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by marenkay 9y ago
Always nice to hear it had some of the intended effects. The - albeit ideal - project goal always was to inspire people to learn development and engage with more complex issues.
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by marenkay 9y ago
Definitely the open source part, as most of the issues were results of open sourcing it. This comes down to two parts being problematic: - we took away business from private servers as there was now an open source solution - applying the op
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by marenkay 9y ago
Definitely: the software for running World of Warcraft private servers, also known as MaNGOS. Founded and released that in 2005, got so much trouble because of that and wasted loads of cash to keep up project through numerous DDoS attacks,
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by marenkay 9y ago
Well, I would say the difference is in the available tooling. The principles are largely unchanged. So yeah go hire a classic admin from the 80s :-D
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by marenkay 9y ago
No surprise here. What DevOps actually means is still one of the best kept secrets these days. You will probably not find a single article or github repository shedding a light on how to implement it. To make it worse, even the ones provide
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by marenkay 9y ago
What's with this exaggerated blog post? 1. It was announced in the open in June 2016 that .NET Core includes telemetry: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/06/27/announcin... 2. If you use
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by marenkay 9y ago
This is one of the things I want to see in the rest of Europe too. Still hope that we'll see a EU wide tax and commerce union leading into a unified system that includes the best from every EU member. Also liking the sentiment that peo
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by marenkay 9y ago
I think you are mixing up things here. I am talking about principles on how to solve tasks in programming, you are talking about differences in programming languages. But the thing is: what is right in programming was the same in C 40 years
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by marenkay 9y ago
Which in the end is actually a nice thing because that means the guiding principles were right. Tooling is just driven by one of the primary attributes an engineer should have: an abundance of lazyness that strives to find solutions for the
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by marenkay 9y ago
This is much more about tools and processes than modern programming. There is no such thing as modern programming since the fundamental principles of what is considered "good" programming are largely unchanged for the past 40 year
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by marenkay 9y ago
A few things to add here: 1. dedicated servers are capital expenses. 2. cloud servers are operational expenses, which is usually preferred. If terms of actual operations I do not really see a huge difference. Both require a decent amount of
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by marenkay 9y ago
Ladies and gents, thanks a lot; those are some nice starting points!
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Ask HN: Name good examples of Modern C++ usage
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by marenkay 9y ago
Use it frequently. Memory patterns form by applying knowledge. Help some open source projects using the topics you learned. Nothing magic.
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by marenkay 9y ago
Currently not doing any marketing, just going around and grabbing the first users one by one, to iron out the product and learn more about usage. Planning to present on HN though when beta state will be reached :-)
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by marenkay 9y ago
Have you tried checking out some of these students these days? Have you missed the shortage notes about classical Meister, etc. roles given out the past decade? Also low wage sector is a few million people (last official numbers are about 8
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by marenkay 9y ago
Why Electron, you could ditch it and just use Go. Works fine on ARM and has all the tools for web apps, APIs, etc.
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by marenkay 9y ago
> it remains a fantastic tool for keeping in touch with friends ... that is exactly what I question about FB. Their notion of friendship is merely on a level of "people you met at least once".
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by marenkay 9y ago
Just honestly make a list of things you get out of FB that you did not have before and actually enrich your life.
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by marenkay 9y ago
If anything Germany will suffer from the consequences of not investing in education for the past four decades as we are already seeing the lack of capable, well-trained, high skilled workers. German education basically has been focussed on
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by marenkay 9y ago
Though I wonder how these changes have actually had effects on these sectors, as this basically just produced a low payment workforce that these days benefits low paying unicorns like Uber, etc. All that Germany basically did was to change
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by marenkay 9y ago
Consider not using Facebook at all. It has zero value for the user, it only has value for Facebook.
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by marenkay 9y ago
Honest advice... the real engineering world is never about perfection. Most of the time you have a lack of business information, requirements missing, no test cases, etc. The bigger the company, the larger chances to see code that is far fr
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by marenkay 9y ago
Well, I used it for a few years until experience showed that having a phone on you all the time does not actually provide any benefits, so it's mostly landline replacement indeed.
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by marenkay 9y ago
I'm kind of wondering how this all works in general when getting to the US. Considering my usual work contracts, complying with letting border control look into my fully encrypted work laptop would actually be a breach of my work contr
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by marenkay 9y ago
Having been there myself after becoming a single parenting dad, I can recommend a few things: - instead of consuming, try producing small things. Personally I started out writing a daily diary. First thing in the morning next to coffee is w
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by marenkay 9y ago
Always set to silent. Never turn it off but I tend to not even take it with me most of the time. Important stuff never happens via mobile phone or social media anyway.
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by marenkay 9y ago
Been receiving fishing mails for this myself and I highly doubt this has just been about email addresses, as the mail subjects contained titles of signed documents.
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by marenkay 9y ago
Huge fang on Linux From Scratch myself, after reading this I wonder if someone has tried the same with FreeBSD! Or the Darwin sources released for OSX (.. not talking about dormant PureDarwin project)