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by agentgt 9y ago
> I'd disagree with your analogy. If your text editor crashes, it will cause a few minutes of lost work. If your database engine mangles your data, your site will be down for however long it takes you to restore from backups So yo
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by agentgt 9y ago
I'm a fervent watcher of the show "How it's Made" and it blows my mind how an enormous amount of manufacturing is still done by hand. Particularly any seamstress, weaving, buffing, sanding or carving. The show generally
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by agentgt 9y ago
> Mysql and PostgreSQL offer similar functionality, people use both systems for similar tasks. When you try to decide between the two, you find conflicting arguments all over the web. I think in such case looking at the quality of code
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by agentgt 9y ago
Yes but databases are not your normal application, library or tool. They require a fair degree of expert knowledge and I agree even more are a critical component. I would much rather choose a battle tested database that has the features I w
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by agentgt 9y ago
Seriously? I am assuming you are not a database expert but basing this on the look and organization of the code and not the data structures and design. If that is not true than please share your findings instead of teasing us. I'm cu
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by agentgt 9y ago
People complain about the parens in Lisp but what kills me about Lisp in general is not the parens but the fact your brains has to read the code from bottom to top and/or right to left. This is because of prefix notation. And while I d
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by agentgt 9y ago
I have to agree. The fact that he was their tech leader and was running things when Chrome took over is especially damning . The entire article he didn't take any ownership for this failing and then goes on to mention how he is heading
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by agentgt 9y ago
I'm try to understand how Ruby has any relation to Clojure's purported dying other than I guess a few critical things were said at a Ruby conference. What is becoming less popular is dynamically typed languages or perhaps more cor
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by agentgt 9y ago
They are not even remotely worth comparing. They are so different in goals. Probably the best comparison would be to ZeroMQ and or other MQTT brokers.
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by agentgt 9y ago
I'm a big fan of buses or perhaps more accurately I guess semi intelligent pipes with semi intelligent endpoints. I have used RabbitMQ (and Kafka at times) for large portion of my career and anytime I tell people this the bring up the
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by agentgt 9y ago
Steve thank you so much for your detailed answer to my queries of pure curiosity! Next time I'm in Atlanta I would love to meet in person (btw thank you for putting your real live info online. I love learning about new people) and grab
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by agentgt 9y ago
This almost an exact duplicate: http://cosmos.nautil.us/short/144/the-physicist-who-denies-t... and original HN comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13743439 Do people not search Ag
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by agentgt 9y ago
I'm curious why you wanted to shift your next job to .NET? Money? Hedging it to be the future? Like the tech/languages/tools better?
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by agentgt 9y ago
I'm somewhat guilty of pushing the don't copy'n paste passwords (not the actual input limitation) and the reason why is because several of our guys at work have actually accidentally pasted passwords into Slack/Skype win
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by agentgt 9y ago
> This is interesting. I have programmed in typed languages for most of my life, including C/C++/Java/C#, but when I went to Python, i did not feel any problem with lack of static typing. I have heard this a couple of ti
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by agentgt 9y ago
I think you may have misunderstood me a little. I'm not saying go use the Servlet API directly all the time but you damn well should know it since almost all the others build on top of it (including most of Jersey). Particularly Servle
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by agentgt 9y ago
What I have learned is: * Typed languages while more complex are worth it (circa 12 years ago I was a heavy scripting language fan) * Unit tests that heavily use Mocks are almost always a bad sign. Brittle tests suck. Don't increase co
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by agentgt 9y ago
I have to agree with parent heavily and I used to be a long time Spring advocate since version 1.0. The thing you will find using Java for a long time at any company is you eventually end up with your own framework / stack.... Yeah sur
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by agentgt 9y ago
I'm curious what takes up the majority of the weight in terms of what a typical soldier carries? I'm guessing after some quick math that its not the water like I originally suspected but perhaps the armor and ammo but maybe not?
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by agentgt 9y ago
What makes me nervous about Kotlin is it could become Scala (or even Groovy) again. Don't get me wrong I'm a huge fan of Scala and highly expressive language but on the other hand there is something to be said for simple consisten
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by agentgt 9y ago
Its funny because I basically asked a question a long time ago on SO on how to handle similar problems: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2807629/handling-incremen... <strike> And I'm thinking the gent
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by agentgt 9y ago
I'm basing this on my experience and numerous conversation with others which albeit is anecdotal and sort of worthless. A quick googling shows mixed "feelings" (I stress feelings because I haven't seen/found an adeq
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by agentgt 9y ago
I do the same as well. It pretty much has changed my life. The only thing I have noticed is that it seems not work well for females (my wife is annoyed about that). Also strangely my blood sugar has been above normal lately which is strange
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by agentgt 9y ago
As a previous commenter alluded too you need a proper backpack or at least a properly configured backpack. GoRuck is the defacto on this but any bag made of serious nylon with olympic plates and internal PALS MOLLE can work as you can just
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by agentgt 9y ago
For those that want to perhaps burn more calories or for whatever reason want to make it more challenging I recommend rucking. That is take a backpack and put like 35 pounds in it. I highly recommend it.
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by agentgt 9y ago
It is an interesting question but I think the parent poster did not mean density in the pure physical sense. That is more memory but less mass which is not physical density. Also I am not sure if gamma rays need to just hit the physical bit
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by agentgt 9y ago
> Channels can be made with no buffering at all. In this case trying to send without a receiver is blocking, so the channel is not really acting as a queue anymore. It depends on how you define a queue. That is in this case whether there
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by agentgt 9y ago
As I mentioned in another similar comment I think this is the key point for me why it makes sense: > Having explicit pointers also resolves type system awkwardness between simple and complex data types. That is it appears to be worth it
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by agentgt 9y ago
> Implicit pointers means you have to often think extra when shuffling data structures around. This basically answered my question. Thank you. I don't know why I didn't make that connection.
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by agentgt 9y ago
Yes I understand what the pointer means I'm just surprised they would default to that or generally encourage it (again I don't know the language that well but it appears pass by value is not used often for I guess performance reas

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