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by mikl 5y ago
Well, they do have opportunities for screw-ups. We recently had some bad data loss issues because part of an application was using a buggy UUID generator that produced lots of collisions. If you google for UUID collision bugs, its not an un
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by mikl 5y ago
“Handful” is referring to cases where “your sequence generator can't number their order line items fast enough” is true. And I stand by that. And if you want “other information”, good database design would put that other information in
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by mikl 5y ago
The whole section on serial number IDs is a bit FUDy in my opinion, especially this: > If you suddenly have a million people who want to buy things on your store, you can't ask them to wait because your sequence generator can't
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by mikl 5y ago
Article ends with: > Thankfully for Theranos, in a few weeks this incident will look like nothing more than a minor setback. [...] > Theranos won’t go bankrupt, their investors are still going to get rich, and Holmes will still be on
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by mikl 5y ago
Same page says: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Hard to argue that a book from 1892 is an interesting new phenomenon.
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Depends a lot on your set-up. Many pair Hugo with a headless CMS for exactly this reason. Even with a standard Hugo set-up, most content is in Markdown files, so one could also just train someone from marketing on how to edit those. Not exa
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Whichever way you spin it, building web stuff is a perfectly normal thing to do with Python. Thousands of companies do so, even big famous brands like the aforementioned.
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I could be mistaken, but I can’t remember last time I heard of a C# project that wasn’t either targetting Windows as a platform (whether server or desktop) or running against some other Microsoft-thing like Xamarin. In the early days of Mon
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Tons of sites are written exclusively in Python. Django alone has 60k stars and 25k forks on Github. That about the same as Laravel.
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Well, I’m not trying to invent scientific classifications here, but the common reason to choose one of said languages is to use them with the Microsoft/Apple/Android ecosystems, respectively.
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In theory, true. In practise, they are most popularly used for the Microsoft and Android ecosystems, respectively. I’ve reworded it to platform-oriented.
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Lots and lots of people do web stuff in Python. There are a whole bunch of Python web frameworks like Django, Pylons, Flask, etc. And there are big sites written in Python, too. Reddit, YouTube, some Google apps, Spotify, Netflix. Rust is s
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by mikl 5y ago
Depends a bit on how fancy your Hugo-site is. Unless you’re just feeding markdown into a pre-made template, you’ll at least use the Go template syntax, since that’s what Hugo’s templates are written in. And if you want to integrate Hugo wit
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by mikl 5y ago
> Do you write that site in Go? Yes! https://gohugo.io/ would be a great choice for that kind of thing.
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by mikl 5y ago
PHP is an ok language for web frameworks. But for most other things, it is a poor fit. There’s a reason why people are generally not doing scientific computing, machine learning, hardware integration, systems programming, etc. in PHP (yes,
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by mikl 5y ago
More desparate measures to stave off the inevitable IPv4 address shortage. Time has taught us that the mass adoption of IPv6 will not happen until it becomes a painful necessity, so there’ll probably many more years of desperate measures li
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by mikl 5y ago
Thanks to Facebook, the word meta will soon sound like a curse. Words like “metadata” will start sounding very sinister. Anything else you can do to ruin our day, Meta?
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`which` is an extremely commonly used command, has an intuitive name, is a very small program. Removing it from the standard distribution would be a huge annoyance to everyone who uses it. One more package you have to remember to install on
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by mikl 5y ago
You can’t link jwz.org from here, he’s set up referrer detection so you get an image of a testicle in an egg holder if you follow a link from here.
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That would be a huge pain in the ass for maintainers of even mildly popular open source projects. They’d be getting an avalanche of such mails on the daily.
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by mikl 5y ago
In short, RFC 3339 has all the useful formats we think of when we invoke ISO 8601. The ISO standard has those too, as well as a seemingly endless list of additional obscure and esoteric formats almost no one uses.
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Why not both?
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by mikl 5y ago
One mans “terse” is another mans “cryptic”. Languages like R are both easier to for the average programmer to read and (much) easier to type.
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Was it ever alive, outside some tiny academic niche? You could hardly even use it without getting a custom keyboard for it.
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by mikl 5y ago
Clbuttic mistake.
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by mikl 5y ago
I might be mistaken, but I thought Stylo (the CSS part of Servo) was shipped as part of Firefox in 2017.
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by mikl 5y ago
It’s exactly because I do care, that I’m so frustrated. Mozilla was our best chance to have a truly independent browser. And they blew it. And they’re still blowing it, destroying their remaining good-will with one tin-eared, alienating mov
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by mikl 5y ago
Yeah, Firefox has been going down the tubes for a while, suffering under inept management and a bloated organisation, whittling Mozilla’s endowment away on vanity projects while the browser is languishing. And when they recently saw the nee
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by mikl 5y ago
Looks like Mitchell Baker is just trying to suck as much money out of Firefox as she can before retiring. Hard to see another way this strategy of lighting the company’s reputation on fire to earn a few extra bucks makes sense. Bizarre and
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Good point, I’ll add that to my list.

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