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by weberc2 7y ago
I'm not a historian, but I doubt it. My understanding is that the middle east was quite a lot more civilized (for some conventional definition of the term, anyway) than most/all of Europe throughout most of the middle ages. I&#x27
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by weberc2 7y ago
Maybe your business attracts customers now because they have a lot of discretionary income to spend on it, but if other services that are a higher priority to your users start to find a subscription model to be more valuable than an ad mode
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by weberc2 7y ago
Discretionary income is measured in dollars/time, cars are valued in dollars. That’s relevant because cars are affordable to middle class Americans because of _financing_ (also because of mass production). Your car payment deducts from
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by weberc2 7y ago
> I like the flow of your question: “who is using any of these”… “except for the ones people actually use” :-P Yeah, it was kind of clumsily worded. I get why people use the ones that are the only options for their respective target plat
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by weberc2 7y ago
I'm genuinely curious (not disparaging) who is using any of these (except for tinygo and gopherjs, for which the use case is apparent and niche)? Does anyone use gccgo or llvm-go? And why?
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by weberc2 7y ago
I PoCed EKS for our company. Significant issues we experienced vs Fargate were that EKS had no sane logging story out of the box--you had to build it yourself. Worse, EKS didn't integrate with IAM and we couldn't figure out a sane
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by weberc2 7y ago
You don’t refute “the Middle East is a violent place” with “there has been violence in the west in the last 20 years”. Violence is a spectrum, not a binary, and there is a chasm between the Middle East and the West with respect to how viole
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by weberc2 7y ago
Well, those events are anomalies. People usually are surprised by anomalies.
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by weberc2 7y ago
The specific thing people fail to realize is how much oil money was feeding into terrorist groups. If you understand that, you are no longer surprised that they attracted talented (albeit thoroughly evil) people.
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by weberc2 7y ago
Why can’t the Saudis likewise shut off Iran’s oil any time they want?
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by weberc2 7y ago
It’s not meaningfully true at all. The problems I deal with as a DevOps engineer are much broader, more abstract, more interdependent, and the solutions much less established than those that I dealt with as an SE. Unless you’re an SE in som
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by weberc2 7y ago
I pivoted a couple of years ago from SE to DevOps, and the latter has been far more complex in my experience. Probably most importantly, my experience on DevOps has been a bit like hurried product management and software engineering work--I
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by weberc2 7y ago
I think they're driving at "management is dictating technical decisions"; many people view DevOps as a cultural shift (if not a mindset) that includes empowering developers. Interestingly, your question of illustrative of the
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by weberc2 7y ago
That brings to mind another interesting point--even if you can tell what DevOps isn't, so much of a "DevOps" role at any particular company is dependent on the technologies that the company has adopted. I imagine DevOps looks
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by weberc2 7y ago
That's not what static typing means. If you want it to mean that, go right ahead. I agree that Go should support that feature, but it has no bearing on the definition of static typing nor on Go's position relative to Python with r
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by weberc2 7y ago
For whatever it's worth, I'm a proponent of generics in Go. "Static type checking" does not mean "every conceivable program is safely expressable by the type system". Haskell doesn't make this promise and
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by weberc2 7y ago
Mostly I was just amusing myself, but here's what I meant: Usually when people refer to generics they're referring to a static type system that allows for expressing generic algorithms. (Untyped) Python inherently has no static ty
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by weberc2 7y ago
I would love for someone to give meaning to those terms that I might have something concrete to disagree with (or perhaps even agree with--who knows?). The historical, well-known, coherent definitions patently refute their espousers' a
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by weberc2 7y ago
> Honestly, by trusting that those objects conform to what things are documented to expect and using operations that will naturally raise an error for unexpected cases. Which is really hit or miss in the wild. Even the standard library d
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by weberc2 7y ago
I wish it had a better async story. We've had production outages that were difficult to debug because some third party library made a sync call deep in the call stack and starved the event loop. APM showed performance degradation in un
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by weberc2 7y ago
They do, but that doesn't rebut the fact that they are (recently) commonly used without intelligble meaning.
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by weberc2 7y ago
I’m open to thoughtful, constructive criticisms of capitalism. Mostly what I see is “capitalism allows for some to slip through the cracks, so let’s burn it all to the ground and start over with system that has only ever failed catastrophic
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by weberc2 7y ago
Feudalism is joining the esteemed ranks of now-meaningless words like “violence”, “cancer”, “white supremacy”, and “patriarchy”.
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by weberc2 7y ago
Only in that it’s a “bad” employment relationship.
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by weberc2 7y ago
*foes, not "does" (autocorrect / missed the edit window)
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by weberc2 7y ago
Disagree. It brought balance to the game; otherwise it was about getting to the power weapons the fastest. This meant you had meaningful fights all over the map instead of the just clustering around rocket launcher spawn. I also played most
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by weberc2 7y ago
Halo 2 had the bxr bug (sequence of the “b” button, the “x” button, and the right-trigger). If you executed the sequence with the right timing, aim, and proximity, it would immediately kill a nearby opponent (“b” triggered a melee which too
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by weberc2 7y ago
Can you elaborate about what insurance companies can do in the US to someone known to have a rare disease? Can they deny coverage or price it higher than healthy people?
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by weberc2 7y ago
I don't want to debate the amount of shoehorning necessary to validate the metaphor. We all understand concretely the issue at hand, the metaphor is only obfuscating at this point.
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by weberc2 7y ago
Ah, I see the confusion. In this case, "easily" is relative. The assertion "you could easily write Python 3 compatible code" was in response to the (implied?) assertion "you can't do anything to migrate unless

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