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by avl999 6y ago
It's insane to me that for a few years so many organizations were somehow convinced that MONSTROSITIES like trying to do distributed transactions using things like 2 phase commit just to make the almighty microservices god happy was a
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by avl999 6y ago
Learning C however is completely orthogonal to learning and building challenging projects (in this specific instance a distributed datastore) that the OP is talking about. It is not going to make you understand the domain better or provide
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by avl999 6y ago
I disagree with the C advice. If you don't want to rely on higher level language primitives like Dictionaries and so on there is nothing stopping you from rolling out your own implementations of these data structures in a more sane lan
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by avl999 6y ago
Building a distributed key value store is a fun project and lets you learn tons of real world world stuff. It's a great excuse to get a survey on grokking the design decisions required to build a distributed system and it will truly he
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by avl999 6y ago
I have no interest in an academic debate about choice. Most reasonable people will agree that having a "choice" between x and the end of your existence (in most cases in extremely painful and excruciating way) is no choice at all.
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by avl999 6y ago
> You can survive without working, although your existence will likely be miserable. For a large number of people not working is likely to directly lead to literally death. For most people it is not a choice at all.
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by avl999 6y ago
Having primitive int as opposed just using Integer in the first place was the original sin of Java. I am perfectly fine with not proliferating that further, List<Integer> with autoboxing pretty much allows you to use primitives when w
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by avl999 6y ago
Folks who still think that Java is a bad language either from the perspective of developer ergonomics or performance probably haven't programmed in it since the Java 4 days and still think of the language as the language of Enterprise
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by avl999 6y ago
OP is Canadian. If they want pursue an opportunity in the US- a degree is a requirement for the TN Visa (technically you can get the visa with "equivalent experience" but that is much more cumbersome and unpredictable where as the
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by avl999 6y ago
It is so well deserved. I have switched a few different languages in the last few years and everytime I start working on a new project in a new language, the first thing I do is lookup the IDE that JetBrains is vending for that language and
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by avl999 6y ago
Individuals overpaying is not enough to raise average values of houses in a market. In you example the person who owned the 250k house got a nice windfall selling their price above market value but that is not enough to raise the value at l
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by avl999 6y ago
> Nah, the issue is that whenever the IDE doesn't provide a shortcut for whatever you're back to negative one. You are not back to negative one, more like you are at square 85. There is nothing stopping a developer from supplem
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by avl999 6y ago
You have it totally backwards, people who use IDEs don't like "dumbed down code" for the sake of the IDE. Nor are languages like Java designed with their IDEs in mind. The IDE is designed with the full language spec in mind,
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by avl999 6y ago
> The Californians, after years of having higher salary, more savings, and a job that lets them move, goes to Texas and offers $400k for that same house. The Californian thinks it's a great deal, because they get the same size house
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by avl999 6y ago
The interesting thing is that Joel is actually gay so he probably specifically went out of his way to not offend the sensibilities of his readers and the culture at large at that time by using "girlfried" as opposed to "partn
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by avl999 7y ago
Nice of you to impose your outdated values on how to live on others. The OP might perfectly be happy to not raise a family or just be interested in being with a partner without having kids. If you don't have kids, this kind of lifestyl
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by avl999 7y ago
Thanks for writing this. It is good to see a perspective where a business is being built up slowly as opposed to the typical "I quit my job and now my side project makes $30k a month two months in" posts we usually see. Do you eve
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by avl999 7y ago
Why is this a newsletter that you need to give your email address even to just sample the content? It would be much nicer if the website showed you the content with an option to subscribe to the newsletter or rss feed.
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by avl999 7y ago
System76: https://system76.com/laptops I believe there are also Dells that you can buy that don't come with Windows preinstalled.
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by avl999 7y ago
System 76 laptops are worth a look... full Linux support and reasonable pricing https://system76.com/laptops . I have only used their desktop and it has been awesome. In the past I have used Dell Inspiron and HP Pavilions an
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by avl999 7y ago
> I don't want to ask of permission for an improvement. If there is a need to have formal authorization of maintainers responsible for parts of the code, they setup just that. Otherwise, I'm certainly going to improve "you
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by avl999 7y ago
I have an HP Stream that I bought about 1.5 yrs ago with 32 Gigs of storage. I am surprised you managed to run windows on a machine like that for so long. Mine came with Windows preinstalled and even just opening a webbrowser and idling wou
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by avl999 7y ago
They also made a movie out of it https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_dyatlov_pass_incident used to be on Netflix, not sure if it still is. It wasn't bad.
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by avl999 7y ago
The cities I mentioned (St Louis, Minneapolis, Raleigh) and comparable cities like Austin/Columbus etc are not podunk small towns. They are all major metros that are host to big universities and local colleges and as such producing a l
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by avl999 7y ago
It has always been mindboggling to me that startups are still so all in on the Bay Area. Most problems mentioned in the article go away if/when you are willing to staff developers in an area that is not as ridiculous in terms of cost o
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by avl999 7y ago
> if you have a hash table of fixed size No HashTable implementation worth it's salt is going to have a fixed size table. They are going to dynamically grow the size of the table (double it) once certain level of utilization is reac
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by avl999 7y ago
Half of you folks here are like teenage girls in highschool gossiping with each other about Kristen dumping Drew and instead trying to date Paul.
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by avl999 7y ago
The developer at timestamp "10/21/2019 10:24:14" with 10 years of experience making $85,000 in the US with 0 equity, can you please explain yours situation? ;)
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by avl999 7y ago
> If you take a broader lens, having a private vehicle is an expensive hobby for the rich. That might be true if you are in SF, NY, Toronto, London or some other major metropolitan with a good public transportation network. However for a
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by avl999 7y ago
Firefox is a superior product and has been for a few years now even discounting all these shenanigans by Google. I urge anyone who is still on Chrome to switch.

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