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by remeq 3y ago
I always had a feeling that Bryan and people around kinda took the tech first approach and it never really came to a proper fruition. I think the ambition behind the engineering marvels they did over time was certainly bigger. Dtrace, Fishw
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by remeq 3y ago
They can resurrect themselves with Quantum computing. Big, fat,extremely specialized, room-sized machines was always something IBM was good at.
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by remeq 4y ago
pay-doge-per-tweet FTFY
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by remeq 4y ago
EU is not trying to impose regulation or standardization on highly innovative areas of hardware or chipset design or software design or anything of that matter. They are imposing it for something that has largely been understood and comodit
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by remeq 5y ago
I agree with you that the only interesting aspect of blockchain is decentralized trust. But decentralized trust is a big thing. It is actually such a massive thing and people will sooner or later realize that. The magnitude of this thing is
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by remeq 6y ago
I don't agree with this point of view. I think that world is slowly evolving towards an age where this point of view is outdated. There are things for which it makes sense to try and find a different model then traditional profit drive
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by remeq 7y ago
But isn't the containerization trend leading us to a completely opposite direction ie. scale-out by default and do that not only because of performance but mainly because of how you want to manage your production environment?
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by remeq 7y ago
Out of the entertainment categories you just listed (porn, movies, music, books, games, sports) I think the porn can have the worst side effects on your life because it directly interfere with a relationship with your partner (many people g
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by remeq 7y ago
doh, never heard of TikTok, just googled it and their logo is giving me a serious headache
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by remeq 7y ago
"we'd have billions of dollars [1] to spend on something useful." - If companies stopped advertising tomorrow the people doing those ads wouldn't go building space rockets.
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by remeq 7y ago
Playing around with words like "open sourcing" is not a good idea in semantics-sensitive dev community. Not even what it comes to pretty little babies
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by remeq 7y ago
People don't realize that whatever path in their career they choose it is going to have its own set of obstacles, pitfalls and frustrations which results in false impression that would they choose something else they would live happily
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by remeq 7y ago
For me clever is when someone is facing some problem and comes up with clever solution. Something that for example reduces complexity from O(n^2) to O(n) due to some smart idea. But I agree that elegant is another quality which can be added
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by remeq 7y ago
Yeah, I didn't really mean everything at once, I just wanted to make clear that "the beautiful" can be disaggregated into some engineering qualities.
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by remeq 7y ago
I despise this kind of mentality which tries to demonize someone's passion to actually write a beautiful code. This kind of mentality takes away "the human factor" from the working environments turning IT jobs into delivery d
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by remeq 7y ago
I dislike this way of thinking. Programmer shouldn't be described like: ability_to_beautiful_code ---V------------ ability_to_deliver Programmer should be described more like: ability_to_beautiful_code: 0%---V-----------100% ability_to