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by edude03 10y ago
I'm pretty sure the goal of reproducible builds is to be able to get the same binary as made somewhere from the source code. Arguably binaries are a form of memoizing / caching if you look at compilation as a pure functional probl
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by edude03 10y ago
I'd argue that what make FP languages better than non FP languages is when it comes to hiring developers that know FP languages are more flexible. For example I can expect a scala developer to be able to implement functional principals
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by edude03 10y ago
I guess it depends on who you are. As a consumer - android is in "shambles" because there isn't one phone that is "perfect" as per original comment. There isn't one phone that is comparable to the iPhone in eve
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by edude03 10y ago
As a mobile dev and tinkerer I buy lots of tech to test ideas and see the state of tech.
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by edude03 10y ago
They definitely _can_ improve, by my point was I doubt they care enough to do so. 1 - it costs them time/money 2- most of their customers won't care enough
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by edude03 10y ago
Eh, OK, I'll be the contrarian here and side with the article. The headline is definitely clickbaity however the article, while devoid of strong evidence is basically true. Nexus phones are supposed to be the gold standard of android,
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by edude03 10y ago
That sounds sort of like Contentful (not affiliated in anyway, but came up when I was looking for a "content storage as a service" type thing.
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by edude03 10y ago
I interviewed with Joist 2ish years ago but after the first interview I didn't think the culture was conducive to my career goals. News like this makes me feel like I dodged a bullet.
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by edude03 10y ago
I don't disagree with you, but I think we've come to expect too much from software updates at the same time. For example, security updates and performance improvements are often touted as the reason we should get software updates
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by edude03 10y ago
"Unless Google is going to unveil some new mechanism for updating Android - which would essentially mean taking it out of the hands of the hardware OEMs and carriers" Arguably this already happened, depending on who you ask. Googl
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by edude03 10y ago
I agree, but on OSX that is the same screen real estate as 1080p. I personally use 5K monitors so I can get 2560x1440
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by edude03 11y ago
I feel like after the recent shuttering of other (D)BaaS services, I can't even consider another such service unless it's open source. One the flip side - what was that database that apple bought then closed sourced without warnin
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by edude03 11y ago
I have a secret dream of having a secure "big data in a box" solution based on Linux / GPUs (likely nVidia) and lots of storage (like 8 6TB drives in Raid z2). This processor and motherboard would be fine if it had more IO (4
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by edude03 11y ago
I'm getting really tired of these sort of posts/comments on how hard it is to make a "simple website" these days. If you want to make a website the old way no one is stopping you. Tools exist because no one wants to do i
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by edude03 11y ago
The difference is that cable companies want it both ways. They charge you a minimum for a set amount of serivce AND they charge you if you use more than that AND you don't always get what you pay for (since it's "up to"
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by edude03 11y ago
I have a unifi security gateway, a mfi power bar and a unifi ac uap pro and I was originally turned off by the fact that each tool installs and configures their own mongodb instance (that conflict which each other when installed on the same
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by edude03 11y ago
It's great when it's that low, my problem with DOCSIS is that it's not consistent. When there is low utilization in your neighbourhood it's fine but when everyone is home for the holidays for example it becomes unbearabl
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by edude03 11y ago
It's both TDMA and FDM. Your modem can bond multiple channels on the same coax but each channel is shared amongst all the subscribes on the CMTS. Each DOCSIS revision ups the spatial efficiency of each channel but also ups the number o
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by edude03 11y ago
Practically speaking modern Ethernet switches are non blocking though which allows every port to talk to every other port at full speed. With DOCSIS being TDMA there isn't a way to improve speed to the backbone (other than adding more
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by edude03 11y ago
I hate to be negative about progress but I wish companies would stop deploying DOCSIS and other time division multiple access strategies like that. Because DOCSIS is TDMA based its always going to have a problem with latency jitter and perf
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by edude03 11y ago
I wonder how they terminate it into the premises? AFAIK (I don't work with fiber though) there aren't SFPs that go above 10G per fiber. On the other hand, there are connectors like MTP ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by edude03 11y ago
I think that's a very reasonable thing to complain about in the context of dependency management. The runtime (node.js) and it's compile time + run time options are actually a dependancy of your application. As an end user, I shou
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by edude03 11y ago
In a nutshell yes. The binary argument is true as well, however many developers don't want to make their sources avaialbe which means other than going source -> some obfuscated IR -> native, thre is no way to allow the end user t
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by edude03 11y ago
I don't disagree, and of course swapping out libc might be an extreme example, but my point still stands - ideally I shouldn't have to rely on any specific dependencies being in place to deploy my software.
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by edude03 11y ago
npm is an example of a bad solution to dep management. So I want you to run my 6kb node.js script you need to: 1) Build obtain node for your platform (and now you've hit the exact problem I'm talking about) 2) install npm (which
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by edude03 11y ago
It's supposed to be for devops, but in practice developers use docker as a way to solve dependency management on the server more so than to seperate instances of apps from each other. Especially with "microservices" it makes
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by edude03 11y ago
Slightly off topic, but I'm really frustrated with the state of software packaging these days. Every solution tries to solve the same problems (reliable dependancy resolution, reliable installation and removal) but they all try and sol
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by edude03 11y ago
Nowadays every integrated transceiver is an SDR. It's much cheaper to build hardware that works over a range of frequencies and limit those frequencies via software than it is to make multiple SKUs of hardware that are hardware limited
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by edude03 11y ago
I see, for some reason I thought it was Voice over IP tunnelled to google via VPN (over wifi or LTE). My mistake.
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by edude03 11y ago
I'm surprised that (it seems) google isn't using Multipath TCP to carry the VPN traffic to google. This would allow it to switch seamlessly between LTE and Wifi and in theory even LTE and LTE while maintaining the VPN connection a

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