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by thow-01187 6y ago
In my experience, adopting Kubernetes is seldom a well informed decision weighting the pros and the cons. Usually it's a stampede effect of higher-ups pushing for Kubernetes, because everyone else is, without really understanding what
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by thow-01187 6y ago
A lot of people dislike it, but Maven was a massive productivity boost. A tool that automatically downloads dependencies, manages their transitive dependencies, resolves conflicting artifact versions, is able to check for changes, construct
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by thow-01187 6y ago
+another huge benefit - Jar files and class files made the IDEs possible. Studying at the university, moving from Visual Studio/C to Eclipse/Java was a wtf-how-is-that-even-possible moment.
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by thow-01187 6y ago
I used to love Firebug, but couldn't help but notice it getting more and more sluggish over the years, with no apparent cause for it. Does anyone know what happened?
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by thow-01187 6y ago
No, this is a problem inherent to the business model Google/Facebook run. Stating a truism - to make a billion dollars, you either have to get $10 from 100M sales, $10k from 100k sales or $10M from 100 sales. Although each option leads
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by thow-01187 6y ago
I believe one of the major reasons why Huawei is so vilified is that it's the first Chinese corporation that not only outprices its Western competitors, but also outtechs and outmanages them. This goes so counter to the Gated Instituti
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by thow-01187 6y ago
Don't they get their manufacturing facilities upgraded for free?
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by thow-01187 6y ago
To be fair, despite the heavy criticisms, it's not clear whether the EU objectively made any major mistake. The countries ahead of them in the vaccination effort did so by writing a blank check to the pharma companies - definitely not
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by thow-01187 6y ago
Colonizing and terraforming every single rock in the solar system increases the available land only by a factor of three: https://xkcd.com/1389/ There's just no way every commoner gets their own Caribbean cabin. U