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by pif 2y ago
The biggest problem with this idea is that its major point is to make self-hosting mail servers a reality again: you will never move the masses for the wet dreams of a few of us nerds!
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by pif 2y ago
> If an ancient, 20 year old email client, tries to send a message – it finds the MX record and sends the message just like normal. Maintaining back-compatibility: good! > From there, the email services which implement MX2 would publi
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by pif 2y ago
Welcome to the software development world! Software developing is so much more than web programming, oh boy!
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by pif 2y ago
actually, it's 16 work and 8 sleep
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by pif 2y ago
> A new car built by my company ... While I think I get your point, I also believe that the background is very important. If your company applied standard engineering procedures, that's critically different from building a new produ
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by pif 2y ago
Your memory is playing tricks on you. The speed of light does change physics, as does any fundamental constant. Expressing a speed in different units does indeed yield different numbers, but that is not equivalent to a change of speed. Chan
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by pif 2y ago
> I treat anarchism as a direction to try to get nice parts of current world (scientific research, some technologies like advanced medicine) without ... Don't fool yourself! The niceties of modern times require a critic mass that is
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by pif 2y ago
In a single family, you have parents and toddlers. Coercion and hierarchy are there for education. What we are talking here is a community of adult people.
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by pif 2y ago
Indeed, anarchy was the default state of human nature until communities reached Dunbar's number, i.e. around 150 people. Then, they did invent civilization for a reason!
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by pif 2y ago
TL;DR: having tons of cash is better than having debt.
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by pif 2y ago
We didn't stop dreaming: it's just that we have not yet found non-polluting oil!
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by pif 2y ago
> I can't imagine a more soul draining job than maintaining a corporate C++ codebase. Especially if most of the developers learnt Microsoft Visual C++ and believe that is proper C++!
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by pif 2y ago
> The ideal solution is to split the code I'm sorry, it looks like you did not get the problem: you receive a Task , and you are in a sync environment, and you don't have control over these two constraints. How do you safely w
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by pif 2y ago
I think you are confusing programming with developing software . Otherwise, we'll have just to agree to disagree.
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by pif 2y ago
> Once you go async, all of your callers SHOULD be async, If you can't fathom that calling code could be written before, or independently from, or in a different domain than. called code, than you've never developed complex cod
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by pif 2y ago
It's not a point of honour for MS developers that such a known problem has no good (TM) solution!
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by pif 2y ago
You are ignoring the problem, like the article does. await implies an asynchronous function, but impedance mismatch between two different domains may need that you execute an async-something within a sync-something-else.
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by pif 2y ago
Two people already downvoted without replying. Tell me you have never developed complex software without actually telling me!
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by pif 2y ago
Coming from C++, I hate C# for the nice things that they removed, like const , value-based equality operators, non-null references and powerful templates. It took several versions of the language to have readonly and records. Non-null re
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by pif 2y ago
> There are very few ways to use Task.Result and Task.Wait correctly so the general advice is to completely avoid using them in your code. The article would have been interesting if it had proposed a solution to this problem, but instead
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by pif 2y ago
1 - I said very clearly that you need both of them. 2 - Have you ever been an innocent victim in a serious car accident? Have you ever been diagnosed a debilitating illness independent of your habits? Have you ever lost all your material be
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by pif 2y ago
> If you can learn a job in a day or a week, you can go where opportunity is. And you will find a very crowded place, populated with all the other guys who leant the job yesterday. > I've wondered if this is part of the reason fo
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by pif 2y ago
> It's easy to attribute luck or privilege, but perseverance is a crucial factor in most success. You need luck, or privilege, for your perseverance to bear fruit. You need both! I'm stunned by how many people cannot grasp this
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by pif 2y ago
Much likely not, and that's a good thing, because nobody has yet found a way to limit emissions without seriously impacting performance (especially concerning responsiveness and low regime). May be damned them who invented drive-by-wir
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by pif 2y ago
You learned to program on Windows, didn't you?
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by pif 2y ago
Why were people protesting Google doing business with a democracy, and nobody is protesting Apple obeying to a dictatorship?
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by pif 3y ago
Please, add a [USA] or [Florida] tag to the title, thanks!
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by pif 3y ago
> The main 'advantage' IPv4 has is inertia. That's correct, but it was an idiocy to underestimate it. Reality always wins.
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by pif 3y ago
New paradigms happen from time to time. Paradigm shifts are rare, though. Look, all the good of OOP has not obliterated C. All the excellence of functional programming has not even made a dent in OOP adoption. Hell, COBOL is still running f
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by pif 3y ago
Yeah, it was a very nice revolution to look at all those ads matching the content of your email so well... We definitely need another such a step towards the Hell!

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