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by alphadevx 6y ago
I agree with you that it will be one of the last jobs to go, but it will go. Fast-forward 15 years, and hypothesize about "GPT-15" or whatever, running on a quantum computer, just as a fun thought experiment, then put your kid up
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by alphadevx 6y ago
I'm curious why anyone would think programming is an essential life skill, considering how many successful people are alive today who cannot code. Another thought: when ML starts getting applied to solving programming (see recent GPT-3
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by alphadevx 6y ago
What a strange set of conclusions. The author also misses out on one important point: many of us read books for pleasure, NOT because we feel pressure to read from society. I have a large collection of physical books in my TBR pile, and n
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by alphadevx 6y ago
For me, wearing a tie is about beautiful symmetry: when the tie is exactly centered with a neat knoth, a series of elegant angles are created under the wearer's face. There is something very architectural about that. By the way, a wome
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by alphadevx 6y ago
LOL I am sure you are right, I was joking of course :-)
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by alphadevx 6y ago
That is exactly what they shouldn't do. Firstly, what is the agreed definition of a tax haven, and secondly, which countries belong on that naughty list? Thirdly, when many of those countries are EU members with voting and even veto ri
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by alphadevx 6y ago
Are you sure we benefited from that "massive influx of liquidity in their banking system"? That was loans not gifts, my income tax as an Irish person has never been so high, as we will be repaying that "massive influx" f
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by alphadevx 6y ago
Sure! You just need to form a company, then declare your assets as belonging to your company, and not yours.
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by alphadevx 6y ago
Well in a court of law, it is the letter of the law that matters, not how we feel. So it may be immoral but is not illegal.
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by alphadevx 6y ago
The legality I believe. I don't think the Irish Government or Apple tried to hide anything, so the facts are out there in the public domain (Apple is a public company). More about the EC implying it was illegal, but that has now been
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by alphadevx 6y ago
Well apparently not, according to the ruling being overturned today by the EU court. They are the legal facts.
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by alphadevx 6y ago
Let me introduce you to the New Hanseatic League, you will be surprised what an aligned group of small countries within the EU can achieve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hanseatic_League
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by alphadevx 6y ago
Yes and that finding has just been overturned.
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by alphadevx 6y ago
I am Irish and perfectly fine with this being overturned. Irish capitalists will love it, Irish socialists will hate it, same as the rest of the World it depends on your personal prism. Overall seems the EC claim was weak enough to be ove
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by alphadevx 6y ago
Oh I see, yes you are correct each request will bootstrap your PHP code stack framework each time (mitigate with opcache). Seems weird I know, but it goes back to that "shared nothing" principal: nothing is kept in memory between
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by alphadevx 6y ago
I've been hearing that "PHP does not scale" arguement for many, many, years, in many, many, variations. When you really have to scale, infrastructure, resources, and networks will rapidly overtake any concerns around your cho
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by alphadevx 6y ago
It's php-fpm persistent threads (seperate Daemon listening on port or socket), not web server threads, just to be specific. You have a lot of control of how many PHP threads you will allow per web node using php-fpm, very reliable te
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by alphadevx 6y ago
> presumably because you just read the title and the pre block and skipped over all the rest of the content Nope, read it all as I mentioned already.
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by alphadevx 6y ago
LOL thank you, English is hard (like engineering) ;-)
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by alphadevx 6y ago
> When you can't query your DB, you hit your resident memory cache. Redis, Memcached, etc. You would query those first surely, before loading the DB? Regardless, I've been using Redis and Memcache for years from PHP, so mute p
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by alphadevx 6y ago
I accept it mentions that in the content, I guess its the title I find misleading. You can see on this very HN thread, lots of confused replies are falsely equating those features as new developments. My simple point is that PHP has been &
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by alphadevx 6y ago
Where to begin indeed! > - No proper connection pooling with circuit breakers. PHP has had a "shared nothing" architecture since the very beginning, that includes DB connections. It helps it to scale (think micro-services bein
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by alphadevx 6y ago
Yes I read it, why accuse me of not doing so? The main block of sample code is highlighting OOP features in PHP, but PHP has had most of those features since 5.3, e.g. namespaces, so my point still stands. Those features are not part of &
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by alphadevx 6y ago
Many of the features highlighted in that article as "new" are from PHP 5.x, so it reads more like a list written by someone who has been out of touch with PHP development for a number of years.
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A First Look at Timothée Chalamet in Dune(vanityfair.com)
1 points by alphadevx 6y ago|0 comments
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Restaurant management platform Toast cuts 50% of staff(techcrunch.com)
1 points by alphadevx 6y ago|0 comments
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by alphadevx 7y ago
I would love to see Britain become a republic some day for their benefit (up to them of course to vote on that), but agree they need a better hero.
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by alphadevx 7y ago
Wow, what a truly offensive article. Firstly speaking as an Irish person, the dismissive tone here is outrageous: "And later in the century, as one phase of the conflict between England and Ireland followed another, the sins of Cromwe
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by alphadevx 7y ago
The 2020 model of Dell XPS 13 has 16:10 @ 4K AFAIK. If you get the Developer Edition, it comes with Linux preinstalled.
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by alphadevx 7y ago
LibraryThing is used by fine press book collectors to discuss the physical properties of fine editions from for example The Folio Society, Easton Press, Centipede Press etc. The forums will discuss in length for example expensive limited ed

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