newobj

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by newobj 9y ago
Hah, I love grindcore!! I've been into grindcore, crust, black metal, and death metal since the early 90's when I was also a debater :)
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by newobj 9y ago
Yeah, it's a game - is someone surprised by this? - and a really fun one. I played it for 4 years and sucked at it. Still fun as hell and really intense, even if you are mediocre. Kinda like PUBG... :P I'm sorry, did someone reall
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by newobj 9y ago
6817 karma, i trust this guy more than my mom.
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by newobj 9y ago
Sorry, to be clear, is there an actual (e.g. performance review?) problem, or are you just feeling imposter syndrome?
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by newobj 9y ago
WTH is a Gaming Manager?
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by newobj 9y ago
Have fun making games. People that get into it with get rich quick dreams ... woof If anyone here is curious about game development, go do Ludum Dare 39; it starts in 10 minutes as a matter of fact! https://ldjam.com/events&
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by newobj 9y ago
are you just making this stuff up? it's totally wrong. and if it did happen, there would be a public discussion about it very quickly.
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by newobj 9y ago
i'm old af @ fb and have no idea what you're talking about.
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by newobj 9y ago
More popular? It's already used in the second most popular video game of all time.
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by newobj 9y ago
"Uber for garbage", aka what my grandfather's job used to be back when Philadelphia used privatized trash haulers. Genius guy that grandpa, as he was also a pig farmer, and the pigs loved to eat garbage...
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by newobj 9y ago
Where are they now? Acquiring and aggressively ruining my Withings Body Composition scale, that's where.
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by newobj 9y ago
Exactly.
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by newobj 9y ago
I don't want to ever see the phrase "Exactly Once" without several asterisks behind it. It might be exactly once from an "overall" point of view, but the client effectively needs infinitely durable infinite memory t
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by newobj 9y ago
Been hearing that for like two years now. Hrmm.
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by newobj 9y ago
It's already available at http://rekall.me/
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by newobj 10y ago
DataDog was my customer...
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by newobj 10y ago
"But I can (and have) run a massively simpler service with better overall uptime because it increases our options during upstream black swan events." I'm not saying it's impossible. But I am saying it's dangerous to
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by newobj 10y ago
You can't add a new thing without adding a new point of failure. Every point is a point of failure. Who deploys the thing? A human? God knows they can screw it up. Automated deployment? Well, that's how you get a simultaneous fail
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by newobj 10y ago
(To be clear, I'm not saying it's an anti-pattern, I'm just saying that calling it "no operational overhead" is naive)
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by newobj 10y ago
The idea that it being a local proxy meaning there is no operational overhead is a dangerous fallacy. If that's an earnestly literal statement from you, then it means you simply haven't encountered the failure modes that these kin
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by newobj 10y ago
> If you really care about high availability, you want to bring all of the points of failure under your direct control. This is what exactly I'm talking about. People can't accept that trying to control it is not in any way gua
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by newobj 10y ago
Alternate title: "Replacing S3 downtime for vastly greater amounts of your own downtime" What is the name for this phenomenon where folks think they can out-available a thing that has multiple engineers singularly dedicated to not
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by newobj 10y ago
Well, I certainly think the Sims did that, to tremendous success.
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by newobj 10y ago
If Amazon (or probably anyone for that matter) has some reason to believe you have a short timeline, you can expedite all this. Both times I interviewed with Amazon (I boomeranged and worked there in two separate stints), I had other loops&
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by newobj 10y ago
Hacker News is OVER
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by newobj 10y ago
The network protocol agrees that operation F is priced at X, with an understanding that operation F costs Y. The decentralized nature is exactly what makes it hard to suddenly and unilaterally make a policy change of "F is now forbidde
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by newobj 10y ago
Shipping a game with Unity is hard/risky? News flash: shipping any game is hard/risky. Source: shipped games, all had last minute hard to find problems. In-house engines every time.
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by newobj 10y ago
Oh the Daily Mail? A+ source.
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by newobj 10y ago
Jigsaw puzzles? They're awful.
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by newobj 10y ago
"Already does"? They're both from 2011. Even if they both do the same thing, do you have a point?

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