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by strictfp 5y ago
I wouldn't say so. The problem is the cyber warfare market created by nation states. If it wasn't for those large spenders, we wouldn't be where we are right now. IMO nation states had a very negative influence on the interne
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by strictfp 5y ago
There's also Minecraft NBT. It's a bit obscure but quite nice. https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/NBT_format
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by strictfp 5y ago
Another big problem was that you rarely want exactly the same code on client and server.
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by strictfp 5y ago
Speculation is a problem for sure. I think USA is experiencing the burn for not being the number one financial power anymore. If the global market is hurting you, you'll need to protect yourselves by regulation. It's easy to be pr
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by strictfp 5y ago
I live in Sweden and I can tell you that it's not so clear-cut. Rent control means that people have to queue for many years for decent rental apartments. We also have a lot of black market labour. The unions have historically had a str
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by strictfp 5y ago
Having tried many techniques for program-to-program interfacing, I must say that text still is the lingua franca, and I think it's the best "non-standard" to set.
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by strictfp 5y ago
I've seen bad user input, one very unusual char, bring down a whole self-healing geographically redundant cluster of machines running an expensive commercial cluster software. Any connected devices can bring each other down.
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by strictfp 5y ago
I think the anonymous internet was way better. People tend to group anyway, so it's not like everyone is forced into the same room.
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by strictfp 5y ago
I'm familiar with how they operate and my opinion is that they screwed it up by hiring too many devs and setting up the teams based on software components. Very hard to get anything meaningful done.
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by strictfp 5y ago
Maintain a backlog for them, at least an idea backlog
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by strictfp 5y ago
The whole idea behind Node.js was to write a super-efficient completely nonblocking http server in C, while keeping all the business logic in a simple scripting language. You should not expect the Node.js parser to be simple.
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Supergalactic Coordinate System(en.wikipedia.org)
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by strictfp 5y ago
Interesting! As by pure chance, my current project already incorporates EnTT, so I will definitely give this a closer look. Thank you.
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by strictfp 5y ago
Agree. The movie industry hasn't been disrupted in the same way that Spotify disrupted music distribution. The same balkanization used to happen with music licenses. Spotify disrupted that by simply pirating and offering the record com
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by strictfp 5y ago
Put AJAX back in the bottle.
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by strictfp 5y ago
That's true, but you can get all that without taking over the entire system. Upstart was a more lightweigh contender to systemd which would give you all that but none of the "Enterprise Linux Userspace Daemon" crap.
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by strictfp 5y ago
Yup,and this is excerbarated by the fact that c++ doesn't really offer any convenient equivalent of virtual methods with static dispatch. std::variant is almost it, but it's interface is quite horrendous as of now. Another interes
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by strictfp 5y ago
I'm also involved with Microsoft, and my view is that the culture is to move on to the next goal too soon after the next gen solutions have been developed. So they make control panel 2.0, reach 70% coverage, launch, and never move the
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by strictfp 5y ago
Love this. I also have a silly question; is the sunset commission subject to the same principle?
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by strictfp 5y ago
I wanted to show support to the engineers in the sense that I don't think you should encourage a working culture where you have "massive post-mortems" and expect people to feel bad for extended periods of time over simple mis
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by strictfp 5y ago
Yeah, that's my experience as well. I thought it meant "we have no idea what's going on" though.
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by strictfp 5y ago
Meh. Losing sleep sounds like an over-reaction. No system is foolproof. Of course Fastly should do what they can to prevent downtime, but it's still expected that they will go down. I would blame anyone who claimed otherwise or couldn&
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by strictfp 5y ago
That completely depends on the specifics. If you expand your house with extra spaces or buy gadgets, you typically also lower security. Security always requires a principled approach.
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by strictfp 5y ago
Ah, Shopping Cart DB is at it again :)
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by strictfp 5y ago
Really? Google drive sync has been hot garbage for me. Before that program came everything was fine and dandy, but drive sync constantly stumbles over it's own feet, restarts and fails to up- and download files. I'm longing back t
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by strictfp 5y ago
Maybe try wine? Seriously, it might be very low effort to get the binary to run on wine.
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by strictfp 5y ago
I would setup an async replication to another table or data source for the full-text search.
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by strictfp 5y ago
Reminds me of the hack of using auxiliary information such as AWS group metadata to determine ordering. If there's already an ordering system in place, directly or indirectly, why not use it?
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by strictfp 5y ago
When working on networked control systems I realized that ordered networking is the reason why automation still uses proprietary protocols and interconnects such as Profibus and Profinet. If you want good guarantees you need determinism.
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by strictfp 5y ago
That's not the whole story. IE was innovative (albeit through embrace and extend) until they won and stagnated.

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