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by hacknat 9y ago
Let me get a piece of that. Heck, I’ll bet $51.
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by hacknat 9y ago
I never left.
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by hacknat 9y ago
Can we get some health care first?
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by hacknat 9y ago
Really? I think the opposite. The first gate should be the hardest to he through, especially if you get a visa that is a guaranteed path to citizenship like an H1B (H1B to Green Card to Citizen).
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by hacknat 9y ago
I’ve gone through the naturalization process myself, and it’s already offensively invasive, this doesn’t seem out of step with what they already do.
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by hacknat 9y ago
Okay, get off your moral high ground. Google is an advertitizing company. I fail to see how they are any different than a broadcast network or Facebook for that matter. You put out a product and make money off of ads. “Information services
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by hacknat 9y ago
Region wide is not the same thing as all regions at once.
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by hacknat 9y ago
Umm, GCE literally had a total global failure in 2016, AWS has never suffered such an event.
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by hacknat 9y ago
Whichever provider gives you the most credits. Seriously, all the clouds are cheap, and provide basically the same service. I would say AWS is more configurable than the rest, but GCE is probably easier to use. In terms of stability AWS is
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by hacknat 9y ago
I think having a stats background helps a lot in the design of systems, but to be perfectly honest you don’t need much to be effective as an average software engineer. The place I seem to use it the most is arguing against premature optimiz
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by hacknat 9y ago
I work for a company that has to provision hosted products for customers across all the clouds and the one that has been impressing me the most lately is Azure. The load balancers are also the gateways (sound network topology), so there is
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by hacknat 9y ago
Late to the convo, but I created a go library with no C dependencies that lets you play with raw sockets on Linux: https://github.com/nathanjsweet/zsocket
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by hacknat 9y ago
That’s a Ponzi scheme.
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by hacknat 9y ago
Shkreli had an ongoing fraud and sec violations before Turing Pharma. Though it looks suspicious, his prosecution is coincidental with the Turing stuff and revolves around the truly atrocious management of his hedge fund. Shkreli deserves w
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by hacknat 9y ago
I’ve never thought of JWT as being something you would want to use in a unified application, it tends to shine in situations where one application is the authorizing agent for another application not totally in its control (e.g. private Doc
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by hacknat 9y ago
I’m in a weird situation in that I started my education and career on the West Coast, but ended up on the Midwest a decade later for personal reasons. I do have to say that the business culture differences are astounding. Obviously I’m gene
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by hacknat 9y ago
10 years in tech and I’ve never seen drugs in the workplace, other than alcohol at the occasional mixer. I would say pot usage is pretty high, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone come to work stoned (thought I had a customer who was s
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by hacknat 9y ago
I’ve never understood the systemd hate. What do you dislike about it?
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by hacknat 9y ago
For a personal laptop: Fedora on a thinkpad (that’s what most of the core contributors use, which means the laptop drivers and tooling are always up to date). For general servers: CentOS For container servers: It’s not even close, Container
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by hacknat 9y ago
Lawyers currently have one of the most bi-modal salary distributions of any profession. It seems to me that for folks who want to enter the profession doing low pay work that this should be a more supported and common path as law school is
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by hacknat 9y ago
Not so much that it ever existed, though I think the aspiration has been, but just the myth of the Universalism itself (i.e. city on a hill, the first republic). I had a friend say once that the founders were arrogant, because they thought
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by hacknat 9y ago
I consider universalism to be an enlightenment principle. The principle of: “if it’s true here than it’s true everywhere” is actually a relatively new concept in human thought. It contributes to thinking that ideology can unite us (i.e. uni
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by hacknat 9y ago
Sorry I should have defined my terms. When I said Universalism I wasn’t referring to religion, more the modernist concept that there are a universal set of values the objectively exist (i.e. my morality is good and yours is bad). Certainly
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by hacknat 9y ago
I think that’s a fair point, but this is the first society in which the people you are most familiar with aren’t necessarily in your ethnic group (though even in the US it’s not so much the case).
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by hacknat 9y ago
I definitely didn’t mean that in a statist way, as in enforced morality. I just meant that societies that don’t use kinship bonds inevitably use something else to maintain cohesion in society, religion has been used, founding myths (America
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by hacknat 9y ago
I would prefer someone I have a good working relationship with over a friend. My best friends are not in my field, but I have people in my life who I love working with, because we just click and are able to get stuff done. I wouldn’t say th
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by hacknat 9y ago
I think you’ve made a straw man of her argument. She didn’t claim there was no morality in the ancient world or no moral perspective in the folklore, just that there are no good guy/bad guy tropes. I have yet to see you give a textual
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by hacknat 9y ago
One of my biggest beefs with the Game of Thrones “there are no bad guys” assertion is the Wights. Seems to me they are George Martins Orcs.
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by hacknat 9y ago
In Beowulf the antagonist is a monster, she at least gives a corollary in the Arthur legendarium. Also, who is portrayed as being evil in the Odyssey? The only two examples I can think of are the suitors and Polyphemus, but the text refers
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by hacknat 9y ago
David wasn’t the king who proposed to slice the baby in half it was Solomon, and the whole point of that story is to illustrate how wise Solomon is not to belabor some point about an evil mother.

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