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by rualca 6y ago
> Intel builds, TSMC builds and nobody builds in the EU market. A few months ago there was a newspiece posted here in HN about a strategic billion-euro EU program that was aimed at subsidizing chip production capacity. https:/&#x2F
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by rualca 6y ago
Thank you for posting this. I will certainly use this gem extensively.
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by rualca 6y ago
> What on earth is a "large" framework? What does the size of a framework (by whatever metric) has to do with the "micro" which refers to a slice of the domain the service is taking care of. I entirely agree. The fram
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by rualca 6y ago
> No, I'm arguing that corporations aren't moralistic entities But they are, aren't they? Don't you understand that corporations are a bunch of person organized into a hierarchy? Why would anyone claim that people wor
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by rualca 6y ago
> Yes I do, I don't believe Amazon violates basic human rights, at least not on a regular basis (...) Isn't the propensity to violate basic human rights in such a casual and nonchalant way albeit not systematic... Extremely dam
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by rualca 6y ago
Other than name-calling, you contributes zero to the discussion. Please refrain from lowering the signal/noise ratio.
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by rualca 6y ago
Phrasing-wise, it did sounded like a comparisson/association.
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by rualca 6y ago
> Every time I see someone say something like this, or better yet use the word "magic", what I hear is that they don't understand how or why their system does the things it does. There is nothing magic about configuring a
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by rualca 6y ago
> 5.3s at 1.4gb on a laptop is 53ms at 14mb, is 70ms on mobile before adding any increased download time. Factor in how much time it takes you to unpack those 1.4GB of data in a smartphone. Those 5s amount to which percentage of the tota
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by rualca 6y ago
> You will get better performance, with simpler maintenance, by replicating everything into an appropriate analytical database If you intentionally get rid of your original data then you're saying goodbye to provenance tracking and
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by rualca 6y ago
You're admittedly talking about a difference in compression rate of 13MB in a 1400MB package, and a 5s difference in writing a 1400MB file to disk. Come on, let's be honest here: that's nitpicking. Unless you are running batc
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by rualca 6y ago
> What a strange thing to claim, when both this thread and the original post talk about things that need to update based on the change, such as CI/CD scripts, git aliases, and so on. I believe I've said something that's ea
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by rualca 6y ago
Trying to portray the use of terms like master-slave as something that "might offend someone" is a complete misrepresentation of the issue, and one that is spawned from bad faith. The overall goal is inclusiveness. The goal is not
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by rualca 6y ago
This is not unfortunate at all. This is something that only has an impact when you create a brand new git repo,which is relatively rare. When that happened, you could just rename the original master branch. Nevertheless, git added support f
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by rualca 6y ago
> You sound more hysterical than they do. How badly does this affect you and your life, really? So much this. Naming things is an arbitrary process, and adopting a default naming suggestion to accommodate someone's sensibilities is
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by rualca 6y ago
> Result/Either types are fashionable but strictly worse than exceptions, in my view. Why? > Really, error types are only a small step above what C uses. That approach was tossed in favour of exceptions for good reasons that the
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by rualca 6y ago
> Calling it a 51% "attack" is like saying Biden "stole" the election by getting at least 51% of the votes. A better comparison would be that a billionaire decided to take over just because he had more cash.
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by rualca 6y ago
Doesn't the majority vote mean that they get to control the cryptocurrency? Sounds like an attack to me.
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by rualca 6y ago
You can dump all the money in the world into a project, but if there is zero ownership among those involved, including top leadership, then that money simply goes to waste.
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by rualca 6y ago
This is not a FANG thing. Not being able to deliver a product or service is a business thing. This happens in small mom&pop shops as well as FANGs. This is a free market economy thing. If your business is not open them you get expenses
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by rualca 6y ago
> I am going to reiterate: There is a whole lot of time _before_ your first customer. So what? Don't you understand that this just renders your point even less defendable? > But this was _with_ customers. So what? Do you expect t
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by rualca 6y ago
> I don't think I've ever seen thinking things through at design time deliver any real benefits (...) That's mostly the Dunning-Kruger rearing its head. It makes zero sense to state that making fundamental mistakes has zer
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by rualca 6y ago
> Obviously if you’re FAANG-level or some established site where that 0.1% downtime translates into vast quantities of cash disappearing from your books, I'm yet to see a company with any o line presence where downtime doesn't
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by rualca 6y ago
In that case just imagine how far you'd go if instead of manually scp to a bunch of servers you instead install a tool like Ansible, add your bunch of linux boxes in a list, write down in a script what you need to scp to those boxes, a
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by rualca 6y ago
If you are already deploying to Heroku, you are already doing ops. It makes zero sense to presume you don't need to know what you're doing or benefit from automating processes just because you can't hire a full-time expert.
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by rualca 6y ago
> What's the ROI on spending time on planning for that, given that you acknowledge that the response will be mess anyway? Let's put it this way: what's the ROI of failing to address any of the failure modes avoided or miti
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by rualca 6y ago
> There is a whole lot of time before your first customer where you don't need any of this. No, there really isn't. Customers want features, and they want it unrolled as fast as possible. How do you provide that? By automating
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by rualca 6y ago
> but rather "don't learn something new" when your goal is to get a product out the door. I don't agree at all, because that argument is a poorly put-together strawman. No one ever had to choose between setting up a C
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by rualca 6y ago
> There is obviously some point, somewhere between ‘just running a website out of my spare bedroom’ and ‘Facebook’, where some of this infrastructure does become necessary. Frankly, that blog post reads terribly miopic. The author essent
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by rualca 6y ago
> Facebook is kind of an interesting example, as they got pretty far into "hyperscale" with mostly PHP, memcached, and Mysql. Isn't Facebook known for hiring top world experts such as the likes of Andrei Alexandrescu to hy

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