe time to grab the largest advance possible before your soon-to-be ex(-co-founder) realises?

The problem is that even if only 1% of Stripe's customers might match these kinds of profiles, that same 1% might be taking 20% of the Stripe Capital advances.

I'd like to see the performance of growing the list (a common scenario):

    ArrayList list = new ArrayList();
    for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
      list.add(i);
    }

(Forgive me, Java is my mother tongue).