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by awj 15y ago
> I actually like the action movies where you know that the guy gets the pretty girl once he is done blowing things up. Die Hard is "years old" (24 of them, actually) and is an awesome movie in this genre. In fact I am going to preempti
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by awj 15y ago
> * Rspec / Testing is slow as it has to reinitialize a whole rails stack every time it runs - run it async smartass it's what you're preaching, use inotify or fsevent with watchr or guard. > * Bundle exec for Gemfile changes? This
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by awj 15y ago
> 2. Confederated - Completely distributed. Each machine is its own monolithic platform with everything from DNS to database, including web server on that node, but a cluster of nodes gives you scalability, and workload is distributed a
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by awj 15y ago
Sounders post is 5% halfheartedly evangelizing (maybe not-so) common knowledge and 95% reiterating his point about the split between frontend/backend time on fulfilling a request. After reading it I'm pretty sure it could eliminate all but
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by awj 15y ago
That depends entirely on your boss. Mine would probably hear the reasoning out ... then ask for a less "unsavory" example he can use when talking with everyone else.
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by awj 15y ago
The OP actually addresses this. They're doing some form of clustering and had to add more nodes due to network saturation.
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by awj 15y ago
The language and its compiler are also "much newer than Scala." That or we need to write our own compiler (named Klang) and use it to convince the Kotlin devs to get off their butts and fix those error messages. :)
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by awj 15y ago
Why are "google results for python %s" a useful maturity metric here? A better argument would have been showing that both xml and json can be parsed/generated through standard Python libraries. S-expressions don't support this behavior.
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by awj 15y ago
> Companies without VC funding also fail. Companies without VC funding also don't have to deal with investors pushing to get a big return at the expense of every other part of their business. Maybe not all VCs do this - I suspect that's
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by awj 15y ago
> but does the presence of obscenities inhibit clarity That entirely depends on your work environment. Will adding in obscenities will rouse up some big HR kerfuffle? Then don't do it, you're just wasting everyone's time. Otherwise, do
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by awj 15y ago
That works, but I think it's overkill. Generally the "don't argue like a jerk" method is sufficient.
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by awj 15y ago
> You can't extrapolate a subset of the suicides and compare that to the national average for all suicides. No, but you can't meaningfully compare suicide rates between socio-economic climates either. I mean, you can look at the numbe
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by awj 15y ago
Ironically, Apple already does at least one of those two. See the section on "Preventing underage labor." http://www.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/code-of-conduct/... I'm also a fan of less dramatic changes here. It's too easy to get r
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by awj 15y ago
> There would be a national alarm if we had 18 blue-collar workers jump off the roofs of a GM plant. I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I did want to point out the faulty logic at play here. It would be a national alarm becaus
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by awj 15y ago
Hey, at least we aren't hearing about what they had for breakfast...
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by awj 15y ago
> A sunk cost fallacy is the idea that because you've invested a certain amount of resources (time, in this case) in a particular approach, it would be foolish to switch because all the resources you've already expended would be "waste
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by awj 15y ago
I can second most of this. I haven't needed to dive into the source on Rails 3 at all, except for figuring out why some bit of backwards compatibility wasn't quite working. Considering the project was initially written on version 1. mumbl
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by awj 15y ago
...then that exceptionally rare person will be inconvenienced in the process of correctly dealing with the significantly more common case. In either case it should be relatively easy for them to reacquire the file, if needed.
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by awj 15y ago
Your startup should go with "what works." The exact definition of what works varies for each person/company, but here's a list of things that aren't in it: * Languages that entirely lack the needed libraries to perform a library-intensive t
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by awj 15y ago
> I dont mean to nitpick, but I get really annoyed when people do extravagant things when they can't afford it. Everyone does. Good luck getting people to settle on your definitions of "extravagant" and "afford."
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by awj 15y ago
Considering he's getting these items off Craigslist and turning around to sell them on Craigslist, the only reason people aren't saving money is that they aren't beating him to the initial purchase. Well, that and managing to ferret out poo
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by awj 15y ago
The consequences of detection are also the validation step for people cracking your DRM. They won't release something until they can confirm they've broken it. It's much harder to work through removing DRM if you have to play the game for
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by awj 15y ago
> Those alone took ~9 hours to generate (x2 for separate 'retina display' tiles). I dread to think how long generating a whole world would take. Map tiles should almost be a canonical example of a ridiculously parallelizable problem. Ev
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by awj 15y ago
From the recipient's perspective, the two are pretty drastically different. Importing goods from a foreign country involves some rather substantial regulatory burdens along with the more mundane timing/transportation issues associated with
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by awj 15y ago
I used to feel that way, then I got a Kindle. The e-ink screen makes all the difference. I hate reading from physical books now, with the minor exceptions of: quickly-consulted-indexes, no battery to go dead, and immunity to bizarre airplan
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by awj 15y ago
> The fuss is about the MPAA and the RIAA teaming up with law enforcement to make sites and businesses that they don't like disappear from the internet, without due process. Since when is "equipment subpoenaed via grand jury indictment"
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by awj 15y ago
I'll back that one up. That exact attitude is something I'm personally working on right now, mostly as a result of discovering how much it affects people's perception of my work and abilities. Talking crap about your previous co-workers is
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by awj 15y ago
> How to show you understand not a single thing about the issue. Ironically, I think your criticism here does the same. At the end of the day the question really is: "Is someone able to earn money from labor X?" If the answer here is "y
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by awj 15y ago
> but I would have thought justice.gov would have to be patched for compliance reasons. I don't think that's true. I'd imagine the server behind justice.gov has no connectivity to anything important for compliance reasons, so patchin
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by awj 15y ago
...and if that content prompts insightful discussion that is appropriate for HN, what exactly is the problem? It sounds like you're more concerned with censoring WSJ than maintaning the quality of HN.

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