ferdowsi

21 ms·

151.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
> Seriously, I think one of the biggest misconceptions people with opinions like yours might have is that we are somehow unified in these decisions or occurrences – we are not – and the healthy dissent is what, over time, hopefully bends
152.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
Microsoft did have a bad reputation, but primarily as a bad corporate player. They didn't have a reputation as a company that values profit over tearing apart civil societies.
153.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
Not sure why you think this. I work for a major organization and we have made sure to pay close attention to the outcomes of behavioral interviews when we evaluate candidates from Facebook, as we do from other organization with major reputa
154.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
I worked for a startup that built their services using Python and Twisted. The codebase was a monolith broken up into several Twisted services, by the time I left it was probably 200k LOC of Python. For us, the scaling problems started when
155.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
My understanding is that Dropbox has been building performance-critical parts of their services in Go since 2014 at the least. https://twitter.com/jamwt/status/629727590782099456 Like many companies, they had init
156.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
2016 was an inflection point because we had a particular candidate that built a movement that weaponized disinformation and falsehoods. Legacy media continually boosted Trump's profile as a curiosity, and was hesitant to outright call
157.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
Musk (and his PR machine) leans into his mostly manufactured image as an eccentric genius, which charms an audience who is susceptible to that type of thing. Bezos has had no significant public profile to speak of except as a brutal, unrele
158.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
Agreed. The theoretical fat-fingering SRE who stopped all access to FB has probably done more to benefit humanity than any other single engineer in recent memory.
159.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
Flaws often represent design tradeoffs. Rust's lengthy compile times are a tradeoff for a highly sophisticated type system, where Go made the opposite choice (a simple type system for fast compiles). As a web engineer I prefer the latt
160.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
An issue with a Rust-like ? operator is that it is sanctifying the "result, error" return values. It's entirely possible to return three or four values from a Go method (if not common). With generics Go is opening up the poss
161.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
Ad-ops is way ahead of you. Facebook and other corporate surveillers will track you on the backend, like whenever you make a purchase or some other transaction on an unassociated site. Your client-side protections won't save you.
162.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
You'd be correct, it's a really unfortunate design decision. The author of CrankJS has a full critique here. https://crank.js.org/blog/introducing-crank
163.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
I rediscovered the joy of my carefully tagged music collection with Plex. Turns out I really do prefer the media I gathered (whether for sentimental or quality reasons)
164.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
The collection is focusing on world-historical figures. The historicity of figures like the Queen of Sheba is disputed.
165.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
We do. The Socialist Alternative are a viable party in places like Seattle, local politicians often run as independents aligned with organizations like DSA, etc.
166.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
Agreed. My organization has been a great testing ground for comparing Go vs Rust service development. The teams that spun up web services in Rust have almost uniformly have had poor experiences. In addition to Rust's steep learning cur
167.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
After the relevations about Elm's dysfunctional leadership culture[1] I have seen vocal discouragement about investing in Elm, and reasonably so. This is a culture where Elm's leaders actively attempt to shut down criticism as &qu
168.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
Congratulations to the Vue team, this is definitely a big win for them. Reading through the RFC is really interesting. They specifically call out the dependency on Facebook as effectively being React's Single Point of Failure, citing t
169.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_Processing_Unit > Osterloh did explain that the SoC is an ARM chip designed around a TPU, or Tensor Processing Unit
170.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
Downvoting to disagree is effectively a heckler's veto to make minority positions literally disappear. It rewards organized brigading from motivated parties you don't want to see particular criticisms be surfaced. I don't und
171.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
Is there really no better design for "aside" conversations than this? People lean on Slack threads too much, leading to a confused flow of conversation that makes it extremely difficult to piece together how the discussion was end
172.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
Despite all its problems, SF is still among the more attractive cities to live in the region, which is full of desolate, charmless suburbs. Tech moving out of the Bay is happening, but many workers will still be stuck with living in the reg
173.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
The tone of this discussion makes it seem like there is long-running interpersonal conflicts between discussants. Anyone know the context here?
174.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
You can do this natively in the Mac keyboard settings.
175.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
I'm personally glad that Kubernetes has saved me from needing to manage all of this. I'm much more productive as an applications engineer now that I don't have to stare at a mountain of bespoke Ansible/Chef scripts opera
176.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
Why can you not have downtime-free deploys? You tell your applications to drain connections and gracefully exit on SIGTERM. https://pkg.go.dev/net/http#Server.Shutdown If your server is incapable of gracefully exiting,
177.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
Firefox removing support for non-encrypted data protocols makes me more confident in them, so consider me a fan of this messaging.
178.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
To you it's a golden age, to others this is a period where the internet was thoroughly weaponized by misinformation agents to undermine democracy and civil societies around the world.
179.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
The messaging always was "we haven't come up with a good solution for generics." this is in the faq. https://golang.org/doc/faq#generics
180.
by ferdowsi 5y ago
You don't need to press the search box twice. Focusing the search box renders a tag view, but once you start typing it will search free text.

More ›