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by bydlocoder 4y ago
I guess it's the case of malicious compliance. Nobody wants to argue with Elon and be fired on the spot and nobody gives a shit.
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by bydlocoder 4y ago
The company is a clown show if a CEO has to interfere with moderation policies.
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by bydlocoder 4y ago
Do you think they still run Ruby that can't reclaim allocated unmanaged memory? Do you have any idea how their stack looks now?
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by bydlocoder 4y ago
They should hire @jdegoes to save Twitter from the heresy of their Java++ ways.
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by bydlocoder 4y ago
Did he actually send such a letter to everyone? That's really a dumb move cause there's no reason for key engineers to stay - they have millions of dollars and will be immediately hired if they want to.
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by bydlocoder 4y ago
Why would anyone go and destroy their career by sabotaging an employer? Such person is clearly can't be trusted cause god knows what they do if they think their boss is an asshole. I quit two times not on the best terms with the manage
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by bydlocoder 4y ago
Dude, they use machine learning to tune JVM and OS scheduler, they'll handle restarts just fine.
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by bydlocoder 4y ago
Twitter is one the few Scala shops around, would be sad to lose it.
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by bydlocoder 4y ago
Do you have any insights on a technical debt thing? From the outside their engineering looks top-notch.
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by bydlocoder 4y ago
Try Uber in Stambul. The driver will send a message asking where are you going and ask for double the Uber fare or will cancel the order. They don't care about their ratings. Uber in California and Russia (it's actually Yandex.Tax
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by bydlocoder 5y ago
The job being un-interesting and un-rewarding doesn't make it bullshit. The job of a truck or a taxi driver is boring as fuck, but it's not bullshit.
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by bydlocoder 5y ago
I wonder how anyone in IT could take Graeber seriously. One of his opinions about programming was that programmers work "bullshit jobs" for their employer and do cool open source stuff in their free time which is demonstrably fals
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by bydlocoder 5y ago
Sometimes the scraping situation gets kinda ironic. I worked at a large eRetailer/marketplace and obviously we scraped our major competitors just as they scraped us (there are four major marketplaces here). So each company had a team t
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by bydlocoder 5y ago
Haskell is much more than folds, maps and monads.
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by bydlocoder 5y ago
As far as I understand, Teslas can't do multiple runs at highest performance level unlike Taycan.
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by bydlocoder 5y ago
I mean, look at Java Futures and Streams API. Like, who the hell designed this crap? Didn't they have C# and Scala to rip-off? And it's stuck forever.
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by bydlocoder 5y ago
Certainly not DB handling. Databases have vastly different features sets and tightly coupled to I/O abstractions, so it's not uncommon to call database specific functions from a driver. Maybe a very stable first-party crate, but n
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by bydlocoder 5y ago
Lol, I do remember how an upgrade of a JSON serializer (JSON.NET in that case) broke an application. So, there was a .NET service publishing events to a queue with a bunch of consumers - a bunch of Golang service and (our) Scala service. On
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by bydlocoder 5y ago
I'd say the biggest difference is personal usage vs. public broadcasting. You can watch a football game with friends but you can't show it in a pub without paying additional fee.
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by bydlocoder 5y ago
Ruby standard library is such a mess. It had like two YAML serializers at some point, right? dbm and gdbm (whatever they are)? Multiple prime number generators? Rinda (what the hell is this)? RSS? Xmlrpc? So, they had time to put in all t
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by bydlocoder 5y ago
Heh, one of the most successful modern games wouldn't exist if game mechanics could be patented or copyrighted. Dune 2 -> WarCraft -> WarCraft 3 -> DOTA -> League of Legends. Come to think of it, the only time Blizzard inve
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by bydlocoder 5y ago
It's common practice in game industry, each successful breakthrough game spawns clones of various quality. Doom spawned tons of first-person shooters, WarCraft spawned tons of real-time strategies etc.
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by bydlocoder 5y ago
It's interesting how there exists a huge market based on what is in fact copyright infringement. And the biggest player on this market is a legit publicly traded company. Thankfully, game developers understand that it doesn't make
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by bydlocoder 5y ago
That's new. I always thought clones of successful games is widely accepted practice in game industry, game mechanics can't be copyrighted or patented. Pretty weird to go after Apple and Google with such a frivolous lawsuit, their
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by bydlocoder 5y ago
You do know that IBM essentially shut down its blockchain division? https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-blockchain-shell-former-s... .
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by bydlocoder 5y ago
Well, I'd rather provide a letter than put all my transactions in public eye.
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by bydlocoder 5y ago
As far as I remember, Web 2.0 was about platforms enabling P2P interaction between users and we have tons of this stuff - social networks, marketplaces, gig apps...
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by bydlocoder 5y ago
That's like the worst example ever. With international peace talks there usually is a trusted third party, like US was a part of various Israeli-Palestinian talks.
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by bydlocoder 6y ago
I wonder how they handle retries with backoff? It's something that Redis backend is pretty good at with sorted maps but kinda hard to implement in Kafka.
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by bydlocoder 6y ago
My previous company still uses Vertica (on-prem) but it still wasn't as fast as it should be. Trying to hire anyone for an operations team was an enterprise in futility, since it's a rather niche tech. Maybe it would've been

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