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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
Interestingly, the US government may have plasma weapons as far back as 1993. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARAUDER The first attempt at a plasma ring weapon was successful enough to be classified immediately and no
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
Python and Node use far more memory than Java. Golang uses less but not by orders of magnitude, maybe 3x less. Sounds like your JVM GC settings were off, Golang has GC just like Java. Most Netflix and Google services are built in Java...
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
NYC aggressively arrests anyone breaking the rules so homeless don't stay there. Now I'm in a city with a lot of visible homeless and the government tolerating it is the real problem. They allow homeless to build massive camps fil
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
It's all part of the endless fight against proprietary systems. When cloud providers started using 'optimized' images the response was to move everything above the VM to 'container' level. The same thing happened in
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
It doesn't feel like a tech bubble really. The recent crop of unicorns may not be as successful as FB/Google but besides theranos they're making good money. Most are busy burning free cash so there might be layoffs when/
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
I agree. Microservices have no tooling and a shitload of overhead. After working on such a project I think microservices are an anti-pattern. After a certain point you have to maintain state across service boundaries and all hell breaks loo
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
Not according to Google :). They actually support and encourage distributed transactions across boundaries. Imagine all the data Google stores with your user profile across their hundreds of application boundaries. To keep things consistent
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
I love how Netflix is so open about their architecture, but I have one strong criticism. After trying to get Spinnaker running, which is like 10 services for a fairly straightforward application, and reading about how Netflix has Cron jobs
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
It only costs maybe 12k to put together something that can go 180-200. Early 2000 f-body with nitrous alone will get you to 160. Sure the average person hasn't gone that fast but if you want to it's not that big of a deal
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
Speed is overrated. Every airliner you've ridden on hits almost 200 on the ground. I've been over 160 multiple times in fairly normal cars with uprated tires and brakes. Going 200 isn't really that impressive anymore, the ave
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
Tons of stuff is still built on the JVM. The big five tech companies (besides MS) use Java nearly exclusively for back end development. Python is good for ML and data crunching, but compared to Java it's dog slow. Go is definitely catc
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
I abandoned .NET over a lack of http2 support as well. The reason? It uses an HTTP implementation baked into the windows kernel. Wtf? So not only does it lack HTTP2 support on Linux but also non-evergreen versions of windows. And yes Go is
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
Just use React. The frontend SPA frameworks are thankfully converging so there's not a huge advantage to using one over the other. So if you're just getting into the fray, use the most popular one because it has the best support a
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
Shhhh it's semantic versioning
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
There is something else, in the darkest reaches. It has many incantations, but the non-believers have a singular name. Lisp.
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
I doubt it with the insane transaction fees and confirmation delays, they're better off using Western Union on both counts at this point
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
I wasn't going to say it... But somebody did
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
I love that Apple cares about privacy when just about every other megacorp is a really fancy advertising agency
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
IMO Lightning network solves a non-problem. It only sets up a transactionless channel between two parties. The whole promise of Bitcoin was secure transfer to anyone. Maintaining a balance between two parties is trivial and solved thousands
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
For technical reasons, Bitcoin honestly sucks. The block rate is so low that transactions cost many dollars and take hours to confirm. This is only going to continue to get worse, as it turns out that having a global ledger is actually the
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
I can picture these poor souls vividly. Millions of lines of python, flowing like the mightiest of rivers. Nobody really knowing whence it cometh and goeth. A hero arises, offering a sacred herb to calm the torrent and light the golden path
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
If the trolling gets me a response from one of HN's most famous members then so be it edit: You gotta admit, my point isn't groundless. I would disagree that it's trolling since HN is owned by YC but if you're right abou
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
Aka... 'too many' companies go on to raise outside money and dilute ycombinator shares. How unfortunate that ycombinator can invest a limited amount of money and have graduates turn around and get 10x as much from other investors.
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
Could have been, injectables are frequently sold as reconstitutable powders where refrigeration isn't reliable. It's easy enough to just measure an oral dose from that in pinch
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
In good news, this may finally force a court case around EULA's, which basically everyone have known for a decade as bullshit. Having to agree to draconian terms to use something you own is ridiculous. If EULA's become enforceable
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
IMO OTC pain meds are much more effective for pain and fever than people give them credit for. On opiods you feel messed up and it's clear that you took the medicine. Tylenol and ibuprofen are very transparent. There's no obvious
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
Didn't Larry and Sergey always dislike Schmidt and consider him 'adult supervision'? I remember them being quite overt about how happy they were when 'adult supervision is no longer needed' years back
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
We don't really know if it affects ability to fight off germs, but I would assume it does. Fun fact, mix of ibuprofen and tylenol is one of the most effective anti-fever treatments known and by far out of OTC medicines.
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
It's easy, just use a clipper on the lowest setting instead of an actual shaver
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by forgotpassagan 9y ago
Letting schools handle it because the standard of evidence is lower is insane. Rape is a serious crime, and suggesting we should lower the standard of evidence because it's hard to prove is appalling. The one thing more important than

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