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by virgilp 5y ago
My theory is that jobs that pay me well have interesting problems to solve because otherwise they'd pick a cheaper engineer. So I don't worry about how the job sounds and just assume that if it pays a lot better, it will probably
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by virgilp 5y ago
The counter-argument to that is that pay-per-use discourages usage: "every time you use it, you pay" encourages you to be mindful about how much you use. You may not binge entire series on Netflix if you have to pay for each episo
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by virgilp 5y ago
I am familiar with sleep, but I haven't used the other two UNIX commands yet. I've still got a long road to enlightenment.
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by virgilp 5y ago
From Wikipedia it feels like maybe the court placed a guard on site to *prevent* IGR from collecting anything from the premises (there was an ongoing dispute on the property) > The fate of the abandoned site was disputed in court between
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by virgilp 5y ago
Why were people from IGR found to be at fault at all? From Wikipedia, it sounds so backwards... like, one of the owners seems to have done everything possible to recoup the radioactive material & warn of the dangers. There's not a
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by virgilp 5y ago
Also, nuclear bombs killed less people than guns did - so it's very easy to make an argument that guns are in fact more dangerous than nuclear weapons. Since US allows gun ownership, it should also allow private citizens to produce and
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by virgilp 5y ago
[edit] Apparently, I'm wrong, "utility" is an explicit requirement. But let me tell you, nobody ever asked me to justify the utility, not even a little bit. I think it's just assumed that if you're willing to pay th
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by virgilp 5y ago
> I'm not sure what this implies. If _Apple_ are forced to (e.g. by a judge), and they can't claim the ask is technically impossible.
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by virgilp 5y ago
You are thoroughly misrepresenting what Apple does. I initially thought you don't know what they do, but apparently you do very well. Still: they scan photos locally - those are not cloud photos, those are local photos. And they have d
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by virgilp 5y ago
Nice. I think this gives a hint though - when something is very-frequently-used, people need a short name so that it doesn't stand in the way of the discussion; and due to frequency, the fact that it's an acronym doesn't matt
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by virgilp 5y ago
Is length really a problem? I definitely prefer this over, eg. dfs.datanode.asvcp.bspf
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by virgilp 5y ago
Has that really not happened to you or someone you know? It is (typically) eventually recovered, yes; and you can often understand how/why it happened. But it definitely happens, and requires manual human intervention for fixing. Here&
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by virgilp 5y ago
> Only 5% of the US hunts anymore. Not sure how exactly that is an "only", sounds pretty high to me. Does US really need more than 5% hunters? I'd be more concerned about the percentage of thinkers. You can romanticize the
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by virgilp 5y ago
That's very cynical and not true at all (easy counter-example: France.) Also, revolutions don't need to be violent! I argue it's better if they aren't. The "axes" can be metaphorical too.
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by virgilp 5y ago
So... heroku?
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by virgilp 5y ago
Did you try answering "yes"?
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by virgilp 5y ago
C# only sort-of-fixed this problem and it did so rather inelegantly IMO. E.g. nullable types are not options - you can't "map" them (you can't invoke Select, Where etc). It's easy to "get value or default"
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by virgilp 5y ago
He even says "I could get it down with practice", it's quite astounding that he doesn't get the importance of preparing for this specific type of test. I've been doing competitive programming in highschool, was dece
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by virgilp 5y ago
Never claimed that it was without problems. But look at the timeline: Steve Jobs letter was April 29, 2010. About a year later Adobe stopped development of Flash on mobile (that's when they really killed it, the next 10 years were nece
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by virgilp 5y ago
It's the same in Azure, really. It forces you to setup a resource group for everything (can't have any resources outside a resource group). If you're trying something out - just put them all in same resource group, and at t
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by virgilp 5y ago
I didn't leave _that_ long ago, and don't want to look up my contract/NDA to see when it expires, so I don't want to go into too much detail. Flash cost Adobe a lot to develop (it was a big team). At some point, I specul
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by virgilp 5y ago
Flash was absolutely NOT killed by Apple. Adobe killed Flash, and it was unrelated to Steve Job's letter. Source: me. Was working at Adobe at the time, probably at the thing that actually led to the demise of Flash (not that it was my
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by virgilp 5y ago
Did you just argue that Apple should have more than one store?
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by virgilp 5y ago
Is this just a version of "Prefer tabs over spaces when writing code"? Because if so, I already know the outcome of this debate.
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by virgilp 5y ago
What? This is Microsoft's open source project - they didn't need to "do quality checks", they developed it!
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by virgilp 5y ago
I wrote another comment where I explained "popular due to jvm" better - the productivity gain was real, but came from the GC which was....JVM. No, the JVM wasn't hated initially - not until it became hugely popular and people
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by virgilp 5y ago
For Java, JVM was the "platform". I still remember learning Java in university - what left an impression on me was that my first ever university homework where I used Java (i.e. non-trivial project) ran perfectly on first success
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by virgilp 5y ago
I would argue that python's popularity comes with numpy/pandas, jupyter notebooks, and the recent popularity of AI/ML/data science. Yes it's useful in other areas (flask and django are somewhat popular) but nowhere
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by virgilp 5y ago
> So i guess we're in agreement. Not exactly. I read the original claim that they are "incapable to learn algebra even in very good/way above average (but still realistic) circumstances".
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by virgilp 5y ago
> i.e. if their life depended on it, they had all the resources they could want, they had no other distractions. You just gave the definition of "cannot". Those circumstances will never happen, they're pure hypothetical

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