teh_klev

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by teh_klev 6y ago
I think you're completely missing the point.
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by teh_klev 6y ago
YouTube built their fame on the backs of small indy content providers, whilst eventually monetising them and taking the Lion's share of the ad revenue after their acquisition by Google. These days the real money comes from the corporat
813.
by teh_klev 6y ago
Um, how does that happen when YouTube arbitrarily close your account?
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by teh_klev 6y ago
Well that's a first for me, ever. Do I get a contributor mention for the new name ;)
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by teh_klev 6y ago
I'm fascinated by the interest (outside of places where COBOL is used day-to-day) COBOL these days. I learned VAX COBOL at college in the 80's and was fairly proficient with it, and dabbled around with DG COBOL afterwards whilst i
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by teh_klev 6y ago
As someone who was somewhat out of the loop for a couple of years with regards to .NET/Core etc and the "Standard" thing, I had kind of wondered what all these new "Standard" options in Visual Studio meant and after
817.
by teh_klev 6y ago
> That is the very definition of a waterfall design model. I think you're conflating two different things. I've spent the last two days thinking about the impact of adding five new tables to our database for a feature, two of t
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by teh_klev 6y ago
I speak as someone who's worked for 30+ years on data modelling. Every time I encounter some mongo or other non-relational DB where the company jewels (the data) are stored with no documentation, no data model etc and stuff is just sho
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by teh_klev 6y ago
> No need to know what ACID is an acronym for Sure, but if you're mentoring a junior developer then I'd like to think you'd pass this knowledge on and make them understand its importance in a formal way, rather than some p
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by teh_klev 6y ago
This is a general response to a bunch of comments below saying they'd no awareness of ACID, that genuinely surprised me. ACID wasn't new to me, I've been around databases since the 80's in their various forms. But I lear
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Bookchin–Öcalan Correspondence(theanarchistlibrary.org)
1 points by teh_klev 6y ago|0 comments
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by teh_klev 6y ago
It makes me weep when interviewing and I ask developers about fundamental stuff such as "what is ACID?"[0] None of this stuff is hard to learn, and I'm not exactly Mr Ace Developer. But time and again I've been asked t
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by teh_klev 6y ago
SQL Server didn't introduce MERGE until 2008, so not quite 15 years. Also SQL Server bugs can take a long time to be fixed, if at all: https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/3074/use-caution-with... In my own
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by teh_klev 6y ago
It's better to back up assertions, even if you're correct: By the same author (who I highly respect): https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/3074/use-caution-with...
825.
by teh_klev 6y ago
Yes, you're right but sadly I can't go back and edit now.
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by teh_klev 6y ago
I hate to break HN guidelines, but I think you need to re-read the article.
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by teh_klev 6y ago
Let me spell it out...domain squatters, in the business of buying up large numbers of domains (1000's of them), having well oiled business models and websites to try and fleece you out of an extortionate sum of money. The domains they&
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by teh_klev 6y ago
I had plain old regular flu in January/Feb 2019, it almost knocked me flat and arrived on the same week I was moving house just to amp things up. It wasn't until June that I actually felt normal again and didn't feel like sle
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by teh_klev 6y ago
Ok, the author doesn't take issue with domains that are unavailable because they may be used for things that aren't visible. He takes issue with Domain Squatters, the unfortunately scumbag industry of buying up domains by the barr
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by teh_klev 6y ago
> Its TLS and not SSL. Its TLS for a long time now... Sure, that's technically correct but a wee bit overly pedantic. When technical people speak about SSL/TLS certificates it's common parlance to say "SSL" and e
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by teh_klev 6y ago
Some folks in the comments here are missing the point or perhaps haven't read the article thoroughly enough. The article is making a reasonably valid complaint about overt domain squatters, but the writer doesn't have a problem wi
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by teh_klev 6y ago
Yes they do. My did still uses quine all the time. For me it kinda dropped off of my vocabulary.
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by teh_klev 6y ago
I'm from Tomintoul originally and spoke Doric as a kid. When I moved to the central belt no-one knew what the hell I was saying and sadly the Doric was gradually beaten out of me. That said I can still fall back into Doric mode wheneve
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by teh_klev 6y ago
Oh sure, and I agree maybe and many theories are likely wrong, but the point of my response was that the post is perfectly valid here on HN because it introduces discussion points such as yours...i.e. it's gratifying our intellectual c
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by teh_klev 6y ago
> This shouldn't even be posted here. From the HN Guidelines: "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Also don't judge a book by
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by teh_klev 6y ago
Ok, so maybe not a "fact" but the hypothesis of the False Vacuum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum This quote blew my mind: "The possibility that we are living in a false vacuum has never been
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by teh_klev 6y ago
Yes, can confirm this too. It was quite an eye opener when I read it and goes a long way to explaining Iran's relationship with the US and the west.
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by teh_klev 6y ago
I think you've misinterpreted the article, and that's not what is being said: > Although previous oil spills around the world have not been in as environmentally sensitive areas, [my emphasis] they have still significantly aff
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Judge Agrees to End Paramount Consent Decrees(hollywoodreporter.com)
15 points by teh_klev 6y ago|0 comments
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by teh_klev 6y ago
As mentioned in the article in the first paragraph: "and it took a failed M&A process to get here" Second paragraph: "especially in the wake of the M&A process[0] that ended earlier this year right back where I&#x2

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