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by tpmx 7y ago
Agreed about the essential aspect of Slashdot that day. That was the only way to find detailed thoughts/reactions and just not the headlines. Slashdot (smaller audience) and Google stayed up. All the major (US) news sites were down. h
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by tpmx 7y ago
Google.com was pretty central as well. http://web.mit.edu/6.033/2002/wwwdocs/papers/9-11.html
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by tpmx 7y ago
Nice, a very fresh source (August 2019)! "C++ is the main language of choice for backend services. There are 10s of millions of lines each of mobile and backend code."
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by tpmx 7y ago
Does anyone know what language(s) they tend to use for more "backend" style services?
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by tpmx 7y ago
Is Facebook still running on some kind of PHP variant?
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by tpmx 7y ago
a) Yes, e.g. in Sweden. The same social democratic party that is currently ruling Sweden was deeply into eugenics before WW2. b) I think this guy's motivation comes from a completely different perspective though. He's teaching at
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by tpmx 7y ago
Obviously this has been met with a lot of pushback, even here in Sweden. I think the "the scientist"... uh, a professor of marketing , is either trying to virally market himself, Greta style.. or there's something darker g
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by tpmx 7y ago
Hey, glad you liked my two wishes. Yes, data structures usually define programs. The code tends to follow more or less naturally from the data structure and the interactions with it. If you misdesign the key data structures of your program
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by tpmx 7y ago
I wish for documentation of 1. Key data structures 2. Code layout/architecture (what modules/layers calls which modules/layers, etc) I like Blender's example for how to do this: https://www.blender.org/
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by tpmx 7y ago
"A door blew off a Boeing 777X as the new plane was undergoing what was supposed to be its final structural inspection by federal regulators." It's literally the first sentence of the article. I doubt Boeing were pushing the
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Wikipedia is currently under a DDoS attack and down in several countries(reddit.com)
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by tpmx 7y ago
Damned if you do, damned if you don't? They "only" have about 2.1k locations in the US - one outlet per 163k people in the country. This doesn't seem to me like a "mom & pop"-killer. (Subways has 24k locati
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by tpmx 7y ago
Ericsson has a similar response program in place for disasters around the world. They call it "Ericsson Response". The goal is to setup GSM-based emergency networks from scratch very quickly in severe disaster areas where infrastr
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by tpmx 7y ago
"The Spaceline. By extending a line, anchored on the moon, to deep within Earth’s gravity well""
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by tpmx 7y ago
"The Spaceline. By extending a line, anchored on the moon, to deep within Earth’s gravity well" That's the concept. They could have fit that within in the title of the post.
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by tpmx 7y ago
The stars were probably aligned for you. Given DNS TTL there's a bunch of uncertainty here. My main feedback to Google is that having them periodically check back at an unanounced schedule, with no abilitity to force an an immediate c
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by tpmx 7y ago
Perhaps you could try imagining that they want to stick at what they have been doing for doing for past 76 years: Selling furniture.
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by tpmx 7y ago
I think you probably have an unrelated grudge here, at least judging from the contents of your comment before you edited it to make it less offensive.
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by tpmx 7y ago
Wouldn't be much use if it wasn't.
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by tpmx 7y ago
The GCP self-serving platform for certs is very welcome, but still kinda janky. You end up waiting hours for their batch jobs to run at unknown cycles. Let's encrypt is awesome because it's instantaneous! You'd think Google w
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by tpmx 7y ago
Ok, I didn't read the paper... But everyone knows the moon orbits the earth with a cycle sort of similar to what we call a month. How is an earth-moon cable feasible again?