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by deckard1 4y ago
Let's not forget the time Musk tried to get a guy to take down a Twitter account that tracks Elon's private jet. If Elon owned Twitter he would just close the account himself. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-m
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So you're saying TSLA holders don't care that Elon Musk is an unhinged lunatic. Got it. Someone remind me again why this isn't a cult?
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Musk goes to the bank Musk: I can haz money? Bank: You said that Twitter isn't going to be a way to make money. That you "don't care about the economics at all". Your exact words. Musk: ... Bank: ... Musk: Give me mone
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by deckard1 4y ago
it's all to appease the Google black box. UX always takes a back seat to SEO. Because if there are no users, then no one to irritate with bad UX in the first place. If it weren't for SEO we would have all dropped SSR+hydration lon
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If Netflix spun off their Korean dramas and charged $5/mo, I'd pay that. That was their one bright spot in an otherwise mediocre catalog. > HBO is still way better at producing original content Netflix can't even compete w
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> but should work the same at the infrastructure layer in a year Serious doubt, there. This brave new world seems to be entirely focused on making it an incredibly fragile world with your code scattered to the winds. It's bad enou
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I haven't had my own office. That feels like such a 1950s Mad Men type of thing. Has to be pretty rare outside of accountants and lawyers today. But I will say the absolutely best I've had was 3 devs to a single office, with desks
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> The GDPR and various things have made companies more skittish in doing things this way, because they get scared. They may be scared. But are they scared enough to reload every single backup they have, purge the desired records, and res
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I don't want to assume too much, since the details are sparse. But I know for a fact that few of my current coworkers know a thing about writing tooling code. It's becoming a bit of a lost art. Here's the way such a script sh
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> not all ORM frameworks handle this case well, if at all typically this is probably for internal reporting/metrics. But yeah, a custom script with direct SQL is in order. Personally my opinion is avoid ORM at all costs. Never seen
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I've always been a bit skeptical of published numbers. I usually just chalk it up to vastly different operating conditions and scale. On my home server w/ ECC you can check the corrected and uncorrected (multibit) errors. Assuming
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by deckard1 5y ago
I always dread the "two truths and a lie" game, usually performed in front of a large group of people you don't know. It's the ultimate trap. Either come up with two things that sound impressive to strangers, or risk bei
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by deckard1 5y ago
calm down Mini Zuck. You don't have enough money to break the rules like Elon. Or Trump. Or Uber. Or Airbnb. You gotta be too big to fail before you get into the might makes right game.
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> I am pretty sure that the Elon Musk Division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has already opened another inquiry into this filing. Elon Musk had acquired at least some of his shares by March 14, and on March 26 he was ask
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The richest man in the world making a "joke" at the expensive of the absolute least fortunate in America is not a good look. Pretty tone deaf if you ask me.
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The film Network (1976) predicted all of this. The difference is that instead of a TV network exploiting the crazy for profit, the lunatics are now fully in control. It's truly something that Elon went from calling a rescue diver a &
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by deckard1 5y ago
yep. I've worked at places with unit tests/e2e/and static typing. And I've worked at places with zero unit tests/no e2e/dynamic typing. The push for more testing and static typing (to degree) was always manager
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by deckard1 5y ago
If you go out searching for meaning, you're not going to find it. "Is this meaning?" you might ask, for every choice or circumstance you face. The answer will always be "no". Because you can analyze anything to deat
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by deckard1 5y ago
Incompatible libs, you say? Try this one on: once upon a time a handful of years ago a package-lock.json I worked on drifted so far from package.json that you could not remove package-lock.json and rebuild purely from package.json. The vers
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> Los Angeles [...] people cancelled plans on me all the time Traffic. It's because of traffic and sprawl. LA is massive[1]. If you lived in Manhattan and made plans with people living in Queens or Brooklyn or East Rutherford, you w
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> their bad work could cost the company multi-millions That's such patently absurd bullshit. Google has a code review process. Almost any large tech company has this today. The review process is to ensure that it's a team effor
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> Nobody starts out as a superstar. The superstar is a dictator with a strong halo effect. Think of any superstar developer and look into how they achieved that status. It's almost a certainty they were left alone to their own devic
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'96 feels about right. I, too, was on a.out briefly on Slackware before the big ELF migration. Was actually rather smooth. Not nearly as bad as the lib32 to lib64 pain train
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wait until Microsoft starts screwing up Blizzard IP. Or, I guess, screwing it up more than Activision-Blizzard already did...
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by deckard1 5y ago
thanks for the downvotes. > it's because you chose to do it to yourself. I didn't choose shit. My company did. Why are you putting this on me? > Both my personal projects and my $dayjob repositories have every test Congrats
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by deckard1 5y ago
Many years ago I worked at a place that deployed thousands of bare metal servers. We were effectively running our own cloud before the cloud became a thing. The way it worked was simple. We created our own Red Hat variant using a custom Ana
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no that's not how it works at all. The "actions" are proprietary to GitHub and hosted on GitHub. People create custom actions and allow others to reuse them. Everything is hooked in to GitHub via their proprietary yaml conf
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You're going to need a guide to understanding the lore and atmosphere. The hard mode is not contained to the game play. Bloodborne, for example, has the atmosphere change based on certain unlocked events and paths you choose to go down
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The flow you use will typically depend on the company you are working for. Using regular git (no Github/Gitlab) will often have a different workflow than Github. My team (and myself) prefer this workflow: - One commit per PR. This allo
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GitHub actions has been like this for years now. Years. Years!!!! And the crazy thing is you see people on HN demanding that some one person side project/SaaS has to be at 100% uptime with multiple failovers, automatic scaling, etc.

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