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by cbdumas 5y ago
A few comments here are drawing a parallel between tech companies shutting down Gab (temporarily) and payment processing companies forcing this move from OnlyFans (which from the outside looking in appears tantamount to shutting them down).
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by cbdumas 5y ago
I think it's hard to find because those two preferences are in direct, irresolvable conflict.
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by cbdumas 5y ago
Perhaps the "paperclip maximizer" doomsday scenario was right in was right in its broad strokes but just wrong about the agents involved? They were worried about a super-competent AI that burns resources producing low-utility widg
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by cbdumas 6y ago
Anyone listening to the sample audio linked to in the article should read this note from the last time this was discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26309787 Summary: the Lyra audio samples are louder which
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by cbdumas 6y ago
I couldn't agree more. Cloudformation is a nightmare in my opinion and never should have seen public release. CDK is what Cloudformation always should have been.
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by cbdumas 6y ago
I don't think the author needed to bring "false accusation" into the picture here, and in fact it weakens the point. I think male investor saying to a female CEO that her male colleague is better suited to the CEO role would
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by cbdumas 6y ago
I agree completely, I've listened to the reference sample probably ten times now and I can only hear /wɪ/
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by cbdumas 6y ago
All these replies telling you this isn't possible are amazing. Perhaps they are forgetting that when you hold coins at Coinbase that's no different from a bank giving you a bank note saying you "own" x amount of gold in
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by cbdumas 6y ago
What do you see as the killer use case for crypto currency/blockchain/smart contracts, etc.? I mined a few Eth in the very early days, and hung onto it until selling recently. I sold because I couldn't convince myself they ha
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by cbdumas 6y ago
The stability and ubiquity of C are probably it's biggest upside characteristics and, as you say, there is a lot to like there. But you have to admit the language is showing it's age and has some huge flaws. To call manual memory
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by cbdumas 6y ago
Also this bullet point under "Lawful Purposes Only": > Acting in any manner that might subject us to unfavorable regulatory action, subject us to any liability for any reason, or adversely affect our public image, reputation or
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by cbdumas 6y ago
My reply was at least partially facetious as this wasn't my first exposure to Go. If you like the simplicity of Go's type system I can't argue with that, but I do think your article demonstrates the way that simplicity at the
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by cbdumas 6y ago
I had heard that the Go type system was just annoying and too simple to be useful, and this blog post has convinced me that that is 100% true.
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by cbdumas 6y ago
Exactly, and from a features standpoint Postgres can do everything Dynamo can do and so much more . I think a lot of software devs don't really know SQL or how RDBMS work so they don't know what they are giving up.
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by cbdumas 6y ago
I can't speak to your specific use case, but I can tell you that a relatively small RDS instance is probably a lot more performant than you think. There is also "Aurora Serverless" now which I've just started to play wit
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by cbdumas 6y ago
> Designing scalable systems when you don't need to makes you a bad engineer. > In general, RDBMS > NoSql These two bullet points resonate with me so much right now. I'm a consultant and a lot of my client absolutely insi
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by cbdumas 6y ago
Something I rarely see brought up in these articles is the difficulty of defining "data" and who would own it. If I buy something on Amazon to be shipped to me from a third party seller, which part of that transaction is data that
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by cbdumas 6y ago
SQL proficiency is something I've seen developers of all sorts neglect, which I think is a huge mistake. And relegating SQL to something that just an "analyst" does is an even bigger mistake. Several times over my career I&#x
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by cbdumas 6y ago
This is awesome, thanks to all contributors to this incredible tool!
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by cbdumas 6y ago
This is cool, however there is an implicit assertion here that better lit = safer. As far as I can tell this is questionable at best, a decent roundup of studies can be found here https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/won
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by cbdumas 6y ago
I haven't seen anyone here mention DataGrip, so here goes: If you work with a database you should try DataGrip. It is the best client I've ever used, for every single database I've tried it with (mostly Postgres, some SQLite
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by cbdumas 6y ago
I'm not the person you asked but I have my frontend hosted separately from the Heroku backend. CORS was a bit of a pain at first, mostly because I had never had to deal with it before, but after initial setup I never think about it.
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by cbdumas 6y ago
I too was really sad to see WSL 1 be replaced by what seems to be just a built-in VM. One of the great things about WSL 1 is that I can run Linux tools on my laptop without the memory overhead of a VM. My laptop only has 8GB of ram which is
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by cbdumas 6y ago
IMO your assertion is validated by the excellent overview of Stack Overflow's infrastructure given here: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar... Very few web apps will ever s
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by cbdumas 6y ago
> [T]here are others who ... don’t have the need for human connection (because they get that from their family and friends) from their job, only a paycheck. I don't have a problem with people who feel that way, but for myself I woul
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by cbdumas 6y ago
I can't wait to go back to the office. Everything about my job is harder from home. Harder for me to focus on work, harder for me to separate work and life, so so so much harder to forge the actual human connections that make tech work
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by cbdumas 6y ago
I think you're right about perceived barriers to entry, and I certainly didn't say (nor did I mean to imply) that anyone should "just" learn to code. But I think the promise of "apps without code" is a siren so
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by cbdumas 6y ago
I think the thing that "coding without code" fundamentally misses is that learning to actually write Python or Java or whatever is not the hard part of being productive in a business context. The hard part of creating useful softw
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by cbdumas 6y ago
I may be missing something here but the example given of finding the midpoint between to points across the antimeridian seems at best misleading. The formula given, averaging each coordinate, does not work for spherical coordinates as this
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by cbdumas 6y ago
I'm not an expert by any means, but I believe that at this point there is some evidence that online communities actually do exactly the opposite. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/019251211769

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