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by eric_b 9y ago
Somewhat off topic, but I doubt very much there are any professors at state schools specializing in research that spend anywhere near 55 hours a week on their classes. Maybe he meant per month.
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by eric_b 9y ago
As I was reading the first few sentences, describing the slash collapsing, I was thinking to myself "oh no, I hope they don't just 'fix the glitch'". That behavior is so old and pervasive on the web, about the last
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by eric_b 9y ago
I've never understood what real problems Web Components solve with all their complexity. In theory shadow DOM and Custom Elements are useful - but the implementation in Web Components leaves a lot to be desired for people trying to
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by eric_b 9y ago
650 million dollars to tally some simple demographic information? I understand there is always more to the story - but this doesn't pass the smell test. Additionally, what does the Census Bureau need 1.5 billion for on a non-census y
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by eric_b 9y ago
Yep, that's why I said "it's obviously not that simple". I also described "downward pressure" on wages, not a cutting of wages in half.
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by eric_b 9y ago
I don't think you're being sexist. I think that's a very good question. If we roughly double the supply of labor, but have roughly the same number of jobs - what would happen? Wages would naturally go down. It's obvi
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by eric_b 9y ago
I take most of these articles with a grain of salt. The Washington Post has not (lately, at least) been a source of hard hitting analysis. Additionally, this study has not been peer reviewed, but they certainly treat it as though it has.
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by eric_b 9y ago
This is how you write release notes. This is the only project where I routinely read the release notes "cover to cover" every month. Great job!
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by eric_b 9y ago
Oh please, you're propping up a strawman. You don't need to be an "ubermensch" to survive, and that's not at all what I'm saying. I'm saying you can't expect to be lazy and make bad choices and also
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by eric_b 9y ago
Because that's how nature works? Because it's naive to think we've evolved so far that we are no longer subject to natural forces and evolutionary history?
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by eric_b 9y ago
I don't disagree that there is a group of folks who are working hard and still struggling. I also agree that there should be some wiggle room for a few bad decisions not to sink you completely (depending on the severity of the decisio
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by eric_b 9y ago
I totally agree with you. I've thought about this as well. Most of the folks I know in bad situations had some early stumbles and they sort of just gave up, as you say. The thing is - and where I struggle - is that the early stumble
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by eric_b 9y ago
Midway down the author mentions a study that showed most Americans object to "unfairness" rather than "inequality". I've found this to be the case for me personally. If someone tries hard, works diligently, and m
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by eric_b 10y ago
This is a great move. I appreciate what Phantom (and the maintainer) were trying to do, but I have always loathed PhantomJS. It has never worked well. In fact, I'd been away from it for some time, but just last night needed to insta
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by eric_b 10y ago
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that most people on HN don't like this attitude. I used to think this kind of thing was stupid too. "Oh, management by fiat, that will never work". I see comments here talking about ma
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by eric_b 10y ago
This is a classic. After more than a decade in the bowels of the Fortune 500, this rings as true today as ever. I try and re-read every couple of years to refresh my memory. One additional thing I'll add: Over the years it's bec
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by eric_b 10y ago
Yes! I will use my Kindle Keyboard until they discontinue it. The large page turn buttons are amazing. I am so surprised that they went away from these. Do people not realize how much better it is?
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by eric_b 10y ago
I'm not sure I love the article, but I agree with the author's sentiment. I'm 4 years in to a successful bootstrapped startup, and I've lost many close acquaintances. I simply don't have time to keep the social co
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by eric_b 10y ago
> We've eliminated most of the joins we do, so we haven't tested Cloud Spanner's join performance. The join performance is by far the most interesting part of this to me. A more traditional NoSQL solution sounds like it w
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by eric_b 10y ago
I like thinking about applications in terms of read-side and write-side. I'm not super enamored with async CQRS, but I am a huge fan of APIs and data models where the developers realized that how I consume the data is wildly different
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by eric_b 10y ago
One of the projects I worked on was in finance. The fact that we were going to get "a free audit log" from the architecture made everyone so excited. After the CQRS/ES project failed (I was on cleanup duty) we used a more tr
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by eric_b 10y ago
We had no data loss incidents. My concern was around tooling and maintenance of the database. Once you had to start clearing out bad events in dev environments or doing common administrative chores there were many holes. I never did find
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by eric_b 10y ago
I was waiting for the "you're doing it wrong" guy to show up. You win! Yes, some of the systems used subscriptions too, which had their own set of issues. Additionally, domains are almost never completely understood. Even i
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by eric_b 10y ago
We didn't get terribly far down the road with Datomic. Management/administration of the DB was not for the faint of heart. (At the time the docs were simply terrible, maybe they are better now?) We would see data corruption&#x2F
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by eric_b 10y ago
I detailed some of the problems I saw in another thread, but one other thing that gets challenging is the CQRS side (if you choose to keep everything async). For example, say you fire an "address change" event. That gets sent to t
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by eric_b 10y ago
One of the projects did use Kafka as the "event log". There were stability issues with the version of Zookeeper that was used. From a writer/reader perspective Kafka was sufficiently performant when it was up. (The Zookeep
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by eric_b 10y ago
I have worked on, or cleaned up, 4 different CQRS/ES projects. They have all failed. Each time the people leading the project and championing the architecture were smart, capable, technically adept folks, but they couldn't make
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by eric_b 10y ago
I mean... jeez, again with the name-calling. Have you looked up the definition of "bigot"? It's defined as a person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions. In the comments I've seen you post so far,
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by eric_b 10y ago
On the basis of race and IQ I admit I am mostly ignorant of the arguments. A quick Wiki search reveals there are plenty of studies that have shown a correlation (whether the methodology was sound is under attack it seems). So while there m
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by eric_b 10y ago
I'm not sure if you realize it - but your comment is the problem, not the original poster. Sometimes facts don't fit a political narrative. Comments like yours are what have polarized the nation. Your knee-jerk reaction to anyt

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