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by alrs 8y ago
Scalability is what microservices give you, at the expense of nearly everything else.
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by alrs 8y ago
Joystick, bring it back: https://www.wired.com/2015/01/well-didnt-work-saabs-weird-jo...
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by alrs 8y ago
To run a race you need a finish line. Last time there was an AI race all parties staggered to collapse, no finishing tape in sight.
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by alrs 8y ago
Do intelligence agencies exist to "keep us safe", or to advance the state's economic interests?
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by alrs 8y ago
There was. https://searchengineland.com/rip-technorati-blog-search-rank... https://web.archive.org/web/20040727005046/http://www.techno...
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by alrs 8y ago
It certainly was in 1994. https://www.wired.com/1994/10/godwin-if-2/
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by alrs 8y ago
I'm in absolute agreement. Nerd-culture has been on autopilot for decades and needs to find its next level.
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by alrs 8y ago
Those kinds of titles are really tired, but clickbait is unfair. "X For Fun and Profit" can be found in g-files back to the late '80s, a time well before clicking. http://www.textfiles.com/phreak/
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by alrs 8y ago
You're never going to run Arch in production, so developing against "current" software means "hire a team of sysadmins to package all of these future-versions in to the conservative distro that we have in prod". Wit
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by alrs 8y ago
Make a zero-carbohydrate meat substitute, and I'm interested. Otherwise, no.
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by alrs 8y ago
Bicycle helmet laws are designed to discourage cycling. http://www.cyclehelmets.org/1194.html
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by alrs 8y ago
Grounding Pinochet: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/03/nae-pasaran-chile-coup-sc...
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by alrs 8y ago
DAG-2.2 to the rescue. https://www.parktool.com/product/derailleur-hanger-alignment...
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by alrs 9y ago
bandsintown and bandcamp both ditched RSS only within the last year. What were they thinking? Under no circumstances am I installing either of their apps on my phone.
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Co-Author of Agile Manifesto Mike Beedle Passed Away(infoq.com)
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by alrs 9y ago
@luckydude isn't just some random troll. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_McVoy
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by alrs 9y ago
A great programmer who lives for obscure languages is someone who is strong in CS and weak in engineering. They love playing with puzzles.
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by alrs 9y ago
Being a corporate officer means getting-the-fuck-out-of-Dodge the moment things get questionable. Check out "STRICT LIABILITY FOR CORPORATE EXECUTIVES" on page 3: http://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/files/20160
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by alrs 9y ago
Technologists value "good", not "new." Sifting through all the "new" to find "better" is fun, so long as expectations are properly tempered.
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by alrs 9y ago
I use the quality of people's complaints in interviews all the time. I like it when they have a complaint but can see why the trade-off was made. I don't like it when they're obviously parroting HN group-think. I really don&#
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by alrs 9y ago
This graph also has something to do with it: http://cepr.net/images/stories/report_images/no-vacation-nat...
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by alrs 9y ago
Because there is no room to scale an adventure travel business. The market is niche.
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by alrs 9y ago
Compared to macadamia nuts and almonds, peanuts are absolutely candy. I don't eat them, at all.
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by alrs 9y ago
There is something deeply dysfunctional in our profession when people identify as "founders" instead of "engineers".
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by alrs 9y ago
IRC networks are distributed, so when one server dies you can connect to another. So yes, IRC channels have better availability than Slack.
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by alrs 9y ago
There wouldn't be dupes if the first submission hadn't been flagged away.
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by alrs 9y ago
There was a bank of six, I stayed off that one for a week.
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by alrs 9y ago
I was on an elevator full of people, and between two floors something went wrong and we went into free-fall for part of a second. We made it to the next floor, the door opened, my fellow passengers were content to stay in the elevator. I tu
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by alrs 9y ago
This has been going on for decades, and was an issue before 9/11/2001. http://articles.latimes.com/1999/sep/30/news/mn-16631 http://articles.latimes.com/2000/feb/24&#x
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by alrs 9y ago
She well understands that being a member of Five Eyes is of huge value to UK industry, as the point of dragnet surveillance is using competitor nations' secrets for economic advantage, not for fighting terrorism. These people aren&#x27

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