abraxas

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by abraxas 5y ago
How did it turn out for them?
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by abraxas 5y ago
> - Sometimes using RLS within the database When is it not a good idea to leverage the database's RLS for access control?
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by abraxas 5y ago
Being ins a similar role myself, how do I ensure that engineers stay happy working on the project that we're working on? I'm finding myself actually doing the opposite of the CTO you mentioned and pushing them towards adopting mor
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by abraxas 5y ago
Yeah, this is basically Vaadin and Spring for young hipsters.
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by abraxas 5y ago
So this is Vaadin but in JavaScript and therefore cool?
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by abraxas 5y ago
Sigh, being an old geezer here I can't shake the feeling every other show HN post is stuff we did 20 years ago just reinvented (sometimes wastefully). Yes, we had 3D on the web then. It was called VRML. We didn't have Svelte but s
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by abraxas 5y ago
> When I write stuff in Word, Word seems very opinionated and messes up formatting all the time This has been an issue with Word from its inception. This is because Word is broken at its core. The formatting is neither style based nor pa
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by abraxas 5y ago
More like green threads + nio but yeah.
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by abraxas 5y ago
Yeah agreed. It is definitely very welcome syntax sugar and I'll take it over JS callback hell or async/await stuff any day. I just wanted to point out that non-blocking I/O has been available in Java for a long time so high
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by abraxas 5y ago
Far fewer applications need this than many are led to believe. That said, this is always a welcome addition although this really doesn't add more than syntax over the stuff we've had in java.nio for a couple of decades
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by abraxas 5y ago
Kafka can buffer indefinitely (so long as you give it the disk space) and you can throttle to your heart's content within the consumer's loop or just consumer.pause(). I don't think you know the basics of Kafka's API or
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by abraxas 5y ago
Their whole platform sounds like an unholy mess by the sound of that. A big pile of dung that just accreted over time and they never cleaned out their technical debt. I just left a job like that a few weeks ago. It was such a nightmare I to
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by abraxas 5y ago
Yep, probably a single good mainframe would handle all of it with a smile. And provide the uptime that most "cloud" vendors can dream of. But that wouldn't be nowhere near as cool as building "cloud infra", right?
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by abraxas 5y ago
Kafka is a wonderful tool. I built a few systems on top of it and all of them delivered the scale that was promised and more. With surprisingly little hardware. I'm very hostile to a lot of hipster tech but Kafka is one of the few genu
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by abraxas 5y ago
This is quite nice indeed. Personally I'm fond of the Colour Maximite II as a teaching tool but this is nice as it requires no additional hardware.
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by abraxas 5y ago
It's defunct now. It was a service that popped up during the web 2.0 wave so circa 2004.
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by abraxas 5y ago
Is it similar to furl? Anyone still remember furl? It allowed for saving the content of your bookmarks as well as allowing you to search within their content.
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by abraxas 5y ago
Most EE immigrants did not get British citizenship because there was no need for them to bother. I call BS on this anecdote of yours. I personally know dozens caught in the Brexit mess and of those who were able to vote in the referendum no
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by abraxas 5y ago
Are those people thriving now? Genuine question although I have a hunch as to the answer. Never in history did it turn out to be true when poor people's problems were blamed on some minority. In every instance I can think of the result
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by abraxas 5y ago
That was a figure of speech of course. Make it the office or the bus or the pub. Same thing.
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by abraxas 5y ago
> just the voices of a loud and stupid minority More like 52% isn't it? Granted not every one who voted leave did it to keep out the Poles. But it makes you wonder how many did and which smiles at the grocery store are forced...
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by abraxas 5y ago
I know there are plenty of people like you and I've met a lot of them during the time I spent there. But I had no idea that there were that many who felt the exact opposite. The emotions are still raw. I have good friends and a couple
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by abraxas 5y ago
There is also an emotional aspect to this. As someone born in Eastern Europe I feel that Brexit has been specifically targeted at our ethnic group. I have no intention of ever visiting there again, red tape or no red tape. I just don't
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by abraxas 5y ago
I'm no longer with that company and it's possible that those devs were incompetent or always chased the next shiny framework or possibly both. But irregardless their output on the whole was about 20% that of those devs who used un
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by abraxas 5y ago
"When your company won't be the first to market, because about 20% of your total development capacity needs to spent on keeping up" In the world of JS and Typescript this ratio looks more like 80%. I swear that node hipsters
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by abraxas 5y ago
Trains are so wonderful. I don't know what it is about them but I cherish every long train ride. Unfortunately being in Canada I don't get to ride on trains very much but whenever I visit Europe I always try to get around by a tra
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by abraxas 5y ago
It would help for sure. My cousin died not because of overdose but because he shared needles and contracted hepatitis which turned into hepatoma. If safe injection sites had been available he might still be alive.
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by abraxas 5y ago
Checking in from Northwestern Poland. Lost my dearest cousin and best friend when he turned 27 (yep that age). I don't have any more tears left. Been crying for a decade.
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by abraxas 5y ago
Except that having the type info is really, really useful at the call site. I know the IDE is able to infer it and display it but it's still a pain to see all the vars during a code review in a browser.
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by abraxas 5y ago
Java annotations are type safe. And dynamic types is precisely what turns me off of Clojure

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