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by thehardsphere 9y ago
It's arrogant to assume that a new system will be better than the old one merely because it was re-written from scratch. Many companies died because someone said "let's rewrite this bit of software" and the project ended
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
> This could just be because I'm a mediocre developer (1X) but: If you're mediocre as in average, that makes you 4x, not 1x. The 10x developer is 10 times better than the worst performer who is still employed, or 2.5x the media
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
>Now, onto RPC. RPC, is binary protocol over TCP. The author specifies two different RPC protocols in their article: XML-RPC and JSON-RPC. Both often do push plain text over HTTP. > REST, IMO, derives most of it's flexibility fro
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
There is a thing called JSON-RPC: http://www.jsonrpc.org/specification The author explicitly mentions it as something he prefers over REST (though he spends more time on XML-RPC)
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Plus, for any given large organizational customer HTTP/HTTPS are allowed through their firewall/other network security apparatus, wheras other ports require a bunch of special exceptions from the security people to use. Said peopl
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Really? Was something wrong with the WSDL?
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Nah, that was in programming well before politics. They can have the same root cause though: someone's identity feeling threatened.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
The Republican Party was founded in 1854.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Devos is actually a perfect pick if you assume the goal was to pursue her pet agenda at the expense of every other possible agenda that a Secretary of Education could have. Whether the skids were greased because of her rich brother or not,
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
I only raise chemical addiction as a possible exception because nearly everybody agrees there are ways to become addicted to certain chemicals without somehow choosing to do so first, e.g. you get hurt in an accident that is no fault of you
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Do you have a source for that? I find that figure incredibly dubious considering that tobacco requires years of chronic use before it kills you, and it typically doesn't kill you in a way that is entirely attributable to that single ca
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
I'm going to play devil's advocate here; I don't actually know what my own opinion about this is, and I never gamble online so I don't even know much about it or how horrible it might be. So I'm going to ask you a b
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
It's not a fallacy because GP didn't use it to refute an argument, he merely asked a question.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Just a pedantic procedural point: The FCC is not an "agency", but a commission with 5 members. Once a commissioner is named, they cannot be removed by the President for any reason besides misconduct. The two of them besides Mr. Pa
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Relevant HN discussion of the Bloomberg article from yesterday regarding Stiglitz's opinion of Bitcoin (not a dupe): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15812247
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Yes, typically when testing web applications, you have a second instance of the application running on a different machine than the production server, configured to run against a different database server as well. The exact details of how t
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Here's two ideas: 1. Set up replication, with your test db the replication slave of your production database, such that changes in production are mirrored in testing nearly instantly. 2. Take your production database backups (you do ha
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Don't know why this is downvoted; utility and value are subjective under basically every modern economic theory there is aside from Marxist ones.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
I wouldn't go that far, though it's sort of a flawed analogy for comparison. Economics generally is a field where lots of people hold on to their prior beliefs, and those beliefs are difficult to change, even in the face of new ev
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Welcome to the HN echo chamber.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Ok, so this is a pretty useful answer that's starting to clear things up a bit for me. Let me see if I’ve got this straight. Sometime in the 2000s, ISPs were classified as Title I entities. Then in 2010, there was an "open interne
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Mr. Pai's personal entanglements with Verizon aside, didn't the previous regulatory scheme only exist from 2010 on? Or was there prior regulation that the "FCC Open Internet Order of 2010" superceded? I'm asking bec
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
You mean Title II was a means of imposing rules from pre-2002, right? I mean, ISPs were never considered "common carriers" before 2015, right? I'm trying to get the details straight.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Really? It was my understanding that this was part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Am I mistaken?
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Actually, I am asking that. Several other commentors have asserted that "the world changed" a few years before the rule passed, yet nobody has really explained in detail how. So far I've gotten a hypothetical about Wal-Mart p
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Okay, how did it change?
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
How did they "realize" that, suddenly a couple years ago? I am not doubting you, I am genuinely confused. I mean, human greed is a constant, and the rules didn’t change from 1996-2015, yet during the same period you said that Wal-
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Did I miss some new proposal that Ajit Pai has put forward? It is my understanding that "The rules Ajit Pai wants in place" were in place from sometime during the ninties or earlier, until 2015. That is, Ajit Pai merely wishes to
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Serious question: does it have still have a significant civilian population? Wikipedia makes it kinda read like anyone who was living there was depopulated to make room for military bases and contractors who are working on military bases.
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by thehardsphere 9y ago
Oh, so you're just ignoring the Red Terror? Or the murder of the Cossacks before Stalin came to power? Lenin never murdered anybody? The failings of the Soviet Union are the failings of an ideology whose explictly stated goal was the o

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