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by sbov 9y ago
> significant load Please define significant load.
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by sbov 9y ago
I've only ever done tshirt and jeans stuff. I couldn't imagine wearing a suit every day, but it might be fun to have a "dress up Fridays". Ideally, anyone could wear whatever they want whenever they want. In practice,
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by sbov 9y ago
Our team is usually fully remote. I've actually worked my full career in mostly remote positions (15 years now). I've very rarely experienced people randomly disappearing for hours at a time, and usually a simple text will clear
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by sbov 9y ago
I think it's pretty simple to make the case for goto, or any construct, being harmful in a work environment. Code is ultimately social, and if your colleagues find it difficult to read or use, then by definition it is harmful. For ano
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by sbov 9y ago
Lots of places offer flexible business hours, even for people coming in the office. Not everyone always takes lunch at the same time either. Even people in the office are not 100% available all the time. Your attitude towards remote workers
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by sbov 9y ago
That's what you get for going to a research school: grad students teaching classes. I went to a non research school (a CSU) back in the early 2000s, and all classes were taught by real professors, but it isn't as prestigious as a
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by sbov 9y ago
Wasn't Beats founded by a celebrity? I feel like this kind of goes against the spirit of the list.
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by sbov 9y ago
The unique problem of desert cities seems to be inappropriate landscaping. Even San Francisco ships its water in from over 100 miles away - not having enough water locally is just a problem of cities in general. The AC story is much worse
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by sbov 9y ago
Did he compare those shortcomings with the shortcomings of not implementing generics at all? Because that is the tradeoff here. After decades of research, a decade of go, millions of lines of public and private code, a decade of feedback,
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by sbov 9y ago
It seems like you can learn a lot of that by building a game without using a game engine at all.
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by sbov 9y ago
This is also called "package by feature, not layer" in Java.
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by sbov 9y ago
Google Plus was a last ditch effort by a company to get, and keep, any kind of foothold in a market that they continually failed at. It was to my knowledge, at the very least, their fourth attempt (Orkut, open social, Google Buzz, Google P
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by sbov 9y ago
I use fastmail to host my own domain. I alias all users to myself. Any email I get to aliases that don't end in e.g. ".s" automatically goes to a filtered folder. So blah.s@example.com goes to my inbox, blah@example.com ge
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by sbov 9y ago
1-800-got-junk?
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by sbov 9y ago
MMORPGs had knowledge base websites dedicated to them almost the instant they came out. The reason they don't foster community anymore is more by design than anything else. That said, old MMORPGs fostered community via some pretty un
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by sbov 9y ago
The problem encompasses way more than you claim it to. It includes things like quality of service, social networks, and mostly, basic human dignity. If what you said was actually the problem, then the civil rights act wouldn't have ou
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by sbov 9y ago
Keep in mind that if you are comparing yourself to the front page of HN, you aren't comparing yourself to one person, you're comparing yourself to thousands.
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by sbov 9y ago
Wrong state.
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by sbov 9y ago
Yeah, at 10-20k it definitely sounds like overkill. Some of our past systems sent a couple million emails per day using a MySQL backed email queue.
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by sbov 9y ago
Even ignoring insurance, it can be impossible to get an accurate cash price depending upon the physician. And if they can't figure out the cash price, there is no way in hell they will figure out the insured price. We recently went to
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by sbov 9y ago
Clicking around in your browser is more akin to an integration test though. TDD is about unit tests, not integration tests.
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by sbov 9y ago
Note that the fly.io docs let you know that the bandwidth price is per GB, but the pricing page doesn't let you know that the price is per GB.
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by sbov 9y ago
I wasn't attempting to be contrarian, I was saying alternatives exist. Even in a business context. Our company uses Google for many things, but there are alternatives. The switching cost is high, but that doesn't make Google in
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by sbov 9y ago
Even if Google did this, and got past the shareholder lawsuits, what would happen? Nothing much. Someone else would step in. Greed and free markets makes the "Atlas Shrugged" scenario nonsense. I'm sure there are millions
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by sbov 9y ago
Almost by definition, if you think being able to answer a question is important, and you only hire people who know how to answer that question, you will always think it's important.
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by sbov 9y ago
Probably a lot nicer than it did in the 1800s. You are also ignoring that many of the people of these former ages prematurely lost their life due to working with unsafe chemicals and/or machinery. Nevermind the mode of warfare where
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by sbov 9y ago
Hah, I wish. Still working on some of the basics.
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by sbov 9y ago
Looks awesome! I've been working on something like this as a hobby project too. I used to do a lot of MUD programming back in the day - it's nice having a project that is never really finished that you can always work on.
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by sbov 9y ago
It's apples to apples depending upon the needs of the project and business. From my experience few projects can go 100% serverless. Once you give that up, much of what you talk about is back into your view anyways. Beyond that, cloud
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by sbov 9y ago
Net Neutrality doesn't say ISPs can't charge customers for data usage. Which is what my answer would be: charge customers for data usage. Some ISPs do this if you go beyond a certain amount per month. But if a tiny portion of us

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