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by devonkim 7y ago
You could start with the Maglev paper but I’m not sure if that’s still in production use there https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub44824
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by devonkim 7y ago
There’s a huge difference between having your primary business being services projects basically as an extension of the government and your revenue center being unrelated private sector funding. Your corporate structure and business incenti
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by devonkim 7y ago
The larger defense contractors have issues paying software engineers remotely close to private industry nowadays. In certain regions of the US the software market is dominated by defense though. Back in the early 2000s I know of some J2EE a
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by devonkim 7y ago
Makes me why we don’t count NASA under DoD similar to DARPA to help with their funding.
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by devonkim 7y ago
I was “pulled over” by a police officer when I was driving into Chicago from Washington state. He had followed me off the highway where I had pulled over to make a phone call, and he came up to me asking for registration and wanted to know
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by devonkim 7y ago
The issue I have with this interview style is that there’s no data to suggest that this results in selecting for engineers that can do the job best. Furthermore, it tends to leave rather little time for the candidate to ask many questions t
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by devonkim 7y ago
Historically the only reason Intel has won on absolute top performance gaming FPS is because their raw single-threaded performance has beaten AMD due to most games still being bad / ineffective with multiple threads. For the first time
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by devonkim 7y ago
I thought it was supposed to be Eurasia?
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by devonkim 7y ago
It’s a lot further than this though with unbuffered RAM, registered RAM in the mix affecting performance and such. Error detection and error correction are different and require different levels of parity codes. Standard RAM at one point (S
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by devonkim 7y ago
There’s some cruel irony of you bringing up accounting for more stability when another poster in these comments said his father was laid off from an accounting job in his 40s and never found another job again. Modern work is brutal in the d
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by devonkim 7y ago
SOX section 404 does not mean ops and dev can’t write code or deploy to prod respectively. It means there should be clear roles and oversight and insight into authoritative sources. If there’s an incident in prod that requires code changes
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by devonkim 7y ago
These roles have been historically disastrous for me with no exception because they shared common problems that kept me from doing my job: 1. All talk and no support for automation. I want to be rich, handsome, and well-liked too but none o
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by devonkim 7y ago
While I tend towards being a cheapskate on many physical things I also understand diminishing returns, and to me once you hop to the other side of the price-performance curve I define that as a luxury. For me, I get a lot more value out of
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by devonkim 7y ago
I’m more concerned with the economic realities and the political changes that happen (see: Andrew Yang’s thesis for why our current POTUS was elected) prior to coming up with solutions and that our global power structure is not necessarily
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by devonkim 7y ago
The female version of this taken even further is pretty much literally a Black Mirror episode. Season 2 Episode 1
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by devonkim 7y ago
While the pattern is simple programmatically, it is insufficient operationally and sets a precedent of coupling your data plane and your messaging plane. Looking solely from a code perspective, how would this be done prior to Postgres 9.5 (
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by devonkim 7y ago
I'm not opposed to a separate table or DB used exclusively for messaging separate from business level data, but I think I've never heard of anyone doing that in practice. It's almost always a bunch of hacky joins someone want
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by devonkim 7y ago
Besides more recent events several hundred years ago Japan also tried to invade Korea under Tokotomo Hideyoshi. Japanese Imperialism has a bit of history to it that makes Koreans uncomfortable given the peninsula has been under constant con
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by devonkim 7y ago
CloudFormation is a declarative state management language and framework just like Terraform. The problem is that CF abstracts said state away from you to the degree that you can't hack around it and you wind up forcibly deleting resour
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by devonkim 7y ago
In my experience, most non-trivial sites are similar to icebergs of code - users might see 5% of the codepath in normal usage for what they want, but there's boatloads of OLAP, data analysis, instrumentation, error handling, and report
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by devonkim 7y ago
Having witnessed what people do, it’s easy to prevent it now for the most part but badly written / enforced access controls and laziness (in the form of overcommit of engineers to projects) are the norm for most large companies. Most
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by devonkim 7y ago
What used to be behind firewalls oftentimes became accidentally public through the many, many blunders of publicly available S3 buckets that people started to use because they were frustrated with AWS IAM. This is ironic because IAM was sup
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by devonkim 7y ago
Zelle isn’t even a stopgap solution oftentimes. With Navy Federal Credit Union I can’t transfer more than $2500 anyway through Zelle as their servicer. I really don’t understand why banks in the US kneecap services from elsewhere in the wor
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by devonkim 7y ago
A language that doesn't encourage its users to re-invent wheels and to instead craft re-usable modules that work well across hardware and locality changes through solidly tested and reviewed foundations would help improve productivity
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by devonkim 7y ago
A surprisingly high number of Nix and NixOS users are German speakers and there's an informal name of "NichtsOS" given to it.
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by devonkim 7y ago
A colleague of mine put the problem more succinctly “what other industry is there where the top decision-makers have never done the basic work of the company?” Most executives in finance have done some form of financial analysis and reporti
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by devonkim 7y ago
Carried over losses can be applied against future _earnings_ though so if you make $1M and not pay any taxes on it at that point because it's being offset by your past losses. I used it to offset my gains in taxes from selling my compa
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by devonkim 7y ago
Decades into the future I will be an old man screaming that wireless will never replace wired networking while some insane people have come up with real-world 10 Gbps wi-fi connections. The realities of wireless communications don't se
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by devonkim 7y ago
MoCA adapters are much more expensive compared to typical Ethernet adapters in general but work in a pinch. I've moved frequently and have lived in older houses so I'm now armed with two different powerline Ethernet adapters, a pa
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by devonkim 8y ago
The problem with enterprise software is the same problem with most issues we see from the producer side - those doing the work are completely different in alignment and requirements / needs than those that make the decisions to purchas

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