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by qes 7y ago
It's at least inversion of control.
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by qes 7y ago
> And since it's not like there's a huge penalty for using Redis There is compared to shared memory. If you actually need to scale and don't have an in-memory cache layer over Redis you're likely going to get hurt.
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by qes 7y ago
https://i.imgur.com/RFasK8b.jpg 30 seconds and I can be quite sure there are no ads, malware, popups, and impeccable video quality. They're all still being seeded with enough bandwidth to max my 100+ Mbps cable connect
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by qes 7y ago
> Standard is _just_ a formatting library It's just a configuration file for a formatting library that someone else(s) wrote.
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by qes 7y ago
> I routinely wrote apps using 10,000+ threads before. Running on how many CPU cores? Were you writing code for a supercomputing cluster? Otherwise for what kind of system could 10,000 threads possibly be an ok strategy?
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by qes 7y ago
Appliances, in my opinion, are a racket that artificially creates stratification among models to provide a variety of price points. That said, very few refrigerators out of the large number of available models (many more than say dishwasher
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by qes 7y ago
> Supporting 3 platforms (Linux, Mac and Windows) basically means triple the development effort Only if you're completely clueless.
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by qes 7y ago
I'm 38 and started smoking daily when I was 13. There's been some periods of break in my life, but mostly I've been a daily smoker for 25 years. I'm the lead developer at my company, who I've been with for 10 years.
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by qes 7y ago
I share your incredulity. 40% sounds like total BS unless you designed benchmarks to maximally highlight potential speed loss from Spectre & Meltdown mitigations.
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by qes 7y ago
There's enough people willing to pay $10/gram for legal weed, and limited enough supply, that there's no impetus to charge less. Why would they? In my non-legal mid-western state, quality indoor (I suppose you could call it s
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by qes 7y ago
> Computers were getting faster so quickly that you'd literally see a new faster model for sale in as little as 1-2 months later It was crazy. If you didn't buy a new CPU just about every year you were woefully behind. The last
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by qes 7y ago
Not even just the source code. Our system, even with the source code static, has constantly changing characteristics. We integrate with dozens of 3rd party APIs, making over 10M external HTTP calls per day. That leads to a lot of variabilit
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by qes 7y ago
> Most modern vaping devices use coils made of 316 grade stainless steel No they don't. SS316 is an option, but not the most common. NI200 is still by far the most common coil material.
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by qes 7y ago
> Just a blanket fearmongering piece Nailed it.
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by qes 7y ago
Yeah, because it gets cold in the winter in NY. Simple as that. You can't support the year round homeless population like the west coast.
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by qes 7y ago
> Not 1 year you can write the same kind of code (professionally), every month new libraries you have to use Huh, that's weird, because I've been writing in Angular & React and using the same basic libraries for years now.
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by qes 7y ago
We bought in 2010 and we're up 40%, but now we want to upgrade in the next 1-3 years. While we'd lose value on our current house in a downturn, I assume we'd come out better with a larger value drop on more expensive properti
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by qes 7y ago
I'm a CTO at a 30-ish person company and yep this is my job. Lots of development, but also handling all the infrastructure and ops for a long time (I'm able to offload more to other devs these days). I still primarily code but als
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by qes 7y ago
For now. That's how all of ServiceStack used to be. They don't have any problem changing the license for all future versions whenever they feel like it.
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by qes 7y ago
I'm a developer. I don't spare much expense on my work computer - for example, I sit in front of six QHD IPS panels. I also started on a 286 where you were woefully behind the times if your CPU was more than about a year old. I la
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by qes 7y ago
Why is a Best Buy employee's opinion relevant? They hire teenagers off the street who don't know anything but are willing to talk all day like they do. I used to work there, albeit years ago, but the amount of misinformation spewe
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by qes 7y ago
> make the same wages y'all do As SF? Are you making, say, over $400K in Atlanta?
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by qes 7y ago
> I can tweak my IDE to render a tab as however many spaces I like Sure, IDE's are easy (though many people use multiple IDE's and/or editors across multiple machines). I've also got a couple diff tools, a few VCS&#x2
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by qes 7y ago
The only customer of NVIDIA, contracting NVIDIA to fab chips for them. Microsoft's also been developing and using ASICs in Azure. I guess they're just not contracting NVIDIA for any part of the process.
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by qes 7y ago
Did you drive any further than just the way home? I would bet most people would adapt quite quickly.
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by qes 7y ago
> Once you're a customer, free or paid, there's very little reason to move out. I find their sales tactics and pricing strategies aggressive and unfriendly.
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by qes 7y ago
It's easy, but we're saving thousands of dollars a month using Cloudflare instead of our cloud service provider's CDN (~250TB/month), and that's without any kind of discounted egress agreement between our cloud serv
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by qes 7y ago
And I would say that's an example of when it can be good to purposefully take on technical debt. In my experience there have been plenty of significant refactorings that simply would not have been done if we didn't allow ourselves
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by qes 7y ago
Oh is that what they're removing - the duplicates of Voice texts that come through my normal carrier? Wonderful. Those are so pointless. I was just ranting about the dialer UI they added to the web UI, but after a few days they updated
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by qes 7y ago
Google shutting down Voice has long worried me as well. The main reason I use it is simply to text from a normal keyboard so I can chat with my spouses throughout the day without interrupting my work flow much.

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