mhaberl

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by mhaberl 6y ago
He is in a very specific situation, he is the founder and the CEO and has a lot of money to burn. He wants to do big things and he can do them. A lot of companies have stock holders who expect some return every year without risking too much
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by mhaberl 6y ago
What kind of disks and brand do you use? Are you doing some kind of disk-intensive work? I am asking because this sounds really short to me and I am wondering if I am extremely lucky never to have a failed disk in more than 25 years, mostl
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by mhaberl 6y ago
Yes. In my case the client lib works ok, but the server part is is not good (both ends nodejs/grpc/proto). I kept back the server part on older node version (13.3) to avoid issues. Also I had issues with pm2 with the server part.
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by mhaberl 6y ago
You did not eat anything for 60 days? 0 calories? I heard people doing it for 14 days for fasting purposes and I am pretty sure that most people can do it for 30-40 days and not die, but 60 sounds pretty long
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by mhaberl 6y ago
In short: yes. BUT maybe it does not matter that much for some projects and a lot of people can write some logic in js a lot faster than in C (or C++ or Rust or..). Also, there are a lot of people who know only js and would like to "pl
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by mhaberl 6y ago
> If I copy a Disney movie without their knowledge and then extract value from it, for example by watching the movie without paying What value would that be? Fun? If it is a bad movie and I have no fun what value did I extract from it th
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by mhaberl 6y ago
You can still do that. There is no need to use a complicated stack when the problem is simple.
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by mhaberl 6y ago
In democracy two stupid people have more power than one smart individual. On the other side what kind of existing system is better than democracy?
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by mhaberl 6y ago
How does this help? Won't you just comment out the entry in hosts file if you want to visit HN?
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by mhaberl 6y ago
I guess he deleted the tweet, can't find it anymore
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by mhaberl 6y ago
I wonder what would the CEO reply if you asked him for help with it now :)
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by mhaberl 6y ago
pg mentions this on twitter: [1] >If you want your startup to succeed, treat your users the opposite of the way this one does: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1294601723437289472
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by mhaberl 6y ago
My mistake, you absolutely are right There is a purple section "Our simple + fair billing policy" that is pretty clear. I actually looked at the pricing page before commenting, but somehow missed that
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by mhaberl 6y ago
> Also, why does the CEO have direct access to cancel user accounts and send them direct messages? Surely they have more important things to do? Not every company is a 100k employees company with CEO deatached from mudane operations - wh
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by mhaberl 6y ago
That is fine IF you warn your customer about scaling BEFORE the customer gives you the credit card. This system does make sense for some customers, it does not for others, some will agree and subscribe to the service, some will not.
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by mhaberl 6y ago
>From then-on, we will be inside the volume of intense x-rays and high-energy particles. It goes on saying that the high-energy particles would not be a big deal. I guess x-rays are a different story. So saying that "the effect woul
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by mhaberl 6y ago
According to this [1] article: > At the distance of Betelgeuse, by 960 years this shell would be 14 times the diameter of the full moon! At about 95,000 years after detonation, this slow-moving plasma will finally reach the solar system
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by mhaberl 6y ago
I agree with this. We all love to say that we want creative free thinking individuals.. but come on now - currently the society is mostly composed of conformed (without this society probably would not function, at least as it does now) and
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by mhaberl 6y ago
The engine really looks awesome and docs are a pleasure to read. Great job!
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by mhaberl 6y ago
You can view this issue from another standpoint. Imagine some market where 10 companies sell bread and it costs $5. And lets assume that the costs are $4 and $1 is profit. Then comes a company that makes its money on selling water and it is
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by mhaberl 6y ago
That sounds great! >slowdowns due to inline asm and sillyness in LLVM I just hope that isn't a Chesterton's fence
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by mhaberl 6y ago
I used the terminology that the OP used to be more clear. Pointer or reference in this context is not so significant as is that 'const' is marking the reference (OP used "pointer") as a constant, and not the value that i
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by mhaberl 6y ago
As I see it, Go could be a nice alternative to Java or C# for most problems, and Rust looks like a nice alternative to C++ for most problems. One could go and compare Javascript to COBOL code solving some random problem, and perhaps even th
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by mhaberl 6y ago
const value can be redeclared in a different scope - but to be very precise; this is not really question of (im)mutability - it is a different value inside a scope, the original value is not changed. Other thing is (and I believe this is wh
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by mhaberl 6y ago
DDG is not a UI over Bing https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/?redir=1
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by mhaberl 6y ago
I wonder did the Great Scrambler Charlie read this post. Proper encryption takes time, just XOR it, XOR it all he always says :) Great job and realy well written post.
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by mhaberl 6y ago
I don't agree. I really like DDG - it works good, it is fast and it does not use my personal search for giving me "better ads" or "better search results" that put me in a filter bubble. But there is a different issu
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by mhaberl 6y ago
Product description (play store): "Tired of being tracked online? We can help." And then they track you. Yes, that might not be intentional and is used "just" for the favicon, yes they might not use the info on the domai
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by mhaberl 6y ago
I don't think that (most) Linux users see "free" as the main reason for using Linux. Personally if Linux had a price tag, and Windows were free I would still be a Linux user.
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by mhaberl 6y ago
Having a bad day? I am referring to communication with "Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing" after which Hey did an implementation of a functionality which clearly is not a "basic functionality", but a 1

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