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by dozzie 8y ago
Apart from permission to work remotely, nothing else really matters from what is advertised as perks. Well, maybe health insurance in the countries underdeveloped with this regard. Everything else either you can buy easily yourself (and not
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by dozzie 8y ago
Are you really asking why not replace a well-defined RPC protocol that has properly specified data serialization and error signaling with a randomly slapped together half of an RPC protocol?
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by dozzie 8y ago
> Elasticsearch is incredibly deep, and highly performant For some value of "highly performant". I remember its search (exact substring match) being significantly slower than simply running grep on the same data (JSON documents
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by dozzie 8y ago
> You can replace NT with Linux (or Linux with NT) as well. No, not quite, not without enormous effort. Look at Cygwin or WSL or Wine: tons of work poured into and still not there yet. On the other hand, typical Android application only
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by dozzie 8y ago
> This is a sanity check, [...] > 2. Not parsing the JSON in the browser, but sending off to a serverless/cloud function api There's your check: this part is insane. Also, this is a common problem with programmers who haven&
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by dozzie 8y ago
And in what way is the Linux kernel the "fundamental principle" or "foundation" of Android? How is it so important that you can rip it out and replace with something totally different without much change to the applicati
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by dozzie 8y ago
Then what does it mean "to be based on"? What's its definition, and a one that's well-established and commonly agreed upon, since you're trying to invoke it?
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by dozzie 8y ago
> It reminds me in the early days of "smart phones" people would say where is the Linux phone OS we keep hearing about. They just didn't understand that Android was Linux based. It's actually the people who believe th
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by dozzie 8y ago
How about you show the tables, indices, and the SQL query (queries) instead of relying on automagic of an ORM framework? Is it any faster if you create an appropriate SQL query yourself? How does it look like?
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by dozzie 8y ago
> How wouldn't there be a cost? How wouldn't there be a cost of switching between two languages? Normally. You could try, you'd know then. Though the prerequisite is a system that is designed , with clearly designated bor
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by dozzie 8y ago
>> I was working with a system where server is written in Erlang and client (and another server) is written in Python. No problems with switching back and forth. > Yes, that's a cost your brain is paying. What cost? I said I
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by dozzie 8y ago
> The context switch between apps is one cost you have to pay [...]. However, the costs of switching languages is higher. Is it? I was working with a system where server is written in Erlang and client (and another server) is written in
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by dozzie 8y ago
It's all because Microsoft has to support Linux well on their Azure. There's very few companies writing code facing the internet for Windows , it's all Linux nowadays. Azure would tank immediately if it was Windows-only.
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by dozzie 8y ago
It takes a lot more than just a change of a prominent person to restore trust. And Microsoft forcing spying (so called "telemetry") and unwanted advertisements (e.g. ads in start menu) down the throat of its own customers does n
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by dozzie 8y ago
> Why is there so much hatred and distrust of Microsoft? Because of more than two decades of trampling on open source and competitors. Remember when Microsoft called Linux a cancer? No? Then read up on their history.
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by dozzie 8y ago
> A corporation is a group of people No, it is not. Not any more than a person is a group of cells. Corporation is a completely different creature than a person, even though it's composed of many people (though note that only partia
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by dozzie 8y ago
> The OSS off the shelf guy is going to ask 'Well that depends on the growth.' Though this "depends" is a quite high bar in reality. I know a regional internet provider that runs purely on software routers on commodit
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by dozzie 8y ago
> It just strikes me as incredibly myopic to privilege your own experience in system administration as oh so much more enlightened than a person manage the overall problem of a package management tool that users are actually using with s
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by dozzie 8y ago
It's the traditional method of doing a job equivalent to JIT. It has several examples in the history of computing, like SpamAssassin and Matlab (the latter if my memory serves me correctly).
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by dozzie 8y ago
Success of Homebrew was based on marketing, not on the tool being well designed on technical level (because it was not designed well) or its authors' technical competence (because they haven't displayed it much). Google was hiring
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by dozzie 8y ago
> I mean Google famously didn’t give a shit about hiring Max Howell (creator of homebrew) because of hazing-style pointless whiteboard trivia [0]. People usually omit the part that Homebrew was at that point a quite shitty reiteration of
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by dozzie 8y ago
> [...] but fault tolerance seems to be a part of OTP. Yes, mostly, but the thing is that OTP was possible at all because of how the portions provided by the language and the runtime play together. You cannot replicate the OTP as it is
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by dozzie 8y ago
>> PDFs technically are code > PDF is code only in the same sense as HTML is. Wrong comparison. PDF is code only in the same sense as LaTeX is. PDF is based on PostScript, just as LaTeX is a set of macros on top of TeX, and we all
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by dozzie 8y ago
> I figure the options are 1) Try the Linux subsystem for Win, 2) Dual boot Linux, or 3) Buy a new windows laptop and convert the current one to Linux. 4) Use a virtual machine with Linux -- or the reverse, virtual machine with Windows r
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by dozzie 8y ago
> As someone that has done both, you might be right. I don't think he has done both. He wouldn't have asked in such a case.
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by dozzie 8y ago
> when people discuss IT certificates the are usually seen as a good thing to have for IT jobs Are they? Which certificates exactly? The only ones that come to my mind are Red Hat's, Cisco's, and Oracle's (for the database
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by dozzie 8y ago
> Software is complex, and bad software even more so, and an integrated hardware/software system is even worse. You nailed the problem here, though you don't seem to realize it. Yes, software is very complex. Maybe it should be
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by dozzie 8y ago
All the things you list as benefits are only better because you use single packages source for all the machines, and one that has retention policy that keeps many package versions, and doesn't have shitty packages with all the content
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by dozzie 8y ago
From the title alone I was expecting something with a half-life measured in seconds.
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by dozzie 8y ago
Yeah, exactly the same work as you would need with an OS-supplied package manager to build your own package. For some reason, though, this is considered sexy, while doing the very same thing for RPM or DEB is regarded as boring and troubles

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