mrphoebs

8 ms·

31.
by mrphoebs 5y ago
> It seems like you’re saying some people are being tricked by our brains, but others (like yourself) are able to pull aside the veil and truly understand our place in the universe. Perhaps we’re all being tricked. I make no such claim.
32.
by mrphoebs 5y ago
I don't know what specifically you are referring to but, the sun is going to be a red giant in 4.5 billion years, earth cannot sustain life. Deep into the future, all the stars will eventually burn out and there will be no more new one
33.
by mrphoebs 5y ago
I'm not dwindling others experiences against the vastness of the universe. I'm merely pointing out the absurdity of the parent comment that somehow elevates the meaningfulness of having kids over building a stone wall. My positio
34.
by mrphoebs 5y ago
Legacy implies transmission of information. So forgotten not in terms of memory, but a total loss of information (genetic, memory or otherwise).
35.
by mrphoebs 5y ago
Children as your legacy are no less consequential or meaningful than this man's stone walls. In the end you are grasping for empty meaning and purpose in the same way the farmer is, your children will perish, their children will perish
36.
by mrphoebs 5y ago
Sounds fair.
37.
by mrphoebs 5y ago
While I see your point about the article's inability to cogently driving the reader to a deserved insight, Me thinks you've stretched the metaphor into an analogy and pulled at it until it's been "uprooted" :) The t
38.
by mrphoebs 5y ago
I don't think mine is a position as much as general facts about pre-history that calls into question the parent commenters position. Now in the case of the (in)Famous mathematician, he seemed to have made a value judgement based on his
39.
by mrphoebs 5y ago
These roots you profess as being our core are more modern than you think in terms of our overall history as a people. - For waring more complicated and denser societies were required than our hunter gatherere tribes of old - For Pillaging,
40.
by mrphoebs 5y ago
The content seemed to be talking about the fundamental common operating system for societies, not individuals. Individuals might have varying needs but as long as their needs align well with a superset of a culture's fundamental tenets
41.
by mrphoebs 6y ago
Still in the midst of reading it and it's been fascinating from the get go. Thanks for the link.
42.
by mrphoebs 6y ago
Thanks for the mention of julian jaynes' book, never heard of it before, seems like quite an interesting read.
43.
by mrphoebs 6y ago
Software complexity is often an entropic outcome of bloated teams and improper layering, working in an environment without strong stewardship that's explicitly guiding the the effort with simplicity as a fundamental tenet. Adding fundi
44.
by mrphoebs 6y ago
Thanks for the information and links, looks like a great way to spend some downtime.
45.
by mrphoebs 6y ago
This was a very well written article.
46.
by mrphoebs 6y ago
The distinction between maintenance and Tech Debt comes down to whether the choice for an imperfect or expedient way of solving the problem was made consciously. You incur Tech Debt consciously to deliver value in the short term at the cost
47.
by mrphoebs 6y ago
Capture One has a perpetual license, you can try it for free and before checkout their price shows the yearly commitment.
48.
by mrphoebs 11y ago
DNS is a fragile system to use within a DC to do service/endpoint discovery. That's because DNS tends to be a single point of failure. Though the DNS system can inherently be resilient, within a DC most people only operate a singl
49.
Zookeeper Resilience at Pinterest (Service Discovery)(engineering.pinterest.com)
2 points by mrphoebs 12y ago|0 comments
50.
by mrphoebs 12y ago
It's flipkart's OpenSource software org on github to incubate projects that developers drive and graduate them to fully sponsered, flipkart opensource projects.
51.
by mrphoebs 12y ago
While I agree it's not hard to make an object safe for concurrency, knowing how to do it effectively is another matter. In an organization or team where there are engineers at all levels of familiarity with java, getting concurrency ri
52.
by mrphoebs 12y ago
Thanks, I remember reading the pulsar blog post a while ago. Couldn't recall the name.
53.
by mrphoebs 12y ago
Thanks, the analogy to the system call helps heaps in my understanding of the intent. It's value wasn't clear to me when I was debating it's inclusion in the library. I'll have a deeper look and see how best I can includ
54.
by mrphoebs 12y ago
I had no idea such a thing existed, will check it out ,thanks. Can't comment on the differences, sorry.
55.
by mrphoebs 12y ago
It's not pass by reference, it's pass by value. And also I like this abstraction better.
56.
by mrphoebs 12y ago
I'm not an expert at Go but what is the power that select gives. Don't higher order channel structures like multiplexing achieve something similar. Can you throw more light on this?
57.
by mrphoebs 12y ago
The bounded nature of channels tie the communicating processes together more intimately. As a result channels are very good for coordination between processes. Both do a good job of communication between concurrent processes/threads.
58.
Tell HN: Lois - Golang like channels for Java(flipkart-incubator.github.io)
24 points by mrphoebs 12y ago|28 comments
59.
Ask HN: What is your company's policy around using GitHub for personal projects
6 points by mrphoebs 13y ago|4 comments
60.
Gracekelly - A Best Effort Cache Synchronization Library(flipkart.github.io)
2 points by mrphoebs 13y ago|0 comments

More ›