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by kyllo 11y ago
Java is a bad language to work in because it's not expressive, not because it protects programmers (which it doesn't). Compared to C/C++, yes it does. Java protects you from out-of-bounds array access, uninitialized access,
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by kyllo 11y ago
I would say yes, as long as you're building a greenfield project that is a database-driven web application, where your priorities include high productivity and quick time-to-market. It's basically been the default choice for web s
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by kyllo 11y ago
It's not an appropriate comparison. Mining and logging are extremely dangerous, hard physical labor. Computer programming is at the complete opposite end of the safety spectrum, the biggest health risks being RSI from typing and other
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by kyllo 11y ago
C is not any easier to build a business IT system in than COBOL is. When these companies want to get their business off of a legacy system, they essentially have three practical choices: 1. SAP 2. Oracle 3. A bespoke system coded in Java or
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by kyllo 11y ago
Why would a customer need real-time data and analysis from a bulk cargo shipment? That doesn't make any sense. You wouldn't, but freight forwarders typically don't move bulk cargo, they move containerized cargo. Bulk means
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by kyllo 11y ago
Yeah, it could be very good for customers and new entrants in the ocean forwarding industry. What I meant is that it cannot be good for the incumbent forwarders that Amazon will now be competing with.
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by kyllo 11y ago
Amazon would need to put up a convincing firewall between their freight forwarding business unit and their e-commerce and product business units. I have seen other companies where this is done--a particular business unit or subsidiary is pr
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by kyllo 11y ago
They do not have their own ships. They have become a licensed intermediary, it means they can resell capacity on ocean container ships.
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by kyllo 11y ago
I work at a large freight forwarder and we still have a whole department of COBOL developers and several million lines of COBOL code in production. If Amazon is serious about being an ocean carrier, they would be the first major new competi
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by kyllo 11y ago
Yeah, it is going to a big "oh shit" moment for all the existing players in the logistics and freight forwarding industry. It may take Amazon a few years to build up the infrastructure but once they do, they could eat everyone&#x2
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by kyllo 11y ago
Come to think of it, I just saw this on a lottery machine last night. Powerball jackpot display was stuck at 999 million.
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by kyllo 11y ago
Exactly--it's about what your time is worth to you and what you would prefer to spend it on. These services make it possible to just be a software developer and not have to either hire or be a sysadmin. But if you can't afford
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by kyllo 11y ago
Yeah you would at least expect it to be a power of 2 (minus one)
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by kyllo 11y ago
Yes--relevant for China, but it had basically nothing to do with Korea.
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by kyllo 11y ago
That was a bit later though. Leninism came to China and Korea in the late 1910s and 20s. I am talking about the ideologies and philosophies (Marxism among them) that came from the West by way of Japan several decades earlier than that. You
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by kyllo 11y ago
Not "everything" went through Japan. Modern Western political philosophy went through Japan, because Japan was the first East Asian nation to adopt it in their government and teach it in their learning institutions.
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by kyllo 11y ago
All of the western political ideology (Colonialism, Communism, Fascism, Democracy) that came to Korea (and China) came by way of Japan. The Japanese Empire was the first polity in East Asia to adopt and apply Western political concepts to t
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by kyllo 11y ago
I'm pretty sure Amazon would find a way to reduce the price.
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by kyllo 11y ago
That's the whole point of the parent article. People are really good at figuring out what the real metrics are (even when management says otherwise), by simply observing what gets rewarded and what doesn't.
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by kyllo 11y ago
Did I say that Ruby on Rails was the only option? On the other hand, if a developer cannot figure out Ruby on Rails (or Sinatra, or Django, or Flask, or any of the PHP frameworks), and does not even know SQL, do they really have any busines
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by kyllo 11y ago
There are mature, production-ready server-side web app frameworks with relational database adapters in literally every mainstream programming language (and many of the obscure ones too) except for JavaScript. I didn't say you have to
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by kyllo 11y ago
Or you know, you could just hire developers who know more than one programming language.
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by kyllo 11y ago
- There's a batch insert interface but N connections are established to insert N records... if one of the inserts fails, the behavior of the other inserts is not guaranteed Whoa, that is bad. If you don't understand what a trans
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by kyllo 11y ago
No such thing. You can game any metric.
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by kyllo 11y ago
It's not black and white like you think. I used to work as an outside sales rep. Experienced people know that shit breaks in real life. They care more about how you deal with failure. I've actually heard rumors of companies purpo
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by kyllo 11y ago
Exactly the problem. When you make failure unacceptable, people will stil fail anyway, they will just try their damndest to hide it. If you punish people for giving you bad news, they will simply stop giving it to you, even when bad things
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by kyllo 11y ago
What you're describing sounds good, but it is not realistic, sustainable or healthy. The way to improve and grow is to fail early and often, and learn from it. If you create a company culture where failure is not tolerated, people wi
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by kyllo 11y ago
If you just dropped the Einstein part, it would be a perfectly fine comment.
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by kyllo 11y ago
So what did your boss say to that? Guessing the latter, because it sounds like you don't work there anymore...
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by kyllo 11y ago
The US Marines are often cited in management literature as an example of an organization where the leadership communicates high-level intent and purpose to achieve strategic alignment, and then totally decentralizes tactical decisionmaking

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