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by ak_111 3y ago
Not so sure, experienced tech managers are also very wary of vendor lock-in and tech debt which mainframes give you in spades.
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by ak_111 3y ago
Even for on-premise I think a better solution these days it to build your own cluster rather than depend on IBM or the few vendors that supply mainframe. IMO the theory, technology, stack, libraries, ... for distributed computing has evolve
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by ak_111 3y ago
Your comment doesn't make sense, why in Hacker News should I show more respect to Walmart and JP Morgan rather than google or apple by calling the former legacy industry and the later big tech, and why are you so worked up about it? Re
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by ak_111 3y ago
No, the questions are related. I am asking does the mainframe really deliver better cost/performance than the cloud (some of the mainframe prices are quite huge without even accounting for maintenance and recruitment costs)? Is this th
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by ak_111 3y ago
See my response to another comment. If you use a mainframe provider you are far more beholden to your vendor than if you were using a cloud service provider and engineered it right.
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by ak_111 3y ago
IMO companies that use mainframes are so beholden to their vendor (for maintenance, upgrade, consulting,...) that the trust they must have in their external provider must be 10x bigger than what you would have if you were relying on a cloud
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by ak_111 3y ago
legacy industry is sort of standard term not sure why you found it funny. It not meant to say they are less important. From quick google: "Legacy industries are those that have been around for a long time. These industries dominate a s
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by ak_111 3y ago
I think you are being harsh on the critics. A technology can have tremendous value while still attracting grifters and being an early investors' graveyard. Best example is the dot com bubble in 1996 - 2001, the web had truly world-chan
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Ask HN: Why hasn't the cloud killed the mainframe?
26 points by ak_111 3y ago|85 comments
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No way. Scheme is hobbyist language at this point. Simply put difference between a 'hobbyist' and professional language for me is the strength and depth of the packaging ecosystem. So as soon as you need to do things like open and
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by ak_111 3y ago
Charlie Munger and Warren Buffet are also one of those outliers in terms of diet, exercising and work rate. Granted they receive the best medical support money can buy, but they are on record saying how much they binge on fast food, and Mun
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by ak_111 3y ago
can you give an example of such workflow?
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by ak_111 3y ago
That is some dedication, well done. Interesting to know more about your career and where this lead to if you continued down the physics path.
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by ak_111 3y ago
Amazing that almost everything after 1 (apart from 5) is circa 100 years old. And almost nothing is newer than circa 50 years ago.
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by ak_111 3y ago
The only popular choices: Typescript, Java, Go (although I don't think it is that popular as a webapp backend language) or C# (I think).
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by ak_111 3y ago
Should have added other than Typescript :)
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Ask HN: What's your current most productive stack for webapp development and why
2 points by ak_111 3y ago|0 comments
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It probably helps a lot to grow in an academic household, seems his dad was a stats professor and his mom a linguistic one, his informal math education growing up and work discipline must have been way above average. I bet he was a straight
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by ak_111 3y ago
The authors probably didn't meant it, but this is surprisingly realistic of math geniuses (see stories of Grothendieck Prime and Weyl in the following thread) https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/6358/story
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by ak_111 3y ago
I think there is a significant difference conceptually between the two. The novelty is that it was more like compensating users who are highly active in leaving popular comments on youtube, the more popular their comment the more they get.
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by ak_111 3y ago
Not a fan and don't use the product, but giving away substantial money to highly engaged users on the platform is a very novel and interesting product idea which I doubt would have ever seen the light of day in a public company, and ha
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Ask HN: Students who graduated this summer, how are you finding IT job market?
13 points by ak_111 3y ago|2 comments
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by ak_111 3y ago
The key quote "entire hull was completely destroyed in 40 milliseconds...half the minimum required for the cognitive recognition of an event." Nature is amazing.
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Analysis on what happens when a submarine implodes(twitter.com)
27 points by ak_111 3y ago|9 comments
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by ak_111 3y ago
Exactly this, "imploded straightaway" doesn't explain no implosion registered AND probable banging noise heard a few days later, so it doesn't explain everything. "Lost then imploded" explains both by adding on
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by ak_111 3y ago
The most puzzling aspect, from what I understand from the experts, if it imploded at time and depth you are suggesting it would have been very likely to be registered by at least the controlling ship due to the noise. As you highlighted the
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by ak_111 3y ago
I am sorry about your loss. However, if you want to talk technically, then the science over the last two decades has moved almost decisively to saying there is no safe level of alcohol consumption.
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by ak_111 3y ago
Why is it more likely that it immediately imploded rather than after a few days? The latter is more probable to me as it has never been tested under water for more than a few hours at a stretch. This will also be consistent with your bangin
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by ak_111 3y ago
I think your argument is a bit shaky if you take into consideration alcohol in society. alcohol consumption is perfectly acceptable, very well-regulated, “safe”, and alcoholics receive plenty of support and sympathy from public health, yet
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by ak_111 3y ago
The banging noise is already treated as non-random but that doesn't make it easy to locate, and they are presumably unable to locate themselves so won't be able to transmit any location details even if you gave them a few words wo

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