dozzie

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541.
by dozzie 9y ago
It's really nice to be able to call yourself senior after mere five years, when you haven't even seen a quarter of the possible deployment scenarios, much less seen their long-term results. You can't find anything like that
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by dozzie 9y ago
In the long run, dependencies are more expensive to work with, though programmers usually don't see it nor admit it, as language package managers hide the initial portion of the cost (the smaller one, but much better visible).
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by dozzie 9y ago
No, I will not sign up to read paywalled(?) article.
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by dozzie 9y ago
FACTOR ONE: DON'T SHOUT. FACTOR TWO: CONFORM TO THE RULES GOVERNING THE COMMUNITY YOU'RE IN.
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by dozzie 9y ago
How about you post this in "Who's Hiring?" thread, where it belongs?
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by dozzie 9y ago
> there's a difference between maintaining something written in a fairly popular technology and working nearly exclusively with obscure garbage And what kind of "obscure garbage" you're working with? And then, how did
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by dozzie 9y ago
Well, I sort of assumed that since you voice your opinion about consensus as defined in computer science, you at least should know what it is . I talk about Leslie Lamport's (plus Shostak and Pease) original publication about Byzantin
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by dozzie 9y ago
> - bait and switch, hired for the knowledge of a newer or popular technology, yet work is 100% legacy systems Almost all important work is maintaining already running systems. Good green field development that's not just another in
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by dozzie 9y ago
> I'm not sure how rsync solves this any differently than dropbox. It's quite simple: there's no web player to click, so he's bound to download files to his workstation. > I care because any in-efficiency just driv
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by dozzie 9y ago
Start publishing the videos with rsync? Why do you care about him working more efficiently, anyway?
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by dozzie 9y ago
Wikipedia page is about a very concrete problem described in a specific paper. Have you read the paper? Then, Bitcoin does not allow to choose "the sum of all facts asserted on the blockchain", not any more than a typical DHT or a
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Still not sure what you're saying. What do you mean by "negotiate"? OK, then what do you mean by "consensus"? > As long as we're using Wikipedia, the article for consensus in computer science explicit
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by dozzie 9y ago
Why would you brag here with so contentless piece of blog post? Apart from getting the most obvious advice, as hoodoof gave you. The post says literally nothing of any use to anybody. Some guy (team for hire) got screwed over by some unname
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by dozzie 9y ago
> I agree, there are much better consensus methods than Proof of Work. It's like saying that there are better grammar parsing methods than binary search. Blockchain is not a consensus protocol.
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by dozzie 9y ago
>> Blockchain does not solve consensus problem. It's a timestamping service. > Certainly Bitcoin seems to be a distributed consensus system. It is not. Bitcoin only tells which of the pair of documents was earlier (a document
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by dozzie 9y ago
> This is the author's area of expertise, so I wouldn't dismiss him just based on an article. Oh. Then I call him highly incompetent. I thought it was just a professor from barely related field talking about something he wasn&#
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by dozzie 9y ago
> The underlying technology of blockchains to achieve distributed consensus has been touted as a solution to many challenges in decentralized systems. I hate blockchain hype and I hope the whole bubble around it dies soon, but even I can
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by dozzie 9y ago
It's silly to expect a company to voluntarily pay more when it knows it can pay less for the same service.
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by dozzie 9y ago
...unless you can't get water from tap and the only thing that seems to fit your criteria at this moment is the water from France, and thus you need to convince the water from France to get to you instead of some local buyer.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Companies tend to price you at the city you live in, not the value you provide. People tend to price a glass of water at how expensive drinks around the place are, not the value this glass provides (crucial for life). Do you find this
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by dozzie 9y ago
No. Productive programmers get more important shit done (even if it looks like unimportant thing).
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by dozzie 9y ago
> For example, Perl is the most "disliked" language; what that really means is that developers have actively listed it as a job opportunity they don't want. In the specific case of Perl, this makes the analysis highly skew
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by dozzie 9y ago
> What if you're operating on the assumption that every employer gives you some form of laptop to work on then you're good to go. If you're operating on this assumption and also on the assumption that you don't have
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Do you have a personal conputer besides the one provided by your employer? If you don't, it's very stupid (unless you carefully considered the situation, obviously). You tie yourself this way to your current employer and chan
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by dozzie 9y ago
There are systems that I use less than once a quarter, and checking e-mail is still more bothersome than password. Password managers, you know.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> It is not strictly tied to the OS unlike deb, rpm etc. Which is false. DEBs and RPMs are not tied to the OS in any particular way. Especially visible in OpenPKG project (it used RPM), which was running on Solaris just fine. It's
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by dozzie 9y ago
> I think the quality of most job ads are dull. The quality are dull because most jobs are dull. Moreover, it's not like anything different from the standard form of a job ad would convey more information about the important aspec
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by dozzie 9y ago
> This is interesting when you want near realtime performances, as you don't have all the culprint of a http request Excellent. How about raw TCP then?
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by dozzie 9y ago
Certainly. And it should be taught like trades were for centuries: with apprenticeships.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Only if you believe software development is neither engineering nor science, and is purely creative. It's certainly not a science, and it's very rarely engineering. About the creativity, it's a craft . There is some cre

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