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by ecshafer 10mo ago
There is this consistent myth by the most radical faction of people in the country. They are only the most radical 5 or 10%, but they seem to believe their anti-nationalist, anti-government, anti-American views are much more widely share th
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
Of course they did. Unions are always going to be against immigrant labor.
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
The fact of the matter is that you read through a lot of these start up blogs on how they scaled X technology to some amazing number like 1000 users a day or whatever. But your average Java Spring app on Postgres is doing some far heavier w
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
What does this have to do with anything?
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
What's the largest company you've worked for? A lot of big, older companies, are just so messed up that its just not worth it. How do you do this? Well you have to find the specific form, or specific person who does the thing, who
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
The F35 was like 10 years and $50B over budget.
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
An Engineering degree and a TS is basically a guaranteed job. They might not be the flashiest FAANG jobs, but it is job security. In this downturn where people talk about being unable to find jobs for years in big cities, I look around my l
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
Depends. You use vendor specific libraries for hard real time systems, or in house libraries, or roll your own functions.
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
I've always strongly disliked this argument of not enough X programmers. If the DoD enforces the requirement for Ada, Universities, job training centers, and companies will follow. People can learn new languages. And the F35 and Americ
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
You're right, I forgot about that. Paramount with Sky is pretty big.
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
IMO I think we are going to see Paramount, STARZ and AMC bought up soon. I don't think they can compete with Disney, Comcast or Netflix in size.
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
I was always wondering why Netflix didn't do some acquisitions for backlogs with how much they spend making mediocre to terrible movies and tv shows.
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
I don't think I could agree with you more. I think that more in tech and business should think about and read about philosophy, the mind, social interactions, and society. ED Tech for example I think really seems to neglect the kind of
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
The bright side is the bust is going to make a glut of cheap used parts.
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
From what Ive read his son is pretty actively involved day to day already at valve.
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
If there is 1 job at a university. And there are 10 researchers applying. And 1 took this improvement in research speed to do more research, and 9 took the change to play more piano and take more walks, then most likely that one will get th
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
A lot of them actually. Ceph personally I've used. But there's a ton, some open source, some paid. Backblaze has a product Buckets or something. Dell powerscale. Cloudian has one. Nutanix has one.
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
Is this just the open source portion? Minio is now a fully paid product then?
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
IMO AWS once you get off the core services is full of beta services. S3, Dynamo, Lambda, ECS, etc are all solid. But there are a lot of services they have that have some big rough patches.
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
Rust is more of a competitor to C++ than C. Manual memory management is sometimes really helpful and necessary. Zig has a lot of safety features.
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
Have you tried Odin? Its a great language thats also a “better C” but takes more Go inspiration than Zig.
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
Is this Django? I could maybe see that argument there. Some frameworks and ORMs can muddy that distinction. But most the code ive written its really clear if something will lead to io or not.
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
Programming is pretty lucky that there is also large demand for programmers, and the product is high grossing, because the salaries are good. Most other fields with a passion component are low paying. Almost all of the arts Film, Music, Wri
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
I like the look of this direction. I am not a fan of the `async` keyword that has become so popular in some languages that then pollutes the codebase.
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
I kind of have to disagree. I have really learned to love the explicitness of a big ole' switch statement. Its fast, no misdirection, all available in one place, and its easily readable where you need it. All of the "clean code&qu
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
Siri is really a pretty useless product. Its annoying that sometimes I can say “siri is x y” and it will answer me but other times it will respond “sorry I cant google this while youre driving” or whatever response. I see no reason I cant s
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
I write almost all of the code, but I love AI for getting boiler plate out of the way and getting docs. Chatgpt is way faster at giving me a switch statement for all Tif Tags than I could make myself, that's not mentally stimulating co
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
I don't think that anyone, much less someone working in tech or engineering in 2025, could still hold beliefs about Chinese not being capable scientists or engineers. I could maybe give (the naive) pass to someone in 1990 thinking Chin
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
IMO Middle Class = PMC (Professional Managerial Class) in Marxist terms. They are the members of the working class (they have to work or they will starve, go homeless, etc) but are highly compensated because they are essential to functionin
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by ecshafer 11mo ago
Are you in a major tech market (SF? Seattle?) I was a laid off in the beginning of the year from my remote job, landed several interviews, and I found a new job in <2 months. My resume is less impressive than yours, ~10 years of experien

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