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by jen20 1y ago
Indeed - my guess is that there is a policy of "improve things as you touch that area of the codebase" rather than blanket rewriting of working code going on.
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by jen20 1y ago
I don’t know the specific reasons (and the pull request referenced in the merge commit appears to have been deleted), but my guess is that the extra complexity vs using modern C++ features was not worthwhile to the core FDB team.
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by jen20 1y ago
That was an experiment the team didn’t end up committing to - it’s been backed out. That said it was a fascinating dive into the flexibility of Swift, and the Konrad’s talk is excellent and worth watching. https://github.com&#x2F
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by jen20 1y ago
That is only true of income tax. Not all taxes are marginal, and several have thresholds that behave exactly as the OP described.
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by jen20 1y ago
> I started working with folks from the UK right at the start when social media really took off, and I personally think that what ails the UK is the same as what ails the world. Too much social media. Absolutely. It's not the only p
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by jen20 1y ago
As in objective and key result? That’s… weird but ok!
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by jen20 1y ago
Have Bytedance produced literally anything to that assumption unreasonable?
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by jen20 1y ago
> one of the biggest software companies in the world can't seem to produce a sleek, native app For their own operating system that they own the APIs and development tools for, no less!
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by jen20 1y ago
They may not why they’re slow, buggy and not platform integrated, but they certainly know. I just watched this as my employer switched to Slack. Thousands of non-IT professionals have many (valid) criticisms about the client hogging memory
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by jen20 1y ago
But also understand who broke the ride in mid-air, and treat them with according levels of scorn in future.
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by jen20 1y ago
> There is no way successful IBM would commit to Microsoft without a thorough vetting. As I recall, at the time said commitment was made, Microsoft didn't even _have_ an operating system, and subsequently bought QDOS! Their original
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by jen20 1y ago
A secondary question: what rights do you have when someone else does that? What rights _should_ you have in that situation?
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by jen20 1y ago
> First there's the code which you can't possibly understand sufficiently if it's not your day job. Some of the stuff I found from contractors who worked on my house demonstrate that it turns out people whose day job is un
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by jen20 1y ago
It’s uncommon in the US because freelancing means having to source your own - usually both expensive and crappy - healthcare. It used to be incredibly common in the UK - half the decent devs in London were contractors making 2-3x what perma
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by jen20 1y ago
All three times I’ve attempted to use hertz since 2021, I’ve shown up with a reservation only to be told they have no cars. Their overbooking policy appears to be “yes”. Even without this bullshit they aren’t worth touching.
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by jen20 1y ago
What's important is that the audit trail can be replayed to derive the state of the system - and preferably in such a way that investigators can determine what _would_ have been seen by someone using it on a specific day at a specific
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by jen20 1y ago
Indeed - the accepted mechanism to influence the range of issues MPs care about (outside of election times) is to bombard their office with communication until they have no choice but to care. That is what needs to happen here.
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by jen20 1y ago
It is straightfoward to build systems which derive their state from the audit trail instead of building the audit trail in parallel. That is what event sourcing is.
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by jen20 1y ago
Wow. That is the kind of thing that every reasonable person should be calling their MP's office about daily.
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by jen20 1y ago
Arguments made towards right-wing government (which the UK had for the past decade) from higher education are unlikely to be well received. Perhaps somewhat by Cameron, certainly not in the post-Brexit idiocracy of May, Johnson, Truss or Su
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by jen20 1y ago
> They are assumed correct in UK courts. IT systems were legally considered infallible This will change when elected officials start getting hoisted by their own electronic petards. The Venn diagram of midwit enterprise developers who bu
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by jen20 1y ago
I suspect there's more to it in than that. I'd wager there was a solid amount of general incompetence involved at the PO "corporate" - management politically couldn't admit that their consultingware could be anythin
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by jen20 1y ago
You don't get "rich" from renting out a spare bedroom.
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by jen20 1y ago
> and you can't bind to Headscale? Can you elaborate on what you actually mean by this? Headscale works fine.
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by jen20 1y ago
> if you owned a house for the last 20 years, are now richer than ever due to that property appreciating. Only if you sell it, and move somewhere with a much lower cost of housing.
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by jen20 1y ago
> Literally, all the best tech firms and ibanks do it. So do all the worst - look at the extent to which hiring this Soham Parekh fellow has become a badge of honour instead of abject failure.
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by jen20 1y ago
Yes - I know you can get them in airports (lounges often give them out for free) - I just thought it a little bizarre that I couldn't find a copy of the New York Times in midtown Manhattan!
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by jen20 1y ago
I did not speculate on the cause and effect - only the status quo circa ~2013-2014 pre-Uber. Today though, Uber has definitely developed anti-competitive and frankly disgusting traits - they're just different ones to the taxi industry.
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by jen20 1y ago
Wildly untrue, unless you count London or New York City as small towns.
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by jen20 1y ago
> The salesman can cut the car you want from your buying options, or stick conditions on it that will make up for the difference with the other models. My favourite approach to this is to write an email to all dealerships within the radi

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