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901.
by mmt 8y ago
OK, so enduring (which includes constant/unwavering?) and untreatable. I haven't been able to find how many sufferers of depression that includes. If it's close to or actually zero, then maybe it's a strawman.
902.
by mmt 8y ago
This seems a bizarrely simplistic (or incomplete) statement. It needs at least an adjective in front of "agony". I don't expect you're suggesting euthanizing someone with acute appendicitis or a severe cluster headache.
903.
by mmt 8y ago
I wonder, though, if the original iteration of Uber (now Uber Black?), their actual commercial car/driver version of the service, is the solution. It didn't have the hyper-growth potential of the current model, but it didn'
904.
by mmt 8y ago
> The generation tool should know all the ORMs or whatever used by the clients and modify their models. Saying that this is not mainstream is an understatement. I'm not sure that there would ever need to be any code-generation tool
905.
by mmt 8y ago
> I guess I don't see the risk? That's the point, though. Once you "see" it, it's way too late. > It's been close to 20 years since That's just anecdata, but, as you point out, you do wash your hands
906.
by mmt 8y ago
I suspect that's where you may be crossing over into an irrational fear of dirt and/or germs, which can lead to, at the very least, people being dismissive of concerns. After all, your desk, keyboard, smartphone screen, and even s
907.
by mmt 8y ago
> what ActiveRecord migration rollbacks are for Whatever their intended purpose (by the developers, I assume), that has no bearing on how they're actually used. > Nobody is 'blowing away' customer data. That's a
908.
by mmt 8y ago
> Of course, Thou Shalt Have Backups, but it's not exactly a frictionless experience if you fry things and have to go back to them. I do wonder how much of this is because of, specifically, PostgreSQL not having enough "market&
909.
by mmt 8y ago
> One way to see it is that the database is a microservice that manages data for all the other microservices and its API is (for example) SQL. That's a good point, especially since, in the common (or at least initial) situation, tha
910.
by mmt 8y ago
I don't think I've ever seen any objective evidence on this one way or the other.. have you?
911.
by mmt 8y ago
> So again, it cures the symptom, but it benefits only the person with the loudest voice in the room, and not the one with sound reason. ..or even just the facts. I have, on (fortunately rare) occasions, refused to heed a manager's
912.
by mmt 8y ago
But, see, the way to get it "clean" is by washing ones hands regularly with soap and warm water (ideally before touching it [1]). Really, though, you're making the (likely false) assumption that ones "junk" is the o
913.
by mmt 8y ago
> to paint these often personally-aligned preferences as generic pros/cons, we muddy the waters. I'm not sure that listing pros/cons paints them as anything (or vice-versa), though maybe I haven't quite gotten your po
914.
by mmt 8y ago
> the Altavista or pets.com of the Internet, burning investor money I'm not sure it's fair to lump Altavista with pets.com. The latter burned through something like 300 megabucks in just over 2 years. The former was the first f
915.
by mmt 8y ago
I think I still have at least one "This shirt is a munition" T-shirt with machine readable (barcode) RSA code (in C?) on it. That might be what you're thinking of. The point wasn't to circumvent anything but to draw at
916.
by mmt 8y ago
> Ultimately there is then nothing to stop political expediency overriding facts and understanding, and the elected representatives are free to discard the opinions of the SMEs no matter how valid or correct they might be. Sadly, I'
917.
by mmt 8y ago
> It seems like switching to arm would be a much bigger efficiency gain That's a false dichotomy. More energy-efficient CPUs don't preclude efficiencies from cooling. I suppose the case could be made that CPUs account for the
918.
by mmt 8y ago
And if there's 7.62 gigapersons on earth, that's about 3.2MWh/year per person or 271 kWh/month per person. Since that's the same order of magnitude as, say, a US household, that does seem credible.
919.
by mmt 8y ago
I'm not sure what to call this counterpoint to the more general mantra of "cloud is cheaper and easier than rolling your own!" (with an implied "always" in the middle). Maybe the ineconomy of scale? Except it's
920.
by mmt 8y ago
> imagine if we had thousands First you spoke of 50, then 500 (web sites), now thousands (yet you only managed to name 6).. this is starting to resemble reductio ad absurdum . You haven't really made a convincing argument for why w
921.
by mmt 8y ago
I think this idea of development environment exceptionalism is one of the "walls" that the original DevOps movement hoped to remove. Although I agree that for something like rapid prototyping or experimentation or proof-of-concept
922.
by mmt 8y ago
> I don't see any Tesla technology that can't easily be replicated by any other car manufacturer I'd agree with you if it weren't for the word "easily". I think even the original commenter would agree that s
923.
by mmt 8y ago
If I had to make a cynical guess, I'd say it's for CAFE standards.
924.
by mmt 8y ago
I would suggest that needing to defend a particular use of grammar on a discussion site is a bit like needing to explain a joke. It means your original message simply wasn't effective. Regardless, you haven't explained what your a
925.
by mmt 8y ago
Be careful of unintended consequences, though. It could create a perverse incentive for fraudsters to take down the system in a way that's outside the control of the banks and Visa, which could mean outages of many more services.
926.
by mmt 8y ago
> On paper, the area should operate very similarly to New York City I think you're mistaken. On paper, NYC has a land area of just under 303 square miles. The nine-county SFBA is around 7000 square miles. I'm pretty sure it&#x2
927.
by mmt 8y ago
> They could be on topic in lots of places, assuming they relate to some interesting point under discussion Perhaps I didn't ask the question clearly enough. Let me rephrase: Where would I go, as an HN user, to discuss a particular
928.
by mmt 8y ago
> Consider, it is cheaper to reimplement a framework into javascript than it is to port the language demonstrating the framework into the web platform. I'm not sure I follow what you mean here, though I admit I'm quite inexper
929.
by mmt 8y ago
I'm asserting that conflict-avoidance is why, in general, monocultures might either actively be argued in favor of, or, more specifically, why nobody actively argues for (what I consider) the true opposite, which is dirversity of thoug
930.
by mmt 8y ago
> the antiseptic posting of job listing, without any potential input from people who've recently gone through the process, is IMHO a loss for the HN community -- if I just want unadorned job listings, I can get that many other place

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