Kinrany

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511.
by Kinrany 3y ago
Four is better than one through.
512.
by Kinrany 3y ago
Almost all of the listed "antipatterns" are things that are bad by definition. "Don't do the thing too much or too little, do the right amount" is not a useful recommendation.
513.
by Kinrany 3y ago
I would imagine the main use case to be as fallback in times of peak usage.
514.
by Kinrany 3y ago
> That turns out to be the solution that nature has come up with Explain?
515.
by Kinrany 3y ago
Wouldn't the data interface still be a stream of bytes?
516.
by Kinrany 3y ago
The problem is the winner-takes-all market. Fix that, and VCs won't waste nearly as much money.
517.
by Kinrany 3y ago
Say more?
518.
by Kinrany 3y ago
This shows that we lack good abstractions over storage.
519.
by Kinrany 3y ago
The board is not supposed to be good at executive things, that's why they have CEOs
520.
by Kinrany 3y ago
Good engineers create systems that can survive their departure.
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by Kinrany 3y ago
> Many effective altruists — a pseudo-philosophical movement that seeks to donate money to head off existential risks — have imagined scenarios in which a powerful AI system could be used by a terrorist group to, say, create a bioweapon.
522.
by Kinrany 3y ago
> = 15 * 21 * 32 This should be 15 * (21 + 32)
523.
by Kinrany 3y ago
Code quality is for developers, not end users. It's fine for code to be atrociously structured if literally no one is ever going to read it, even in medical devices, as long as it works.
524.
by Kinrany 3y ago
How is this relevant to the topic of accreditation?
525.
by Kinrany 3y ago
It is economically inefficient. Scalpers create no value and destroy some by spending their time.
526.
by Kinrany 3y ago
Are there pieces of microservice architecture that are zero-cost abstractions and can be used in even the smallest side project?
527.
by Kinrany 3y ago
Name three that you like?
528.
by Kinrany 3y ago
> An abstraction that would incidentally be immediately used to emulate threads. That would be a win if performance was the same!
529.
by Kinrany 3y ago
How do you know the number of people that said they'd leave?
530.
by Kinrany 3y ago
> Software engineers often do not want to think about the Ops problem their code will create over time That's an easy problem: pay them less and make it clear that this is why
531.
by Kinrany 3y ago
This may very well be worse: children would have no access to internet except for websites designed with the single goal of extracting money from parents.
532.
by Kinrany 3y ago
Roblox is a company town, but a bad example nevertheless because it's open enough to be programmable and do HTTP requests.
533.
by Kinrany 3y ago
I mean, aggressiveness is a form of communication. "Get your shit together, or else."
534.
by Kinrany 3y ago
Again, security is important for all of those products, but unlike all of them, Okta has exactly one job. Perfect security is impossible, but better than 50% odds of never getting critically compromised are reasonable to expect. If their se
535.
by Kinrany 3y ago
> Third, no one knows how to build secure software or services. That is not an argument one would want to hear from a company whose only reason for existence is being good at security.
536.
by Kinrany 3y ago
They do win some points on having better security than a popular security product, considering Cloudflare's own security posture is also quite important to their customers.
537.
by Kinrany 3y ago
If that were true, the appropriate solution would be deploying intimidation techniques against those people, not wearing a uniform that does it to everyone
538.
by Kinrany 3y ago
That's an amazing uniform
539.
by Kinrany 3y ago
Any sufficiently advanced type system necessarily becomes Turing complete because type systems generalize to full compile time programming
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by Kinrany 3y ago
"Stringly typed" is usually used as a derogatory term for the alternative to strong typing, which often looks like manipulating raw strings when higher level code would have either better error handling or less boilerplate. In thi

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