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by potamic 5y ago
I'm sure it was a massive decision after 14 years. I wonder if he thought about whether his comics have surpassed his career in importance. He was in a unique position to criticise and publicise mis-doings of the most powerful company
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by potamic 5y ago
That is so ingenious, it's hilarious. I can imagine the collective cringe of all designers.
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by potamic 5y ago
I have been part of such initiatives in other organizations. The language is deliberately imprecise to give managers room to maneuver. It is also set to unattainable standards to make it easy to justify why someone is not getting promoted.
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by potamic 5y ago
It's a really clean design, exactly how I would like to read content! I'm new to this federation idea, curious how blog pages work in this world. Is there something of an open protocol for publishing/consuming content so that
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by potamic 5y ago
I think that's the wrong question to ask. There are many instances where it may make sense to have a large microservice just as there are instances where it makes sense to have a 500 line function. This is a territory where there is no
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by potamic 5y ago
It was done in poor taste indeed, but really blatant abuse of the National Security Act. This does appear to be more of a political move than anything. And there in lies the problem when such laws with broad interpretations go into effect,
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by potamic 5y ago
I don't know if many people realize, but this is a pivotal moment for freedom of speech in India. The archaic IT act and National Security Act are already being severely abused to arrest journalists and activists, and the new 2021 rule
728.
by potamic 5y ago
Debilitating to a few men's fortunes perhaps, but richly rewarding to the thousands of people with a broader outlook to life. Bezos holds fair amount of respect for his accomplishments, but statements like these make him sound more lik
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by potamic 5y ago
At what point does it make sense to simply use the web for this? This is what the web was meant for, to enable standardized, dumb clients to consume content from any provider. What we have today is a wonderful architecture and a solid set o
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by potamic 5y ago
I have the same problem with VPN. I get captcha on so many websites over and over it's ridiculous. Sometimes on different pages of the same domain! It used to be you only got captcha for form submissions. But somewhere along the line y
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by potamic 5y ago
Stock Ubuntu desktop is pretty resource intensive with a lot of graphical effects that will struggle on older machines. There are plenty of lightweight distros out there that cut down such bloat and run easily with 4G of memory.
732.
by potamic 5y ago
I don't know much about this. Is this pretty much mandatory for such an off the grid solution or could the radio equipment in the average phone also play the role, maybe with different effectiveness?
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by potamic 5y ago
People were probably doing enterprise java development on those very laptops in 2011 just fine. Not much has changed with respect to toolchain since then. You should be fine. You will want to go frugal on software installations to conserve
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by potamic 5y ago
I'm fascinated by off the grid solutions. Does this need any special hardware to run? Considering phones have radio/wifi equipment, is it possible to create a software only solution that can install and run off any phone?
735.
by potamic 5y ago
It's fairly low effort curation based off public reviews of books. The problem with such things is that it's hard to gauge the quality of review or the subject matter expertise of the reviewer. Curation should ideally be performed
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by potamic 5y ago
Good on him for coming out and saying it straight. So many people go through such discomfort and are constantly pressured by their environment to put up with it. You're not encouraged to say no. It is seen as unnatural. It is career li
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by potamic 5y ago
How do I put this? That is just such a stupid line of reasoning. In the absence of labour laws, people are "willing" to work 14 hours a day. In the absence of regulations, people are "willing" to work dangerous jobs with
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by potamic 5y ago
That is indeed quite some bloat. I suppose it makes sense for use cases where domain name related metadata is needed across the internet infrastructure (like for email with SPF). Just not sure it's a good idea to extend DNS for data li
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by potamic 5y ago
This is a huge problem in advertising. I don't know if there are any regulations in my country but this practice is rampant. It's unbelievably annoying and when you're watching something like a cricket match that plays all da
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by potamic 5y ago
Better for the internet as a whole is a pretty big leap of reasoning. There is plenty of useful data in the web that needs to be stored and retrieved. In fact, this is precisely what the web was built for. It is an information network. Why
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by potamic 5y ago
thanks!
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by potamic 5y ago
I'm a little naive on this subject, but just wondering what are the use cases for in-memory columnar stores? I was under the impression that columnar stores are good for OLAP use cases involving massive amounts of data. For datasets th
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by potamic 5y ago
Oh no, I'm not going to go down that slippery slope. We are not talking about CIA whistleblower levels of anonymity here. This is just basic sanity. You may never be able to fight abuse 100%, so it's good practice to reduce the su
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by potamic 5y ago
What a terrible, broad statement to make, and on an anonymous forum of all places. There are plenty of places where default anonymity makes a lot sense and it is important to a good societal structure. History has shown time and again that
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by potamic 5y ago
They are into analytics and looks like they're using CosmosDb for the heavy lifting. I wonder why the focus on language. They could do the application layer in PHP for all that matters. This reminds me of the hedgehog type of advisor f
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by potamic 5y ago
If work ethic = employees working very hard, I don't think it is a good indicator of a business doing well. From my experience in software at least, Europeans tend to have an excellent work discipline with healthy work-life boundaries.
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by potamic 5y ago
There have been companies like Nokia, SAP, Spotify, ARM, ASML all showing it's not impossible to be #1. This is not even considering the auto sector where Europe dominates by a huge margin. I don't think there is something inheren
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by potamic 5y ago
Does having a separate on-call really shield the devs from support? I assume in most cases on-call would need to escalate or reach out to the devs for issues and for that someone needs to be reachable on phone off hours?
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by potamic 5y ago
Nothing at all. These are all very valid things to do in the right circumstances. But when a certain idea gains hype in the industry, people try to fit it into all sorts of areas and I was making a generalized statement on that.
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by potamic 5y ago
You can bet your ass if one of these obscenely funded startup takes on the same problem, you are going to see all of that microservices, event sourcing, reactive patterns, service mesh jazz all over the place when they are dealing with like

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