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by mcdermott 4y ago
It's too late for Intel. x86 doesn't have a future, ARM64 SoC architectures like Apple's M1 (TSMC) are the future of computing. Just as fast (and often faster in many benchmarks) with only 20-25% the power consumption and hea
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by mcdermott 4y ago
They have a right to form a union. Amazon has the right to fire them at will. Unions create an antagonistic relationship between member employees and the company that employs them.
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by mcdermott 4y ago
In the corporate world, just like government funded research, science is only science if it aligns with the desires of its funding source unfortunately.
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by mcdermott 4y ago
End the H1B program. Create a program to train Americans or provide free tuition to fill tech jobs.
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by mcdermott 5y ago
Yes, it is. Kubernetes is insanely complicated. Nomad is industrial grade but still simple.
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by mcdermott 5y ago
Removing a book from children school libraries and the curriculum because they are not age appropriate is not banning books. The books are in print, in public libraries, commercial bookstores and available for purchase online. Not banned
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by mcdermott 5y ago
Agreed, we've given up too much control, privacy and sense of ownership.
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by mcdermott 5y ago
Perhaps it's that disease of a profession named "project management". In the past we had engineers and architects running large projects. They knew the industry, the people, and how everything works. Now we have professional
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by mcdermott 5y ago
The batteries are the strong part of Python. If you remove the batteries, then you can easily dump python for something else.
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by mcdermott 5y ago
Just no.
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by mcdermott 5y ago
Coriolis Effect
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by mcdermott 5y ago
Sure, but the desktop market has been shrinking. Unless you are in business, all you need is an iPhone, android and maybe a companion tablet are you are good computing wise. There was a time when your grandparents used Windows, but now they
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by mcdermott 5y ago
I think of Microsoft as a legacy, business oriented tech company. Other than the second string XBox product, they don't really have any consumer juice anymore, they are all about locking in businesses and forcing technology top down vi
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by mcdermott 5y ago
Agreed, Python 3 seems to have lost the plot.
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by mcdermott 5y ago
We can't use Nim at my organization as the binaries it generates are detected as viruses and deleted by CrowdStrike Falcon when I attempt to execute them and results in a visit from our security team. I uploaded one of my binaries to T
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by mcdermott 5y ago
Based on experience interviewing many job candidates over the past 5 years, college degrees are no longer an indicator or knowledge, abilities or intelligence. It seems like a four year degree today means almost nothing, I'm not sure w
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by mcdermott 5y ago
I love Python for slicing and dicing data, automating tasks and building tools, but for a web server or web application it's a mess and is a bad choice.
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by mcdermott 5y ago
With Python you have to run a web server in front of your web server... never seemed right to me. Just use Golang, it's all self contained.
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by mcdermott 5y ago
Because Perl is cryptic and hard to learn unlike Python, so Students are taught Python and take that knowledge with them to work.
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by mcdermott 5y ago
Remote start seems like a gimmick anyway, completely unnecessary.
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by mcdermott 5y ago
They shouldn't have "invented" a new language, they should have just embraced Python and started providing Microsoft supported modules for managing their products. That was a big miss.
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by mcdermott 5y ago
PowerShell is OK for small things, but it's cumbersome as hell when used for scripting and my goodness is it slow as dirt (50x slower) compared to even Python if you are processing a lot of items. Another thing that bothers me about it
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by mcdermott 6y ago
The new GitHub UI is garbage, what were they thinking?
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by mcdermott 6y ago
Sorry, but after using Golang with its very simple and powerful goroutines and channels approach to concurrency, this seems like a convoluted mess. When I need concurrency, I certainly don't think of Python as the right tool. Python se
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by mcdermott 6y ago
I stopped reading at "from Microsoft Research."...
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by mcdermott 6y ago
Yes, Azure is an OK choice if you are unfortunate enough to need to run that legacy tech stack.
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by mcdermott 6y ago
Both AWS and GCP excel over Azure. Many organizations are strong armed into using Azure as part of their Enterprise Agreements (EA) as part of Microsoft's predatory tactics (they haven't changed one bit) I couldn't imagine s
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by mcdermott 6y ago
There will be more cars on the road then ever soon. When we start to return to work, most people will avoid mass transit because of COVID19 concerns and start driving again. Only a very tiny percentage of people bike to work. Shutting down
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by mcdermott 7y ago
I live in Seattle, the homeless problem has absolutely nothing to do with "affordable housing", that's a lie that they keep repeating. All the homeless I see are heroine/drug addicts or insane or both. If apartments were
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by mcdermott 7y ago
Borges is the master of the short story, but I think that he may need to share that title with Guy de Maupassant. I'm currently reading both of their collected works of fiction, alternating between them with each story and enjoying the

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