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by fooster 6y ago
You are misrepresenting the results. “ Although the difference observed was not statistically significant, the 95% CIs are compatible with a 46% reduction to a 23% increase in infection.”
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by fooster 6y ago
Why on earth did this garbage make the front page? For shame! The author is a total jerk trashing everything in his path with hyperbole rather than sound logical arguments. Read his rant on protobuf. Why would anyone waste their time tearin
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by fooster 6y ago
Nevertheless, this is how it is mostly done in Java. I haven't used eclipse in eons, but last time I did it even generated this code. If you care with go, use errcheck.
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by fooster 6y ago
This is such a bullshit argument. Why is it that any go post on hacker news pulls out all the tropes. Lack of exceptions. Lack of generics. Would generics make go a better a language? Maybe. Does the lack of generics make go objectively bad
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by fooster 6y ago
Error handling is hard, period. Error handling in go is no worse than any other language, and in most ways it is better being explicit and non-magic. > people who designed it did not have a proper language design background Irrelevant. &
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by fooster 6y ago
The error proposal wasn't "shot down at the last minute". That is an entirely unfair and disinguous take on the matter.
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by fooster 6y ago
Yes, yes in the future at some undefined point java will be better. Meanwhile go works very well today. And you don't need to be saddled with the JVM and the very bloated java ecosystem.
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by fooster 6y ago
You can read the full transcript https://public.simonsays.ai/AXqKjRV1Kken/revisionist-history... . But this paragraph summarizes things pretty well: "Let me spell it out for you: underneath the lofty rhetoric of th
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by fooster 6y ago
Learn your history better. http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/33-tempest-in-a-teacu...
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by fooster 7y ago
"GCP has excellent support with fast SLA-timed responses from support personnel" You have to be kidding me. Their payed support is terrible. We recently had a problem with occasional timeouts contacting the GCE container registry
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by fooster 7y ago
Google payed support for GCE is absolutely embarrassingly terrible. To get to someone who knows what they are talking about you have to go through many many people who have zero clue, over frustrating course of many days. Every.single.time.
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by fooster 7y ago
Other popular languages are not "getting" async. Asynchronous communication (just as synchronous) have been around since the dawn of computing. The choice of synchronous or asynchronous communication have their own set of tradeoff
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by fooster 7y ago
I'm 6ft, 190lbs so not substantially overweight. Airlines like Air Canada Rouge have a 29" seat pitch in standard economy. I find that very uncomfortable. Even their upgraded seats are very tight for me with my knees pressed up ag
194.
by fooster 7y ago
I expect to be able to sit in my seat without having my knees crushed? How about that for a start?
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by fooster 7y ago
I've run substantial systems (200+ node operations) on OVH and it was completely unreliable. The hardware kept breaking down, the internal network was terrible, and the support was terrible. Sometimes some backhoe would cut the network
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by fooster 7y ago
Their support is garbage. Their only answer to getting better support is to get a TAM. Which is completely ridiculous. Plus their SLA isn't worth the paper it is written on. They deny any SLA compensation unless your application is FT
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by fooster 7y ago
Their payed support is terrible and getting worse. We've had no end of issues with being told incorrect advice, being advised on how to administer our systems (when its very clear the problem is with the infrastructure). We've h
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by fooster 7y ago
I'm Canadian and I don't pay substantially more income tax that Americans do in high tax states such as California. So what do you get for your high taxes? Not health care thats for sure. I guess what you mostly get is a very expe
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by fooster 7y ago
Really? So monkey see monkey do? Leetcode doesn't represent much of anything to do with 99.9% of software development jobs. Mostly we're not solving puzzles, we're talking with stakeholders, designing systems, working with co
200.
by fooster 7y ago
What about the carbon footprint from the manufacturing and materials for the solar panels?
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by fooster 7y ago
You _have_ to be kidding me. The air plane, as proven by two crashes that killed every occupant in the plane, was fatally flawed. Boeing is negligent and the executives who ARE ultimately accountable should pay the cost.
202.
by fooster 7y ago
If your backups age out and are deleted over time it is ok (as long as that timeframe is reasonable).
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by fooster 7y ago
Sure we pay for their support. In fact, we pay them quite alot of money, but this "support" is horrible frustrating nonsense of dealing with email after email with clueless reps. When we complained about this basically we were tol
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by fooster 7y ago
customer.io |SRE | REMOTE | https://customer.io We're an automated messaging platform to send targeted emails, push notifications, and SMS to lower churn, create stronger relationships, and drive subscriptions. Come join ou
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by fooster 8y ago
customer.io | Backend Engineer, SRE | REMOTE | https://customer.io We're an automated messaging platform to send targeted emails, push notifications, and SMS to lower churn, create stronger relationships, and drive subscrip
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by fooster 8y ago
> Wolfram thinks he's the smartest person on the planet when he's objectively not. That was definitive. How is he objectively not? How are you defining the smartest person on the planet. By what criteria?
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by fooster 8y ago
For physical reasons.
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by fooster 8y ago
You can always invoice them manually as long as you keep track of whatever your billable items are. If its SMS's then keep track of how many they've sent and there you go. As long as they pay that is, otherwise you are out of pock
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by fooster 8y ago
Wow, empathy much?
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by fooster 8y ago
> for example, it will randomly recompile shaders behind your back while you are trying to have a smooth frame rate. What? I've written commercial games with opengl on osx/ios and my experience doesn't show that at all.

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