mtberatwork

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by mtberatwork 5y ago
Is the push-back to replace the entire department with contractors or bring on contractors in ancillary roles? If the former, then the simplest one-liner that I can give you is that "you can't outsource your way to prosperity.&quo
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
> There's a whole ecosystem of businesses that rely on Facebook that are going to start hurting a lot over the next few years. Starting? Did these publishers not learn anything from the whole Facebook Video debacle? [1] Also, who at
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
Yes: https://packagist.org/packages/laravel/framework
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
To be fair, Zend and CodeIgniter had to juggle operating between PHP4/5 at the same time. The object model in PHP4 was mostly incomplete and just syntactic sugar. It also did some oddball things like flip-flop pass-by-value/refere
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
This is a meta-analysis so the conclusions will depend entirely on how they are filtering studies. A bit of their criteria: > We have seen no studies which we believe credibly separate the effect of early lockdown from the effect of earl
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
> I've not seen any company which using a RDBMS, that isn't on PG for the last 5 years Facebook: https://engineering.fb.com/2021/07/22/data-infrastructure/my...
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
If you look at the concept of "tubes" in beanstalkd, it seems to be quite similar to what you are doing in AWS. Each of your independent queues is just a "tube" in beanstalkd. Quite honestly though, you can do this same
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
Maybe I'm missing something but this setup sounds like a re-creation of Beanstalkd. https://beanstalkd.github.io/
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
> Most Asians exercise much more, eat healthier, AND smoke and drink less. Tobacco consumption in Asia is incredibly high: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_consumption_by_country
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
Too small? According to this site [1], market share is about equal to Safari and Edge+IE. If you are supporting Safari, Edge/IE there is no justifiable reason not to support Firefox. [1] https://kinsta.com/browser-marke
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
Based on their privacy policy, it's data extraction. Also for some reason they link out to privacy policies of the Walt Disney company and the Washington Post? They also seem to use some obscure, third party CMS provider, and perhaps t
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
What's your point here? The Atlantic is a political commentary magazine.
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
I was responding to the parent's remark that "any tax cuts are trickle down?". As I mentioned, tax cuts on the wealthy pushed as wealth generating mechanisms for the lower classes is the literal definition of "trickle-do
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
> Any tax cuts are trickle down? Of course not, but when tax cuts for the top are billed to be wealth generating mechanisms for the middle and lower classes, that is literally the definition of "trickle-down economics".
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
> I haven't heard a politician advocate trickle-down since the Reagan era. That was the fundamental argument for Trump's tax cuts in 2017. "If we cut taxes on the wealthy then they will use that money to create jobs for th
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
JIT compilation certainly isn't fluff or bloat.
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
> Just continue the thought: if CRUD is so easy, but money can be made then it will be automated away by frameworks or even commercial products. So less people will be needed and hence people will lose their jobs. CRUD are just the basic
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
How is php 422 seconds? Are you basing that off the return value of the function? FWIW, I get 57 seconds when I run your function with PHP 7.4 using microtime().
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
> I trust Apache to spin up a new PHP process for each request. Except under DOS attack or with some horrendous memory leak, it's just solid. Obviously it's a lot more overhead. FWIW, PHP-FPM has been the standard way of deploy
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
I can't comment on the other countries, but no one in Germany is paying $2000/month for public health insurance.
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
"Low out of pocket costs" will depend on a several things: your premium, deductible, co-insurance, out of pocket max and whether or not you are in or out of network. All of these numbers and scenarios are going to be different fro
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
I think a lot discussion around consciousness focuses too much on the binary (e.g. either you have it or you don't), but I like to think of consciousness as a spectrum, with organisms falling into various points along that spectrum. Yo
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
Eh, "[insert stable, mature MVC framework] is dying/dead/etc" articles are a dime a dozen on the Web. I suppose it could be considered a badge of honor for a framework to have some internet punter declare the framework
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
I'm sure you are being rhetorical but the answer is "no" to all of your questions. Also, few places provide pensions these days.
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
> We pay for our national health insurance too and probably comparable to what Americans pay for their private. That's not saying much since the NHS covers far more than what private insurance does in the US. Furthermore, in the US
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
No, you do NOT need to do frequent blood checks. Find yourself a doctor that you feel comfortable with, do yearly physicals and consult with them for anything in-between. Excessive testing will needlessly lead you into a spiral of health an
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
Related: "Why Science Can't Settle Political Disputes" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28693269
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
Eh, this argument often crops up in some variation. It's essentially the "No true Scotsman" argument for the free market. The free market hasn't failed it just wasn't "free" enough! ... and so forth.
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
> Low stress (because I would be a senior doing junior tasks), more money. Bingo. From an ethical point of view: I would be a junior (earning junior money) producing senior-level coding. That's a big win for any company, no? Once t
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by mtberatwork 5y ago
> The surprising thing about so many of the artists is that they only work 2 or 3 hours per day, then spend the rest of the day walking around, socializing, etc. But they consistently show up and put in the work and it adds up to some am

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