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by a_c 4y ago
I had used akka several years before for a commercial project. It worked wonder for me. Personally I have no issue with their change of license. Author has authority, as simple as that. I'm willing to pay for something useful. People s
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by a_c 4y ago
I would guess these pieces are usually written by people who sees one side of the story. In manufacturing, or maybe economy in general, states that there are 3 kinds of activity that create value, the idea, the manufacturer and the marketer
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by a_c 4y ago
Understand your audience, then back it up with metrics. Otherwise we will easily exclude audience e.g. those who need accessibility support
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by a_c 4y ago
On the flip side, there are companies unwilling to cannibalize themselves ended up having their market share gobble up by competitors. It is a fine line to navigate
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by a_c 4y ago
Indeed. I wish pontifier the best of luck
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by a_c 4y ago
This guy's optimism is off the chart.
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by a_c 4y ago
The whole dev cycle spans from ideation to running on production. Chop it up however fine you want as long as it fits your organization/team size. Company of less than 5 ppl? All you need to care is whether the whole cycle is deliverin
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by a_c 4y ago
Operating well means you could do things that doesn't scale/manually at first, but then you understand the process enough to automate it away so you can tackle the next problem and you don't need to throwing people in linea
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by a_c 4y ago
Glad to see zeromq being brought up. It is a fine piece of software with exceptional performance. The popularity has waned in recent year, particularly after the passing of Pieter, a main advocate of this technology. I think people now use
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by a_c 4y ago
I feel you completely. The children brought me joy that no way I can express how grateful I am. They made me realized experience can only be, well, experienced. No amount of describing can imprint the experience onto anyone. Now I empathize
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by a_c 4y ago
I don't know which is more tiresome, 3-4 hours of focused programming and thinking, or 8 hours attending two children below 5. They are both tiring, but differently. Intensive programming is like working hard at the gym. Tiring, but co
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by a_c 4y ago
A lot of tech books focus on a steady state. Use this for that job, have 8 engineers per team and put two on calls every week, micro service and kubernetes everything, do DevOps, automate every bit of CI/CD etc. The thing is, it really
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by a_c 4y ago
To me this article is a convoluted way of saying don't sell useless stuff. I agree. But also feels shallow.
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by a_c 4y ago
Just get rich first. If you are an asshole, you get to be an asshole. If you want to spend time with family, you get to spend time with family. If you want to build some useful product, do music, paint, drink tea, you get to do all that.
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by a_c 4y ago
DevOps was what you meant, and still is in some places. But in reality it is either a fancy term of system admin, confined to cloud providers, or I don't know what I need but probably can do everything. You might be delighted by the
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by a_c 4y ago
Now every website has this obnoxious subscribe now pop-up before showing anything useful. Imagine someone compiled a list of website that shows this pop up, and some email associated with the domain, would the web be a better place?
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by a_c 4y ago
Regarding value creation, in economy there is the smiling curve [1]. It states that throughout the product development, the R&D stage and marketing stage create the most value in the sense of profit margin whereas manufacturing itself c
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by a_c 4y ago
Not only in CS, it is hard as organisation design as well. E.g. do you want an engineering team, or do you want a product team that has engineer so to eliminate silo. Should engineer care about hiring? Or that's HR's concern. What
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by a_c 4y ago
Would love to visit a good bookstore like you described in london. Anyone got recommendation?
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by a_c 4y ago
> What if I told you I could save you $40,000 a day? Learn from history, specifically, SQL. Or people who think they are too important to learn SQL aren't that important after all
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by a_c 4y ago
The implication goes way beyond code. Software writing is miniature organization design. Making clear interface is easier said than done. Zooming out a bit, a software team should be modular and composable. Zooming even more out, the whole
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by a_c 4y ago
Too lazy to figure out, since python's print is already buffered, is there anything we can do to beef up the python print() throughput?
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by a_c 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/435/
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by a_c 4y ago
I am always curious whether the bureaucracy ubiquitous to big corps a feature or a bug. If the big corp in your experience is doing fine nowadays, then perhaps it is more of a feature? In my experience, the existence of bureaucracy always s
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by a_c 4y ago
Is the company still around? What is everyone doing nowadays?
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by a_c 4y ago
Well, did we just hug it to death? Hope the floppies are doing fine... Look forward to an update
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by a_c 4y ago
For what purpose? Are you a small business owner that preparing for going viral one day? Keep improving your system bit by bit. Maybe add a caching layer today, load balancer tomorrow, a job queue somewhere down the road and scale up your d
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by a_c 4y ago
On self driving car, I think we are solving all the problems caused by cars like air pollution and congestion with "better" car. First we have electric car, then we (will) have electric self driving car. Public transport seems bor
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by a_c 4y ago
Thank you for your reply. Could you give an example of what kind of process is being documented? Is it something like "how to process a customer refund"? I've worked in places where there were a lot of internal document for
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by a_c 4y ago
Now we need virtual onions

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