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by tgflynn 4y ago
This is why it's usually a good idea to minimize mutable state, especially global mutable state. Pure functional languages like Haskell go even further and prohibit mutable state entirely. One way to rewrite your example to do what yo
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I also prefer statically typed languages for projects that are going to exceed a few thousand lines, but the OP was complaining that Python is "huge" compared to Java, which is a claim I find curious and one I have never heard bef
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by tgflynn 4y ago
> The language is huge, a lot larger than Java, takes a lot more time and effort to master it. Could you elaborate on why you believe that ? I'm not especially up to date on either Python or Java but I've certainly never had th
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by tgflynn 4y ago
According to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32024485 each server has a pair of mirrored disks, so it seems we're talking about 4 drives failing, not just 2. On the other hand the primary seems to ha
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by tgflynn 4y ago
It would be interesting if those down-voting my comment would explain where my intuition is wrong. FedEx delivers 12 million packages per day. If each package requires 10 transactions that works out to about 40k transactions per second.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I wonder how much of that savings comes from closing data centers and how much from getting off IBM mainframes. It's hard for me to see why a company like FedEx would need to be spending anything like $400m a year on data centers unle
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I know of at least one business that runs on WordPress that has a bug bounty program. Also the WordPress project itself has one.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I used to have lots of ideas. The trouble is none of them actually worked.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
So whatever happened to this chip. It seems like a million transistor 64 bit CPU would have been revolutionary in the mid-80's, but I've never even heard of it.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Those symptoms sound very similar to the fatigue I have, but I have type 2 diabetes and the fatigue started very suddenly after a brief viral infection. I've had the usual tests for Celiac but they were negative. I have seen some sign
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by tgflynn 4y ago
> Can you code? If so please email me and I may be ble to give you some work paid per deliverable. You can work on your own schedule without pressure. I'm not the OP, but I'm in a somewhat similar situation, and yes I can code,
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I doubt there's much overlap between the people working on IPv6 and those working on getting Starship off the ground.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Thanks, that's an interesting talk. It certainly makes sense to do as much of the signal processing in digital as possible but you still need a functioning analog front-end and their approach required access to an at least partially w
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Maybe there'd at least be a way to salvage the basic mechanical structure, replace worn out mechanical parts with 3D printed or CNC'd equivalents and replace the sensor head with some kind of modern magnetometer.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I'm guessing that would be one of the old reel to reel tapes. I think the hardest part (assuming the tape is intact) would be finding a working tape reader. From pictures I've seen I think those were real beasts, in cabinets as
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I didn't mean that movies don't require large teams, I used that as an example that does look a little more like a software project. Are you sure that everyone who works on a movie gets royalties and not just a salary while they a
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by tgflynn 4y ago
That's essentially how proprietary software has always worked except the copyright is usually owned by a corporation rather than an individual. Unlike most artistic works software projects usually require large teams rather than being
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Why would you ever "have" to support clients ? That's the main point of freelancing. The client pays you either for a certain number of hours of work or to do a specific project. You're never obligated to do anything b
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Many years ago I used it when it was called ELance. At the time it was possible to find some short projects though it certainly took some effort.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
You could try freelancing on Upwork.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I used to work for a defense contractor and I heard that they had moved away from Ada to C++ for newer projects like the F-35. I don't think that one went so well.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
IBM offers a free set of courses here: https://ibmzxplore.influitive.com . I played around with it a few months ago. As far as I know it's still available. It doesn't cover COBOL in great depth but does touch on vario
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by tgflynn 4y ago
If it's the AWS SDK that bothers you can't you just use the S3 REST API ( https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/Welcome.html ) directly ?
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by tgflynn 4y ago
No, not for most people. When I was your age I couldn't imagine my current self, in my 50's, sick and broke so I did nothing to prepare for the future. If you're making as much money as you say, by living frugally and making
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Why ?
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What I meant was a program written in one of the languages Apple supports for iOS development. I'm no iOS expert and it's been years since I've developed an app for it so I'm not sure exactly what is available these day
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Testing is certainly general but it's high-effort and it's easy to miss corner cases. I think type checking + some testing is going to beat testing alone in most scenarios.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
It probably wouldn't be too hard to write an iOS program to send commands via USB or WiFi, but you need to control water valves and I'm not sure if you'll find any/many with USB interfaces. If not you would need to buil
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by tgflynn 4y ago
If AWS is as profitable as he says there must be a huge opportunity in offering lower cost cloud infrastructure.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Yes, there seems to be a bait and switch going on in this article. You can't conclude that the "long tail" is dying because big business isn't investing in it. The real questions we should be asking are is the content

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