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by bluepizza 2y ago
Could you provide links?
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by bluepizza 2y ago
Emirates only flies through Dubai. They don't have any flights that don't go to or depart from Dubai.
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by bluepizza 2y ago
Highly developed countries with access to affordable or free healthcare seem to be real blue zones. Especially in highly urban areas. Hong Kong, Singapore, and the big cities of some countries (Tokyo, Sydney) have very high life expectancy
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by bluepizza 2y ago
IPv6 and ZFS use 128-bit integers - I suspect this is why this primitive was added.
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by bluepizza 2y ago
You don't need anything. You choose the most convenient tool according to your professional judgment. I certainly hope that nobody is using Kubernetes because they are against the wall, and instead decide to use it for its features.
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by bluepizza 2y ago
Most simple applications that use k8s are doing it for autoscaling or no downtime continuous deployment (or both).
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by bluepizza 2y ago
I've mostly done corporate Java stuff, so a lot of it didn't come up, as Spring was already doing it for me. I've first got to enjoy low level programming when reading Fabien Sanglard breaking down Carmack's code. Will l
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by bluepizza 2y ago
This has been one of the most interesting and insightful replies I've ever got in a discussion. Thank you for taking the time and explaining your points. It really resonates with what I've seen in real life.
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by bluepizza 2y ago
It is not a switch up. The author said that an engineer would find these during their journey, and I am asking when. I don't have a strongly held opinion here, I literally want to know when. I am curious about it.
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by bluepizza 2y ago
It's probably a matter of domain, but most backend engineers who are working in Java/Golang/Python/Ruby systems have very little use of those, and they don't come up easily. Frontend (web or mobile), it comes up eve
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by bluepizza 2y ago
While you have a good point, I think the experts also branched off with some unreasonable requirements. I remember reading Yegge's blog post, years ago, saying that an engineer needed to know bitwise operators, otherwise they were not
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by bluepizza 2y ago
Managers only hire and reward based on loyalty and threats in these highly political environments. It is very common to see a decent director with very weak managers under him, to ensure that nobody is a threat to his position. Mediocre cor
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by bluepizza 2y ago
Hacker News folks tend to see the best side of corporations, working for well managed, innovation driven, purpose oriented places. It's a privilege. Most corporations are not Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, etc - which a lot of us ei
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by bluepizza 2y ago
Because we need to change it on a regular basis. We usually only ship binaries - literally what you described.
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by bluepizza 2y ago
> Hire mediocre people and run around micromanaging, countermanding orders, and generally undermining them This is how most corporations operate. Tight budgets for headcount, cunning micromanagers, and emotional manipulation to try and g
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by bluepizza 2y ago
OP talks about asking humans what good code looks like, and that's the scope of my response. Code as a communication tool between developers is not its primary reason to exist.
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by bluepizza 2y ago
Code is primarily for execution. It is very important that it also communicates to people, for the sake of the business that the code supports, but the main thing is the execution.
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by bluepizza 2y ago
When I worked at the international (global markets, cross border payments) arm of a bank, we had to build SWIFT messages through code. Such a library is quite useful, especially since most places have legacy code that manipulates payment me
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by bluepizza 2y ago
> People need to realize that code is a liability This is an extreme point of view, that is tightly connected to the MBA-driven min-maxing of everything under the sun. I am glad that there are folks who aren't afraid to code new sys
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by bluepizza 2y ago
I believe the SCRUM rejection comes from the direct experience of working in a team that uses it, and eventually realizing that all of the meetings and concepts because an end in itself. SCRUM usually degrades to more discussions about stor
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by bluepizza 2y ago
We provide everyone with way too many hard to use tools, just because we don't want to stop the problem at the source. A normal adult needs to use to many tools and chase so many different types of education by themselves, off the top
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by bluepizza 2y ago
The only way that China gets an upper hand economically is by selling products to the US and the Western world. If they enter into a conflict where they are cordoned off, their export oriented economy would crash immediately. A war between
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by bluepizza 2y ago
Exactly. Japanese _mostly_ doesn't have plurals in the English sense (it actually does have a few plural words), but you do use counters to specify quantities, which is just another way to express plurality. I understand some folks mig
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by bluepizza 2y ago
Their legitimacy also has been in question due to Greenwald himself. His involvement with Russian agents is very questionable.
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by bluepizza 3y ago
The fundamental assumption that people will collaborate towards an ideal solution is blissfully naïve. Difficulties in reaching an agreement are not about people's personal ups and downs. It's politics and pecking order. People wi
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by bluepizza 3y ago
Not really. Brazilian courts were always highly political - its members are appointed by presidents, after all. The situation has become more volatile recently, due to the polarised politics. Courts should be a tad more neutral than they ar
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by bluepizza 3y ago
It's really a lot of land. Amazon forest is estimated to have an area five times the area of Alaska. Drones are a drop in the bucket. My point was exactly about the fact that "cheap" doesn't cut it, unfortunately.
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by bluepizza 3y ago
These communities are insular and lawless, not to mention hours away from any significantly sized town. They know who belongs there and who doesn't. The spy would have to be internal people who are turned, which is not easy either beca
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by bluepizza 3y ago
I understand OP's question to be more practical than honour and family - literally as "Would the Japanese recognise a marriage performed in England?". Civil registration started in England only in 1837. Modern koseki system i
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by bluepizza 3y ago
That's a very superficial analysis. These engineers are not native to Mountain View, usually not even native to California, and sometimes not native to the US. Several of the highly productive engineers born and raised in Paris moved t

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