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by deckard1 6y ago
One company I worked for went to great lengths to emulate FAANG. But they were a medium sized company. They were absolutely crushed under the weight of FAANG "best practices" and technology. They lost time rewriting perfectly fi
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by deckard1 6y ago
> The alternative to this is offering more money, which isn’t even guaranteed to work. This is true, but I feel misses the mark a little. The absolute best development job I've had in my 15 odd years of experience was my first job.
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by deckard1 6y ago
If I were doing the small/medium SaaS thing, I would vastly prefer to scale vertically rather than horizontally. Maintaining a single machine is always going to be much easier than a cluster with k8s. Not to mention you can often tos
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by deckard1 6y ago
Data science + the return of machine learning. I suspect this is entirely due to the fact that Python looks like pseudo code and has a claim to be beginner friendly. Beyond that, it's baffling that the data science/ML crowd picked
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by deckard1 6y ago
just make sure you have everything configured correctly on your system if using UUIDs: https://github.com/ramsey/uuid/issues/80 In the types of systems that need UUIDs there is probably no easy way to check f
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by deckard1 6y ago
> However if you want any sort of efficient lookup on the external key (UUID), your database still needs an index on the UUID, and you are back at square one. Well. Many systems already do a form of this. They store a session ID (the bro
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by deckard1 6y ago
> it pretty much does the opposite. I don't imagine that this will be a popular comment on here Silicon Valley and HN talk the talk of innovation, but they back monopolists. Time and again you will see this. Peter Thiel argues for t
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by deckard1 6y ago
I was wondering why I was agreeing with this article. It's the most un-Fowler thing I've read from him.
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by deckard1 6y ago
> putting things behind a network can, counter intuitively, lead to more resilient systems Erlang without a network and distribution is going to be more resilient than Erlang with a network. If you're talking about the challenges o
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by deckard1 6y ago
There is definitely more to be said about this dichotomy between the Really Care vs. Doing A Job. The large tech companies are looking for young blood that also happens to be incredibly naive. They are the clueless, in the Gervais Principle
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by deckard1 6y ago
> I would love to make billions writing a chat app In 1998 I wrote an IRC client for Linux/Gtk+. Really the first graphical app that wasn't Tcl/Tk or Motif based. Even back then people were saying "yet another IRC cli
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by deckard1 6y ago
Steve Yegge has a thing he calls the "Interview Anti-Loop" or "anti-panel". Basically, for every person that works at some company (say, Google), there is a least one set of employees (the anti-panel) that would reject t
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by deckard1 6y ago
> Common Lisp would greatly benefit from programmers obsessed with making the language more useful to themselves and others today. It's never going to happen. Lispers were saying this same tune back when I last was using Common Lisp
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by deckard1 6y ago
> it just splits Scheme's single problem (lexically binding values in macros) into two problems (lexically binding values in macros, and lexically binding functions in macros). Bingo. Lisp-2 and GENSYM are attempting to solve the sa
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by deckard1 6y ago
First-class functions considered harmful. Of course it's JavaScript. The inmates are not only running the asylum, they built it too.
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by deckard1 6y ago
> The question of whether a hashed password “permits access” to an online account is a complex question that has not been fully addressed from a legal standpoint. Isn't this already answered by existing law? Wasn't Kevin Mitnic
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by deckard1 6y ago
> What is it about p2p that made it not doable Well, everything? Nothing about mobile devices is suited for p2p. Mobile devices are the exact opposite of what you want for p2p to function smoothly. The devices are always going offline, t
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by deckard1 6y ago
This thing? https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/blob/master/s... Which also seems to not have tests. In fact, the only tests I'm seeing are from 2 years ago. https://gitla
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by deckard1 6y ago
Drama has always surrounded popular projects. Anyone remember that Andrew Tanenbaum/Linus Torvalds flamewar? That was in 1992. This debate reverberated throughout the entire 1990s. People didn't need Twitter to throw shade and cas
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by deckard1 6y ago
In addition to cable going to ads, it deserves mention that many shows today feature brand advertising right in the program. I pay for Netflix, but go watch a Korean drama and they are clearly advertising Subway, KFC, Samsung, etc. right th
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by deckard1 6y ago
> She said during the news, rather than ads, you saw the hosts smoking and chatting. Sounds like she was viewing the direct feed or something. There is a documentary called "Spin" which was recorded footage of the downtime betw
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by deckard1 6y ago
> seems useful to ponder why does it happen. Ooooh. I know this one! Because that's what VCs want . AirBNB, Uber, Postmates, Google, Facebook, Apple. VCs want to invest in winner-takes-all platforms and markets with incredibly stro
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by deckard1 6y ago
> As a user, if an app doesn't have a native UI, I disregard it I disagree rather strongly with this. You should use the UI elements that make sense. It doesn't make sense for Maya or Blender or Photoshop to constrain themselve
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that's how it has always been. There isn't a system out there that does theming where some apps won't be left out. It's practically impossible. Even dark mode on iOS doesn't work on every app. And then there is Andr
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> Theming was HUGE in Linux back in 2005-2010 Eh? Theming was fizzling out by 2005, which starts to correspond to the rise of OS X and Macbooks. Enlightenment came out in 1997 and was all about theming. But theming predated E by a few ye
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by deckard1 6y ago
This has never been true. We wouldn't have JavaScript if Netscape didn't go off and do their own thing. Netscape and Microsoft were locked in a fierce embrace-and-extend battle for the web. XMLHttpRequest wasn't even a standa
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by deckard1 6y ago
I recently received the ThinkPad P14s AMD (same as T14) that I ordered back in November. I only paid about $800 US for this, with some corporate discounts that most people can easily find. Comparing it to my Macbook, I'm pleasantly sur
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by deckard1 6y ago
If you're trying to do anything with the latest hardware, it's always going to be a pain on Linux. Even Windows doesn't have flawless support with every game on day one. > It’s quite common to have a bit of trouble getting
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by deckard1 6y ago
Google+ wasn't good for much, but following Rob Pike was always interesting as he was doing Plan 9 stuff and talking about Go often on there. Linus Torvalds also frequently posted on G+ and was interesting. Twitter just doesn't fi
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I've entirely replaced my usage of Dropbox within the past two years with Syncthing. It works great if you're on Android. Doesn't have an iOS client though. Nice thing about Syncthing is you can entirely configure what you ar

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