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by bjt 6y ago
The article's point is deeper. > There is no reason that nature should actually be described by a theory of everything. While we *do need a theory of quantum gravity to avoid logical inconsistency in the laws of nature, the forces i
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by bjt 6y ago
Their conferences business took a huge hit.
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by bjt 6y ago
By pure volume, there's got to be more whimsy on the internet today than back then. There are orders of magnitude more people on it. But sure, the percentage is probably lower. That says to me that this is a search problem. Could we
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by bjt 6y ago
A big chunk of the arguing in an antitrust case is about how the relevant market should be defined. A plaintiff bringing a suit against Apple might define it as "the market for iOS apps", but Apple's lawyers would argue for
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by bjt 6y ago
I came here to make a similar point. I see two big benefits to microservices, neither of which is spoken to by the article: 1. Using small-ish (I hate the word "micro"), domain-bounded services leads engineers to think more caref
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by bjt 6y ago
> It's not really that different than dumping your JSON in a TEXT column That was true of the initial "JSON" type support. It is very much not true of the "JSONB" type, which was added in 2014 as part of Postgres
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by bjt 6y ago
Yes. What I love most about Redis is that the fundamental tradeoffs of the algorithms it's built on are surfaced up through the interface, and made very plain in the documentation.
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by bjt 6y ago
In my experience, team effectiveness in different remote vs in-office scenarios plays out like this: Most effective - All of the team physically together in the same space. 2nd most effective - All of the team remote. Least effective - A mi
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by bjt 6y ago
Whether intended or not, there's an undercurrent of "you're all so dumb for using Python" (or Ruby, or PHP, or other similarly performant language) here. I want to surface that and question it a bit. It's totally r
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by bjt 6y ago
Very cool that this is possible. I wish it gave some numbers about best-case and typical latencies that are added by using this.
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by bjt 7y ago
The body of the article contains a really good descriptions of the heuristic shortcuts we use, and their limitations. The title, though, seems to assume the result. Trust in authority, confirmation bias, and sampling based on your peers&#x
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by bjt 7y ago
Sometimes I kick myself for not doing CS while I was at Utah. :(
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by bjt 7y ago
There are nearly three dozen tractor manufacturers in listed on this page: https://www.ranker.com/list/best-tractor-brands/werner-brand... . Deere doesn't have a monopoly. But they do have an incredibly stron
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by bjt 7y ago
She's coming from Github/Microsoft. That is a very different environment than most of us. A company of that size has more money to pay people who live outside the regular product org and more opportunities to do "strike tea
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by bjt 7y ago
A few thoughts here: - To support that you'd have to show what the myths would look like today without Disney's involvement. Just as likely, they would have been forgotten. - This isn't a zero sum thing. If you prefer a dif
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by bjt 7y ago
This is exciting! When Docker came out, I was just finishing an in-house-Heroku style project at my employer, based on LXC containers. I watched as Deis came along, promising to give the same benefits in an open platform. I was sad to see
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by bjt 7y ago
Your link is from 9 years ago.
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by bjt 7y ago
That same Secretary of Agriculture was also responsible for one of the more surprising cases I remember from law school. Question: Does the Constitution's interstate commerce clause give Congress the power to regulate how much wheat a
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by bjt 7y ago
Yeah, the commitment to print publishing is the part I don't get. He's tying himself to the mast of a sinking ship.
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by bjt 7y ago
I'm familiar with Second Life's distinctive traits. I played there for years, and did contract programming for the Linden Department of Public Works for a couple of them (including coding around those janky region crossing issues
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by bjt 7y ago
Doesn't that describe a lot of MMOs too, though? The inventory/transaction systems seem like they'd have similar needs (but with a LOT more items in the Second Life database). And the in-world state is a lot more variable t
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by bjt 7y ago
Yes, but the case is wildly overstated. You don't get to be Bukowski or Palahniuk by reciting Shakespeare over and over. EDIT: Or to put it in the article's own terms, is there any reason to believe the top piano student at the u
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by bjt 7y ago
Good advice for getting better at playing classical piano. The kind of practice described in the post is really good for honing precise technique. I question the extent to which it's applicable to creative work generally, as the post
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by bjt 7y ago
"return foo, err" can return 4 kinds of responses: - foo, nil - nil, error - nil, nil - foo, error What's the right behavior when the function returns both a result and an error? What's the right behavior when it return
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by bjt 7y ago
Yep.
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by bjt 7y ago
Playing hardball is itself not an antitrust violation. Doing it to maintain monopoly power is. (Under section 2 of the Sherman Act.)
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by bjt 7y ago
To compete with Microsoft, who used to try to leverage their power in similar ways.
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by bjt 7y ago
Mine's in for a battery replacement for 199 right now.
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by bjt 7y ago
Exactly my thought.
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by bjt 8y ago
One company I worked at thought it would be a good idea to use .local for their global internal network. Worked fine for Windows folks. Was an huge pain in the ass for anyone on a Mac (using Bonjour) or Linux machine (using Avahi). No aut

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