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bkmartin··on Optimizing for the Speed of Light
After being cheeky I wanted to make sure I circled back. I liked the article a lot. Well written, solid points. I think that client side caching, is something that gets overlooked a lot, especially in enterprise web apps. Performance sure does make us perform a fine dance.
bkmartin··on Optimizing for the Speed of Light
not optimizing for hn.
bkmartin··on How to Design Software Good
The most common example I see is the password requirement that it must be between 8 and 16 characters... The 16 character limit is the main issue there... You know it has to do with the wya the data is stored.
bkmartin··on Ask HN: What's the best private budgeting app?
Working on one right now, will be subscription based, but won't share your data with anyone.
bkmartin··on Discovery of nitrogen-fixing corn variety could reduce need for added fertilizer
The only way to really fight something like this is to make GMO's and the people who produce these plant varieties into some sort of boogeyman, no? We see this happen all over the world, not just in the US. The current level of misinformation about the safety of GMOs is already very overblown in the world. Don't get me wrong, GMOs are being weaponized for monetary purposes in, what I believe, are very unethical ways. But those arguments are not what you see most when arguments against them are made.

I just don't see any other angle to attack nitrogen fixing corn other than to make some sort of GMO boogeyman out of it. It is really amazing the amount of misinformation that is populating the world for the purpose of protecting cash cows.

sidenote Thanks for the downvotes :) apparently my sarcasm hit a nerve.

bkmartin··on Discovery of nitrogen-fixing corn variety could reduce need for added fertilizer
Just another reason for big Agriculture to create more GMOs. /s

This would really be amazing. Honest concern... How does the fertilizer industry fight this? There are billions of dollars a year at stake here. Nobody faces billions of lost revenue without a fight.

bkmartin··on Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at tech companies
I work for a medium sized company in the commercial insurance space in PA. We have a cafeteria. They do charge for meals, but we have access to unlimited drinks. I think larger companies in general will have a cafeteria of some kind, but free food is very much a perk of software companies on the whole, I do believe.
bkmartin··on The 'Over-Parenting Crisis' in School and at Home (2015)
This is wholly and categorically untrue. Parenting today is much different than it was 100 years ago. The way we approach children, discipline children, and help them grow into their best selves has changed a lot. And it is based on lots of research. It is also based on all of the work that therapists do with adults after their parents have messed them up so bad with their horrible parenting. Every child will be their own adventure, personalities makes parenting every child different. But to say that there aren't guidelines and that you should just do whatever comes natural is dangerous. Because beating children comes naturally to some people. Being passive aggressive or emotionally blunt with them can come naturally. Being an absent parent and not spending any time with them can come naturally as work gets in the way. If you are unsure then seeking professional help to make sure you have the basics covered is a great way to start.

Parenting is very much an art, but like all art, there is definitely a science backing it up.

bkmartin··on Massive Comcast Outage Hits the US
Seeing talks about 2 separate fiber cuts... Lots of issues all over the US. Chicago to NY and also another cut that goes south to SC. r/sysadmin has good info
bkmartin··on Massive Comcast Outage Hits the US
I'm on HN...seeing your update...I an connect to my employer remotely... Feels like Comcast is not the whole story...
bkmartin··on Massive Comcast Outage Hits the US
I'm on Comcast and cannot get to Twitter and a few other places... But Netflix and YouTube work just fine. I wonder why I can get to some stuff but not others...
bkmartin··on Ask HN: What just happened to the internet?
I am on Comcast and can get to some stuff, but not other stuff. Twitter is down, but HN and Google are just fine. Clash Royale was down for me as well.
bkmartin··on Ask HN: What just happened to the internet?
Yeah, lots of stuff seemed down. I saw report of an S3 outage in Virginia
bkmartin··on Healtch Check Response Format for HTTP APIs
This is nice to see... I know we have been having internal discussions about how to best implement a system health check for our APIs as we migrate into a services based architecture across several different technology groups. I hope that it gets the traction necessary and makes it into a full standard.
bkmartin··on Fake it till you make it: the wolves of Instagram
I mean dogecoin is a thing.
bkmartin··on Doctors have reversed an inherited disorder in utero using a biotech drug
That doesn't really apply here does it? My comment is only in reference to S&P500 companies, that the OP to my comment referenced.
bkmartin··on Doctors have reversed an inherited disorder in utero using a biotech drug
The chart you reference shows that they are virtually the same...

All of Health vs All of Tech - yes, you are right. Tech is about double.

But Pharma, Biotech, Life Sciences show better returns over Tech as a whole and virtually equivalent Software & Services return.

