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by markbnj 8y ago
>> Relying on documentation is not a silver bullet either: poor documentation is still very much a thing. >> It makes sense always to check the documentation to find out whether an error type is a part of the function signature.
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For one thing it's shared pain: I'm not subjecting my neighbors to anything they are not in turn subjecting me to, so we all deal with our pain in the name of leaf removal once per year. Also, we all collectively have many opportu
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Basically it comes down to this: lawn grass is ground cover and leaves kill lawn grass. So you have to get them off. Getting them off with a rake sounds fine if you don't actually own a lawn and this is all academic. Otherwise you prob
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> All animals have an unconscious. If they didnt they would be plants. Is this a thing that is known and accepted?
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Not an expert, but I think these are forts rather than castles. I would describe a castle as the stronghold of a noble, with a form that evolved from iron age hillforts and progressed to the great citadels and their massive towers in the 13
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by markbnj 8y ago
Microsoft is much better positioned than Google to build a large cloud business off their enterprise customers. IT execs need a "cloud strategy." MS can move their existing apps right into Azure. Presto, you have a good story for
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We're a pretty small fish as Google Cloud clients go, but we have honestly not had this problem at all. We get very fast response to support tickets, and on the rare occasions where we've had to escalate they have gone as far as s
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Ironic, in a comment on a piece entitled "We regulate the wrong things."
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Do you have a particular example of something that should be simple but has become pointlessly complex? In my experience when people complain about complexity they are often complaining about a change from the thing they know to something t
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Not to mention playing with a controller is a very different experience. A lot of younger people are probably already familiar enough with them, but I'm a fossil and need my keyboard and mouse.
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>> at the hands of a former VAX software architect Dave Cutler. I think he is still a Senior Technical Fellow at MS and a lead developer on Azure.
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You can believe whatever you wish. My experience is just a point to consider, ranked alongside the thousands of people in the Internet echo chamber repeating what they've heard said before.
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>> age is red flag It's funny how often I have occasion to say this on HN: I'm a 57 year-old working software engineer. I've never been out of work for a significant time since I started doing this professionally in the
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Exactly. It's not even a matter of "was built with." How about "is being built with?" If they had to pay for all the stuff they use now then for all I know it would have a big impact on their financial position. Mor
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As the father of a current bartender/waitress and the husband of a former I'd like to say: please don't use the servers as a lever to change this thing, because if they couldn't rely on tips they couldn't do the job
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On the other hand a job you enjoy and that pays enough for you isn't shit, is it?
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I personally don't give Glassdoor reviews any credence, and I've never checked the site during the process of engaging with a potential employer. I think there is too much potential for bias in both directions: people who are leav
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ABB is a major supplier of industrial robots, so I assume the poster meant installing/setting up a used 1995 model capable of handling 250kg.
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This whole line of debate is really getting tiresome. Kubernetes has proven its value in production use cases across a wide variety of application domains. That doesn't mean everybody should be using it, any more than the proven value
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>> Does the world need any more games at this point? It's like asking if the world needs another pop song or pizza joint. There's always room for the next great game and another good place to get a pie.
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Used to do business with Sears years ago and visited the Hoffman Estates headquarters. I'll never forget the impression of truly massive bureaucracy that the place conveyed. I'll also never forget how they dismantled their whole c
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by markbnj 8y ago
Timely for me, as I have been noodling over the last few months about whether to keep my personal site. Fwiw since hosting has been mentioned I'll give a shoutout to rochen.com. They've been hosting my site on a vps for years, goo
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by markbnj 8y ago
You make some interesting points, and I don't disagree with them (nor do I really have the inside view needed to even have an opinion on a good chunk of it). After reading your reply I have two thoughts: the first is that whether GKE i
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>> Kubernetes is a big business system, it caters to enterprise. If you aren't an enterprise I would caution you against k8s. That seems overstated, frankly. What is so complex about, for example, GKE that renders it unfit for sm
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Could there not be value in knowing how many pixels your users have available to view your things? You could presumably get that information from device characteristics but then could also presumably use that for fingerprinting.
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Glad I'm not the only one who finds working on a laptop constraining. I have two monitors on my desk and wish I had room for a third. I have a linux laptop for mobility purposes but when I am working in the office I use the desktop.
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Yeah it could maybe just be called "List of companies hiring remote workers" or something. The company I work for is on it, and while we are small and act like a startup in many ways we've been in business for ten years.
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For what it's worth I did not read notacoward's post as abrasive or hostile. I understand the relevancy comment, but my goal in commenting was not to be morally opposed to ageism. I am, but being so is not a career strategy, which
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Yeah I tend to think this is the more likely explanation, as opposed to the idea that there is some ageist conspiracy at work. In any case, as a 57 year-old working engineer it is somewhat against my nature to delegate responsibility for my
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Very well done.

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