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by pbalau 5y ago
I really doubt there are millions of us that chose to pay on Amazon with Visa Credit Cards, here in UK.
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by pbalau 5y ago
Maybe the IO part of asyncio is confusing people...
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by pbalau 5y ago
> Does anyone know of examples of codebases (public or private) that have maintained a high quality codebase that is large, old, or supported by a large number of contributors? FreeBSD, OpenBSD, the Linux kernel
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by pbalau 5y ago
After about 20 years of doing this (not particularly as a solopreneur), I understood the following: I sucked really bad yesterday compared to today and today I'm sucking so much more than I will tomorrow. And it makes me really happy t
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by pbalau 5y ago
Your code sucks and it will suck for the next many years. Therefore, DO NOT start building a "library of useful functions". Build a library of knowledge, learn how to iterate over files in a directory in sh, bash, python, matlab.
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The Voyager Tricorder V2(youtube.com)
2 points by pbalau 5y ago|0 comments
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by pbalau 5y ago
Good engineers will ask for code review. Most engineers won't.
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by pbalau 5y ago
Holding into a piece of land is not a given. The fact that one could hold into that could mean that individual was smarter than the individuals that did not.
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by pbalau 5y ago
wrong post? :)
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by pbalau 5y ago
That background is making me terrible unhappy. The article is all right.
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by pbalau 5y ago
Maybe the pandemic?
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by pbalau 5y ago
> Experienced developers typically don't sit like Hari Seldon predicting branches 50k instructions into the future with some extremely elaborate grand master plan This made my day, thank you.
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by pbalau 5y ago
A browser most likely... this is the "Personal Health Dashboard" one gets for each AWS account /edit: https://phd.aws.amazon.com/phd/home#/dashboard/open-issues
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by pbalau 5y ago
Because some people can't fathom being paid to do a thing they like, hence "work" is a thing one has to do to enable the things they like to do. This is very sad, but not because these people, but because people have to do
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by pbalau 5y ago
> On a computing resource basis can you operate SQL Server on a rack in Equinix for cheaper than that in AWS? Sure, but who is going to pay for the person to patch it every week, or upgrade it to the latest version, or upgrade the SAN di
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by pbalau 5y ago
There is an argument to be made that the majority of people working on video games are not engineers, but content producers. And for them the other field might be 3d modeling* kitchens. *I managed to confuse myself about how you spell this
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by pbalau 5y ago
Most of them have other friends, some of whom might be founders and looking to hire.
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by pbalau 5y ago
> We are experiencing API and console issues in the US-EAST-1 Region
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by pbalau 5y ago
No. If you want to build things for the Apple ecosystem, you need to use the Apple ecosystem.
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by pbalau 5y ago
Might be slavic influence, is the same in Romanian.
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by pbalau 5y ago
If you can afford to wear only one hat, then sure, use one special language for configuration. But I can't, I am the entire infra department and I still need to do product and framework work. Not having to switch context, language wise
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by pbalau 5y ago
There is an argument that those things work that well because Apple can sort the software for a reduced set of hardware configurations. Which means that System76 could achieve the same with their own set of configurations. On the other hand
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by pbalau 5y ago
> I find it amusing that the best part of Windows and OSX right now are WSL and Docker support. I find it amusing that you think that. I still use my 2015 Mac Book Air because it still going strong, both hardware and software (albeit an
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by pbalau 5y ago
> But there would be "real benefits": there are significant performance overheads, especially at Facebook's scale, with using an RDBMS compared to something specifically written for their use-case. If a different storage s
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by pbalau 5y ago
> ...so I assume I'm missing something, but what? Facebook started, as any other web app, with a relational database used as a relational database (fks, indexes, all that stuff). They built tooling around that and acquired a great d
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by pbalau 5y ago
Nope, you build a RPI cluster for the sake of it.
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by pbalau 5y ago
Thank you
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Ask HN: Starting kit for an aspiring software developer
1 points by pbalau 5y ago|2 comments
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by pbalau 5y ago
This [0] is related to the topic at hand. 0. https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/1452725377332297734
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by pbalau 5y ago
What does that mean?

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