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by gbuk2013 1y ago
They also tend to focus on bandwidth and underestimate the impact of latency :) Interesting to hear that QUIC does away with the 3WHS - it always catches people by surprise that it takes at least 4 x latency to get some data on a new TCP co
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by gbuk2013 1y ago
As per the article, QUIC (transport protocol underneath HTTP/3) uses slow start as well. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/id/draft-ietf-quic-recovery...
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by gbuk2013 1y ago
Quick look: GSLB (via Akamai) for low latency, tricks like using CSS sprite to serve a single image in place of 20 or so for fewer round-trips, heavy use of caching, possibly some service worker magic but I didn't dig that far. :) Basi
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by gbuk2013 1y ago
Right, an important part of keeping in mind other future developers working on your codebase. You 6 months later is that other developer once the immediate context is gone from your head. :)
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by gbuk2013 1y ago
An important dimension that is not really touched upon in the article is development speed over time. This will decrease with time, project and team size. Minimising the reduction rate may require doing things things that slow down immediat
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by gbuk2013 1y ago
Thanks, TIL :)
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by gbuk2013 1y ago
Sound is not quite right - C## should sound like D but it’s slightly off.
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by gbuk2013 1y ago
Encrypted enough to have conversations like this on it without law enforcement being able to crack down https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgr5nen5gxyo
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by gbuk2013 1y ago
I don’t assume that. :) Just that the “me” facing them will no longer have any care for those the “me” here is facing.
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by gbuk2013 1y ago
> The trials are never complete. This is not true - one day you will be dead. Hopefully that day is a long way away but it will eventually come around. It is good to keep this in mind and spend some time coming to terms with this. If you
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by gbuk2013 1y ago
> give them more approachable/further from revenue work for which seniors would be an overkill My experience suggests there is no such thing. There is work that seniors might not want to do, but if you hired well then they will be p
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by gbuk2013 1y ago
In my experience it only works if you pull in juniors into strong teams and keep the proportion of juniors reasonably small. You also need to have a process in place for training them - it’s not enough to rely on ad-hoc mentoring from peers
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by gbuk2013 1y ago
I’m a lead consultant on a gig where the CTO outright told us that he’s not really interested in growing their (frankly, under qualified) engineers, just wants them to get on with the job - it’s very short-sighted and sad. That said, in my
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by gbuk2013 1y ago
You need to get an F5 box instead. :)
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by gbuk2013 1y ago
To be fair, if you are geeky enough to run a PiHole you will have no trouble finding the config option to turn off DoH in your browser.
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by gbuk2013 1y ago
Don’t see any content on that article for some reason (from iPhone)
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by gbuk2013 2y ago
And there was much rejoicing! :)
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by gbuk2013 2y ago
Network controlled PDUs are a thing. I’ve used APC switched rack PDUs several jobs ago to control lab equipment - we had a checkout page and if a unit was not checked out it would be powered off at the end of the day and powered back on if
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by gbuk2013 2y ago
It’s my very minor claim to fame that I am part of the voice-over in a couple of the singing scenes (the rat race club gypsies and the choir when he’s running for the embassy IIRC - haven’t seen the movie for a couple of decades). Made some
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by gbuk2013 2y ago
Node supports 2 ways of getting an additional event loop threads (this being the “single-threaded” part that people talk about with Node often without understanding much about its internals, as the Node process itself spawns many threads in
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by gbuk2013 2y ago
The hard fact is that enough people can, if only judging by how over-subscribed many of these amenities are. Whether or not this is sustainable remains to be seen - I certainly have bones to pick with the IMHO unwise government policy decis
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by gbuk2013 2y ago
As someone living in SE London and having traveled to many places around the world, I’m not sure I can agree with the “significantly lower quality of life” part, although of course YMMV as to what you are looking for. London has its share o
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by gbuk2013 2y ago
From my anecdotal experience of 1 attempt of writing to the ICO it was 100% effective: several months later I received a polite response with a history of communication between ICO and the organisation I complained about, where the latter h
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by gbuk2013 2y ago
> Can you do something like this in Pug? https://pugjs.org/language/mixins.html
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by gbuk2013 2y ago
Technically only about 22% of the country actually voted for the current president, if you consider voter turnout. And less than half voted for the top 2 candidates combined.
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by gbuk2013 2y ago
This is an interesting and somewhat orthogonal conversation (and sadly not what HN comments are designed for). The 3 examples you give in each case are not the same though - they have a different colour to them and would be “wrong” to use d
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by gbuk2013 2y ago
That makes sense and “simpler” is probably not the right word to have used, as that is too positive. :) To fall back on the reliable technology principle: it depends on your use case.
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by gbuk2013 2y ago
I get that part - I speak both English and Russian and the latter is more concise and nuanced due to the more complex grammar. It’s just interesting that the apparent trend is from complexity to simplification, like what I observed with Eng
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by gbuk2013 2y ago
My dad has literally just published a book (in Russian) with about 850 words with near identical sound and meanings in Russian and other Slavonic languages. :) https://borissoff.wordpress.com/2025/02/06/russia
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by gbuk2013 2y ago
I'm a BE dev that has do to some FE work now and again, but IIRC the shadow DOM thing is about performance: it is in theory more performant to modify the shadow tree and then send it to the browser for rendering in one go than to manip

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