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by deckard1 6y ago
Operating the marketplace is the point .
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by deckard1 6y ago
> And if I were the one who had to decide at any of those levels, I would want a well-designed plan for the next transition or two Right. This was really my (poorly-expressed) original point. Deciding how and when to scale is going to be
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by deckard1 6y ago
> Pi's will often fail without warning, or their "disk" will become corrupt You get what you pay for. But this is beating a tired horse that I'm skeptical was ever true to begin with. Are the people with SD card corru
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by deckard1 6y ago
There are lots of ways to skin the cat. Back in the day I worked on code to create custom Linux ISOs with network provisioning. Always wondered why more people didn't do this. You just need a kickstart script. With a simple provision s
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by deckard1 6y ago
You're starting at the wrong point. If you need scale, then you know what you need when you need it . None of this advice people are tossing around would apply to WhatsApp, for instance. Because they needed to get into the weeds on BE
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by deckard1 6y ago
> It is very important that you realize when you pass one of those points. It. Does. Not. Matter. You're not going to be the same guy that sets up Facebook's garage server in 2004 and then scales it out to a multiple data cente
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by deckard1 6y ago
Who are they bragging to? Are they going to print out the crypto hash and hang it on a wall in their mega mansion? And think that actually impresses anyone that doesn't already know what crypto art is? At least with a painting the rich
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by deckard1 6y ago
> then called him a luddite for not being ok with it. yeah, my jaw dropped. Holy shit. Every time I enter the crypto twittersphere, I'm more convinced it's all just a huge cult. Half zealots and true believers and half trolls.
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by deckard1 6y ago
If any of that were true, we'd have universal healthcare and live in a utopia. Crabs in a bucket. If you're focused on the ladder, you're not going to hire someone that has the potential of making you look bad.
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by deckard1 6y ago
MS Office is a good example, and like you mentioned Word is pretty much Word from 10 years ago. But you know who else does this? Book publishers. Specifically, textbook publishers. Every year there is a new edition of a calculus or algebra
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by deckard1 6y ago
> 1) something with thread-local storage saving the the auth info in the request handler, and then coroutines or async code that is overwriting that thread-local with info from a new request before the old request has finished. This woul
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by deckard1 6y ago
C++ at least had the benefit of industry and OOP trend behind it. It was rather fortunate in this case. I've argued elsewhere on HN that Common Lisp died because they were closed and secretive at the exact moment they needed to go the
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by deckard1 6y ago
This always struck me as the dagger into the idea of freedom. How can one follow the law if one is not fully informed of the law? Of course, those with money like it this way. It's a barrier for competition and exercising your rights.
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by deckard1 6y ago
If you don't trust Google to store your email, I have bad news for you. You will never escape having some of your email stored on Gmail servers. Most people you email are using a gmail address, whether direct or via forwarding. End-t
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by deckard1 6y ago
The worst part is that we are just conditioning people to accept this as normal. Just like EULA and cookie banners. It's always the same story. Some guy gets on Twitter or HN who happens to get noticed, then FAANG releases a statement
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by deckard1 6y ago
> One of the biggest contributors to developer happiness and productivity over the last 20 years has been to escape this tyranny. We've only replaced the tyranny of deadline crunch with the tyranny of daily micromanagement. You can&
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by deckard1 6y ago
steam has it as mostly positive, so I'm not surprised. But who knows how many are using the fan patch and how many are not. But many many of these reviews are complaining about the port and it all seems YMMV. I'm just using this a
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by deckard1 6y ago
I think people are vastly underestimating how much gaming sucks even on Windows. Nier: Automata still hasn't received a single PC patch to my knowledge. Many of the games on Windows are ports as well, such as Nier. The PC has largely
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by deckard1 6y ago
> Google services icons? All impossible to tell apart now. Google went for maximum idiocy when they tried to use logos to serve two distinct roles: branding and utility. Which is why they look like complete unreadable ass. They forgot th
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by deckard1 6y ago
That's the crux of this entire debate. The benefit of a type system is that it provides an organizational framework for code bases that need it (i.e. multi year projects involving a rotating set of developers). That's the only arg
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by deckard1 6y ago
FYI, tslint is deprecated since 2019. Most people use eslint. But eslint on TS is excruciatingly slow.
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by deckard1 6y ago
bingo. TypeScript had absolutely no excuse to keep JavaScript, beyond the misguided idea that because so many JavaScript developers exist that it should be easy to get them to learn types. First, they introduced a compiler. At that point,
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by deckard1 6y ago
> The Do Not Call list started in 2003, but it seems it's starting to be taken a lot more seriously lately. Is it though? I'd say Do-Not-Call is a failure. Much like CAN-SPAM. Both are 2003. Check the calendar. I'm still w
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by deckard1 6y ago
Do-Not-Track failed. According to Wikipedia, Apple dropped support and not many people adopted it anyway. It was always doomed to fail. You're asking the wolves not to eat you by setting an HTTP header. If these companies were the kind
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by deckard1 6y ago
You have a lot of tech companies digging up gold, and a whole lot more selling shovels to the rest of the crowd. Most of the software tech world is bullshit. Most best practices are bullshit. And, if I were feeling a bit conspiratorial, I
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by deckard1 6y ago
Malice, apathy, ignorance, or simply don't care. They all look the same from a distance. With the same outcome. You eat your ham sandwich. But did you hear the pig cry out at the slaughter? The same people reading your comment right n
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by deckard1 6y ago
for what it's worth, my company was using this method and we were supporting, I think, ie10 at the time just fine. No issues that I know of. some advanced features of SVG, such as filters, are very much YMMV to this day. But for simple
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by deckard1 6y ago
> 1) s-expressions also have native symbols whereas JSON has only strings The only standardization effort of generalized s-expressions that I know of is http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Sexp.txt , which makes strin
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by deckard1 6y ago
> some constant strings containing css breakpoints as the type 'string | int' yeah this really is the fundamental problem with TypeScript advocates. They seem to come in two different breeds: A) people that would rather be doin
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by deckard1 6y ago
I've been using React since 2014 or so. I can't speak for Angular or Vue, but I'm 100% sold on Svelte. It cuts out all of the crap that React and Redux introduced (lifecycles, hooks, boilerplate, etc.) and boils it all down t

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