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by inoop 5y ago
> Great so let's just leave all of the legacy terribleness in it. Let's not address all the quirks and horribleness that sounded like a good idea at the time. Let's not let the language evolve. Nobody is saying that. The g
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by inoop 5y ago
> Because, suprisingly, Noone is forcing you to update immediately! Excuse me, where do you work? Do you not have a company policy about not using software that isn't actively receiving security updates?
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by inoop 5y ago
> Even my preferred IDE, the Jetbrains suite which I love, are resource hogs Ok, so you're saying that because a large, complex desktop application uses a lot of memory and is also written in Java that therefore the JVM is a memory
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by inoop 5y ago
> That's precisely what I'm saying: The whole purpose of a major version is to indicate breaking changes. this is what I don't get. Why would anyone in their right mind use a language ecosystem where each major version upg
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by inoop 5y ago
The Python 3.x change was a disaster, and perfectly illustrates the point I'm making here. PHP should learn from that, instead of trying to repeat it (in slow motion)
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by inoop 5y ago
> If you're conversing with someone who believes that the JVM is a resource hog, then you are likely conversing with someone with decades of experience As someone who has actually read the JVM specifications many times, has actively
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by inoop 5y ago
> did not change within the minor revision boundary I'm confused, are you saying it's fine to change core language semantics as long as it's across major version boundaries? How the hell is that better? No other reasonable
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by inoop 5y ago
> Downside JVM is a Resource hog The fuck are you smoking? The JVM is one of the most mature, resource efficient, and fast language runtimes out there. See, this is why nobody can take you people seriously.
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by inoop 5y ago
> pointless hearsay This such a typical response of people who live in a bubble, and get angry when nobody else in the real world agrees with their insane ideas. Just because people think PHP is garbage doesn't mean they don't
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by inoop 5y ago
> If you don't check what you pass to count() it's really not php's problem, it's your programming. this is a horrible take, language semantics should never change in a backwards-incompatible way. This is API design 1
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by inoop 5y ago
Even if AWS had a hard spending limit, if an attacker has your root credentials, couldn't they still just increase the limits?
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by inoop 5y ago
> AWS failing to implement budgets and hard limits The problem isn't that AWS does not let you manage limits, because they do, to some extent: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws_service_
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by inoop 5y ago
Those goalposts got moved years ago
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by inoop 5y ago
Did you get free headphones to write this comment? :)
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by inoop 6y ago
If you're into this sort of stuff but don't want to buy/repair/store all the console hardware, take a look at [MiSTer]( https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki ).
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by inoop 6y ago
> engineers can "collectively bargain" with Google by simply leaving and working somewhere "better" While I generally agree with the sentiment of your comment, I would like to point out that the above is only true fo
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by inoop 6y ago
AWS has a service for that, it's called [personalize]( https://aws.amazon.com/personalize/ )
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by inoop 6y ago
> I don't really understand why in 2020 there's still this kind of blind hatred against this language. I don't either, but what I also don't understand is why in 2020 anyone would use PHP over many available vastly su
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by inoop 6y ago
This is surprising to me, I work with the CDK daily and I really enjoy it. Can you explain what issues you're hitting?
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by inoop 6y ago
Take a look at the [CDK]( https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/ ) if you haven't already. It lets you define your infrastructure using TypeScript, which then compiles to CloudFormation. You can easily mix infrastructure and L
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by inoop 6y ago
No kidding. I feel for the engineers who spent sleepless nights getting this to launch ...
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by inoop 6y ago
It's an Apple TV/Roku/Fire TV but from Google?
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by inoop 7y ago
> Really a shame that Amazon does not seem to care much about this Amazon cares, but Chinese sellers are paying Amazon customers to write fake reviews for them. There's an article about it here: https://www.buzzfeednews.c
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by inoop 7y ago
Pitching Bitcoin would be just as sad.
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by inoop 7y ago
This is an absolutely batshit crazy idea. I love it.
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by inoop 7y ago
Dutchie in NYC here. Dude(ette), I hear you, things aren't perfect back home. But frankly, you have no idea how much better things are for the low age earners in the Netherlands compared to the US. Working at a FAANG company here in NY
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by inoop 7y ago
Serious question, have you ever interviewed people for software engineering positions? It's quantity over quality.
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by inoop 7y ago
> I would take a Python job over a Java/C/C++/Go/Rust any day it's funny, I feel the exact opposite. I work on a team that maintains a digital catalog, and a lot of what we write is about taking in asset- and met
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by inoop 7y ago
> At which point you have to scale the IT wall all over again if you work at a Fortune 500 company. I work at a Fortune 500 company, and the only wall I have to scale when I want to use a library that nobody at our company has ever used
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by inoop 8y ago
> A simpler non-productive algorithm uses sorting, but you can do so in linear time and we have known about this for some time. Nitpick, but you can only sort in linear time if your sort key domain is bounded (e.g. 64-bit integers). >

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