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by femto113 4y ago
There are two fundamental reasons HATEOS just doesn't work in practice. The first is that most services can't easily or reliably know their own absolute URLs , and HATEOS (and the behavior of many HTTP libraries) is inconsistent
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by femto113 4y ago
Or embrace it... I don't seem to mistype ls often enough to care, but my ~/.alias has a few things of this sort # some common typos alias grpe grep alias gpre grep alias mroe more alias mreo more alias rmeo mor
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by femto113 4y ago
Amazon's scale encounters limits that most companies don't ever have to consider. There's a parallel from 20ish years ago: Amazon eschewed software performance engineering with the mantra "if it can be solved with a cre
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by femto113 4y ago
This is your brain on java.
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by femto113 4y ago
As far back as the late 1970s a surprisingly similar scheme was used to record digital audio to analog video tape. It mostly looks like kind of stripey static, but there was a clear correlation between what happened musically and what happ
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by femto113 4y ago
Protecting people from foreseeable disaster is not the same as infantilizing them, and greed doesn't explain why we need laws requiring seat belts and prohibiting unsubstantiated claims on herbal "remedies" and warnings that
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by femto113 4y ago
Everything is politics, but most of HN's comment section is sufficiently homogenized around Silicon Valley libertarian ideology that political conflict is rarely at the forefront of discussions. A much more practical reason HN surviv
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by femto113 5y ago
"Turning a profit" has almost no meaning, particularly with mark-to-market investments in the mix. More concretely Uber's business has never generated positive cash flow (i.e. taken in more money in a given period than they
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by femto113 5y ago
Interesting. Using Wave broadband in Seattle from this server I get 38.69 Mbps Download 154.43 Mbps Upload While from speedtest.net (to a local server) I get 178.34 Mbps Download 192.23 Mbps Upload I'd chalk it
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by femto113 5y ago
Many years worth of source code filled with comments like // if we don't toggle bit 7 here 10% of transactions will fail on Thursdays // see JIRA issue BIGPROJ-12654 for detailed discussion
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by femto113 5y ago
On *nix systems there's a file (usually /etc/services) that maps protocol/service names to ports. Back in the 90s I was working as a solutions architect for a Bay Area software company and among other duties I occasiona
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by femto113 5y ago
> Should I be writing reminders to myself to always double check everything? > Should I write down the steps to every process? Yes, but... this should be in the form of code if feasible or shared documentation (README or wiki content)
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by femto113 5y ago
This author seems to have rediscovered the two fundamental forces of gambling but I prefer the names "hotness" and "dueness". (Something is "hot" if it has happened more often than expected recently, and &quot
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by femto113 5y ago
In the old American paper check system there was an important but subtle distinction between "fraud in the making" and "fraud in the inducement". If a criminal stole your checkbook and forged a check then an intermediar
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by femto113 5y ago
To be pedantic the assignment returns null (always returns the rvalue[1]), it's the const statement that produces undefined[2] [1] https://tc39.es/ecma262/multipage/ecmascript-language-statem... [2] https:&#
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by femto113 5y ago
Actually Spotify bought the exclusive rights to his full back catalog (for a lot of money) so he's not free to publish them elsewhere.
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by femto113 5y ago
I've worked at Amazon, I won't work there again, but I have (and likely will again) recommend it on occasion for other people as a hugely valuable learning experience. The reason is that Amazon has a strong bias towards getting s
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by femto113 5y ago
This has been obvious for a long time, because if it wasn't true it would be trivial for Tesla to disprove it, and they haven't. Allow me to quote myself (from a discussion about an Autopilot related crash in 2019 [1]) "The f
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by femto113 5y ago
I'm guessing you haven't worked for Amazon.
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by femto113 5y ago
Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it? "On March 21, 2012, Draw Something was bought by the gaming company Zynga for $180 million. The game's popularity peaked on the day of the sale, and the number of daily activ
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by femto113 5y ago
What percentage of your current SSEs are female?
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by femto113 5y ago
> Should a sandwich be cut diagonally or horizontally This very much depends on the sandwich. Cheese? Diagonally. Peanut Butter and Jelly? Horizontally (or really what I would think of as vertically, since bread usually has more symmet
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by femto113 5y ago
Think I have to side with Readium on this one, since the source code contains the actual bytes of the master key: def secret_transform_profile10(input_hash): ... # This 64-byte master key is basically all that distin
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by femto113 5y ago
The spread operator looks cool and makes just returning the ternary operator work here but its performance implications are non-obvious (it's makin' copies). With reduce() you're really wanting something like this: [1,
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by femto113 5y ago
I can think of lots of reasons why it was made: sorting ints is fast, storing them is compact, etc. Doesn't mean it wasn't a terrible decision (with readily foreseeable consequences) but I don't find it irrational or even su
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by femto113 5y ago
Even with Outposts you're not "buying" the rack (Amazon still owns it and takes it away at the end of the term), you're just committing to keeping it long enough for them to make money on it. The choice of paying upfron
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by femto113 5y ago
That's not the way AWS typically prices things--my guess is the hardware and setup costs will be baked into the monthly service charges.
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by femto113 5y ago
Ah from the time of great widget wars, when Motif and OPEN LOOK were battling for GUI supremacy. I was vehemently team OL (via Sun's OpenWindows flavor) and absolutely loathed how bulky the borders felt on Motif windows.
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by femto113 5y ago
My direct experience is somewhat out of date, but from an engineering perspective the unit I have is much simpler than any TV, since it lacks a tuner or any fancy video scaling capability, and has no audio capability of any kind (that was a
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by femto113 5y ago
Another approach is to look not for things advertised as "monitors" but instead look for "digital signage"[1]. Nowadays most of these contain some networking features but they'll be oriented at local control (i.e.

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