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by pgwhalen 5y ago
> If what you want to deploy is best described as “an application” it’s probably not the right tool for the job. If what you want to deploy is best described as “50 interconnected applications” it’s probably going to save you time. This
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
Would it be "dissonant" if a skydiving company advertised one of its values as prioritizing safety?
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Federal agencies investigating the situation does not mean they think there was anything wrong with it.
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These stories are not conflicting at all, in fact they complement each other very well.
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I'm convinced that the reason there isn't good science around cooking advice is that a lot of food will go to waste while finding the right answer, and people don't consider the answer worth the waste. Even self-described ex
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
I have no experience in sales, but as someone who has been sold many things, the list seems really correct to me.
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
Who is pretending? You managed to come up with an irrelevant and misleading take on the data. Do you expect the media to consider all hypothetical incorrect ways of interpreting the data, and say why they are incorrect? That doesn't
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
This is a very strange and misleading way of looking at the data. For one, what you call infections are actually hospitalizations. Your analysis also neglects to consider the differences between the vaccinated and un-vaccinated population
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
I enjoyed the book very much, for how it shed light on the real meaning and use of money. In what sense has it helped you read people?
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
> And don't get me started on his debt book I must admit I'm tempted to get you started :). Can you recommend a review of it that shares your criticism?
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
As another commenter mentioned, "refresh" tipped them off as a front end dev. As a backend dev working in statically typed languages, I will sometimes code for hours without running, and I wouldn't say anything about it is te
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
I'm curious if Americans won't really understand the meaning of that in 20 years. I feel like it would be equivalent to saying "September of 2001", and surely Americans now understand what that refers to.
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
Isn’t it generally agreed that China is actively committing genocide against its own people? If that’s not systematic abuse, I’m not sure what is. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
In what sense does a high rate of incarceration help the United States “system” though? This feels like a tenuous connection.
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
One way to reason about why it doesn’t matter: insolvency is not the key part of the financial survival constraint, liquidity is. You could think of tether as just “leveraged” against its underlying USD holdings. It’s only problematic if th
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
Agreed. I currently publish a bit of writing about my software engineering opinions to a website that only a couple of my non-software engineer friends know about. It doesn't make much sense to them, but their playful criticisms help
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
What is not useful about threading in slack? My organization uses it to great success. Sure, it could be improved, but so can anything.
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
As some sibling comments suggest, not all finance is created the same. Trading systems often use floating point, but banking/accounting systems used fixed point. The key is whether your system needs to tally up your monies into a known
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 Note the date of course - this is well before Dropbox was a household name.
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I’m curious if you got this idea from the famous HN comment about Dropbox.
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by pgwhalen 5y ago
This is a thought exercise I've done myself, and your questions will mostly be answered by looking at the features ( https://docs.timescale.com/api/latest/ ) that TimescaleDB provides. > However, this basica
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
Can you comment on the Vector API that Java is set to include? Do you think it's entirely misguided, or more of a best effort given what one can reasonably expect from Java? http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/8261663 (
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
Unfortunately I don't have a good answer for you - I work for a trading firm so there is no customer data. The minimal data that developers aren't allowed to see is restricted in both environments, but in practice the software we
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
Your comment makes me realize how lucky I am at my job: we do this production environment replication via “SAN magic” and it is so insanely useful.
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
I think I'm going to convince my team to get to 16 (with records) before I can convince them to stop adding getters and setters everywhere, but just out of curiosity... how did you manage to make this happen?
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
> Looking at https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/401 it's not totally clear to me at the moment how you can use ValueTypes (primitive keyword) in Collections. JEP 401 won't cover it quite yet, note this from the
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
Not OP, but... > More seriously, what are you missing in Go that is well-done in Java? As cliche as it is to say, Go missing generics (for the time being) does hold it back in many ways relative to Java. I like and use both languages reg
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
The one use case I’ve found recently is joining sparse time series data. In other words, when the tables you’re joining are “equally important” as opposed to one depending on the other.
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
I would be shocked if they saw anything but incredible user growth in the last quarter.
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by pgwhalen 6y ago
Great explanation. It’s C-level terminology. You don’t really build a data lake, you just end up with one.

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