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by dpratt 6y ago
This is a flawed analogy. The correct one would be Cheerios printing "If you buy me at Costco, I cost $1 less" on the outside of the box. No rational retailer that isn't Costco would carry that product.
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by dpratt 6y ago
I’m going to stop referring to these apps as copying the clipboard, and use the proper and accurate terminology: ‘keylogger’
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by dpratt 6y ago
Replace “low paid immigrant worker population” with “slave laborers” and you’ll be correct.
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by dpratt 6y ago
The usage of a timestamp (stored as a TEXT column!) as a primary key sets off every single alarm bell I have in my head. This is a shockingly poor decision, and a terrible way to enforce semantic uniqueness.
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by dpratt 7y ago
Perceived Wrongthink, or perhaps for the unforgivable crime of accidentally activating the overpowered ego defense reflex of a person or set of persons without good regulation of their amygdala.
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by dpratt 7y ago
In java (and every other C derived language that I know of) there’s a hard and explicit distinction between reference and primitive types. In fact, from a certain perspective the two flavors get treated identically. Comparing two integers w
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by dpratt 7y ago
It’s precisely the same behavior you would get with C, C++, C# for references, with C# defaulting the ‘==‘ operator to short-circuit to ReferenceEquals() unless otherwise re-defined.
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by dpratt 7y ago
Yes, and this is entirely consistent with the overall design of the language. The ‘==‘ does not have a special overload for String instances, which are reference types just like any other in the JVM. The equals operator does a reference com
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by dpratt 7y ago
If you present a problem to a government official that can be solved in a simple fashion or by a complex scheme that also grants them more power, they will go for the power every single time. From their perspective, it’s just a bonus that t
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by dpratt 7y ago
Also, the above article itself shows some empirical data that Uber will not, in fact, just hand over my data when asked. Note that I don’t think they do this out of the goodness of the hearts or altruism, but rather that they’ve done the ca
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by dpratt 7y ago
Explain how it is legal for Uber to send a team of armed men to kick down my door at 3am and forcibly confine me to a cell.
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by dpratt 7y ago
Uber doesn’t have a gigantic State apparatus with both a vested interest in and the ability to use violence to enforce it’s will on me. By your logic, it would be more reasonable to require that Google be barred from all data sent over emai
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by dpratt 7y ago
The fact that they voluntarily censored it in Russia and China is essentially definitive proof that they don’t actually care about the issue, but rather think it will gain them more money in the US. If they cared, they would have required t
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by dpratt 7y ago
> Clocks here on Earth currently read May 13th, 2019. Are you sure that we are in the same reference frame? I’m willing to accept that you started a fairly short journey at some appreciable fraction of C, turned around and gave just rece
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by dpratt 7y ago
Amen. This is equivalent to an attorney strongly encouraging a client to represent themselves in court.
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by dpratt 7y ago
You’re likely being downvoted due to the pithiness of your comment, but you make an excellent point. I’ve always promoted the three Iron Laws of never implementing 1) Encryption 2) Date/time math 3) Distributed locking/concurrency
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by dpratt 8y ago
Of course it does, and it would be a fundamental insult to the history and legacy of Western culture if it wasn’t protected speech.
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by dpratt 8y ago
Your account is three minutes old and this is your first (and only) comment. Additionally, your grammar indicates that you’re not a native English speaker. I’m not typically a tinfoil hat type of person, but I, at least, have a heavy amount
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by dpratt 9y ago
Considering the fact that it's an incredibly expensive rifle and that a quick FBI crime stats search shows no usage of it, and I cannot remember ever hearing about it being used in a crime, there's a high likelihood that nearly ev
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by dpratt 9y ago
I see what you did there. I’d be all for this, honestly, except that the existing containers (yes, even Jetty) are too heavyweight for this use case. What you really want is a stripped down server runtime that loads and starts your applicat
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by dpratt 9y ago
I don't know the details of how this is implemented - I'm assuming that it's some sort of translation of JVM byte code to asm.js and a re-implementation of the core JDK runtime - but the question arises: why? If you're s
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by dpratt 9y ago
I wonder how long until the first beta of Elastic Grocery System?
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by dpratt 9y ago
Scala would like to have a word with you.
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by dpratt 9y ago
"Don't be evil." "We make killer robots." That's one way to square the circle.
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by dpratt 9y ago
Any benchmark that includes a JVM language always makes me look for a disclaimer that they allowed for proper JIT/warming time by running the benchmark a few times in the same VM instance before collecting the numbers. I may have misse
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by dpratt 9y ago
"It can be combined with our technology specific modules such as those in Websphere, Power Builder and Java Swings, to form a powerful suite to test candidates for different positions." That pretty much sums up anything you might
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by dpratt 9y ago
I'd be curious to see the success rate for US-based engineers as well. I suspect it would be higher, but not by much at all. In my experience, outside of the prestige companies and communities, most of the people in our field are dang
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by dpratt 10y ago
This is precisely what we do on our cluster as well for the node-level daemons - kubelet and kube-proxy. We use fleet to schedule the HA API server. You cannot use the Kubelet to schedule this, because you need an API server to schedule clu
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by dpratt 10y ago
This is interesting, but has a potential problem - what do you use to schedule the control plane? Right now, we use Fleet to schedule a highly available k8s API server and associated singleton daemons. Then API server is required to get any
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by dpratt 10y ago
I ditched Dropbox years ago - I have no tolerance for any platform that requires an invisible (and not terribly inspectable) patch to my kernel. Plus, it ate batteries like nobody's business.

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