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by room271 11y ago
Re 2: I'm not sure if you're trolling here. It's a fantastically complicated question and the economics has barely scratched the service. Strong proponents either side here, but there is certainly a lot of research linking in
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by room271 11y ago
That sounds like a terrible strategy for a lot of us, where time to fix is much more important than bug count. This is because there is likely to be a tradeoff between speedy development and bug count. If you are shipping physical CDs of so
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by room271 11y ago
There is a common idea in economics that explains the problem with what you say: externalities. This is when my behaviour affects you in a way not captured by the market. For example, if a forest is privatised and cut down the owner might b
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Welcome to Yada (a Clojure, data-centric, HTTP layer)(yada.juxt.pro)
2 points by room271 11y ago|0 comments
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by room271 11y ago
You have to balance the value (which I think to be honest you overstate - how hard is it really to find somewhere with safe and clean food that you like) with the costs. On the latter, I am mostly thinking of the health effects of their foo
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How ARM got so successful without the public really noticing(theguardian.com)
156 points by room271 11y ago|91 comments
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by room271 11y ago
Slight correction: the author suggests not drinking juice at all (instead eat fruit directly). But if you do want juice, then make it yourself.
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Can you be added to a watchlist for playing a video game?(playtopsecret.com)
45 points by room271 11y ago|48 comments
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by room271 11y ago
One question related to AWS is how to, or whether it is worth, segmenting access to resources for containers. If you are using single instances for each service you can use instance roles for this. These are great as they are temporary, tie
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by room271 11y ago
'contenteditable is inconsistent across browsers'. We (the Guardian) created Scribe to tackle this: https://github.com/guardian/scribe (I can't take any credit personally though alas!)
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by room271 11y ago
It says it is not very good. There are a lot of problems with Cloudsearch. By contrast, Elasticsearch is great and not too difficult to run yourself in AWS, or indeed elsewhere. Aside from product differences, Cloudsearch was phenomenally e
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by room271 11y ago
As far as I understand it, Taler seems to be great for privacy and society (ensuring income is taxable). Governments can't see how you spend your money, but they can see who receives payments. Bitcoin and others will never succeed
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by room271 11y ago
I have a (genuine) question about this, as I'm interested. What is the benefit to supporting so many ways to instantiate a File object: val f = File("/User/johndoe/Documents") val f1: File = file&quot
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Open sourcing Grid, the Guardian’s new image management service(theguardian.com)
153 points by room271 11y ago|25 comments
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by room271 11y ago
The Guardian | LONDON | ONSITE Looking for fullstack or server-side devs interested in working on APIs and related tools using JVM languages (Scala at present) on AWS. The work is really interesting and the Guardian is a great company - bot
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by room271 11y ago
I've used this and it's great. Very easy to use and works.
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by room271 11y ago
For priorisation of stuff: Monitor metrics that relate to end-user experience (i.e. latency, http exceptions, or whatever makes sense for your service). There are lots of tools to do this kind of thing, and in particular to aggregate it at
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by room271 11y ago
This. The key thing missing from Fowler's blog post is context. If you are a small team/company then microservices is probably not sensible unless you are highly skilled - the overhead is too high and the benefits less too. If you
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by room271 11y ago
Something that I think gets missed often from these discussions is the idea of different definitions of 'senior' in different contexts. If you're working at Google on search algorithms, it doesn't matter how good a commu
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by room271 11y ago
I've seen the author (Noel Walsh) talk on Scala a few times and he's a great teacher. And also good at showing how far you can get with just ADTs, structural recursion and objects as namespaces for your functions. This, in my view
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by room271 12y ago
I worry media companies are effectively in this position with regard to social.
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by room271 12y ago
Really? I'm no expert on this, but it seems like the Guardian game journalists have been pretty transparent they don't like the GamerGate movement.
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by room271 12y ago
People are giving surprising answers here. But it is really quite simple: - do you think the company did something wrong? - do you want to help discourage other companies from doing the same thing in the future? If the answer is yes to both
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by room271 12y ago
Ask people. The best way to ground your perspective is to ask your colleagues (and boss) clear questions about how they think you are doing and how you can improve. Obviously do this in private as, unless you have an especially open team, p
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by room271 12y ago
Seconded! Had to restart my browser :(
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My big fail: losers come clean on their all-time low(theguardian.com)
2 points by room271 12y ago|0 comments
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by room271 12y ago
Thing is, if you own one of those houses, which is true for a lot of the older generation, it's pretty nice. Of course, if you're not rich and trying to get on the housing ladder now, things are pretty difficult.
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by room271 12y ago
Your binary divide between worthy homeless and unworthy is simplistic. Why, for example, do some cities have far more homeless people than others. The high number of homeless people really struck me when I visited San Francisco a couple of
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by room271 12y ago
So I agree that is a provocative essay. A more generous interpretation of what the writer means might be: - a broad social interaction is vital if are to lead enriched lives, and also if we want to help others - a genuine intellectual mind
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by room271 12y ago
I agree with the point about cryto, but I'm not sure your general point about society being unable to contain anything is sound. Guns are controlled in many countries quite effectively. Not completely of course, but compare for example

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