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by papito 5y ago
In a Wooooorld, where newer generation of developers does not grasp the concept of database indexes, and network latency is assumed to be zero, one man.....
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by papito 5y ago
Am I supposed to guess what your takeaway is?
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by papito 5y ago
Can you blame journalists for hating big tech, when they are destroying their profession? Journalists are forced to bang out 20 clickables a day to keep up, because you've got to get those PAGE VIEWS. The only injection of adrenaline i
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by papito 5y ago
For me, programming was like being a little god in my own little world. For an introvert especially, it was exhilarating. You write a command, and it obeys. When you see something on screen is even more satisfying. In fact, the all-night co
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by papito 5y ago
Why? What are the odds of me going to jail if I violate an open-source license in a small company? I think we are past societal norms at this point, and definitely post-shame. This is relevant because we are talking about Trump, who I see a
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by papito 5y ago
Is this a joke?
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by papito 5y ago
Trump, looking for justification to do something that adheres to the norms? Are you joking? Who is going to stop him? "Society"?
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by papito 5y ago
Intelligence agencies obviously rarely do PR. Give one example of a NATO hacking "proxy" getting caught. There have been multiple Russian ones.
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by papito 5y ago
The studies for this are scarce, but this is curious and counterintuitive: "The research also found that modern car s, with a more aerodynamic body shape, killed more insects than boxier vintage cars up to 70 years old." https
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by papito 5y ago
There is no asymmetry in capability but there is an asymmetry in the desire to provoke. Russia has solidified its role in the world as essentially - a geopolitical troll. "Stabbing in the back", the thing they accuse everyone else
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by papito 5y ago
Once you start using it for autocomplete in a text field, the touch bar is pretty cool. You also can glance at it during a zoom meeting to see if you are muted. RIP.
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by papito 5y ago
There is no separation of capital and state in the United States anymore. It's just more "gentle". What we have is "broken capitalism". We have a system where government figures trade as if they were teenagers on Ro
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by papito 5y ago
An SPAC is nothing but a fraud vehicle. Look at the new SPAC driving the new Trump "social network". They didn't have to do any work. No due diligence, no financial disclosures, no business plan, no numbers - nothing . After
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by papito 5y ago
That's too bad. "Corporations are people", my friend, but they can also pump unlimited amounts of money into politics, creating their own laws. Let's not just call out "the government". They are the government.
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by papito 5y ago
How about the middle ground, where the capitalists try to be good citizens and patriotically do not attempt to poison us all for profit, while building escape bunkers in New Zealand, once we are all f---ed back home. Ok, big ask, I know. Ho
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by papito 5y ago
It's not like we were all driving in Chevrolet Bel Airs in the 90s and now switched to Lamborghinis.
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by papito 5y ago
YES. Drove with my parents to the Catskills in upstate NY almost every weekend in the early 2000s. The windshield was covered in bug splatter. Now - nothing . Edit: it was a Hyundai Excel https://retrocars.fandom.com/wiki&#
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by papito 5y ago
The weight of your college experience degrades rapidly after your first job. What did I do? I went to a shitty city college, self-educated myself in coding, and then I got hired by the smallest bootstrapped startup I could find, so thrifty
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by papito 5y ago
Alright. Also - great combat flight simulators and an army of world-class black hat hackers. Few people care about either.
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by papito 5y ago
Fair point, but let's not forget the USSR was not a very mobile society. You didn't just "move" from your government-allocated apartment, if you even had one. Where you were born greatly contributed to your trajectory, e
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by papito 5y ago
There is no need to turn this into an argument by suggesting that somehow WhatsApp banned its engineers from getting together. That never happens, ever. We are obviously discussing scheduled meetings and scrums. By the way, this is mentione
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by papito 5y ago
They also famously had no meetings, like at all.
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by papito 5y ago
Perhaps you should ask yourself why the sources that "lean right" are not reporting on this.
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by papito 5y ago
Luck had a lot to do with it. Just like Bill Gates was stuffed into an ultra-privileged boarding school that happened to have a computer, exposing him to an opportunity, Alexey Pajitnov was lucky enough to be born in Moscow, where he went
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by papito 5y ago
The first team does not achieve scale because they are still building microservices. The word of the day is "lean".
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by papito 5y ago
Because complexity kills. Something that has yet to be learned by the new generation of developers. While disciples of FAANG create a gazillion microservices that they spend most of their time debugging in production ("observability&qu
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by papito 5y ago
Off topic, but, the USSR had a brutal education system (as in "good"), and lots of stellar talent. It was too poor to have the proper tools to widely cultivate that talent. At least the world got Tetris out of it.
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by papito 5y ago
Wow, even Opera is much less pushy. I know people might have major issues with new Opera ownership, but I've come to love it, whatever. It's Chrome, but way more productive and user-friendly.
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This is an insult to all the slaps on the wrist around the world.
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by papito 5y ago
Yes! When we talk about "simulating the Universe", you cannot just simulate the Earth. A tiny event taking place somewhere in the Andromeda Galaxy will have some sort of an effect. You have to take into account the whole system,

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