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by erikb 8y ago
I don't see how this relates to the question whether consistency is needed. If two tables only have 80% of all the rows that you expect you can STILL do a join on them. It's just that the join, just like your original data, is not
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by erikb 8y ago
Why not take this pain and think about other forms of architecture? Maybe a consistent source of all truth is a bullshit requirement?
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by erikb 8y ago
Why does anybody need to provide consistency? Often you don't have complete consistency anyways. There are bugs, there are time delays, there is parallel processing. Why even have the requirement?
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by erikb 8y ago
Consistency is a requirement that holds us back deeply. Implementing constency with eventually voted know-all masters are also holding us back. Looking at this makes an engineers heart cringe. In fact the current architecture is only slight
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by erikb 8y ago
> Why go out of your way to poison a no-name activist that operates in fringe circles for researching a story that nobody would care about, even if Putin were to confess live on TV channel 1? I don't want to support or disagree with
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by erikb 8y ago
Totally with you on the disappointed part. People want things to work, but they don't care why something works and something else doesn't. So usually they allow others to bullshit them into using mediocre solutions just because th
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by erikb 8y ago
Please mark in the headline that this article is from 2016.
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by erikb 8y ago
> Best manager I ever had. Very sorry to hear that.
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by erikb 8y ago
> 1.) 40-60 percent of a [US] company’s supply chain moves out of China especially highlighting the part that I added: US company. Does anybody think this is a bad thing for China? I'd argue that this is one of China's core int
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by erikb 8y ago
Why's what? And probably also: Are you aware that the request to work in email somehow is a joke with about 90% certainty?
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by erikb 8y ago
Also nowadays they manipulate what you see. From one source you like you might only get 1 out of 100 posts into your stream, and another source you don't care so much about you get 10.
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by erikb 8y ago
Sending oneself some nifty HTML email would certainly create some cringe, if one likes that.
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by erikb 8y ago
Maybe someone is paying a PR company do push the topic because they plan to release a new product around RSS. Would certainly be interesting.
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by erikb 8y ago
That's quite interesting. Do you have more stuff to read about it? I never really used podcasts so I always wondered how people listen to it and assumed people use spotify or something like that.
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by erikb 8y ago
> LESSON: Never trust a big company that relies on advertising. Let me rephrase that. Never trust people more powerful than you to consider your situation. That is basically also a core principle of the distributed building blocks of the
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by erikb 8y ago
> And worst case, there's no major downside to open sourcing language tools. Worst case is you didn't protect your IP and people get fired because the competition makes the money.
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by erikb 8y ago
The thing is that the enterprises seem to be okay with them being the only user of their open source projects. Don't ask me why they then decide to do open source projects in the first place, but that's what I'm seeing.
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by erikb 8y ago
Wasn't HHVM created as compiler or interpreter for PHP?
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by erikb 8y ago
> you can use git by itself and send the diffs to each other over email Why not send it via ssh? It's much easier. And if the data is not too big you don't send diffs but complete file states. Git usually calculates the diffs o
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by erikb 8y ago
Sounds like what's happening in many interesting areas these years, to be honest.
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by erikb 8y ago
Huh? Email >>>>> Twitter over like 40 years or more? You don't work as an engineer, right? If you would, you would know how low the quality of most centralized technology is that is created by big corps. Most of the good
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by erikb 8y ago
Ah, really? Not just for presentation but for interactivity? Can you name an example?
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by erikb 8y ago
Well maybe apps like Facebook (=Instagram), Apple Weather, Gmaps will "only" use your data internally, but they also make most of their money from ads. So yes, all our data is always used to target ads, political campaigns and &qu
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by erikb 8y ago
How so? It's just a way of representation. The power is still with the ISPs, backbone providers and governments. Power would only flow to the end user if the communication technology itself would enable him direct 1:1 communication to
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by erikb 8y ago
or Unity or RPG Maker. Think about you want to build your own game and have tools like the Dwarf Fortress World generator as a starting point. This way it becomes much easier to create a lively world.
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by erikb 8y ago
I think this stuff is interesting but not heavily moving. Every few years someone shares a tool like this. But why not have such a tool connected to something useful like a flight simulator or openstreetmaps, or in a format that game engine
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by erikb 8y ago
I wish they would apply classical concurrency patterns instead of acting every 5-10 years like there would be none and we would need to start to develop them from zero. If you have some experience with distributed systems and take a look at
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by erikb 8y ago
Why does it make you sad and angry? It sounds quite reasonable to me. I'm especially happy that we went for human readable names rather than wierd letter/number combinations. Also nobody seems to know when to use these [] brackets
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by erikb 8y ago
The main point of the original comment with that claim was a little hidden but is this: I come from the eastern side of the Iron Curtain and saw socialism in practice in my youth. Then I saw how in the 90s and 00s everything socialist was s
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by erikb 8y ago
Not from my side. That you associate "socialist" with "negative" might be already the result of propaganda, though.

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