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.

"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."

Insured: $50 flat rate, ground or air.

Uninsured:

$848 flat fee (ground service)

$4,394 per hour (helicopter)

http://www.bcehs.ca/about/billing/fees

:-p

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.

Might as well argue against using windmills to grind wheat.

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.

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https://mergebase.com/doing-git-wrong/2018/03/07/fun-with-gi...

After I wrote that blog post someone told me the reason for the magic is the use of "git merge-base --fork-point" under the hood.

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

It's a neat restructuring of the vector into a SQRT(N) * SQRT(N) arrangement.

Obviously M.2 or NVME or PCIE would be a lot better. But even old SATA still made a huge difference.

I guess partitioning can help, but then isn't it just turning the DB servers into pizzas of master-slave where the Hawaiian slice is master only in Hawaii, and slave everywhere else?

I wasn't a computer person back then. But I quickly learned about SMB file and printer sharing being wide open.

Here is Charles Dickens writing about his own contortions to monetize his work:

There must be a special design to overcome that specially trying mode of publication, and I cannot better express the difficulty and labour of it than by asking you to turn over any two weekly numbers of "A Tale of Two Cities," or "Great Expectations," [...] Notice how patiently and expressly the [serialized novel] has to be planned for presentation in fragments, and yet for afterwards fusing together as an uninterrupted whole.

I think holding onto bugfixes and feature enhancements and letting Patreon subscribers have first dibs on these makes sense.

If student loans became dischargeable through bankruptcy, I imagine that could put pressure on bankruptcy laws in undesirable ways (e.g., the current 7 year period might get extended to 20 years).