I would argue that there are definitely players in the Tech space that are raking some very hefty profits, but are in highly competitive markets that could see that erode into losses very quickly... I do not think we are quite in the realm of price gouging and the lower barriers to entry in most of tech keeps things from swinging too far off the charts.

bkmartin··on Sysadmin left finger on power button for an hour to avert SAP outage
It flowed just fine for me because I pronounce it S-Q-L in my head as well. I don't know why saying SEQUAL has always felt unnatural to me. Probably because I came across it independently and learned about it by myself instead of having someone else introduce it to me as SEQUAL before seeing the acronym.
bkmartin··on California's Love of Cars Is Fueling Its Housing Crisis
Doesn't the earthquake risk significantly curb LA's ability to build up as much as NYC? I think there are probably certain density limiting factors like this. Which just means that they need to adapt to what that means in terms of sprawl and moving people around.
bkmartin··on Why the U.S. Spends So Much More Than Other Nations on Health Care
And the bigger problem is that there is profiteering at every step of the way... Medical Insurance, devices, private testing labs, hospitals, doctors, pharma...it all adds up. As someone else said, it's a free market without a real market for competition... I don't remember where I heard it, so citation needed, but the number that sticks on my head is that we spend 25% on administration alone. Lots of billing companies exist just to handle the complicated mess we have created... More profits in the system.
bkmartin··on In Search Of The Red Cross' $500M In Haiti Relief (2015)
Check out charitywater.org

I had the same concerns, but these guys are legit and get it done for the people who need it.

bkmartin··on Ask HN: Has Google News Stopped Showing AMP Links for Anyone Else?
Yeah I do. They are finicky though... A lot of times when I'm scrolling down the article it will close it and take me back out to the main news thread.
bkmartin··on How Instagram uses your mobile microphone to spy on you (and serve ads)
This article is obviously anecdotal and not proof... But me and my wife have been experiencing very similar things and she is convinced that Facebook or Google are doing the same thing. We have had a few, instances in the last month where our conversation in the car was followed by relevant advertising just minutes later when she looks at Facebook... Not actually making an accusation, but we are definitely suspicious at this point.
bkmartin··on Ask HN: Has Google News Stopped Showing AMP Links for Anyone Else?
I noticed this yesterday...I thought maybe I fell into some A/B test.
bkmartin··on A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M
It is elected officials that make these decisions, and until people with your point of view start running for office and getting elected things won't change. As of right now it looks like the majority, however slim, of the voters in SFBA are not choosing to change. At least not as quickly as the problem seems to be progressing.
bkmartin··on GoDaddy tells the Daily Stormer to move their domain for TOS violation
Free speech is not a "moral principal". Who deemed it such? With what authority was your idea of free speech deemed a "moral principal"? There is a reason why free speech is in the constitution... and it has everything to do with the "government", whatever form that may be, and their handling of their citizens. It says nothing of how the private citizens handle such speech within their own liberty and private spaces.
bkmartin··on Darpa Wants Brain Implants That Record from 1M Neurons
Would it then become important for that business to give these minds that would not make them feel trapped and caged? Wouldn't the quality of results be hampered if lots of suffering were to occur? Could the mind at some point become useless since it would be drowned in depressive, cyclical, and often illogical thought? That, too, would create a research point, but would be pretty inhumane and I would hope an ethics oversight panel would not allow such states to exist.

So many questions surround this... If the body is dead, but the brain is still active of reasonable thought and to that end communication, who decides it's fate? Does a mind deteriorate once there is no outside stimuli of the senses?

Not that I would agree to be in this state, but man there would be huge fields of research to do.

bkmartin··on Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
That site is one of the funniest things I've read in a while. Thank you!
bkmartin··on The .feedback scam
I think that google is kind of complicit in this then since the only way to get the stars under your listings in paid search listings or product listings is to have a certain amount of ratings using some "approved" site that they look at. We have been able to speak with the few customers that have left negative feedback and resolve issues, so it isn't useless. But Google is certainly helping to push the industry.
bkmartin··on Man Accused of Making Millions of Robocalls Faces Biggest-Ever FCC Fine
I really hope that the investigation gets to the tech and allows the phone companies to actually shut this stuff down. I get calls every day from robocallers on my cell phone. Every now and then I get a real person on the line and can usually get them to swear at me when I give them a hard time for trying to scam people. Part of me feels bad because they probably don't know any better, but seriously? How can you not know? How many pissed off people do they talk to everyday because of this... Deceitful practices like this are exhausting and the politicians seem to not care at all.
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