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by vigilant 10y ago
And what if I turn on the camera for a tenth of a second, take a picture, and turn it off. You won't notice the LED being on for a tenth of a second. Software makes it easier to prevent such things.
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by vigilant 10y ago
Is gRPC a full fledged server for API calls? e.g.: Will it have things like monitoring (we've handled x calls to this API in the last hour, the average API call took y milliseconds). Clustering? (a client connects to a list of grpc s
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by vigilant 10y ago
Does anyone have experience with EB-5? I did a startup in Canada, so am fortunate enough to have the 500K/$1M. It looks like it is fair from a panacea - I haven't yet consulted a lawyer, but based on internet research, it seems l
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by vigilant 10y ago
Don't a large number of immigrants make it easier to make friends? My experience in a different large city - immigrants new to the city are eager to make friends, as they won't know many other people in the city. People who grew
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by vigilant 10y ago
I do love Canada, but New York City has nearly all of those same positives which you list (other than universal health care), to an even greater extent. And you can get bay-area level salaries there (as opposed to Toronto, where your sala
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by vigilant 10y ago
The reason the debt metaphor is used for technical debt is that debt isn't necessarily a bad thing - it just something to understand and manage. Most people, when they buy a house, go into debt (e.g.: a mortgage) for the initial purcha
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by vigilant 10y ago
My experience is that more often than not, unit tests get thrown away in aggressive refactorings, and system level tests survive. If you have a system that depends on units A, B and C, and refactor it to use a totally different structure d
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by vigilant 10y ago
System level integration tests are also proof that the work we did is correct and we can move on. And it is better proof than unit tests, because we aren't mocking everything. And they are far more likely to survive a large and risky
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by vigilant 10y ago
The idea that developers should be hidden from customers, like lepers, is offensive to me as a developer.
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by vigilant 10y ago
There seems to be a lack of emphasis on 'shipping working software' in this list. As a developer, that is what I ultimately want to be judged on. Nothing else. And too many managers judge developers by how closely they adhere t
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by vigilant 10y ago
I fear that opening sourcing my personal projects would work against me. The code that i develop in my spare time is done for my own benefit, and just for fun - no documentations, no unit tests, and there are hacks there which i'm pro
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by vigilant 10y ago
I've seen this story before - worked for a company with very disciplined management, focusing on steady predictable growth - 25% a year, not 200% a year, but doing so profitably without VC capital. And then the venture backed competit
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by vigilant 10y ago
It seems incredible racist to assume that all Chinese money is dirty money and/or money laundering. Sure, some of it is, but China is also the world's factory - we pay them to manufacture stuff, that provides them with money legi
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by vigilant 10y ago
But this is hackernews - the demographic is highly paid silicon valley workers. If you're making 250k-500k a year, then a few thousand dollars whenever you do a transcontinental flight is a reasonable luxury. It is just a few weeks r
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by vigilant 11y ago
I've actually experienced the opposite.. With couchsurfing, i've tried both hosting and surfing. Hosting felt like I was managing a free hotel - the guests seemed to have little interest in hanging out or socializing at all. The
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by vigilant 11y ago
How can technology help prevent such attacks without infringing on the basic right to privacy? Perhaps some sort of real time image recognition of video streams from major public areas (like airports), which can detect things like guns and
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by vigilant 11y ago
Same with me. Live in central London, about 1 km away from the 'Silicon Roundabout' Fastest internet I can get is ASDL with real-life speeds approaching 8 mbit.