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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
I think that's fair. It's also fair for a company to say 'f- that, even just doing that eats away at our bottom line, we'll concentrate on more profitable markets' (which is the intention I guess. Go and build it in
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
It's the price of uncertainty. Business can plan for low tax or high tax regimes. Not so much when it's just "unknown". Similar across Europe https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/2
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
Oracle will do - a couple of options, either a full rebuild or an incremental rebuild.
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
Just landed here to write this. Materialized Views are _very_ implementation specific and are definitely _not_ magic. It's important to understand how your implementation works before committing to it.
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
You remember "software is going to eat the world?" _Everyone_ organisation is a tech organisation.
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Nick Clegg: Silicon Valley is full of wealthy men who think they're victims(theguardian.com)
19 points by 4ndrewl 1y ago|5 comments
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
You say they weren't given a choice, but there are now more parties represented in parliament now than before. What percent of the electorate voting for the biggest party would be acceptable to you?
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
That's how our representative democracy works though. Even if just one person votes in each constituency. I say that those who didn't vote knew it was a foregone conclusion and would have voted in the same proportion as those who
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
Ok, it's not a good fit for you. Don't use it I guess and ignore all the X is not good posts for language X you do decide to use?
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
Tell me about this "quirk" and winning by "default" (and how this never applied to other recent elections).
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Sony raises Playstation 5 prices in US as tariff fears persist(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by 4ndrewl 1y ago|1 comments
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
I'm a "thought follower". Wherever my leaders tell me to go, I follow.
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
Not sure why this is voted down. The site doesn't really explain what problems of mine it'll solve (if any). I just came away thinking "oh, it's a thing. might have been a useful thing, who knows" "Sell the siz
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
XML was the data storage - IBM DB9 supported it natively in a similar way to how Postgres supports jsonb. You'd use XSLT to translate your data into a webpage. Or a mobile device that supported WML/WAP. Or a desktop application. T
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
XSLT was the blockchain, nft, metaverse of the mid?-2000s. Was totally going to solve all of our problems.
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
"The term "patch" came from early use in telephony and radio studios, where extra equipment kept on standby could be temporarily substituted for failed devices." - from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
I doubt anyone here is working to 1% of fb scale, let alone 10%. The answer to "why Hack" needs to be viewed in the historical context of "when Hack" and what was happening (or not) in the php ecosystem at that time. Thi
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
> If you remove the people born into privilege, from attending your college, all you succeed is in making your college irrelevant, not those people irrelevant. You're not removing the people, you're removing the privilege. Thos
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
Thank you!
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
Dashed with a sauce of "surrounded by yes-men and uncritical amplifiers hoping to make a quick buck."
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
How would he even know? I mean he's not a published academic in any field let alone in quantum physics. I feel the same when I read one of Carlos Ravelli's pop-sci books, but I have fewer followers.
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
Perhaps, but just like vibe-coding being good-enough for some purposes they think vibe-hiring will get good-enough candidates? I guess at least they're dogfooding it?
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
Because a lot of devs were getting a free ride off the back of ten years of zirp money, and firing people is a sure fire way to pump your share options.
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
Even before that. 2010 or so they were saying - without evidence - Cancellara used motors in the spring classics. It's just clickbait to co-incide with the end of the TdF.
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
I think you're reading something I didn't write. Nothing to do with architecture - rather ensuring you understand what decisions you're making, what other options you might have and why you're choosing not to do somethin
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
Agree there's a basic level, and as you say just spend a little time on it but that's table stakes. My reading of "obsess over it" _is_ micro-optimisations which are a distraction if you've got no market fit
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
But most organisational failures are not down to performance - they're down to market fit. You don't have performance issues if you don't have a product that people want. :)
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
> , performance should be a consideration from the start Don't obsess over this. Obsess over documenting your design decisions - why you decided one algorithm or pattern over another and why. Then _if_ after load testing you need to
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
The problem is that it's really easy to say 'blah blah our service can do xyz' but we know all too well that when using LLMs most often it doesn't live up to the hype (worse still you know different users will get differ
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by 4ndrewl 1y ago
Sure because having domestic industry is a strategic decision. Also the reason why Soviet carmakers won't go bust. American competition simply won't be allowed. Easy as that, comrade!

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