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by pgwhalen 4y ago
I'm not a meaningful Instagram user nor would I defend it as "good", but from a "success" perspective, for my demographic (I'm a 30-something US resident), it is clearly the most relevant social network.
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by pgwhalen 4y ago
Fwiw, at a hackathon at my company, some of my coworkers _did_ build a stack overflow clone in a weekend (and they did a very impressive job of it). But yes, it lacks polish, and is now largely unused.
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by pgwhalen 4y ago
My understanding is that that was not about his actual play, but instead about his rapid rise in rating.
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by pgwhalen 4y ago
Can you shed some light on why you think they have a toxic culture? Have you worked there?
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by pgwhalen 4y ago
> fixing the data races. Go handles both of this for you from the start. In what sense does Go handle (prevent) data races for the programmer? In my experience (which is not _extensive_ but certainly non-trivial), Go programmers deal wit
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by pgwhalen 4y ago
That’s why I assumed it and politely clarified.
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by pgwhalen 4y ago
I think you misspoke? No company in history has ever raise $100b in a year, but that’s about what SpaceX is valued at now.
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by pgwhalen 4y ago
> A long time ago I saw a speaker claim that it's not tech debt, it's wear and tear. It sounds like you agree with the idea in general, but just don't like the current metaphor. Can you expand on what about this alternate
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by pgwhalen 4y ago
This is a major (but common) misunderstanding of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). CBDCs are actually more centralized money than has ever been conceived of before, and therefore are especially not a good fit for blockchain.
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by pgwhalen 4y ago
Key-value pretty trivially fits into the relationship model if need be. But yeah, if you’re very sure of the key-valueness of your data, something like RocksDB could be a more direct fit. It’s just a little harder to work with in my experie
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by pgwhalen 4y ago
This isn’t strictly correct: there were fake reactions in a video he released, but he was not aware they were fake until later, and they were removed.
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by pgwhalen 4y ago
Most data is relational, so why not store it that way? Or, from another angle, what would your “local cache” be?
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by pgwhalen 4y ago
I agree that ghosting should be defined as actively not responding to someone who is trying to get in touch with you. But I would suggest that if someone is forcing the issue and asking to meet again, it’s better to respond with a polite ve
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by pgwhalen 4y ago
Most crypto people are traditional finance people at this point, this is lost in a lot of conversation about crypto.
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by pgwhalen 4y ago
It’s just something you have to avoid. It’s not hard to avoid though, unless you are doing bizarre and non idiomatic things with Optional. I have never actually seen a NullPointerException resulting from a null Optional, in my code or my co
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
> The fact it's been so long and they still haven't revealed and explained the root cause of the outage They did last night: https://www.atlassian.com/engineering/april-2022-outage-upda...
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
I tried to be intentionally conservative, but I agree there’s an argument for it to be higher. As someone who watches markets a decent amount, 3% seems far more likely to be in clear reaction to some event, or a continuation of a recent maj
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
This comment (and Animats's parent comment) shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how a balance sheet works. Balance sheets balance: the funds are an asset, but there is a symmetrical liability due back to the customer.
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
Rule of thumb: if an equity market move is ever less than 1.5% in either direction, the headlines about why it happened are completely made up. Financial news has to assign a narrative even when there is none.
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
100k per seat annually? Just to be clear, you’re saying that said software would cost roughly $100k/year/user? Is there any pure software product in the world priced that aggressively?
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
Yeah I'm on Big Sur on my work computer, so I bet it's frozen by policy, but I bet it's the same on my personal, for the same reason.
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
Just checked, I'm not on Monterey, and I can't say I've decided either way.
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
As someone who works in finance and sees the messiness, my takeaway is the exact opposite: the bad tech is evidence that the maintenance of the monetary system is largely not a tech concern, it’s an institutional and societal trust concern.
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
Perhaps not the best answer to facilitate discussion, but certainly the most "accurate" one if you want a sense of what the crowd thinks about the chance of a crash.
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
Thank you for this. However, this article is talking about moving savings deposits from M2 to M1, and the graph of the commenter you are replying to is one of M2. Therefore, the graph would not look different had the definition change not
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
People have been saying this for a long time and it hasn’t come true, and while that doesn’t mean it won’t eventually, I would ask: what will make it become true?
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
I haven’t been following COVID closely enough to know, are there any instances where this has actually worked in the long term?
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
I get the point you're trying to make, but almost no one in the picture is really smiling, and many are clearly not intentionally. That stood out to me. I wouldn't be surprised if they were told not to, perhaps even in an attemp
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
True, though if you have code in separate repositories you might want to stick to some versioning scheme to use the module tooling to your advantage.
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
v1, v2, v3 are not valid module versions in Go, so it requires a slightly different solution.

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