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by perrygeo 4y ago
In the same vein, it helps to have publicly-stated design goals and constraints on the project. Often the most frustrating feature requests go against the grain of the software's original intent or architecture. To the extent you can a
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by perrygeo 4y ago
According to the article, poor internal quality means your software just can't keep up with competitors. So you don't get punished for releasing buggy software, you get punished for not releasing software at all.
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by perrygeo 4y ago
This was my very first Linux distribution! My dad picked bought a copy of the Deluxe edition on a whim, an actual shrink-wrapped physical box of software. It had a cute penguin logo and had lots of nice software included. We installed it on
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by perrygeo 4y ago
See also the "Medea Hypothesis" which proposes that organisms are generally suicidal at a population scale, destroying themselves and their own environment if left unconstrained. Life's historical record alternates between ex
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by perrygeo 4y ago
I'd say Dave Chapelle and JK Rowling have pissed people off based on their controversial public statements. Which is very different from actual physical harm; for example the actions of Kevin Spacey, Harvey Weinstein, Donald Trump, and
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by perrygeo 4y ago
By pinging people on slack and interrupting them for a review asap? Or context switching to an unrelated part of the code in parallel while you wait? Or reducing the frequency of reviews and make a mega-PR every couple weeks? I've seen
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Reading this article and the comments here is like group therapy. This feels like a nearly-universal experience; the shared trauma of pouring everything into a project only to see success destroyed by incompetent management. I've been
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Of course "seizing the means of production" would be a useless folly... without production. The whole goal of Marxist thought was not to SHUT DOWN the factories, it was to run those factories so that society as a whole would benef
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by perrygeo 4y ago
I think so, but they are very different pace. BCS is a deeper (slower) story with better character development, but less action. Depends on why you liked Breaking Bad.
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Exactly. The article claims that the world is "better" because we have improved child mortality rates. They state (correctly) that the improvement is a consequence of alleviating poverty and improving material living conditions. B
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Best bang for the buck: teach non-tech folks to internalize the basic outline of the client/server model. You have a program on your machine that is your view of the website. The company operating the website has their own machines whe
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Feels like a strawman argument - returning a 200 with an error payload vs an opaque 404 are not the only options. If you need to differentiate between a technical error and a business domain error, we have other tools: A whole list of 4xx e
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by perrygeo 4y ago
The tour started in Denmark for 3 stages this year and has been relatively flat. Not to mention blessed with tailwinds. Looking at the average speed without considering the conditions is a pointless analysis, but to cry doping as a result?!
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Another good reason for code in the database - keep compute near the data. Particularly for aggregate functions where you're asking for a small summary of a potentially large amount of data, you're better off implementing that lo
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Not so obvious to those of us with experience in data-intensive startups.
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Ha, well tell that to the hard drive manufacturers and cloud providers. The storage bill alone exceeded that at four startups I've worked with. When your job is to manage X PB of data with Y TB arriving daily, you're fairly constr
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by perrygeo 4y ago
I really don't understand the "critical package" dichotomy. Why not 2FA for everyone? If it's a best security practice, just say so. Set a cutoff date after which every PyPi author needs to comply. Targeting only the aut
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by perrygeo 4y ago
> Nobody is forcing you. Well, the author was happily using that distribution mechanism and built a community of users whose production systems are now locked into it. Then they rules changed unilaterally, effectively holding access to t
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Storage, compute and networking mostly. I'm confused by your question - are you suggesting that early stage startups couldn't possible generate a workload to warrant that cost? Maybe if your idea of a startup business is limited t
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by perrygeo 4y ago
A fun piece of speculation so I'm trying not to take it too seriously. But it takes a giant leap of faith to say coal was not the primary driver of the Industrial Revolution. First, it introduced a massive energy surplus far greater th
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by perrygeo 4y ago
https://www.kubegres.io/ has worked well for me. You can use custom images, provided they follow the conventions of the official postgres image. I haven't tried a major-version upgrade yet - my impression is that it wi
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by perrygeo 4y ago
> The Supreme Court returned the question to the legislative branch. That’s it. What new legislation is required beyond the 4th and 9th amendments? Along with decades of legal precedent, these ALREADY protect US citizen's medical ri
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by perrygeo 4y ago
This is a poor analysis. There's no justification for binning hourly temperature data into 3-year intervals and comparing the _median_ over time (an aggregate metric which ignores outliers, in a system where outliers drive the behavior
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by perrygeo 4y ago
If you've got property with a slope you can build a gravity battery. Pump water and store it uphill, later release the water and spin a turbine to recover a portion of the energy.
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by perrygeo 4y ago
This. I know many gun owners personally and almost none of them object to regulation, similar to the level we have for operating a motor vehicle. Things like waiting periods, background checks, denying weapons to violent criminals, mandator
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Corporations have fiscal obligations to their shareholders, in quarterly cycles. "Renting to some crackheads" (a great analogy!) is always on the table if one literally believes that they have no long term obligations. Not saying
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by perrygeo 4y ago
I guess there is really no "obvious" ordering, it all depends on your past experience. Named data structures are a way around it, but coordinates represented as tuples/lists/arrays seems cursed to repeat this mistake.
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by perrygeo 4y ago
It's not a superficial complaint but it is relative to one's experience. Something that's "difficult" for me might be "easy" for you and vice versa. I find it very much related to understanding the core
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Anyone with a basic math or science background is intimately familiar with (x, y) coordinate ordering on a cartesian plane, where the horizontal component comes before the vertical. From that perspective (Long, Lat) is the only obvious orde
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by perrygeo 4y ago
I don't get it. Any capable editor/IDE should be able to send markdown code blocks to a terminal pane, letting you work in the comfort of your standard dev environment. What's the point of a dedicated application just for thi

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