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by kilburn 8y ago
Oh, the irony. (Yeah I know this is not good HN ettiquete, but I just could not resist in this case. Sorry.)
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by kilburn 8y ago
As I read it, companies were using "loopholes" (think H-1B visa-alikes or even shadier stuff) to bring immigrants in. As the gov shut down these loopholes, the situation evolved to nobody willing to work there.
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by kilburn 8y ago
I don't know what "prohibitvely expensive" is in your case, but there's a possibility today: Grab one HiFive Unleashed for $999 [1]: - 4 cores up to 1.5Ghz - 8Gb DDR4 ECC Ram - 1Gbps ethernet Then grab one HiFive Unleash
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by kilburn 8y ago
> Were aristocratic families the object of scorn back then? All the attention they received from society eventually led to bad stuff? Bad actors? Not scorn, but definitely resentment. Worst case for that aristocracy was... the french re
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by kilburn 8y ago
> Microservice architecture tells you more about how and where to split The architecture doesn't tell you anything: it is you who decide how to split. Yes, there are guides and what not to help you make this decision, but again yo
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by kilburn 8y ago
I admittedly don't have your level experience, especially with such huge scale. However, I've worked with smaller systems and have found a "sweet-spot" that worked well in my cases: 1. Keep a traditional RDBM system. Pla
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by kilburn 8y ago
> Otherwise, I find microservices much simpler to reason about. A counter-argument can be made on this point. You can implement the same isolation levels (modules) but as a monolith using message passing. How is it harder to reason about
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by kilburn 8y ago
Notice that the actual scientific article [1] doesn't make any considerations about quality. It only takes objective measures and observes that they've been following the same patterns (probability distributions) over the last 50
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by kilburn 8y ago
Have you tried it? According my reading of the challenge specification [1] it shouldn't work. Notice that it says: > 2. Query for TXT records for the validation domain name Verify that the contents of one of the TXT records match th
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by kilburn 8y ago
Hard constraints are constraints that cannot be violated for the allocation to be valid (i.e.: to be a solution). Soft constraints are constraints that incur some cost/penalty when violated. Then the problem objective changes from &quo
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by kilburn 8y ago
> Where does that happen? In Spain. Also, it is still an objectively worse proposition for companies to hire women who are expected to have children soon than to hire other people. For several reasons (in Spain's current situation):
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by kilburn 8y ago
> The volume of mail going out of my server was so low, I could read the outbound mail.log for myself, and routinely did. This was your actual problem. The large providers (gmail, outlook, yahoo) and appliance vendors (ironport, etc.) ar
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by kilburn 8y ago
TLDR: I don't think her examples are any good, so this clip gives the "rationale" behind it but no actual-world examples to really understand the differences. I don't think the example she uses is a good one. That thing
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by kilburn 8y ago
You can disable most of that stuff from the bios/efi, so you already can effectively opt out of those features. This would be enough for a harware-gdpr thingy I think...
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by kilburn 8y ago
Say you write some software that manages a shopping cart. a) You can "store" (even if it's in-memory) just the products and their quantities. Then each time you need to display the cart you go and compute the corresponding pr
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by kilburn 8y ago
> u can write fairly complex rules with the access control layer Oh, I see. As a suggestion then, many business rules are not tied to roles. You may want to look into some "always enforced rules" or something like that, to avoi
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by kilburn 8y ago
This is very impressive. Congratulations! What I'm not seeing is how do you envision enforcement of complex business rules when using this API. Examples (silly, but you get the idea): - The price is only visible for projects of type &q
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by kilburn 8y ago
> In Spain, Germany, France, Italy, etc if you get a degree in STEM it means you put a lot of effort. [...] But the requirements to finish the degree have not changed so drastically as in the US so going to University is quite a good cho
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by kilburn 8y ago
Related, with some insights (3 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16856090
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by kilburn 8y ago
> The original post was arguing against a practical project. As I understand, it was arguing against business-oriented teaching (i.e.: teaching to experts in the current fashionable web framework/language/ML system/whatev
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by kilburn 8y ago
The fact that google voice works in Europe is not the authors' qualm. His qualm is that you cannot get an european number from google voice, nor call european numbers for free, nor send sms messages to them, etc.. It just "doesn
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by kilburn 8y ago
I think most people would agree here. Nearly all CS college courses include practical projects, precisely to try to provide these good and memorable examples. It is also true that practical projects in 12-week long courses just cannot compa
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by kilburn 8y ago
If the issue is as clear-cut as you claim, why don't you found a company that provides this kind of education? Why aren't there more students chosing other paths? Why are bootcamps struggling lately? https://www.reuters
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by kilburn 8y ago
My point is not that "we should do what SV wants" (I'm not even American). My point is... where would people get the education that bootstraps them to understand the state of the art then? To me that is the University'
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by kilburn 8y ago
> If I have a choice between a hiring a junior developer who has a computer science degree and only knows theory and a junior whose only experience is a boot camp where they learned practical skills. I’m going to hire the boot camp gradu
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by kilburn 8y ago
It comes from afar, and is an ever-ongoing discussion. I would recommend reading [1] if you are really interested. If you are but no so much, the last paragraph is revealing: "If we seek guidance from the past, it is better to see the
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by kilburn 8y ago
> I'd argue this is the fair and correct behavior. A behavior that breaks how the mail system has been working since forever, and that people expect and use all the time. It may not be right, but it is used and not even the big pl
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by kilburn 8y ago
> pre-delivery forwarding servers just need to be added to spf. If you use random third party smtp relays, then this is precisely what spf is trying to avoid. The huge problem here is "forward all e-mail I receive to my gmail accoun
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by kilburn 8y ago
> The background downloading is nice where it starts the download while you decide to Save, Save As, or Open. AFAIK firefox does that too, it just doesn't show it. Just test it: click on a large file download link and leave the dial
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by kilburn 8y ago
It works for http requests, but not for websockets (the article also mentions that). If you want decent bidirectional communication (no polling, i.e., the kind you'd want to get reads from an NFC reader) that's not a good option.

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