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by ak39 7y ago
>>I have an experience related to this. We used to run a [scalable SQL engine, PaaS] for ~$1000/mo, but it wasn't cool enough, so people started migrating stuff to Spark, Databricks, S3 etc. Now the infra costs are ~$8000&#x
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by ak39 7y ago
https://multimedia.scmp.com/infographics/news/china/article/... I have this page open for the last 24 hours. It updates whenever the journos have tangible info. Dreadful.
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by ak39 7y ago
Almost all of the buildings in a city like London would be associated with administrative occupations. People pushing paper or buttons. Do we really need to meet at an open plan office to complete our daily tasks? Can we please start gettin
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by ak39 7y ago
b), c) & d) for me. I know I will be disturbed within the next 30 minutes so I put off the deep thinking required to begin coding that oh-so-crucial function or refactoring. Exhaustion is another one - especially exhaustion from emotion
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by ak39 7y ago
Option 3 is better than option 2 because it is more likely that a country with WMD will use them against a country without them (for fear of retaliation). Option 3 is an equal standoff.
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by ak39 7y ago
Because now that some already have WMD, none of them is likely to give them up. The only option is for others to have them.
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by ak39 7y ago
Can game theory not be of use here? There are 3 scenarios: 1. No countries should own WMD. 2. Some countries can and others can't. 3. All countries should own WMD. Only agreement 1 can be guaranteed to save humanity. The next best c
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by ak39 7y ago
Thank you, this was a lovely explanation.
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by ak39 7y ago
>>My programs crashed with the dreaded access violation >>error all the time. Debugging that sucked. I assume >>it's better these days. How would automatic garbage collection help in a scenario where you are deliberat
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by ak39 7y ago
The pricing is indeed ridiculous. I wonder if they might in fact see a bigger uptake if they reduced their Professional version dramatically.
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by ak39 7y ago
This indeed works. It is to in my experience the only way out of the mess.
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How bad is bad? (1997) [audio](thisamericanlife.org)
1 points by ak39 7y ago|0 comments
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by ak39 7y ago
Agreed. Isn’t that what most of the framework based IDEs do for you? Look at .net Web mvc or rest api application for example - code generated from wizard after wizard. And then the developer massages the rest.
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Code Generation Isa Design Smell [C2Wiki](wiki.c2.com)
3 points by ak39 7y ago|3 comments
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by ak39 7y ago
Delphi/FreePascal
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by ak39 7y ago
Doesn't have to be SO. It can be a trusted friend who knows in advance that you may voice call them in a password recovery scenario (voice calls not via text). Edit: regarding the "lack of availability" at the point of wantin
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by ak39 7y ago
What about setting up two mobile phone numbers for recipients of the recovery code: 123 sent to phone #1 and 456 sent to phone #2? (Phone #1 is yours and phone #2 is your elected trusted partner’s) Won’t this work?
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by ak39 7y ago
Directive: do not jeopardise the mission even if it meant “erasing” humans. If a lion eats a human, if an ostrich lands a lethal kick while protecting its nest, it’s not murder. HAL cannot commit murder.
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by ak39 7y ago
Right. Now please explain why you say that.
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by ak39 7y ago
Agreed. No one got fired for choosing IBM. No one gets fired for choosing Microsoft - still. It's about trust. Or the perception of it.
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by ak39 7y ago
It's quite possible this data correlates with data about popularity of enterprise database technologies. Microsoft SQL Server/Active Directory "kill it" in ye olde enterprise settings - and for good reasons too. For exam
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by ak39 7y ago
Marcus Aurelius is asking exactly how will that be of _use_? (Even when you’re alive)
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by ak39 7y ago
I document it. I first read or find out as much about what the code is supposed to accomplish. After this, I jot down the primary aspects of the program I would expect to see - decompose main functions. Every ancillary aspect of the cod
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by ak39 7y ago
Threads may not scale, but thread pools can. And that concept has been in Java and C# for a long time. I agree with your point about the industry now favouring the event loop model of concurrent programming. I know C# has introduced recentl
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by ak39 7y ago
How old were you when you did LASIK - and what did it fix? (I am in early stages of flirting with the idea - had 2020 vision till about 3 years ago. I am 47 now.)
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by ak39 7y ago
If the DB is split in logical and physical schemas and ownership and access is ring-fenced accordingly with each of the 18 applications getting their own access login, there shouldn't be issues.
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by ak39 7y ago
Distributed offsite redundant backup. (1, 2, 3 of backups)
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by ak39 7y ago
Two years already?! Even the hype cycles have to adjust their x-axis.
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by ak39 7y ago
It is less important than product market fit at the start. Forget accounting here. If you are already generating revenue and there is month on month increase, then accounting is more important than product development. At this stage just hi
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by ak39 7y ago
OT: Are there any backend JSON/REST open source applications* that allow declarative configuration for your storage (eg. set SQL statements in config files) instead of needing compilation?

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