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bonesss
9y ago
This is highly interesting, and long overdue. Canada has a lot of "oil sands" that would benefit greatly from atomic process heat, reducing carbon footprint, turning feedstock losses into salable product, and increasing production
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9y ago
> I've seen plenty of unmanageable Makefiles, but I haven't seen another system that would make them inherently cleaner. Not to push the particular product, but the approach: FAKE ( https://fake.build/ ), is an
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9y ago
I think looking at something like DynamoDb as a wholesale replacement for anything that needs a relational schema is... well begging the question a little. DynamoDB as a hugely scalable limited-scope data-source in your app are likely whe
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9y ago
> Investors don't like to see big CAPEX numbers but seem fine with large OPEX ones. If things go pear shaped large OPEX numbers resolve themselves as OP-erations get slimmed and shut down. Large CAPEX numbers, in the same situation
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9y ago
> You're saving on 2-3 days upfront on racking and cabling, on boxes that will last at least 3 years, probably longer. "Infrastructure" is a little broader than just some cabling, much broader. You're also assuming t
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9y ago
I'm gonna wager that .sm isn't too active with the registrar, and most of the sites are of a relatively low-traffic nature. If someone from the registrar starts checking the overall health of the TLD, or any domain they weren'
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9y ago
... and a very, very, large portion of the people who are supposed to be developing pages on the Internet but haven't gotten their caffeine levels high enough yet ;)
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9y ago
But can Slack help you rethink team communication, or redefine the way teams move work forward, together? I know I want a messaging tool that delivers results . https://www.stride.com/
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9y ago
That's an apples to oranges comparison... F# and C# compile to the same intermediate language, are interpreted on the same runtime, and are produced by the same organization for the same IDE... Their libraries are compatible and they
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9y ago
Anxiety is a broad word: what is causing the continued disruption, what is it that is causing his brain to seek entertainment elsewhere, why is he taking coding breaks? Genuine disinterest articulates itself a little differently, but mispl
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9y ago
> Kafka is much, much more than just distributed pub/sub In between 0% Kafka and 100% Kafka: Kafkas REST proxy gives a minimalistic API surface for using the system. Recreating that API in another language with a simpler backend
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9y ago
These days you can also find kubernetes scripts that handle the Kafka installation, setup, routing, etc. That just leaves the "simple work" of administering and tuning which, as you pointed out, is competence that's steadily
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9y ago
> People seem to be drawn to creating a DSL for their problem set, and then programming in that. ML languages strike a pretty nice balance here, IMO. Your DSL tend to be normal code with a funny operator or two, structured into happy li
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9y ago
> ... one of the reasons I don't like [LISP] too much for daily work, is how it encourages cleverness I fully agree: nothing is as dumb as being too smart. From a linguistic PoV LISP stole my heart as a lad and never really let go
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9y ago
Right click is blocked, natch, and dev console on google images trying to get sources is nowhere close to being as fast as visiting the source site and right clicking. Pulling from cache is also more time intensive , and therefore irrelev
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9y ago
"Son, there's a reason they call it 'work' and not 'blowjob'." And that quote is both flippant, and exactly correct. --- 1) anxiety, impostor syndrome, uncertainty, vagueness, complexity, open loops, etc
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9y ago
> ... much of my long hours were due to my inexperience rather than supernatural productivity. It takes a fair bit of experience with long days to know that the feeling of doing work and doing 'stuff' pales in comparison with
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9y ago
Find a few applications where XSLTs are used for mission critical stuff... XSDs are a Good Thing (even if working in JSON is nicer than XML). Data schemas are the first step in powering transformations, which is where most of the Enterpri
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9y ago
XSD is only part of the value-offering... XSD + XSLT is the value provider for format heavy, robust, declarative, document transformations. JSON-schema solves many of the validation issues of JSON in the absence of an XSD-for-JSON solution,
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9y ago
> This is going to make high school PowerPoint users spend more time This is going to make Senior Architect PowerPoint users spend more time... When I show my PHB why kubernetes is "the shit" and something we "really nee
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9y ago
Conglomerates don't do M&A anymore? And just keep pulling on that sweater thread: combining the subscriber platform of Netflix, the content & cable capabilities of HBO and their boxing connections, along with sweetheart win
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9y ago
> I notice that the author became convinced of the futility of fusion research only after his income became in no way dependent on society's hopes and expectations for it. I notice that lots of people can give highly detailed acco
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9y ago
> ... [Corporate data is] kept separate to keep corporate customers happy. Can you imagine the stupid amounts of lawsuits that could be generated if Google were in the habit of scanning business documents and reselling information abou
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9y ago
> Netflix broadcasts all over the world using the Internet, while NBC and HBO have limited reach outside of the US A merger of Netflix and HBO is such a face-smackingly obvious win/win I can't imagine why it hasn't happe
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9y ago
1) Opining aside, you are agreeing with my point. He is not being charged with molesting/raping two women . 2) I have read the entire allegation and accordant police reports, på svenska, in the allegers own words. Våldtäkt directly
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9y ago
> it could just be him raping or sexually assaulting two women in Sweden 1) He is not accused of that 2) If we're gonna translate legal charges we should be consistent and honest -- Assange is accused of what the rest of the world c
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9y ago
> Having sex with an unconscious person, even someone asleep, is against the law The allegation is not that he had intercourse with someone unconscious. The allegation is that he re-initiated sexual relations with a coitus partner who wa
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9y ago
... don't leave us hanging, what did you do? Did you let the infant assert dominance, or did his parents learn a lesson about the social hierarchy?
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9y ago
1) Experience - knowing what you are gonna want to know in the future and knowing what is likely to go bad. 2) Investing in logging early , so that your system is giving you metrics as it grows 3) Understanding that logging and metrics are
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9y ago
How dare they try to capitalize on the content I steal... If I wanted shady conglomerates with a loose relationship to morals and ethics to get my money I'd just be paying the MPAA directly!
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