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by mikl 7y ago
Git scales well enough for almost everyone (especially if you have a little discipline with what you put in the repo). It’s only huge megacorps that need larger scale things like GVFS. As for large files, that is not what Git is for. Git is
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by mikl 7y ago
It’s not irreplacable. But it’s very well put together, and a great ecosystem of tooling exists around it. So any potential replacement would have to be a lot better for people to move. And for those of us that remember the dark days of C
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by mikl 7y ago
Nice cost graph, but you could just as well draw one where the R&D + development cost ends up being much cheaper in the long run, since the custom built software engineered to your specific needs ends up being a lot more efficient. And
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by mikl 7y ago
Citations are a bit tricky, since Google keeps YouTube’s financials secret, but from what I hear, it’s been in the red ever since the adpocalypse, and the new COPPA-rules will not help, since all content targeting children will now also be
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by mikl 7y ago
They might have been profitable before the adpocalypse, but I highly doubt that’s still the case. They lost a huge chunk of ad revenue then, and will be losing another huge chunk with the new COPPA rules forbidding them from serving ads on
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by mikl 7y ago
A bit dated and sensationalist, but still has some good points. Maybe Google won’t collapse outright, but they are facing challenges on a lot of fronts. Everything from employees unionising, antitrust legislation both at home and abroad, ma
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by mikl 7y ago
If you compare SMAC to the contemporary Civ2, SMAC is a much deeper game in many ways. The terrain and alien life is not really something to be conquered, more like a natural hasard like barbarian raids in Civ, it never really goes away.
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by mikl 7y ago
If you’re planning at work, it’ll suffice to know that it’s 34 weeks away, more than half a year. If you work two-week sprints, you can easily calculate how many sprints you’ll have until them. It’s not a replacement for dates, but a useful
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by mikl 7y ago
Week numbers are easily compared to your present time. If you are in week 19, and you know you have to finish something by week 27, you can easily calculate how many weeks you have until that time. I don’t need to know what exact dates week
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by mikl 7y ago
The rule is simple, but all the work that led up to the formulation of it wasn’t :)
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by mikl 7y ago
Depends a lot on your locale. Physical calendars around here always have them, and all decent calendar software has an option to display them. And if you’d grown up with it, it would be a lot more natural. Much like you probably know what m
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by mikl 7y ago
That is a surprising amount of complexity, really makes you glad that ISO ironed out all the details, so when I recently told our development team composed of Swiss, German, Portuguese and Danish people that we would be going live in week 4
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by mikl 7y ago
A full-scale database server (Neo4j or PostgreSQL), a heavy frontend React app with Redux. A little over-engineered for a URL shortener, I think. That’s a lot of spinning wheels to maintain for a relatively simple service.
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by mikl 7y ago
Gentoo added support for BSD kernels at some point, but it wasn’t a switch, and didn’t see much use as far as I know.
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by mikl 7y ago
All their complaints are about Linux. Why not just use OpenBSD instead of forking it? GPL puritanism? Seems like an enormous effort for very little benefit.
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by mikl 7y ago
> Its perfectly possible to bump into files like this. Possible, sure, but highly unlikely. Unless you consider black-hat hackers, it’s pretty rare for modern software to be fed decades-old files.
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by mikl 7y ago
Not quite. He was greek and lived in what we now call the Byzantine Empire, several hundred years before it was invaded by arabs and turks.
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by mikl 7y ago
> even a single person being offended is one too many This is how you make things bland, soulless and ultimately inhuman.
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by mikl 7y ago
"Python does not cater to my favourite edge case" != fundamental problem In the days before UTF-8-everywhere, file names with anything besides alphanumerics and safe symbols like dashes or underscores were always a problem. If you
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by mikl 7y ago
People have been using all sorts of excuses to visit evil upon another for all of recorded history. Dig deep enough in history, and you can condemn almost any tradition. It is senseless to consider ancient history when evaluating modern tra
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by mikl 7y ago
Why do you care about having a Wikipedia page for Arrow? Why is it important enough to whinge about on HN? Wikipedia is much like Stack Overflow these days, the community has become hostile to newcomers who fail to meet their somewhat arbit
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by mikl 7y ago
They’ve already taken steps to rename it to drop the MAX moniker: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/15/boeing-737-... I highly doubt the average consumer will think twice about flying on a Bo
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by mikl 7y ago
Depends a lot on how long it takes to get the planes recertified. At this point, they have taken some serious reputational damage, but every day they’re falling further behind schedule. If it takes too long, airlines might start cancelling
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by mikl 7y ago
They have outstanding orders for around 5000 737 MAXes. Assuming they get them reapproved some time soon, keeping the production going to not fall too far behind their delivery schedule will likely have saved them a fortune in late-fees.
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by mikl 7y ago
Amazon, that also runs its own competing package service ( https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/13/21020938/amazon-logistic... ), pressuring others to not use the services of a competitor. Ah, remember when m
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by mikl 7y ago
Yeah, many of us have been happy Apple customers for over a decade. I’ve historically been happy to pay extra for Apple’s stuff because it was in many ways better than the competitors. For years, the only laptops you could get that had buil
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by mikl 7y ago
No doubt, feature detection is much better. There are a few things that needs to be on the header-level, like compression standards and encoding, but the less data is attached to a request by default, the better.
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by mikl 7y ago
Arguably browser vs. API client is already covered by the Accept header. A browser request has something like `Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,[…]`, where an API client request has something like `Accept: application/
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by mikl 7y ago
> potential in headers like "Save-Data: on" Yes, headers, if added, should be about the capabilities of the browser, not the browser vendor, the underlying OS or hardware.
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by mikl 7y ago
Why not replace the User-Agent with nothing ? I’ve been a full-time web dev since 2005, and I have never needed to sniff around in the User-Agent string. Having the server care about what browser is on the other end is an anti-pattern, m

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