fallous

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by fallous 11y ago
Except the original that you replaced with your copy. You're opting for an external functional description of identity but the discussion is about the individual. It should be understand as conceded that a perfect copy of me would pas
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by fallous 11y ago
and off-by-one errors.
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by fallous 11y ago
More importantly, does anyone suggest that running the original brain and the copy doesn't result in two separate diverged intellects? If running two results in separate consciousnesses then obviously they are not the same.
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by fallous 11y ago
I too worked for AOL at one time, after they bought Netscape who happened to be my employer at the time. I very quickly took a severance option they were offering. There were also plenty of developers that fell under the iPlanet umbrella
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by fallous 12y ago
I've been cogitating on some of the themes Standage brings up in this interview for awhile and I suspect he's far more correct than incorrect. The proliferation of adblocking and incognito browsing is going to do marked damage to
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by fallous 12y ago
Yeah, rackspace-provided unit.
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by fallous 12y ago
I have seriously contemplated a special request handler for Chinese traffic that is being directed to the wrong host on our servers. Something along the lines of "Chinese government censors broke your internet" or the like. I fig
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by fallous 12y ago
We were the lucky targets of China's DNS poisoning on Monday the 19th. Any requests from clients in China to Edgecast's CDN was instead thrown at our public IP. After deducing what was going on, we ended up blacklisting large (c
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by fallous 13y ago
I want to make clear that I'm not intentionally faulting the OP in this situation, because the decision with regards to message brokers isn't easy in a complex system. Often you have to mix "lossy" messages (pubsub) wit
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by fallous 13y ago
"Used message queue as replacement for RPC service without actually implementing RPC pattern." Key learned from inevitable failure? Message queues are BAD! Except for the part where you weren't actually testing an MQ, you
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by fallous 13y ago
Heh, my employment agreement gives me a lot of freedom to do "whatever" since I negotiated that initially due to some ongoing contracting support I needed to provide. I've always viewed the blog->consulting path as sort of
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by fallous 13y ago
Oh yes, we have globals on an, erm, "global" basis. As a bonus, this codebase was originally written to be entirely flat-file driven and later database bolt-ons for large portions were merely backups for those files. Of course,
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by fallous 13y ago
The original system was purchased via contractor work and then maintained/expanded by an in-house employee who later managed two additional developers. That employee then left and the company decided it needed to find an experienced d
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by fallous 13y ago
Yeah, such an architecture isn't a panacea. As with any pattern you have to apply it to the right kind of problem. Treat every noun as a microservice, especially for reads, and you end up reinventing an RDBMS (poorly) in your code.
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by fallous 13y ago
Apologies in advance, this went longer than I anticipated. I'm in the midst of re-architecting a legacy system whose terribleness is legendary even in Hell. Given that this system has a fairly small set of nouns as well as a limited se
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by fallous 13y ago
I'm not sure if you're misremembering the Amiga flicker-fixer but the FF converted the 15KHz interlaced display of the Amiga to 30KHz (VGA style). It was the 15KHz interlace flickering that was noticeable, not the upgraded 30KHz
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by fallous 13y ago
You're of course correct about the classifieds business funding the news side of newspapers, as well as certain editorial brands as a revenue source. The problem is that in the absence of actual news gathering, editorializing becomes e
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by fallous 13y ago
I love coming up with ideas and executing on them as well, but that's not what provides value in the particular role I'm in at present. It is a good sign that you are worrying less about ideas and more about execution, especially
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by fallous 13y ago
True, but only to a degree. Are you the "idea guy" (in addition to coding) or is everyone expected to produce good ideas and those are vetted by a group of smart people? Too many founders think they have some exclusive intellige
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by fallous 13y ago
As opposed to those mindless workers who don't think except when on a time clock.
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by fallous 13y ago
Failure #7: The Founder needs to STFU: Your customers at the end of the day define your business, because they spend the money that enables you to continue. While you believe you have great thoughts, as a commercial entity you do not have
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by fallous 13y ago
I'm not entirely sure why this is getting downvoted so much other than possibly tone that offends the FP community (I'm sympathetic since the evergreen Perl is dying! stuff causes a twitch in me for down voting as well). The bigge
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by fallous 13y ago
No, "basically" I'm saying the first and am silent on the transferring of power since in this particular case I disagree with the power regardless of which level of government is involved in exercising it.
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by fallous 13y ago
Except for the part where it was the Federal government and it's "war on drugs" that established the civil forfeiture laws.
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by fallous 13y ago
I'd recommend "It Couldn't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis as a more appropriate choice.
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by fallous 13y ago
It could also be difference in circumstance. Note that the bone growth occurs as a response to muscle damage, so a more active child who suffers a higher incidence of standard bumps and bruises would be more likely to have more ossificatio
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by fallous 13y ago
A reference to Don Johnson's terrible "Hearbeat" song from the 80s?
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by fallous 13y ago
I worked for a newspaper group from 2001-2008 trying to convince them to reinvent themselves and veer off the suicide course they had chosen. They have to stop trying to be "portals" in the crap late-90s meaning (which reflects their legacy
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by fallous 13y ago
Yes and no. The front-end (as far as web goes) is still HTML and Javascript, just better frameworks. And the base patterns of good design still apply regardless of the front-end technology. The back-end in the last five years or so has de
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by fallous 14y ago
Scrappers are doing it every day. Back in an earlier time my wife's aunt and uncle used to drive a truck into Denver and pick up the food waste from area hotels to feed their hogs (when this wasn't forbidden by the USDA). The newspaper gr

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