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by quanticle 4y ago
I had a similar experience working for a company that had, essentially, developed their own in-house web templating language and programming system. They'd started before PHP or any of the other server-side programming languages had ca
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by quanticle 4y ago
There's a hidden assumption in your argument that the only way that forums like Hacker News, etc, can moderate is if the government allows it. Else why would you mention governments and private forums in the same sentence? I support pr
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by quanticle 4y ago
Do you believe every online forum accessible to Americans should have as strict, or stricter moderation than HN, because it's been demanded by a subset of voters?
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by quanticle 4y ago
As someone who visits both HN and 4Chan, I like having the choice. I definitely don't want the government deciding that 4Chan is illegal and wiping it off the 'Net because it contains disinformation. When you ask, "How should
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by quanticle 4y ago
The same way they ought to fight drugs. Don't.
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by quanticle 4y ago
As one of my friends put it, "The internet is a machine that erases everything good about you, but preserves a million copies of your worst tweet."
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by quanticle 4y ago
Once anything that can be copied is brought into contact with internet, it will be copied, and those copies never leave. Even a dog knows you can’t erase something once it’s flowed on the internet. I wish people would stop
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by quanticle 4y ago
Google was in this position in relation to Apple and the iPhone, and that worked out all right for them. First-mover advantage isn't the be-all, end-all.
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by quanticle 4y ago
Yes, the cheapest option will probably have more issues then the more expensive one. But that's actually good, because if I can't deal with them, I probably would give up with a more expensive one. I don't s
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by quanticle 4y ago
Trying to assess the performance of the engineering team with the money the company generated But is that wrong? And if so, why? We're hired, as engineers, so that the business can make money. Insofar as our excellent en
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by quanticle 4y ago
None of this resonates with you on a personal level? Honestly? Not really, no. I think the world has gotten a lot better over the past few decades. My gripes are that, mostly due to short sighted and avoidable decisions, things
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by quanticle 4y ago
Was WhatsApp a "perfectly engineered product"? It's important to note that, at the time that Facebook purchased WhatsApp, WhatsApp was still running at a loss. That $0.99/year subscription fee wasn't cutting it. May
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by quanticle 4y ago
Maybe in California. Out in the rest of the US, there're still plenty of affordable restaurants.
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by quanticle 4y ago
Dan Luu has a post ( https://danluu.com/filesystem-errors/ ), which covers some of the same ground, and links to papers with more information on the failure modes of file systems in the face of errors from the underlying
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by quanticle 4y ago
Thanks for clarifying. I didn't realize that the input buffer was separate from the stack.
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by quanticle 4y ago
Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I installed the font, started the program, typed in: 2 ENTER 3 ENTER + and it spat out 6.0000 Have I misconfigured it somehow? Similarly 2 ENTER 5 ENTER + spits o
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by quanticle 4y ago
Management doesn't like scaring their workers and wait for recessions to fire low performers all at once. Hiring someone else's scraps isn't the best strategy, and digging for the diamonds in the dirt is ve
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by quanticle 4y ago
Some retail has a 75%+ markup as standard at the store. That's why they're able to regularly offer sales where they take 25%, 50%, even 75% off: it's not just to clear out unsold inventory; many retailers t
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by quanticle 4y ago
I'm sad, but unsurprised to see Amazon Smile go. Retail isn't exactly high margin to begin with, and Amazon has made a specialty of squeezing what margin remained. As Jeff Bezos said, "Your margin is my opportunity." So,
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by quanticle 4y ago
Joel Spolsky has a good article about this [1], where he discusses apparent cleanliness versus actual cleanliness in the context of a bakery. I agree that, at least on the surface, a warehouse or commercial kitchen may be quite messy. But t
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by quanticle 4y ago
Was the article actually plagiarized? Yes, the two articles look at the same topic, the economics of the "creator economy". However, they seem to have different points of emphasis. The alleged original [1] focuses on the effects o
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by quanticle 4y ago
Does Serverless (FaaS/CaaS/WASM) count? I'm not sure it does, because the servers that "serverless" programs run on are overwhelmingly Linux.
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by quanticle 4y ago
This is so rare, it's not worth thinking about. It might be rare in the sense of code that will be around after you're dead. But it's probably not rare in the sense of code that will be around after you've lef
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by quanticle 4y ago
Doesn't matter what the code looks like, as long as the customers are happy. Can you imagine if other industries had this same attitude? "It doesn't matter what the warehouse looks like, as long as we ship on ti
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by quanticle 4y ago
Reams and reams of absolutely useless tests that may not have checked anything that mattered, but that did bump the coverage metric up. I would go farther than that, and call those tests worse than useless. Tests that are
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by quanticle 4y ago
I see a "Latest" tab. Are you not logged in?
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by quanticle 4y ago
"Cyber", when applied to anything, and even more when used by itself. The fad of naming products i-whatever has thankfully tailed off.
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by quanticle 4y ago
If you're going to say or imply that surviving these experiences, or being tolerated for experiencing them, was only "a small proportion" then you're making broad assertions. It's a broad assertion
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by quanticle 4y ago
How many of your relatives have died from bacterial infections? From getting kicked in the head by a horse? From being stabbed in a dispute? From drowning? From war? How often have you faced starvation? If you're arguing that the moder
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by quanticle 4y ago
Most people who experience psychosis don't experience it as a perpetual state, Agreed. and they aren't particularly more dangerous while experiencing or any more dangerous while not. Hard disagree. I hav

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