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by enneff 4y ago
I’ve worked at Google for a long time and I assure you the chances of some AI being involved in the selection process for these layoffs is very close to zero. Don’t be so confident in something you apparently know so little about.
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by enneff 4y ago
That couldn’t be further from my experience of working with Chris on open source at google for the last 13 years.
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by enneff 4y ago
My HTTP handlers tend to share state between invocations, such as caches and database drivers. If the cache or database driver panics then I don’t trust the cache or db to continue to be correct, so the only sensible thing is to shut the se
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by enneff 4y ago
Not really? A cgo wrapper for SQLite is by far the most popular way to use SQLite in Go and it works great. But I think it’s a major design error to use FFI for a thin client library. You’re bringing in a whole other network stack for what
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by enneff 4y ago
I also prefer not to use request handlers that recover from panics. In my codebases, a panic means fail now and fail hard. :-) I think if there’s a panic somewhere that you’re not explicitly expecting you can say goodbye to any notion of sa
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by enneff 4y ago
I prefer not to use defer at all in these cases. It’s too confusing. Just put the stuff that you would do between the defer and the end of the function in another function. It’s almost always clearer.
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by enneff 4y ago
The difference between your toy and Robert, Rob, and Ken’s toy is that yours was built for your own reasons and theirs was built for the purposes of software engineering at scale. Whatever your thoughts about Go suiting that purpose, that w
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by enneff 4y ago
> The product failed mostly for this reason. Citation needed. That doesn’t seem to be the case as far as I know. GeForce Now does the same thing and they’re making money.
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by enneff 4y ago
What fundamental physics problem? Plenty of gamers, even competitive FPS players, found Stadia quite a good experience from a technical standpoint. Best in class, as far as streaming game services go.
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by enneff 4y ago
> I'm sure they know exactly where every plane and every flight crew is at every moment. The story being circulated by Sw employees is that this is the failure. The system needs to be manually updated when flights are cancelled or c
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by enneff 4y ago
The entire domain name market is populated by rent seekers by definition. And GoDaddy has a long history of bad behaviour. Not surprising in the least.
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by enneff 4y ago
There’s none of it online anymore. Another life.
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by enneff 4y ago
Also, on track record, Valve have been very quiet in general about the huge piles of money they have raked in over the last 20 years.
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by enneff 4y ago
Seriously!! There’s something special about spending an afternoon taking photographs and only returning with half a dozen exposures. You really wanted to make every one count. And looking at that ground glass is like nothing else. And then
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by enneff 4y ago
In art school I took a lot of large format photos of industrial facilities at night, which often involved climbing chain-link fences with a huge pelican case and tripod. Totally worth it for the end results, and looking like a quaint old ti
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by enneff 4y ago
Psychologists are just humans, it’s true, and so they can be just as fallible as anyone. A good priest may also be helpful but for the non-religious they won’t have the essential shared values. By impartial I mean that they are at a remove
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by enneff 4y ago
Why so hostile to therapy? I have a great supportive network of friends and family, but even so a few times in my life I have seen a psychologist that gave me actionable advice that really helped me deal with personal hardships. An imparti
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by enneff 4y ago
How long term can they have been if you had “many” of them? There’s a huge difference between seducing someone for a casual relationship and forging a deep friendship with the person who becomes your life partner.
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by enneff 4y ago
Raising children in general is not something to be taken lightly.
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by enneff 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the co
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by enneff 4y ago
ImageLine software make a very popular audio production program called FL Studio that has been sold on a “pay once, free upgrades for life” basis for about 25 years. It has been cited as the most installed piece of music software. The produ
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by enneff 4y ago
Agree. I think they’re awesome birds and it is so cool they such an exotic looking bird should be considered a pest.
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by enneff 4y ago
Why on earth are you feeding a currawong? They’re among the meanest most mercenary omnivores; they hardly need your help.
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by enneff 4y ago
I think it’s just extreme culture shock. Some Japanese people, and likely the kind to follow a romanticised dream of visiting Paris, are very sheltered. If your first experience of a country other than Japan (a very ordered place with power
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by enneff 4y ago
Right. It’s not like if all the engineers walk out it’s suddenly going to fall over. It’s that when an issue comes up there may not be the expertise on hand to fix it. So the remaining twitter engineers should expect a rough time over the c
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by enneff 4y ago
I did. Are you running an affected node?
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by enneff 4y ago
The question: what is the state of your server after a handler panics? The answer: you have no idea. It is not wise to continue serving requests when you may have serious issues in the state of your server. Maybe some central data structure
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by enneff 4y ago
Being blinded is something many people temporarily experience without being “visually impaired.” Feeling depressed is something that everyone experiences, while they may not be clinically depressed. Heart attacks are similarly common; they
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by enneff 4y ago
Road design plays a huge role.
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by enneff 4y ago
Agree but it’s an insult to people that actually have it when it’s used casually. Like “bipolar” or “schizophrenic” also.

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