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by grahamlee 4y ago
Kubernetes: from the Ancient Greek word for “more pods than customers”.
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by grahamlee 4y ago
Actually short for “Site EVent”, but yeah a screwup.
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by grahamlee 4y ago
My guess is not very long. I've been on a project with three people where if we all quit, it would run until AWS EKS switched off the version of Kubernetes we were using; I'd expect from experience at FB that there's way more
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by grahamlee 4y ago
It was ntl (styled as ntl:). Like your nerd house friends I had ntl in my house on the Cowley Road, and they offered a dual-line service so we had one line connected to the modem pool full-time (my SuSE Linux desktop ran an RFC1918 network
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by grahamlee 4y ago
How long before the Nikola Tesla fans turn up to tell us that his bugs were more catastrophic than Edison’s anyway?
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by grahamlee 4y ago
I moved from delicious to pinboard, then from pinboard to nextcloud bookmarks, then finally to Evernote. Clipping pages to Evernote means I get both the link and a searchable snapshot of the content: helpful for discovery and if the link ro
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by grahamlee 4y ago
This still doesn't answer the why though: "because it's the rules" leads us to want to understand how the rules came to be. Is the president of FIDE a shareholder in the approved manufacturer? Or is their cousin? Or did
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by grahamlee 4y ago
They also said at WWDC 2020 on June 22 that they would have completed the transition within two years. So somewhere between 13 days and a very long time away.
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On the locations of the bullet holes on bombers that land successfully(sicpers.info)
1 points by grahamlee 4y ago|0 comments
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by grahamlee 4y ago
At time of writing, five other comments in this thread link to Wikipedia articles. Wikipedia is an example of a large community that has not become ruined, through social and technical counter measures. There may well be people who think th
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Given that WebKit is LGPL, why can’t I replace the [iOS] WebKit with my own?(twitter.com)
19 points by grahamlee 4y ago|2 comments
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by grahamlee 4y ago
You might want to return NSNull instead of nil (easy to do: in fact I extracted this from an object in which the nil-return value is configurable but simplified it for the post), in which case it becomes map-safe because NSNull->NSNull o
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by grahamlee 4y ago
This nil-swallowing behaviour works really well with the "out error parameter" pattern of Cocoa methods. In short, methods that can fail have a signature like: - (id)thingThatSometimesWorks:(NSError *)error; You can chain these to
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by grahamlee 4y ago
Apple's documentation for the XNU kernel describes the scheduler implementation. https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/blob/xnu-8019...
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Software design is refinement, not abstraction(sicpers.info)
3 points by grahamlee 5y ago|0 comments
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by grahamlee 5y ago
There's a lot of "Apple business model" answers in other threads, but I think that's at best a partial answer if it's an answer at all. To the extent that you can draw a line to "move the revenue numbers by ten
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by grahamlee 5y ago
interestingly, no. Temperature can become infinitely high, and you can still add heat, at which point it becomes infinitely low. You can carry on adding heat, and the temperature will get back to absolute 0. https://chemistry.sta
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by grahamlee 5y ago
Before Sun Microsystems got very into GPLing their entire estate, Scott McNealy had a phrase that free software was “free as in puppies” in that you might get them for free but you’re paying every day after. Our author here doubles down on
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Aphorism Considered Harmful(sicpers.info)
1 points by grahamlee 5y ago|1 comments
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by grahamlee 5y ago
“Us sticking to 8 bit bytes” is a consequence of having preferred BCD to octal in the past, so the causation is reversed (“12-bit words would have made a lot more sense if it was, say, octal.”) [Edited: actually 12 bit words would make sens
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by grahamlee 5y ago
I’m the post author. If people are deciding what the article is about based on its title (and the title is nothing more or less than the name of the article’s subject), they aren’t people I want as readers. The title stays as it is.
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by grahamlee 5y ago
This is the blog post’s author. The books aren’t even new to me, just new to many of the readers.
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Design Patterns on Trial(sicpers.info)
3 points by grahamlee 5y ago|0 comments
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Falsehoods these programmers believed about countries(sicpers.info)
2 points by grahamlee 5y ago|0 comments
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by grahamlee 5y ago
They do exist, but I do wish for more. We’re only a couple of decades away from software construction being a hundred years old (and a few from software _engineering_ being a century old) and I think it’d be wonderful to have some encyclopa
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by grahamlee 5y ago
Hi, I’m a Research Software Engineer (a person who makes software that helps academics/researchers) at a university in the UK. My recommendation is that not only do you publish the code, you mint a DOI (digital object identifier, Zenod
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by grahamlee 5y ago
Take a look at TruffleSqueak on the Graal VM.
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by grahamlee 5y ago
> Can you cite some examples? Alongside the other examples in this thread, Donald Trump lost at least $1b during the first two years of his term. > If it were easy, presumably a lot of people have done it. The easiest way to lose a bi
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by grahamlee 5y ago
Conveniently I gave a talk on exactly this a few years back :) https://youtu.be/_BbGxpiYFDg
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by grahamlee 5y ago
It's interesting when the creators had a clear intention to shepherd people one way and the programming community went another. Both Objective-C and Java (which was informed by ObjC significantly, including having a few implementors hi

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