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by mindcrime 7y ago
Another amazing book of his that I don't see mentioned a lot (perhaps because it is more technical that maybe any of his other books) is 'Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies'. I'm reading that one now. I recommend it
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by mindcrime 7y ago
Besides Permutation City by Greg Egan, which has been mentioned several times already, I'd add Glasshouse [1] by Charles Stross. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasshouse_(novel)
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by mindcrime 7y ago
Talk to a lawyer.
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by mindcrime 7y ago
Isn't this a license violation? That depends. If people who buy "their" software get the modified source along with it, and it's also under the terms of the GPL, then they are compliant AFAIK. They can also just put up
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by mindcrime 7y ago
Why would somebody want to modify their car without getting a degree in Mechanical Engineering first? Why would somebody want to become an airline pilot without doing a graduate degree in fluid dynamics? ... Not everybody needs to drill dow
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by mindcrime 7y ago
Let's hope it doesn't come to it though. There's a reason I have a lot of dried beans and rice stored away... :-)
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by mindcrime 7y ago
But its not gonna feed America, not even a percent or two of us. The numbers don't support it. Nobody is claiming that it will.
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by mindcrime 7y ago
As a supplement to a family's food supply, hunting and foraging are totally insufficient. You can't really make that claim without quantifying the degree of supplementation in question. And that's an unknown. So really th
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by mindcrime 7y ago
Or you could do both.
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by mindcrime 7y ago
My state of 3M had 100,000 deer harvested last year. And what about rabbits, squirrels, turkeys, ducks, quail, bison, elk, feral hogs, etc., etc? There's more game out there than just deer.
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by mindcrime 7y ago
Not if other foods were unavailable (the assumption). Why is that your assumption?
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by mindcrime 7y ago
I don't really understand what point you're trying to make, w/r/t the post you're replying to. Again: A family might feed themselves through a combination of any or all of: hunting, trapping, fishing, foraging for
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by mindcrime 7y ago
I can relate to this, to an extent. I never hunted in my youth, despite having grown up in redneckville. I was all about bass fishing in farm ponds, not hunting. I was enthusiastic about shooting though, and I'm a lifelong gun owner an
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by mindcrime 7y ago
I don't think anybody is proposing to replace the entire existing food supply chain with nothing but hunted deer. There is no reason however, to think that hunting can't supplement a family's food stocks if other sources star
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by mindcrime 7y ago
Do you re-try that part and risk sending the same instruction twice (ok in some cases but not all) vs risk of having sent no instruction? If you can make your compensating action idempotent, then yes, you can just keep retrying it. If it
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by mindcrime 7y ago
It seems like inconsistencies are inevitable no matter what you do. At some level, barring guaranteed message delivery (which is effectively non-existent in any distributed system) you always reach a level where you can't guarantee c
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by mindcrime 7y ago
There's no question that it adds complexity, but I wouldn't agree that it adds a "huge amount." The Saga Pattern is actually very straightforward. But as with anything, the question is "is this complexity worth the
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by mindcrime 7y ago
JBoss Narayana provides a useful implementation of the Saga Pattern that makes it fairly easy to plug that pattern into microservices interactions.
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by mindcrime 7y ago
Saga Pattern. https://blog.couchbase.com/saga-pattern-implement-business-t... https://microservices.io/patterns/data/saga.html https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/10&
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by mindcrime 7y ago
After extensive process improvement and testing, NASA opened SiC fibers up for licensing through its Technology Transfer program. When a company licenses with NASA, the relationship extends far beyond the agency’s brand recognition, it pro
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by mindcrime 7y ago
I'd say after a week or two I felt like I could notice a difference.
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by mindcrime 7y ago
Yeah, when I got back for my next checkup, I definitely plan to ask my doctor to order the Vitamin D test again so we can see how it's changed over time.
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by mindcrime 7y ago
Interesting thing... Vitamin D is one of those things that, when vitamins come up on HN, you will often hear the refrain that "it's the one vitamin that large numbers of people are actually deficient in and ought to supplement.&qu
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by mindcrime 7y ago
Probably because many (most?) such people believe that markets are closer to a random walk than not. And beyond that, they probably believe that if you find "alpha", it will always be short-lived because over time the market will
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by mindcrime 7y ago
Probably speaking publicly, and/or writing (a book, or writing for a magazine or something).
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by mindcrime 7y ago
I am being asked to do "proper structured agile" by writing up many JIRA tasks in advance of learning what best to write, and I find it funny Yeah, it's hilarious how people are being told to do something in the name of &qu
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by mindcrime 7y ago
Yeah. :-( It bugs me to no end when companies do that, but what can ya do?
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by mindcrime 7y ago
There really is no methodology called "Agile". There are things like Scrum, SAFE, AUP, XP, etc. Some of those may or may not mandate things like "sprints", but the essence of agile (the Agile Manifesto) doesn't even
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by mindcrime 7y ago
Agile's early evangelists wouldn't mind watching Agile die It's easy to say that, but the obvious follow-on question is "and replace it with what, exactly?" Maybe the answer is in TFA, but I didn't read it ye
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by mindcrime 7y ago
I don't know if something is wrong with me, but I simply cannot "decompose" a single feature into 500 different sub-task Jiras. No, nothing is wrong with you. But let me note that the Agile Manifesto doesn't say anythi

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