LordHumungous

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by LordHumungous 6y ago
Agreed. They provide value to the consumer. They also are good for small businesses. People will scoff, but it's true. Compare them to other companies like Amazon or Uber who's model is to drive small businesses to extinction.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
Neither company has pure motives here. Apple just so happens to take a 30% cut of in-app purchases, so they stand to benefit immensely from a change to that model. They also have their own ad platform that will benefit from this. Both sides
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
I don't understand the point you are trying to make.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
> But I’m at the point in life, where I want to work with tech that I enjoy. Exactly. When people say "You should work on boring tech." my thought is "Mmkay, sure thing buddy, you do you."
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
A lot of people underestimate what a high scale workload means.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
> By the time you actually need to do this you will be able to afford one of these options. :) What if I need to do this now? Why would I build a distributed postgres snowflake that takes 10 hours to spin up a new replica, requires that
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
I disagree with pretty much everything in your comment. > NoSQL stores can scale better in certain data access patterns Exactly.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
How do you load balance across replicas? How do you shard across replicas?
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
K but what if you your service needs to scale.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
I would prefer Python or Node over JVM for a light weight microservice. I would choose a NoSQL store for something that needs to scale.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
You are describing my life
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
Seems like the claim that this pandemic response team would have made a difference is the assertion that needs to be proven. I'm not terribly convinced that a bit more beurocracy would have made any difference at all.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
Many problems with your comment. First SARS occurred in 2003 before Obama. It was stopped primarily because it does not spread asymptomatically. SARS-COV-2 does. That is the difference.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
Great I can't wait for Biden to stop it.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
This is basically the liberal version of "he won't condemn Islamic terrorism." Guilt by association.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
Total nonsense. Europe has just as many if not more cases. The idea that another president would have made any difference is pure wishful thinking.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
At least there were actual catastrophes caused by Bush. Under Trump it was conspiracy theories about Russian collusion.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
Oh I see it's time for this blog post again.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
How can I get infected with one of those other Coronaviruses?
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
Sure, I guess that's one way to look at it.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
It beats a gigantic Malthusian trap.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
I had a physics professor who liked to point out that Feynman (who we all idolized as college students studying physics) used to solve hundreds and hundreds of classical mechanics problems for fun, in his spare time. These were the same hom
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
Yeaaaah, if you could rename your ethnic group to something more inclusive, that would be greaaat. Thanks.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
I felt that "master"/"slave" was imprecise and just kind of weird terminology long ago before it was flagged as problematic. "leader"/"replica" describes the behavior better.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
He had a gargantuan ego... and gargantuan accomplishments to back it up. The Michael Jordan of late 20th century physics, in more ways than one.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
If you are concerned about the business that your corporate employer engages in, there is a simple solution: quit your job and become an activist.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
Is appget dead yet? Is the windows solution that much better?
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
Yeah. There's a lot of relief in letting go, accepting that other people are outside of your power to control, and just practicing acceptance no matter how wrong or annoying or stupid you think people are being.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
> Facebook policy chief Joel Kaplan, who played a central role in vetting proposed changes, argued at the time that efforts to make conversations on the platform more civil were “paternalistic,” said people familiar with his comments. I
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
Yeah, but the best of the best? Most of those people relocate.

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