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   by ratorx 5y ago

   I’ve seen plenty of serious backends that use multiple threads and are horizontally scaled. I don’t think this is a particularly compelling argument for the lack of multi-threading. The worker thread pattern is fairly useful and there is no
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   by ratorx 6y ago

   Did you visit the link? First sentence: > Windows generates a unique advertising ID for each user on a device, which app developers and advertising networks can then use for their own purposes, including providing more relevant advertisi
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   by ratorx 6y ago

   It’s not their primary focus, but some Microsoft products do have tracking. E.g. Windows: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/general-privacy-... Is less of their business tracking users? Probably. However
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   by ratorx 6y ago

   Hardware level trust would be really cool. It seems theoretically possible because all you need is an accurate measurement of some physical property that is hard to forge when changing transistors orders etc. Practically though, anything li
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   by ratorx 6y ago

   I wouldn’t blame the specific engineer for this too much (for asking you to write down the code). If Amazon is the same as Google, then there is a lot done to standardise interview scoring. Part of the guidance given to interviewers is to m
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   by ratorx 6y ago

   I’m not completely sure what the parent meant, but dying IF you get hit by a bolt of lightning is not the same as dying to a bolt of lightning. I think they meant the latter.
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   by ratorx 6y ago

   I really enjoyed watching 3Blue1Brown’s video on similar topics: https://youtu.be/mH0oCDa74tE
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   by ratorx 6y ago

   I had this exact problem a while ago when trying to have static types for blog entries. I ended up using a strategy where I would write the config in the language that I would eventually use it in (for my blog, my entries became typescript
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   by ratorx 6y ago

   I use FZF for this. It lets me do an incremental search on fit commit messages and show the diff of the selected commit. It’s a slightly customised version of fshow_preview from this example: https://github.com/junegunn&#x2F
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    by ratorx 6y ago

    SQLite as an Application File Format (2014) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23508923