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by ferdowsi 4y ago
They predicted COVID in 2008?? Why didn't they warn anyone? (it isn't the same deck)
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by ferdowsi 4y ago
In what way do Javascript heavy SPAs reduce supply chain attacks vs a no-JS solution?
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I Am Long on Netscape (1999)(boards.fool.com)
27 points by ferdowsi 4y ago|20 comments
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by ferdowsi 4y ago
I think that there's something to be said about how a successful business that grows outside of the Bay Area hegemony can be an important source of community growth, and an acquisition can dramatically undercut that. It's great th
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by ferdowsi 4y ago
I don't understand. How can a decentralized currency be unilaterally shut down?
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by ferdowsi 4y ago
Cloudflare is down 71% in that same period. Zoom is down 60%. Speculative pandemic tech darlings are no longer darlings and are being hammered across the board. It's going to be a rough time for anyone who had high hopes for their equi
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The once-booming tech industry is starting to cut jobs and costs(fortune.com)
7 points by ferdowsi 4y ago|2 comments
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by ferdowsi 4y ago
Americans are exempted from a great amount of capital gains as well.
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by ferdowsi 4y ago
The Register fulfills its role as a beacon of misleading tech sharebait.
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by ferdowsi 4y ago
Congratulations to everyone who thought this through and implemented it. I'll go so far as to say that Project Loom makes Java a more desirable web programming language to me than any language that has colored asynchronousity, like Rus
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by ferdowsi 4y ago
Kotlin coroutines are colored and infect your whole codebase. Virtual threads do not.
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by ferdowsi 4y ago
After the 2017 tax reform bill, itemizing deductions is not cost effective for the vast majority of Americans.
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Robinhood to lay off 9% of full time employees(techcrunch.com)
16 points by ferdowsi 4y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Are you getting an inflation-adjusted raise this year?
3 points by ferdowsi 4y ago|2 comments
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by ferdowsi 4y ago
The market will react at the next earnings report, not now. And only if customers start to bail.
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by ferdowsi 4y ago
Node has a more robust standard library than Rust, which forces devs to download third party libraries to compute a regular expression or generate a SHA-256. For now Node is a richer target due to its popularity but the same issues will hit
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by ferdowsi 4y ago
Academia trying to "Make Haskell Happen" is a clear indication of how disconnected it is from the practice of software engineering. Haskell is not going to happen.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
That's on the home screen, not displayed over content.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
That company that hires 10 engineers to create a bespoke orchestration system will inevitably end up re-inventing a buggy, poorly specified implementation of Kubernetes. Kubernetes gives a standardized set of abstractions and concepts that
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Oddly representative of the prevailing Ruby attitude to prefer saving two characters over something absolutely explicit and informative like `.call`
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Not just that, but I don't understand why users would be so eager to kill type safety in their applications. If i'm understanding, these injection methods are totally type-unsafe and construction errors are deferred until runtime?
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Technical discussions are far more ideologically driven than we give them credit for. Witness the hype cycles and evangelism machines around certain technologies, programming languages, etc. They're often barely rooted in technical me
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Github has been rewriting performance-critical components in Go for a while now. https://github.blog/2020-05-20-three-bugs-in-the-go-mysql-dr... > Although GitHub.com is still a Rails monolith, over the past few years we
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
I don't think it's coming back. The big players who started with Ruby during the peak of its 2008~ hype curve are having serious scaling pains and are looking to other more performant languages as a way out. Engineers at these com
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
IRC usage stats are freely available. It was never popular. https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php?year=2006
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
IRC was never widely popular outside of a gamer/geek niche. At its peak, QuakeNet never broke 250,000 "users", many of which were bots.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Comcast is a pretty big deal.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Funny that this would be used in defense of Stallman, a zealot who built his whole public personality on supposed "speaking truth to power". He literally called Microsoft "the Great Satan."
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
The default Go server supports HTTP/2. https://pkg.go.dev/net/http > Starting with Go 1.6, the http package has transparent support for the HTTP/2 protocol when using HTTPS.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Seems pretty clear that Facebook is putting this statement out because they're sweating their big stock slide and looking to staunch the bleeding whereever possible. If they were in a stronger position they would be sticking to attempt

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