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by pushpop 7y ago
Yes thank you. I’ve been saying this for a long time My VW has an amazing UI where the centre console is a small touch screen but it has a bunch of tactile buttons around the edge that also interact with the console. So the only time you ne
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by pushpop 7y ago
Visual Basic was actually strongly typed (unlike JavaScript). What it did differently to Pascal was that it allowed for lazy / inferred typing along with some transparent type conversation in places where the intention was obvious. How
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by pushpop 7y ago
VB6 gets a lot of stick but it’s easily the best environment for rapidly prototyping and development ever created. Some of Borlands IDEs had the same power for prototyping by C++ and Delphi weren’t as great for rapid development (though I h
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by pushpop 7y ago
I own a bunch of retro machines and use them to teach my kids BASIC (and LOGO). Sometimes I’d do a bit of coding on there myself for a bit of fun. Sometimes I do catch myself “thinking in BASIC” when writing coding with C-style syntax. In t
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by pushpop 7y ago
Minus the browser. Each Electron app isn’t just the running web app but also the browser instance too. Where as a web app running in a browser wouldn’t consume its own browser instance. That browser instance alone can make quite a noticeabl
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by pushpop 7y ago
Proxmox did a pretty good job of that in my opinion. Albeit it was more inspired by vSphere than Docker (it predates Docker).
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by pushpop 7y ago
That episode was good, but the book/film The Circle I think covered this type of scenario better (even if the movie adaptation did leave a little to be desired)
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by pushpop 7y ago
You’re right, otherwise we’d all be powering our cars with with zero point energy reactors. Clearly feasibility has a big part to play as well and everyone driving around little fission reactors would be ridiculously impractical from both a
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by pushpop 7y ago
I can’t speak for the US legal system but in the UK that would instantly void the contract. You have to be aware of what you’re signing.
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by pushpop 7y ago
Mercedes don’t have a monopoly on car distribution. If people doesn’t like the price of Merc’s then there are dozens of other alternatives. If people don’t like the price of media content then there is no other (legal) alternatives. This is
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by pushpop 7y ago
I don’t even look at qualifications any more when hiring senior engineers (junior is a different matter but I don’t make that the deciding factor) simply because some of my best engineers have turned out to be ones without a degree. At the
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by pushpop 7y ago
This old trope again? I’m a hiring manager for a pretty significant albeit non-FAANG IT firm and I’ve good and bad applicants from Google et al just like anywhere else. I’ve since come to the conclusion that many skilled engineers simply ca
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by pushpop 7y ago
In that case that falls into the latter exception I made where you manage the host; albeit the management is just “buy an instance”.
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by pushpop 7y ago
The opening bit “marketing term that loosely...” clearly explains that it’s pretty arbitrary when a service is called “serverless” and that decision is usually just a marketing one. Which is precisely true. There’s no formal definition for
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by pushpop 7y ago
I don’t think it’s a hard thing to explain though: Serverless is marketing term that loosely describes a shared tenancy environment where you don’t manage the host.
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by pushpop 7y ago
Not excusing DO here but there’s also a lesson to be learned about backups: make sure they’re kept off site in case the whole site itself because compromised. Usually when we say this we mean in terms of a physical disaster (eg fire) but in
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by pushpop 7y ago
Even using the official repos doesn’t guarantee you to be safe. The project developer might have had their development machine hacked and/or their source repository hacked and malicious code inserted. So when Arch / Ubuntu /
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by pushpop 7y ago
Is it so weird that websites for restaurants would literally have the word “restaurant” on it somewhere? Eg > Foobar Canteen is a 2 Michelin star restaurant located in the heart of Soho. This used to be how search engines knew what was a
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by pushpop 7y ago
I don’t run nor have ever run MalwareBytes so I couldn’t comment on what’s being reported there but the site itself is one of the few of few I’d trust normally. So either the site has been hacked or MalwareBytes is reporting a false positiv
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by pushpop 7y ago
Edit: you’ve hacked your comment after I replied so much that this post no long bares any context to the question it was originally responding to....
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by pushpop 7y ago
Weird this is getting downvoted while other comments saying literally the same thing are getting up voted. Saw a few instances of this same thing happening yesterday as well. If HN were to force voters to capture their reasons for such reac
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by pushpop 7y ago
I don’t think anyone is under the illusion that state sponsored espionage isn’t happening. What people are sceptical of is whether the Huawei / US trade war is a credible example of that. Half the time these stories seem about as dubio
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by pushpop 7y ago
The back story could just as easily be a shipping error and Huawei trying to drum up anti-American sentiment as a counter to all the bad press the US have directed their way. Sure, it’s highly suspicious that a Hauwei shipment end up in Ame
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by pushpop 7y ago
I can sympathise with that. UNIX does get a lot right and if you’re just scratching the surface of things it feels a very powerful system. There is a lot to like there but the more I delved deeper in my career the more ugliness I’d run into
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by pushpop 7y ago
I mostly agree with you but I wouldn’t go so far as to say the whole company has to adopt it. However you do certainly need the support from the wider company. I’ve seen scrum work really well despite waterfall being the predominant methodo
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by pushpop 7y ago
> In absence of more accessible complexity measurements, line counts do matter somewhat. E.g. the briefer a program is, the more readable it is (last time I checked, brainpower and time is much more expensive than computing power and ba
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by pushpop 7y ago
Sure, the the node code uses fewer lines than the Go code. But what you’ve failed to notice is the Go code calls APIs directly rather than fork()ing and does so within its own code base (how many lines of code is in the countless imports of
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by pushpop 7y ago
Plan 9 isn’t UNIX hating. It’s a successor to UNIX. Many of the things we take for granted in UNIX and UNIX-like systems are actually kludge written to address a short coming of UNIX. Plan 9 was invented to take lessons learned from that
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by pushpop 7y ago
You have to bare in mind the era Plan 9 was released in. The concepts of decoupling the OS from your choice of user space tools is actually quite a modern one. Back in the 89s and 90s things were a lot more fragmented. You had a whole pleth
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by pushpop 7y ago
Expecting distro maintainers to test every GUI feature on every piece of software on Linux is a tad unrealistic don’t you think? You’d expect (hope) core applications would be tested but what about stuff that’s not in the official repos? Or

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