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by vitno 5y ago
I work on virtual machines at Google. I usually suggest "Hardware and Software Support for Virtualization" [1] to new team members without a virtualization background. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Hardware-Software-V
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by vitno 6y ago
It's absolutely absurd. I'd almost be more OK with it if it was a monetization scheme _for Signal_, this seems blatantly corrupt as I understand it.
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by vitno 6y ago
I'm baffled how people assume this is monetization. Signal has been a nonprofit for years and has no money issues: https://signalfoundation.org . The organization has no formal ties to the alt-coin, although Moxie does. It d
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by vitno 6y ago
This explicitly doesn't monetize Signal so this line of argument isn't particularly relevant.
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by vitno 6y ago
I am incredibly disappointed in the Signal team. I don't want cryptocurrencies (or even any payments!) in my primary text app. Crypto/blockchain is fine, but if I want to use it I'll download a different app. I'm finding
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by vitno 6y ago
Free Software is not open source and the article points that out as well. I'm not convinced they want to destroy Free Software either however.
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by vitno 6y ago
calling this "scientific denialism" seems like a huge stretch to me. It's not a science, it's housing policy.
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by vitno 6y ago
that's not true these days, rustls is a great TLS lib that has been through at least one serious external security audit. https://cure53.de/pentest-report_rustls.pdf
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by vitno 6y ago
Except that Rust is also a much much more expressive language. Even ignoring things like solid module support and libraries you'll find your Rust programs to be much fewer LoC (assuming bug/LoC is the right metric) for equivalent
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by vitno 6y ago
I agree Rust is not a panacea and that rewrites create their own set of problems, the only issue with this analysis is assuming 1/10 bugs are memory corruption related. Both Chrome & Microsoft found about 70% of bugs to be memory s
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by vitno 6y ago
The "originally meant as a joke" belief is derived from an Eric Raymond quote in the Jargon File, not the tool makers.
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by vitno 6y ago
This still requires a fairly pricey license from Arm to use the ISA
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by vitno 6y ago
Please don't make comments like this
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by vitno 6y ago
Fantastic. Thank you so much for chiming in!
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by vitno 6y ago
to be clear, I don't speak Arabic - I'm merely intrigued by etymology. I think they are referring to "إنسان" or "Insaan" which has the root of nisyah which means "to forget". My understanding is that
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by vitno 6y ago
Dunning-Kruger effect seems like a weird accusation to throw here. The whole basis of it is "a false sense of superiority", but the author is clearly willing to engage on this issue. I think a better way of terming this would be t
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by vitno 7y ago
Only if you are interested in working on legacy systems in large bureaucracies. This may or may not pay well. My understanding is that most of the well paying side of this has actually invested in migrating off COBOL over the last decade.
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by vitno 7y ago
It's a joke about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra
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by vitno 7y ago
I know people who were working on, what is now called, Libra at FB more than a year ago though. The paper was published a year ago. This just looks like a case of multiple people having the same idea.
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by vitno 8y ago
Fuchsia is not realtime.
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by vitno 8y ago
That's not "not attracting attention", that's called living in fear. I don't know the particulars of where you live, but it makes me sad you feel this is necessary.
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by vitno 8y ago
This is a cool idea I've seen increasingly talked about, but in practice? I hope it never happens. Single Address space computing is a bad idea. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/memerr.pdf
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by vitno 8y ago
On the other hand, I think this is great. These dockless systems are simply a way to move the negative externalities of the system onto the taxpayer. They clutter sidewalks, result in poor rider behavior, and generate massive amounts of e-w
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by vitno 9y ago
This makes me really sad. This place was invaluable when hacking on old hardware, it was a true institution of Silicon Valley.
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by vitno 9y ago
I was once hired for a C++ position _because_ I hated on C++ during the interview.
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by vitno 9y ago
This is all true, but there is historical basis, explicit and implicit, from the writings at the time supporting the idea that at least one factor for the second amendment was the ability to defend against state oppression. "It is a n
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by vitno 9y ago
they didn't say syntax, they said Python idiosyncrasies. Knowing move/copy rules in python counts as that. It's something that isn't intuitive unless you know python, ex: the matrix question. An experienced dev who isn&#
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by vitno 9y ago
we also have a tech blog that we are revitalizing! http://tech.okcupid.com
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by vitno 10y ago
OkCupid | New York, NY | FULL TIME | ONSITE | https://okcupid.com/careers We're currently hiring for a bunch of Backend positions! We have a 6-person Backend Software Engineering Team, which manages all aspects of the
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by vitno 10y ago
OkCupid is over a decade old. XDR was pretty good back when people started writing our services. My goal here isn't to migrate our RPC system... yet. My goal is to stand up Rust services in production. I need to be able to issue calls

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