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by dbattaglia 5y ago
I've heard it used often in the past (like 10 - 15 years ago) by some of my Ron Paul loving anti-Fed libertarian friends that were always talking about how we need to move back to the gold standard. I think Bitcoin certainly exposed t
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You can’t rebuild Wikipedia with crypto(theverge.com)
5 points by dbattaglia 5y ago|0 comments
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by dbattaglia 5y ago
Just the vanilla web UI, mostly on mobile Safari. I pin it to my desktop and check it a few times a day when I’m bored. Every once in a while I remember the “new” section is a thing.
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Moving Apollo Federation 2 to the Elastic License v2(apollographql.com)
4 points by dbattaglia 5y ago|0 comments
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Go: Don't Change the Libraries in 1.18(github.com)
183 points by dbattaglia 5y ago|122 comments
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by dbattaglia 5y ago
I’m not sure I understand the point. While the economical barrier to entry for producing music is lower with electronics and computers, it still requires time and dedication to be proficient in it. Most DAWs and synthesizers reward practice
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by dbattaglia 5y ago
This appendix, along with the chapters that are except from "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism", are actually my favorite parts of 1984. I enjoyed how "Principals of Newspeak" is written in a past tens
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by dbattaglia 5y ago
My wife and I have both been hearing this narrative from coworkers outside of where we live (in NYC), asking if we're living in a ghost town or warzone. It feels strange. By the way I think the term "flyover state" is probab
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by dbattaglia 5y ago
I was puzzled by this as well. There was of course instances of this during the George Floyd protests (over a year ago), and a bit right around the election, but that was just companies protecting their property from some of the rowdier pr
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by dbattaglia 5y ago
> So while I don't count myself as a winner in this, it does seem to be a substantial win to not be one of the losers. Same. My wife and I actually do live in one of the big cities hit hard by the pandemic (NYC), but ended up having
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Lawmakers, Taking Aim at Big Tech, Push Sweeping Overhaul of Antitrust(nytimes.com)
4 points by dbattaglia 5y ago|0 comments
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by dbattaglia 5y ago
In fall 2008 I moved from Long Island to New Hampshire (for family reasons) and found a job in a small niche B2B shop doing C# Windows apps. On my first day of work, I notice the receptionist desk has a stack of McCain/Palin 2008 bump
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by dbattaglia 5y ago
Meta comment: the actual article title is “The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2021”. It’s not an article specifically about the stagnation and decline of Go, but a discussion of various languages. Hopefully the mods update t
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by dbattaglia 6y ago
I use ZooNavigator quite a bit at work for development purposes: https://zoonavigator.elkozmon.com/en/latest/
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by dbattaglia 6y ago
On iOS Safari the site has a signup dialog that takes over the page, I bet it’s just rendering weird/broken on iOS Chrome.
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by dbattaglia 6y ago
> That was a painful read, sorry. Agreed. The article felt to me like a reaction to the common refrain that, in tech, you can either be a founder or you can be a wage slave, and the former is clearly better. The product itself is second
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by dbattaglia 6y ago
I think one valid fear is that a web application might, for multiple reasons, scale beyond a single process on a single server. This is common enough that using an embedded database can be problematic, compared to a separate RDBMS process
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by dbattaglia 6y ago
The difference is, in American politics there are two very distinct polarized sides, and the one he was running for doesn't really care about this kind of thing very much. It's much worse when your own side is the one "cancel
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by dbattaglia 6y ago
Totally agree, although for myself personally the other piece that chews up my time is customer support. In previous jobs with standard SaaS applications the support load was there but it was easy enough to just file a bug report in the bac
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by dbattaglia 6y ago
JUCE is also a great option for building cross platform VSTs and audio applications https://juce.com/
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by dbattaglia 6y ago
Erlang and BEAM are an interesting one in the "boring" to "exciting" spectrum, being quite mature and stable with a strong track record of successful large systems built on it, yet I'd imagine still considered exoti
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by dbattaglia 6y ago
I worked for a "startup within a Big Co." for a few months, set up as an "innovation lab" for a big stuffy 3-letter HR tech / payroll vendor everyone knows (at least in the US). It wasn't bad, and I felt like
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by dbattaglia 6y ago
"Virtual addresses are the size of a CPU register. On 32 bit systems each process has 4 gigabytes of virtual address space all to itself, which is often more memory than the system actually has." I guess this is not the most up-t
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Give Cats More Meat and Playtime, Says Study Definitely Not Written by Cats(gizmodo.com)
3 points by dbattaglia 6y ago|1 comments
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by dbattaglia 6y ago
The pretty awesome "Philosophize This" podcast* episode on Foucault, where he discusses crime and punishment over the years, makes an interesting point that always stuck with me regarding punishment of white collar crime: "9
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by dbattaglia 6y ago
That's kind of a strong statement to make without some explanation. I'm curious, what is the core of the problem you are referencing that free shelter doesn't "fix"? Mental health, addiction, something else entirely
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by dbattaglia 6y ago
Same here. At my current job it’s literally impossible for my team to pull off as we’re spread across North and South America, Europe, Japan and New Zealand. Instead we have two weekly meetings, one friendlier to western countries and the o
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by dbattaglia 6y ago
“I have asked why he did not just write T t; and be done with it. He said that he is used to the T *t = new T(); syntax. Then I pointed out that he has a memory leak. He replied that the runtime will take care of that. Too bad there isn&#x2
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by dbattaglia 6y ago
I think you have a point, and it's important to not be naive as people out there will steamroll those around them if given the opportunity. Personally I try to not immediately assume malice because I've found it leads to conspira
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by dbattaglia 6y ago
I think you make a valid point in general about coding professionally at most jobs, and I know I've fallen into this desire myself while working on endless CRUD apps over the years. That said, I do think the article brings up some goo

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