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by dozzie 9y ago
> Try writing something basic as fib as a recursive function and then in a loop. One is elegant and the other is kludgy. At the same time, one is slow as hell, because recalculates the very same value multiple times (unless you return a
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by dozzie 9y ago
You'd be surprised how much code you can move from conditional instructions to data types if you have a good type system, and if this type system is a static one, you get it checked before your program even starts.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> I’m curious why Zabbix wasn’t a contender here? Probably because it's a configuration pig, similarly to Prometheus or Grafana. Netdata doesn't require you to decide about anything, so it's just "apt-grept-gzipt kern
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by dozzie 9y ago
Because it's very hard to earn anything on general purpose IDE nowadays. Twenty years ago it was a quite profitable market, but not anymore.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> The current government is a far right Catholic party [...] More like "far center, a little to the left", with a twist for religion and nationalism. It doesn't have that much with being pro capitalism.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> I can't imagine how much more explicit this could be. Ah yes, and what exactly are they doing with this information? I can't imagine how much less explicit this could be.
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by dozzie 9y ago
There are also other options that can break SSH access just as easily (AllowGroup being one prominent example). The whole thing is too brittle to be used exclusively as user-facing service ("build server" where users log into an
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by dozzie 9y ago
Though it's not like you treat your so called allies fairly, either.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Much better term is to call it what it is: a domain-specific API, instead of bending the term that was not supposed to be used like this.
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by dozzie 9y ago
I don't care about just APIs , I want libraries and services .
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by dozzie 9y ago
> By GMOs we mean transgenics, a gene transfer process that is markedly in a distinct risk class from conventional breeding and other "modifications". ...the "other modifications" including radiative genome modificati
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by dozzie 9y ago
> So then say "Do x, y, and z. But this is usually the wrong approach. Tell me what you're trying to do." And never hear from them again, but later hit the shitty code you have just helped to producfe.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Are you implying that you cannot use others' code unless you download it from random places from the internets? That the others' code is fundamentally different from your code and thus cannot be hosted from your own repository?
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by dozzie 9y ago
So basically, you don't trust your developers to do their job properly. Do I understand that correctly?
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by dozzie 9y ago
> 1. For my case (yea, they are kind of required audit data) What kind and required by whom? Most of such things are "if you have all, good, if half an hour is missing, we'll do without those", not something akin to transa
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by dozzie 9y ago
Ah yes, this happens from time to time when you use somebody else's repositories with somebody else's package retention. That's why production should only use repositories that change in ways that are predictable to you (OS u
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by dozzie 9y ago
Which is very computer-science-y approach, and totally uninteresting at that, because the (?PARNO) syntax is still embedded in the same regexp engine for any practical purpose or distinction. If you didn't know, a regexp engine with ca
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by dozzie 9y ago
Are you really ready to forego hundreds of megabytes of RAM for merely log shipping? Fluentd could be a cheaper alternative to JVM-based routers. Also, what exactly is your question? > Any experience for handling missing data at scale? F
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Our system/ops guys (~50 people) are generally smart and nice people - but they're the classic victim Ops dudes that got renamed to DevOps overnight. That's just a name change. "DevOps" is just the same system
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by dozzie 9y ago
I display time on my dashboards because it gives me an idea how long ago they were refreshed. It may make sense on a page that changes with a time, for instance I could use a timestamp here on HN, both in comments and in article list. Note,
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by dozzie 9y ago
From where I stand, it's not really gaining any popularity, but I always wanted to use Ada for something practical, and I finally have something that needs a good language with a rich type system that is compiled to native code (and no
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by dozzie 9y ago
Mine too. Until Erlang, and now Ada. I'm building myself a harem.
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by dozzie 9y ago
A nice explaination of a raise negotiation strategy you've written there. I like it very much.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Why do you think I wouldn't point out the errors to him face to face? And conversely, would you point me the guidelines face to face if I did that in real life? Are you yourself sticking to the guidelines here? The chances are that y
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by dozzie 9y ago
In well-paying job that can be done remotely, apparently, not the programming itself.
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by dozzie 9y ago
How about you start with grammar and punctuation before giving advice on writing CV?
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by dozzie 9y ago
I don't know about Windows, but for unices there's RPM and DPKG.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> For example, on Debian derivatives, /etc/init.d/networking was logging to the console only. Good luck to get the output once the system has booted. Well, this is my luck: /var/log/boot, written by bootlogd
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by dozzie 9y ago
So? How do you tell between commercial and OSS projects in journald? And about that "quick" part, I'd rather have a way to do that that's either easy to recall or easy to re-develop. journald's magical incantations
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by dozzie 9y ago
> I was initial skeptical about their benefit - after all, an init script is just shell, it can be debugged literally with `sh -x`. But note that unit files along with their PID 1 cannot be debugged now. Which is a big step backwards.

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