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by quacker 8y ago
Agreed but job openings in different areas most likely. Hypothetical example: you lay off 200 developers and want to hire 200 sales/marketing folks. Devs don't want to be retrained in marketing (I sure wouldn't). But, also c
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by quacker 8y ago
I tend to agree, but in practice this doesn't work well if the feature is slow. I was a tester on a project where the primary functionality was a workflow that took 40 minutes minimum to complete, often much longer (it involved migrati
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by quacker 8y ago
> 1. It does not seem impossible to imagine a function that spawns code close to data, be it on a VM with a connected fast SSD drive already populated with data. Also, Lambda-at-edge and Cloudflare workers are already more like “shipping
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by quacker 8y ago
> the lack of fast travel late game. You can fast travel via stage coach or train (for a fee) or one-way out of camp with the fast travel map (if you've purchased it).
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by quacker 8y ago
> Except for some reason it's hard to find good pizza outside the Northeast. What's with that!?! Well, it's not true for one thing.
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by quacker 8y ago
Just to add, Jenkins Job Builder supports configuring jobs that use the Job DSL plugin[1] in addition to a variety of other ways to configure jobs. 1. https://docs.openstack.org/infra/jenkins-job-builder/builder...
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by quacker 8y ago
This is a very late reply, but anyway... > It really didn't seem like that big of a deal for me. Each piece of it was just a small step away from a background of Linux administration knowledge I built up as a teenager when I used to
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by quacker 8y ago
Sure. I "just" have to go read man pages for days to understand 20 different commands. "Just" use several commands to isolate my not-a-container. "Just" use debootstrap (or not on different distros!), or actual
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by quacker 8y ago
Exactly. The biggest pain of car ownership is _buying_ the car in the first place. After that, it's unexpected repairs. Gas, maintenance, and cleaning are very easy. Unlike the author, I've never wanted/needed to do work on m
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by quacker 8y ago
"portable" in the sense that the compiler will produce the proper assembly for the platform - choice of x86, ARM, MIPS, 32/64 bit, etc. Whether the "tricks" behave identically across all platforms depends on the tri
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by quacker 9y ago
I have a few reactions here: 1. Why should Epic go and reimplement anti-cheat that you can grab off the shelf? 2. A big part of limiting cheating comes down to the specific game design and implementation. You need a server implementation th
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by quacker 9y ago
> There is an incredibly strong “birds of a feather flock together,” effect at play Agreed. As an engineer who doesn't take any stimulants, what does it look like when another person is on Adderall? Maybe I'd notice a person sn
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by quacker 9y ago
> How does Slack facilitate that better than scheduled meetings? Slack is not a replacement for scheduled meetings though. > If a conversation takes longer than three minutes to conduct on Slack, in real/video/phone life ple
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by quacker 9y ago
Chat is absolutely asynchronous. It supports synchronous discussion, but I specifically like chat because I can ignore it until I dedicate a few minutes to look through the notifications.
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by quacker 9y ago
> move your internal “how do I do X” chatter from Slack to email lists and maybe a StackExchange installation, and you end up with multiple indexable, searchable sources of long-form documentation. Really, those stores of "long term
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by quacker 9y ago
Are you equating "flourishing" with "being in your prime"? Because I don't consider those to be the same. Being in your prime is about peak potential. And sure, the age at which you have peak potential varies by act
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by quacker 9y ago
> Normal people flourish and are in their prime around 50 How do you mean? I don't think most people in their 50s would describe themselves as being "in their prime". For example, ELO ratings of Chess players tend to decli
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by quacker 9y ago
And the investment of an hour or more a day isn't worth it compared to glasses or contacts, especially when results may vary. I spend at most a few hours each _year_ at the optometrist, covered by insurance, and then I can instead spen
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by quacker 9y ago
Seattle is large by the metric of population (it's the 18th most populous city in the US). San Francisco actually has smaller land area, and higher population - but I definitely consider San Francisco to be a large city. https:/&
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by quacker 9y ago
> cities that already have high rents (New York, Austin, Chicago) I was curious about this. I live in Austin, and don't think the rent is particularly high there. I just wanted some data. Looking at rent prices on one website in par
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by quacker 9y ago
DNS through a VPN is only a partial solution though, right? Even if there's a recursive/caching resolver within the VPN (so _my_ direct DNS requests are private) any DNS requests outbound from the VPN go through global DNS. But, I
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by quacker 9y ago
It's not surprising that a Google engineer would use Google docs. It's at least easily shareable and there are complementary embedded videos that aren't suitable for text/PDF anyway. Though, the options to export as a PD
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by quacker 9y ago
> The success of the Switch sales are largely built off two amazing games in Zelda and Mario while the Wii was built of the excellent of Wii Sports. I mean, the Switch does not seem to have an issue with its library. There are several mu
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by quacker 9y ago
Yeah. It's definitely not a clear-cut net benefit. To be fair though, they are utilizing hosted services (so they don't need to hire kubernetes experts) and the company likely already has a team of engineers maintaining N services
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by quacker 9y ago
> I just wonder why Outside magazine still picks up the phone when Armstrong’s PR agency calls. I mean, is there anyone left that cares? There's a trial set for November 6, 2017, to decide if he "committed fraud by doping"
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by quacker 9y ago
I wouldn't be so optimistic. There are often credentials to other systems (like databases, etc) on such servers, plus they now have access to the private network(s) the compromised server resides on. It gives the attacker the opportuni
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by quacker 9y ago
> It's funny how when someone describes their own experience, you tell them they're wrong. Are you claiming the GP didn't actually experience fast reloads? Nobody is saying anyone is wrong. One person can perceive short
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by quacker 9y ago
Maybe python's dependency management (pypi/pip) is nicer than NPM? (I think it is, at least)
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by quacker 9y ago
> I don't understand the distinction. The distinction was that cdnsteve was motivated to switch to Python due to issues with the toolchain and build system, not that JavaScript was weakly-typed. > JavaScript tooling is notorio
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by quacker 9y ago
They didn't mention anything about typing as reason for switching. They said "It's a really frustrating ecosystem to work in, all the deps, toolchains, build process is extremely fragile." They switched to python for the

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