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by _pmf_ 8y ago
The killer (Cesar, as CNN lovingly calls him, in line with their history of making sure mass murderers become immortal) also made death threats via Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/RochelleRitchie/status/10558
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> Mr Pichai's letter said the New York Times story was "difficult to read" and that Google was "dead serious" about providing a "safe and inclusive workplace". Politically motivated cleaning of the work
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
You are asking "we're currently requiring our employees to commit tax fraud, how can we streamline this". In Germany (and a lot of other EU countries), there are laws governing bogus self-employment ("Scheinselbstständig
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> They picked the bigger fonts they’d needed all along. They were so grateful it was embarrassing. They probably changed it back once he was gone.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
“The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.” ― Robert Conquest
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> She spends ten minutes setting up a science experiment on my desk. There are jokes about how she managed to get this thing through airport security. She then performs the closest thing to magic I’ve seen in a long time. Maybe he should
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> they forget about sound software engineering rules and proper design. While the code of libssh looks cleaner than eg. FreeBSD, there are still quite a number of functions that are bigger than a screen height. You seem to be a very smar
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> Smile in your face and drown you in over-politeness while stabbing you in the back. The Pan Am smile: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pan%20Am%20s...
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
Is this by any chance influenced by the "Out of the Tar Pit" paper? Piggybacking on a SQLite backend was also how I have envisioned it ... very interesting project!
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
My favorite proc hack: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17061499
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> I forgot why we even needed url shortening until I remembered I used them specifically for Twitter due to the character limits. That's the cover story.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
As I understand it, "not caring" about competitors is used in the sense of "not worrying about them".
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> What is the rationale behind going for from-full-scratch instead of packaging a copy of ASIO with the library? Is there a way of building ASIO without Boost?
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
I wonder why ECS is completely absent in non-game systems. It seems like a natural way for non-invasive extension.
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> You seem to be making some sort of negative judgment about that particular issue. Perhaps you'd care to give us the benefit of your reasoning. A freshman learns not to store data in floating point data types if the significant dig
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
Seems similar to this beauty: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/12115
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Be careful when googling ...
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
I dearly miss the concept of circles in Twitter, both in incoming direction (filtering by what kind of stuff you'd want to read right now) and more important in outgoing direction (so I don't offend my fragile dev-o-sphere snowfla
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
Is it possible today to have a compliant Java implementation using green threads? Seems like something that would appear in Azul first.
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> I find it hard to believe China would risk their industry Do you think Apple will start producing iPhones in Apple Park's basement?
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> I'm not experienced in this area, but more than one microservice per developer seems like a major "architecture smell." It's not a smell; it's a hot, steaming turd.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
Adding to 1): more often than not, the "scaling" issues are 95% social and 5% technical.
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> Once a company gets to this level, they need to recognize the role that luck played into their original product and design. They hit a resonance with people, and it was probably more luck and timing than anything else. Perfectly stated
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Which cannot be said for software engineers.
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> Hyperbole and trash-talking is common at such things. Where I walk, the only trash talking is about management and how fucking far behind we're lagging re. the competition. Burying the competitor's product is narcissistic and
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For me, the Apple piece is not as black and white. > "Our best guess is that they are confusing their story with a previously-reported 2016 incident in which we discovered an infected driver on a single Super Micro server in one of
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> "As a matter of practice, before servers are put into production at Apple they are inspected for security vulnerabilities and we update all firmware and software with the latest protections." They do not have equipment to det
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
This meme has been around for at least 15 years. Banks will be fine, since they have unlimited resources.
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Accidentally serverless.
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A poor man's IPC, like HTTP and HTML is a poor man's application platform ...

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