Nacraile

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by Nacraile 11y ago
> CS graduates from MIT and Stanford could be expected to justify hours of their time in "Scrum ceremonies" (which means that they aren't trusted, which means that their credentialing institutions and work experiences aren
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by Nacraile 11y ago
I don't think it's "dying". Tablets are in the same situation as flat-screen TVs: the market is more-or-less saturated, they last a long time, and there is no compelling reason to upgrade. In contrast, phones have a fa
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by Nacraile 12y ago
I think the whole point the article is trying to make is that REST isn't really a step forward from RPC. It just adds an overly restrictive taxonomy (i.e. in a complex practical application, you're probably going to run into a pr
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by Nacraile 12y ago
I think you're missing the point. The point here is that some PMs feel that if they're not demanding changes, they are not necessary / not doing their job / etc. If there's nothing wrong with the completed work,
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by Nacraile 12y ago
You're assuming basic rationality of people, which unfortunately isn't universally valid (I have the same intuitive tendency, which I've learned to be aware of and compensate for). Disgruntled (usually ex-) employees have bee
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by Nacraile 12y ago
I'm not sure this is true. "Plastic piece of crap" is only what's possible with cheap hardware today. Much better additive manufacturing processes exist - for a price, but price is going to keep on falling. And sure,
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by Nacraile 12y ago
What's the difference between sitting with your eyes closed solving a puzzle and sitting at your computer figuring out how to solve a problem? Quiescence is the whole point of the exercise. It requires a lot of discipline, which build
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by Nacraile 12y ago
We tech folk would do well to remember that relatively few people have the good fortune of working in a labour market where demand outstrips supply. Being able to just quit with a comfortable buffer in the savings account and confidence th
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by Nacraile 12y ago
""If you want to design something better than C++, you need to understand why so many people use C++." No, you don't. You just need to design something better than C++." And how do you define "better than C++&q
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by Nacraile 12y ago
I'm not sure what that accomplishes. In order to provide input, the HID device must register itself with the OS, in order for the driver to be set up, etc. Sending HID messages without actually enumerating a HID device isn't goi
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by Nacraile 12y ago
Why not? A relative difference in values is a relative difference in values. "The median of this distribution is a bit larger than the median of this other distribution" sure makes sense to me. Sure, comparing two histograms wo
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by Nacraile 12y ago
Curiously, you can also argue that the mean is a useless statistic, since it tells you very little about the bulk of a distribution with asymmetric outliers (i.e. age, wealth) Knowing that the youngest person in the oldest half of the TV po
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by Nacraile 12y ago
Except the beautiful math of the theorum only holds if distances between points on the pizza remain constant, which is manifestly not true for real pizza in particular and real materials in general. Force applied to a pizza curved width-wi
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by Nacraile 12y ago
All of that livery, car #, driver info, etc is security theatre. So are background checks. If you get in a taxi with serious malicious intent, you're in trouble, full stop. Whatever limited protection they do yield is basically redu
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by Nacraile 12y ago
If it takes 2 hours to send you 1 hour of content, no amount of buffering is going to give you the instant gratification you want.
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by Nacraile 12y ago
Don't forget about defamation. Sure, you can spread lies in order to do me harm. But I can sue you for the damage done by those lies. Why would you think that lies that damage a reputation are substantially different from vandalism
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by Nacraile 12y ago
> Furthermore, privately run systems should be more efficient because consumers have a choice. Don't like your current doctor? Go get a new one. You are assuming an efficient market. That would imply that patients have access to pe
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by Nacraile 12y ago
The US has the highest per-capita health care expenditure in the OECD, by a substantial margin, despite being the only OECD country which does not provide universal health care. Why on earth would we think that private sector hospitals work
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by Nacraile 12y ago
It isn't a problem when one store among many decides to increase prices /etc, because business can shift to other stores. The problem arises when there is only one store. I think the comparison with ISPs refusing to upgrade tran
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by Nacraile 12y ago
This is not true. TCP will retransmit, yes, but TCP congestion control will also reduce the transmit rate in response to lost packets. Overall, proper TCP implementations will back off to approximately their fair share of a contended bott
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by Nacraile 12y ago
DynamoDB? SQS? SNS? What can't you do given access to a key-value store, object storage, and some message-passing mechanisms? Keep in mind, IAM policy is fine-grained enough to restrict access to specific keys and attributes in DDB,
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by Nacraile 12y ago
> Often that is a role played by what we call a PRP (primarily responsible person). So Github doesn't have managers, it just has Primary Responsible People, who sound an awful like they do the same thing? Just don't call them
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by Nacraile 12y ago
> You can keep on dividing forever, so every line has an infinite amount of parts. But how long are those parts? If they're anything greater than zero, then the line would seem to be infinitely long. And if they're zero, well,
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by Nacraile 12y ago
Eventually consistent systems aren't built because eventual consistency is considered a "good" property. Eventually consistent systems are built because eventual consistency is the least-bad option in a fundamental trade-off
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by Nacraile 12y ago
Am I missing something, or is this just a rehash of lamport timestamps, which were first described in 1978, and are part of any reasonable undergrad distributed systems course?
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by Nacraile 13y ago
Totally random, unsolicited, off-topic feedback: this project seems cool and I suspect I might well be interested in using it, and I just bounced because I couldn't figure out how to explore it a bit without signing up. Basically exa
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by Nacraile 13y ago
I would bet that the noise comes from people who have no idea just closing their eyes and clicking at random. Clearly the map wasn't coloured to differentiate bodies of water, considering the clusters in the Black and Caspian seas. (B
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by Nacraile 13y ago
What I always find interesting about "look at how ignorant Americans are" type articles is that they never bother to compare against any other nationality and see if the ignorance is in any way abnormal in a broader context. Is a
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by Nacraile 13y ago
Yeah, that's much more interesting. The wired article just repeats the overview and loses the interesting technical details. I'm not sure why it was posted instead of the original content.
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by Nacraile 13y ago
It sounds like you're misinterpreting. The way I'm reading it, by "thousands of places" they mean "thousands of machines". Which may be an exaggeration, but it should be trivially obvious that data is sharded

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