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by obviouslynotme 4y ago
I agree that almost no Software 1.0 will be effected by this. Software 2.0 will start doing the jobs humans do now because Software 1.0 can't, e.g. security guard, customer support, as well as your examples. The real interesting things
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by obviouslynotme 4y ago
What ails Google is its management, starting at the very top. They have created a culture of idiocy that can't be fixed internally. Everyone knows their issues. They just can't fix them. They can't even acquire new companies
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by obviouslynotme 4y ago
Management doesn't like scaring their workers and wait for recessions to fire low performers all at once. Hiring someone else's scraps isn't the best strategy, and digging for the diamonds in the dirt is very expensive.
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by obviouslynotme 4y ago
People only put up with GCP because AWS is owned by Amazon, a notoriously ruthless company. AWS is better from the perspectives of API stability, customer support, and third party support, aka the primary things cloud customers care about.
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by obviouslynotme 4y ago
It shouldn't baffle you. Google ads make so much money with no real competitors that there is no motivation to innovate anything else. Blizzard has the same problem. World of Warcraft makes so much money that it kills everything else.
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by obviouslynotme 4y ago
This is my feeling as well. The biggest problem with new projects is that you don't know what the product will look like in advance, even if you think you do. Restructuring code, especially with full 20/20 hindsight, will make tha
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by obviouslynotme 4y ago
Stack Overflow is not actually a Q&A site. It is a repository. It is designed so that if you search for a question, you find a good question with one or more good answers. In order to perform this mission, duplicates are removed and a b
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by obviouslynotme 4y ago
How is Position 2 extreme? It's just a fact that the vast majority of sites don't need highly available, massively distributed and scalable systems. The small amount of organizations that actually need something like that are the
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by obviouslynotme 4y ago
Number 2 is the factually correct position. Number 1 is the professionally correct position. Resume driven development is the name of the game, and companies reward it.
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by obviouslynotme 4y ago
You should never trust anyone's answer on what the system does. The system is the only source of truth. Hopefully there is another developer there who can give you answers to broader questions. Answer specific questions yourself using
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by obviouslynotme 4y ago
You will never prevent people from downloading your html and rendering it, correctly or incorrectly. Attackers will just pull in an open source browser engine that supports mobile. Our smartphones were not made with security in mind. They a
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by obviouslynotme 4y ago
It's because software is both a highly technical and creative endeavor. There are few people who can do it, and even fewer who can do it well. As hard as software development may be, managing it is even harder. This is always where the
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by obviouslynotme 4y ago
That's how orgs die.
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by obviouslynotme 4y ago
The only IDE better than Visual Studio is probably one of the Smalltalk IDEs, but the languages are too niche these days. It's a shame none of the large companies wants to back them.
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by obviouslynotme 4y ago
No. C# is usually used by Microsoft shops, and half the reason to use C# is so you can use Visual Studio.
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by obviouslynotme 4y ago
Go has always been a high level language, and is even more so now with generics. I would even argue that Go, correctly done, is halfway between the Java tier and the Lisp tier. Due to Go's quick and easy parsability, generation, and co
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by obviouslynotme 4y ago
Go has always been a Java, C#, Python, and Ruby killer. It has not and never will be a C or C++ killer. C is the language of libraries and embedded, neither of which Go is good for. C++ is the language of large systems that need extreme con
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by obviouslynotme 4y ago
Smart miners mine during the slumps in BTC prices when there is less competition. They get more BTC, even if it is currently worth less USD. They then hold the BTC for the next rally. Most large miners are also cash flush early BTC adopters
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by obviouslynotme 4y ago
I am one of the exceptions that uses higher level mathematics on a regular basis at work. I agree with his theory that teaching everyone calculus, or preparing to take it, is not necessary for most. The problem I have is that he is looking
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by obviouslynotme 4y ago
As long as you live in the right area and select a good troop, the BSA is still thriving. The real key is to participate in the troop with your son so you can monitor it and help it become better.
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
There's a difference between a bear market and having your business shut down by the government.
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
It's higher than that depending on the industry, but you are assuming that 100% of small businesses started right as the lockdowns hit. Most small businesses that make it past the first couple years last a long time.
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
Google pays Mozilla to exist. I wouldn't be surprised if other browsers get either checks or favors for existing. All of this is to make Google not seem like the monopoly it is.
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
That is a distinction without a difference.
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
>Foreign gov't, certainly. Ours? As honestly as I can claim, I never knew of any Psyop folks conducting operations on those sites, nor did I ever hear of any directives for Psyop folks to use those platforms as viable mediums. They
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
Grow your career releasing domestic propaganda now that the 2013 NDAA removed the Smith-Mundt Act ban on domestic propaganda. You too can earn $13k/year posting on multiple social media sites from a flowchart given to you that day. Nev
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
Google needs long tenure more than other companies due to its large reliance on in-house software. This is yet another move to shoot themselves in the foot. Luckily, network effects will keep them in business for another few decades.
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
>The problem IS businesses refusing cash. They legally cannot, at least not in the USA, and I doubt in most countries. Thanks to the legal tender laws, businesses cannot legally refuse the legal tender, especially in its cash form. Once
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
As you enter larger corporations, you see more Resume Driven Development. Overengineering isn't something to be avoided. It is the purpose of your 3 to 5 year stint there. Management rewards it so everyone participates in the circus to
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
This is because type checking is the least impactful part of generics. As you said, that is a solved problem. The reason Go took so long thinking about generics has to do with their code generation. There are steep tradeoffs in compilation

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