Aaronontheweb

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Why trains suck in America(youtube.com)
7 points by Aaronontheweb 10y ago|4 comments
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by Aaronontheweb 10y ago
I remember reading Prey by Michael Crichton as a teenager and wondering if the nanobots he described there could be used to "eat" a tumor, like leaf-cutter ants gradually moving bits of material in a pipeline from one place to ano
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by Aaronontheweb 10y ago
I run a B2B startup and found this to be helpful; it's a marketing / sales area I don't know much about and know I could be doing better.
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by Aaronontheweb 10y ago
Akka.NET is not fully compatible with the JVM out of the box. Different wire formats and object representation types - if you use a custom serializer, however, such as one that uses user-defined Google Protobufs then you can solve that prob
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Akka.NET 1.1: Akka.Cluster, Akka.Streams, and Multi-Node Testing(petabridge.com)
115 points by Aaronontheweb 10y ago|20 comments
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by Aaronontheweb 10y ago
Responded to you in Disqus. Should be disabled on mobile already by default. Added a second setting that disables it on screens less than 600px wide. Pain in the ass, sorry about that.
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by Aaronontheweb 10y ago
> I don't think Microsoft has ever announced a release date for .NET Core, so why you were confident it would release at a particular point is confusing to me. The expectations that were casually set by members of the team at talks,
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by Aaronontheweb 10y ago
You're correct. My mistake.
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by Aaronontheweb 10y ago
You're right - I got that confused with RC1. And yes .NET Core does: https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/05/dotNETcore-RC2
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by Aaronontheweb 10y ago
OP here. I'll re-paste what I wrote in reply to a similar comment on Reddit. When I wrote that, I was thinking like a business owner whose technology is rooted in .NET. Not like a developer working on a single project. I invite you to
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by Aaronontheweb 10y ago
> Controlling companies and making sure they understand clearly that they exist only at the pleasure and the whim of the government Worked out well for the Soviet Bloc
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by Aaronontheweb 10y ago
I startup a Windows Store Analytics based startup - sometimes you take a bet on a technology taking off and it doesn't work out. Look at how many people ate shit building startups on top of Facebook's platforms over the years. Don
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The Business Case for the Actor Model and Akka.NET(petabridge.com)
1 points by Aaronontheweb 10y ago|0 comments
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by Aaronontheweb 10y ago
> Scale feels like a good metric for this. Like, if you're a builder making a lot of houses get a permit. If you're a homeowner fixing your own stuff, you're okay. Maybe education? Like, "You're buying a house! H
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by Aaronontheweb 10y ago
> But if my neighbor miswires a light switch and it starts a fire that burns my house down because they're close together, that would suck. In that situation, I would have wanted a say in whether my neighbor chose to do that themsel
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by Aaronontheweb 10y ago
Not to be an empty-calorie comment, but genuinely thanks for sharing that. Found it to be very helpful!
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by Aaronontheweb 10y ago
I've been wondering where you've been lately Roger :p Releasing Helios 2.0 today, which is a big improvement over the previous version. Stress test results across 350 connections (ramped up over a 3-5 minutes, each connection doin
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by Aaronontheweb 10y ago
Wooooosh. It's a reference to comparing oneself to Steve Jobs. They make fun of it in Silicon Valley and elsewhere in tech culture.
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by Aaronontheweb 11y ago
> programmers who don't yet realize that the business perspective of your code is where your career growth and potential come from (not from learning more and more advanced coding technique). Yes and no. I think programmers get the
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John Hughes: Race Conditions, Distribution, Interactions–Testing the Hard Stuff(vimeo.com)
2 points by Aaronontheweb 11y ago|0 comments
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by Aaronontheweb 11y ago
After seeing other people grumbling about the affiliate stuff on the website in this thread, I couldn't resist trying to do it on the thread itself :p
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by Aaronontheweb 11y ago
A little surprised to see that the Mythical Man Month isn't on that list: http://amzn.to/1ZHWUlF
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Broken Windows: How Bad Software Releases Happen to Good Teams(aaronstannard.com)
2 points by Aaronontheweb 11y ago|0 comments
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by Aaronontheweb 11y ago
But they did have plenty of frames though!
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The Inevitable Rise of the Stateful Web Application(petabridge.com)
2 points by Aaronontheweb 11y ago|0 comments
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by Aaronontheweb 11y ago
Author here - yep, that's exactly right. Didn't occur to me people would read it that way (whoops!) - I meant implementing ideas from scratch. This was inspired by a lecture I gave to some entrepreneurs on Friday (I put a link to
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by Aaronontheweb 11y ago
> If the max cost of predatory practices isn't much higher than the gain from using them in the rare cases when caught, it creates an incentive to use such practices. This isn't a complete economic argument in favor of companie
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by Aaronontheweb 11y ago
I would also suggest not having punitive damages. Removes the prospect of / threat of a big payday coming out of a lawsuit.
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by Aaronontheweb 11y ago
Definitely not selfish man. People can only maintain something like 150 relationships at any given time. But if you leave behind something each person you're no longer in contact with can use... Well that makes a real difference for th
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by Aaronontheweb 11y ago
But that's exactly why the moderators are important. Overwhelmingly most redditors are lurker content sponges. As soon as the people who invest in making the content and maintaining the content sources leave, so will the vast majority

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