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by bpicolo 8y ago
Because 150k spare a year is drastically higher than the savings of a typical software engineer? That implies like a 400k+ salary.
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by bpicolo 8y ago
For what it's worth, I like them primarily because I don't mind using proto-generated objects as pieces passed around the stack (at least at higher levels of the stack). I lose consistency if I can do that for some objects, but am
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by bpicolo 8y ago
Am I missing something, or do cap'n proto and flatbuffers not support mapping types? Protobuf has disadvantages, but mapping types are something I frequently make use of. losing out on them is a big deal
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by bpicolo 8y ago
I see fairly reasonably sized houses in the 200k - 400k range in Ann Arbor. That seems totally fine. What's your experience purchasing?
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by bpicolo 8y ago
Domo[0]. Their visual ETL is pretty good. https://www.domo.com/
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by bpicolo 8y ago
Waiting for someone to implement dropbox-based deployment of a PHP site.
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by bpicolo 8y ago
Not to mention that the battery business is a huge deal on it's own - potentially as big as car business https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/27/south-aus...
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by bpicolo 8y ago
> Initially, the datacenter was able to maintain its operational temperatures through a load dependent thermal buffer that was designed within the cooling system. However, once this thermal buffer was depleted the datacenter temperature
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by bpicolo 8y ago
This. If people wanted to manage dumb boxes it would be a no-brainer, but there's a crap ton of value add on managed services
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by bpicolo 8y ago
> Because no other language is as easy to deploy Nah, it's because PHP isn't an actively running process. The overhead of starting a process isn't what it used to be in shared web infra world before. It's cheap to spi
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by bpicolo 8y ago
They tend to be more performant in handling connections / request queueing, HTTPS termination, and serving static files among other things.
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by bpicolo 8y ago
That's distinct from JIT - it's just a way to prevent having to re-parse/compile to byte code every single request to your site (no other language has this issue)
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by bpicolo 8y ago
Type hinting usually matters a lot more as you scale up engineering organizations.
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by bpicolo 8y ago
Pretty sure Ibuprofen and brunch is winning the adult hangover market
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by bpicolo 8y ago
Their FST library is also awesome https://github.com/BurntSushi/fst
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by bpicolo 8y ago
> Between the testing infrastructure and hosting container downloads, the Kubernetes project regularly runs over 150,000 containers on 5,000 virtual machines, so the cost of running these systems quickly adds up. The Kubernetes container
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by bpicolo 8y ago
Of course it does. Not in SPA-javascript, but there's a ton of support for erb views: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_view_overview.html
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by bpicolo 8y ago
Good to know, cheers
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by bpicolo 8y ago
> Why do you think an all-in-one framework is an advantage? Because it has allowed the community to develop a whole lot of well-integrated, batteries-included libraries that span the from the model layer to the frontend.
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by bpicolo 8y ago
An advantage of Celery is that it doesn't require payment for an enterprise version to add things like scheduled tasks.
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by bpicolo 8y ago
You can use env vars to do similarly for all the big frameworks (django, rails, etc)
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by bpicolo 8y ago
You can use a variety of different backends as the data store.
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by bpicolo 8y ago
Two have access to more than one hardware thread or more than one OS thread?
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by bpicolo 8y ago
The advisor track email was the email they didn't intend to send referenced in this post, isn't it?
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by bpicolo 8y ago
The good news is it's no longer the case :)
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by bpicolo 8y ago
A few years ago is a long time for .NET core, it was in it's infancy then. It's a mature product these days. I've never been a MSFT-platform dev, but I enjoyed fiddling with .NET core for a while. The only annoyance big then
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by bpicolo 8y ago
I'm not sure why he's suggesting VS is bad here. VS is still an insanely good C# environment, core or not
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by bpicolo 8y ago
If you want to build an SPA, their boilerplate[0] for it is also excellent and supports several (angular, react, react-redux... unfortunately they deprecated Vue support [1] because it was great, but that's easy to bootstrap from react
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by bpicolo 8y ago
You have to fill pay taxes for earnings in something like Augur as well
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by bpicolo 8y ago
Potentially a large part of that is just visibility into issues on account social media and distribution scale. People keep an eye on Apple hardware issues far closer than any other vendor

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