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by maxaf 9y ago
A thing can't be called a currency until and unless normal people like myself can use the thing to obtain things such as: * shelter * food * ammunition * education for the children As it stands, the craze of virtual currencies is merel
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by maxaf 9y ago
It peeves me a lot to see virtual currencies described as being "worth" something in a USD or some other real currency equivalent. By the same token, why isn't open source code described as being worth a certain amount of mon
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by maxaf 9y ago
Good point: considering the time frame, the comp does look like a forward looking statement.
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by maxaf 9y ago
I find it difficult to believe that any sort of scaling of the org could have occurred in the span of six months thanks to the efforts of a single individual.
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by maxaf 9y ago
I haven't used it personally, but judging by the marketing video Tower is mostly an enterprise dashboard with some self-serve features that allow invocation of Ansible playbooks (or perhaps some larger unit of automation - I've no
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by maxaf 9y ago
Personally I'd much rather see a GUI that can help string together snippets of Terraform/CFN and Ansible/Chef/Puppet/Salt/whathaveyou. A visual IDE for infrastructure automation, if you will.
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by maxaf 9y ago
At this hour we have a recording of the woman's voicemail greeting: "Your call is very important to us. Please leave your name & number, and we will get back to you as soon as possible."
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by maxaf 9y ago
So, this is a low-res facsimile of Flickr but without the original's battle-tested infrastructure or a human-friendly UI.
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by maxaf 9y ago
This also helps avoid chicken-or-egg problems such as "You haven't worked remotely before, so we won't hire you to work remotely".
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by maxaf 9y ago
You said it better than I did, but I meant the same thing. I work on three+ projects at any given time in order to give myself room to do something small on each one of them every day. When I get stuck on one thing, I execute a context swit
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by maxaf 9y ago
My personal favorite is: get sh_t done without burning yourself out or making bad decisions along the way. Of course, it's possible that I have entirely misunderstood your question.
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by maxaf 9y ago
I disagree with some of your points. Firstly, being able to crank out simple web apps doesn't translate to building large systems that solve hard problems. There's a huge gulf there that can only be bridged by experience, and lots
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by maxaf 9y ago
I'm curious to see what the decompiler would show if it were run over binaries produced by Go or Rust. This might be an invaluable tool to help programmers in higher level languages than C understand what really goes on under the hoo
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by maxaf 9y ago
Considering the historic significance of Musk's mission, a little extravagance is entirely deserved.
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by maxaf 9y ago
Your statement is factually incorrect.
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by maxaf 9y ago
It is sad that so much junior talent is wasted on attempts at improvement via blind reiteration. This is one possible consequence of a mentorship vacuum: bright minds look for challenges, even ones that have been adequately overcome long ag
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by maxaf 9y ago
"More modern" is a euphemism for "not made by someone who had a gray beard in 1975". It's just another form of ageism.
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by maxaf 9y ago
This is why I normally stay away from Apple services. My household runs on an eclectic mix of Android and Apple devices, and this is exactly how we like it. Google seems to have embraced the presence of Apple devices in its ecosystem, so wh
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by maxaf 9y ago
Are you saying that remote employees should be deprived of full-timer benefits and legal protections, however meager? All because of trust issues that grew out of experience with a bad apple which isn't representative of remote workers
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by maxaf 9y ago
I've been using the standard protobuf package for years, yet I am entirely sane. My mother had me tested.
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by maxaf 9y ago
When I saw the headline on HN, my first thought was: "Just the one?!" A typical startup might deploy anywhere from 3 to 15 engineers on a product such as Thunderbird. Considering the amount of legacy it's saddled with, let al
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by maxaf 9y ago
It's far from the same pay, not even close. Going into PM, for any value of P, would require me to cut back dramatically on the lifestyle that software engineering work has afforded my family. Have a look at Glassdoor data for any comp
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by maxaf 9y ago
You're absolutely right. The commenter you replied to seems to implicitly assume that strong encryption is needed everywhere, but this simply isn't the case. Slack is "good enough" for many use cases, and that's fin
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by maxaf 9y ago
Project Fi is a non-starter for anyone who relies on their phone for critical functions such as telephone service. Phone numbers are still king, and losing mine as a result of some spurious Google account deletion would result in calls from
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by maxaf 9y ago
What other containerization technologies?
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by maxaf 9y ago
There are countries (like the U.S.) where long-distance train travel is impractical compared to catching a plane or simply driving. This becomes especially obvious when considered in stark contrast with Europe, Japan or even gasp Russia.
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by maxaf 9y ago
Readily available passive entertainment with a low content to noise ratio and based on an exploitative model of consumption has been a net detractor to the intellectual prowess of our species. Both TV and Facebook fit this description like
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by maxaf 9y ago
A lousy Dockerfile or missing docker-compose.yml will do that. Just because someone took the time to lump together a container doesn't mean it's the right one or that it would be reasonably useful to someone seeking to take adva
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by maxaf 9y ago
The discrepancy in quality probably indicates a deeper deficit of maturity across the software engineering discipline in general.
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by maxaf 9y ago
Luddite! J/K, I'm a luddite too.

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