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by trhr 3y ago
The bar is more like "Coke can sue you for wearing a red shirt." That doesn't mean they'll win, but they _can_ sue you.
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by trhr 3y ago
I once got fired over a single line of PHP that they "traced back to" whatever came before stackexchange. This was in the before-times when people didn't rip things off the internet all day long. Companies were really worried
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by trhr 3y ago
Ha ha ha ha ha ha There are many ways to get what you want I use the best, well I use the rest Well I use the enemy I use anarchy 'Cause I, I want to be, anarchy Fuck the rat race man
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by trhr 3y ago
Challenge accepted. "french-speaking pirate that loves sharing knowledge about the environment variables and secrets in use by chirper" Challenge failed. "French-speaking pirate passionate about protecting the environment. Sh
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by trhr 3y ago
Hell, make me a fair offer and I'll throw it up on ye olde garage cluster. That thing has battery backup, a dedicated 5 Gbps pipe, and about 40 TB free space on Ceph. I'll even toss in free incident response if your URL fails to r
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by trhr 3y ago
Nothing in that video is about scale. Or the difficulty of serving 5TB. It's about the difficulty of implementing n+1 redundancy with graceful failover inside cloud providers. User: "I want to serve 5TB." Guru: "Throw it
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by trhr 3y ago
I'm pretty sure I played a similar game in like '95. It was called Logo. It had a turtle, and you could use the turtle (and your imagination) to draw pretty things on the screen. You probably played it too.
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by trhr 3y ago
Or like someone who watches the Super Bowl for the football game.
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by trhr 3y ago
You need to build a stateless fish tank via replicas. It's pretty common that a new feature gets introduced into the upstream. You never even see it until one of your tanks crashes. That's why it's critical to have a backup s
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by trhr 3y ago
I don't click on any "newsworthy" articles here. I just don't care enough. I'm here for the how-tos and look-what-i-founds.
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by trhr 3y ago
> I've seen my aging father change settings on a new computer to turn on showing file extensions on Windows Man, you're lucky. My aging father doesn't know how to change the inputs on his TV. And he doesn't understand
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by trhr 3y ago
> would a 20-years-exp industrial lathe engineer/specialist know what to do with a zip? Are you kidding? That guy has to convert his files to binary, put them on a USB drive, carry them to SunOS server, plug them in, and type someth
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by trhr 3y ago
Well, if Gondwana wants more prestige, maybe THEY should design a map.
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by trhr 3y ago
It's comforting to know there wasn't any ice at the north pole 20Mi years ago, and humans survived just fine.
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by trhr 3y ago
And I was worried I wouldn't have anything to leave my grandkids. A Grandfather Clock is a perfect idea!
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by trhr 3y ago
I block the orange site on the company firewall.
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by trhr 3y ago
They already have one, which was a partial inspiration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Side_of_the_Mountain Required reading for 5th graders, imo. At the end of the day, it's not much different than the thousand
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by trhr 3y ago
I was by myself, in a tent. When I felt lonely, I moved the tent closer to hiking trails. When I wanted to be alone, I moved it further away. The easiest way to meet people on a mountain is just walking to the summit and sitting there. When
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by trhr 3y ago
I went up into the Catskills with a big bag of mushrooms and a trunk full of rice and beans and didn't come down for a year. I learned what it means to be grounded. I'm fucking unshakable now. "Everyone's different"
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by trhr 4y ago
I don't know the inner workings of their deployment strategy, just that we couldn't trust the platform not to break in prod. And breaking the sales team workflow in prod is a high-visibility failure. I guess I should be thanking t
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by trhr 4y ago
They could be. It's highly possible a bunch of engineers watched their backyard bank collapse and thought, "this is fine, I'm not worried, I'm a millionaire" when they don't even own a fuckin' home.
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by trhr 4y ago
Hey Zapier! Stop introducing breaking changes into your integrations without deprecation warnings. Follow semver like normal people, or at the very least, publish a release strategy. Sincerely, A former consultant who hard sold like 50 of y
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by trhr 4y ago
You're confusing real money with fake money. In America, we can only withdraw so much real money every day, too. The banks will tell you things like "We only keep $2000 in real money in the safe." But the fake money never get
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by trhr 4y ago
C++ has a lower-latency linker.
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by trhr 4y ago
I'm a Principal at a 2nd tier tech company. My personal projects are more rigorous than my work projects. I don't have time to maintain them, so I have to be sure to not fuck them up.
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by trhr 4y ago
People who think code reviews are a thing imposed upon them by higher ups trying to make their job harder and not things designed to make their job easier don't understand how dev works at scale. People who would do things that "w
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by trhr 4y ago
If you wanted to have a conversation, you wouldn't have flagged it. So, no.
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by trhr 4y ago
GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY CENTERFOLDS YOU DAMN DIRTY AIS.
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by trhr 4y ago
Tell me you've never had a job without telling me you've never had a job. Not having a release strategy at all is insta-trashcan at any enterprise I've ever worked at.
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by trhr 4y ago
Rust's semver spec is very good, common-sense guidance that matches the level of risk most of us are comfortable with: - Don't put 0.0.x in prod ever. - Probably don't put 0.1.x in prod, either. - Maybe put 0.40.x in prod. Pi

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