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by stefs 8y ago
i once (~15 years ago) worked at a web design shop where the founders were both architects. they did everything in flash as it somewhat resembled the tools they knew - cad software. one of them was the designer and he was really good and th
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by stefs 8y ago
yes, but ken thompsons evil compiler theory states, that a trusted compiler is technically impossible (in the paranoid world of theoretical security where all compiler binaries are possibly tainted already) except if you write your own boot
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by stefs 8y ago
ah yes i remember this. a practical implementation of the http://wiki.c2.com/?TheKenThompsonHack ?
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by stefs 8y ago
"seems to do fine with 5 hours of sleep" i'm always very skeptical about claims like that, for three reasons: 1. people who claim to work perfectly with less than 7 hours of sleep regularly are often used to it but actually s
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by stefs 8y ago
as a side note, this made me remember an article i read a couple of years ago: https://www.ft.com/content/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144feab... "The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil", the story about the young
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by stefs 8y ago
I do agree with the premise, but with at least one caveat: for some problems, there aren't any simple solutions. In that case it's better to choose the _simpler_ solution.
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by stefs 8y ago
had to deal with ibm once. we were developing an application for a customer and ibm was working on some new service for them. of course the customer insisted we use the new ibm service, even though it solved a problem we didn't have at
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by stefs 8y ago
Not only this, but also having the almost identified horrible stuff right now but still using it and discussing its ups and downs because of the convenience and lower price. In the vein of: i know 98.5% of scientists agree X will harm me, m
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by stefs 8y ago
the native executables native-image generates are usually a bit slower than hot-spot JIT'ed code (~10% on average according to one article). they do need much less RAM and startup time is _a lot_ lower though. here it is: "Right
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by stefs 8y ago
that doesn't matter much, as the platform is only one side, while the hosting/service angle is the other. ultimately, hosting your code yourself is the only safe option, but of course it comes with its own downsides.
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by stefs 8y ago
the problem here is that the self-interests of github and microsoft might differ fundamentally. github wanted to make money from their paid services to create a profit. microsoft couldn't care less about the money paid github accounts
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by stefs 8y ago
sarcasm, i guess - i interpret the statement as: why would you want to keep competent people around, even though their specialties lie in a different area? because competent people are usually also competent when employed in a slightly diff
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by stefs 8y ago
i'm torn about this. on the one hand, microsoft is profit oriented, but so was github. and github was under certain pressure to make a profit, which is optional under microsoft, as they have other revenue streams which can be used to c
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by stefs 8y ago
panic story time: updated yesterday. after the update, reboot. full disk encryption doesn't accept my password anymore. fuck. full panic mode. already searching for an usb stick to get a clean install, although it may take a couple of
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by stefs 8y ago
> However, the mental cost a Rust programmer pays for that trade (due to borrow checker) seems too high for me if you can get the same thing simply by shifting your programming patterns slightly. i remember reading about the stylo (multi
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by stefs 8y ago
> Clearly, building more roads doesn't work. this is not generally true - look at the north korean highways. lanes upon lanes and not single traffic jam in sight. ... i'm kidding.
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by stefs 8y ago
as far as i remember my local news source reported this correctly, but still called it "a failure" as due the short duration the program was running (due to the non-continuation) it's not enough to see the long term effects o
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by stefs 9y ago
"There are now more than 1,500 NGINX Plus customers and 409 million million users of NGINX Open Source." 409 million million users :)
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by stefs 9y ago
german language parsing perhaps?
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by stefs 9y ago
well, do all factors scale linearly? if so, it shouldn't make that much of a difference. let's compare it to the subway system of vienna, austria (which is said to have one of the best public transport systems in the world). so he
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by stefs 9y ago
that's always the argument: "doesn't work here because the population size is n times as big". but i don't understand why this should be the case. it's not that the culture in the u.s. is fundamentally differ
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by stefs 9y ago
they too use cheap labor from the east (poland, ukraine, czechia, slovakia, ...)
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by stefs 9y ago
puerto kinakuta
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by stefs 9y ago
i've never played the game, but if it's on mame, wouldn't a simple evolutionary search yield good results?
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by stefs 9y ago
not all procedures are the same. my doctor also asks me if i want anaesthetics - but only if he thinks i can get away without one (i.e. minor work - he wouldn't ask if he expected the operation to last for more than a couple of minutes
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by stefs 9y ago
i don't see how, in theory, the points brought against bitcoin differ from potential vulnerabilities of traditional currencies. they all suffer from the same problems. > Bitcoin is vastly more volatile than conventional money and re
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by stefs 9y ago
as far as conspiracy theories go (i read that some days ago on reddit), he's wont be persecuted because he cooperates with the NSA. refuse to cooperate with them and join Nacchio and Qwest.
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by stefs 9y ago
for twelve year olds it just tastes foul.
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by stefs 9y ago
so exercism v2 is served over https but v1 is not. strange.
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by stefs 9y ago
people are different when it comes to a good time to get up. what works for one doesn't work for another. some are naturally early birds, others late risers. personally i had a job for about two years that forced me to get up at 6am an

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