zBard

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by zBard 2y ago
‘Like cloud-scale, no-code scale or NoSQL scale’. That is the dumbest statement I have heard this week. You should perhaps refrain from commenting, at-least until you gain the modicum of intelligence that you currently don’t have.
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by zBard 3y ago
True, but in some cases , it’s just a case of pedagogical mismatch . May I recommend https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html ? I have cribbed from this endlessly when explaining quantum computing , and it’s
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by zBard 4y ago
Wouldn't the challenge be what does it mean that 'one tried their best' ? By using the word best there, it becomes yet another goal.
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by zBard 4y ago
A lot of religious/theological texts and frameworks talk about the balance between self forgiveness and self efficacy, and the need for perspective. "It was said of Reb Simcha Bunem, a 18th century Hasidic rebbe, that he carried t
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by zBard 4y ago
Yegge called this the anti-loop - http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog... - back in 2008 hah. Still holds true.
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by zBard 4y ago
'Fast Inverse Square Root algorithm, which is under the GPL' The algorithm isn't under GPL, the code is. John took the algorithm itself from code which was written earlier.
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by zBard 4y ago
Wouldn't personality disorders be inseparable from physiological problems ? Is there any particular literature/reference you are basing this on, curious.
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by zBard 5y ago
Neither was I, but honestly, that wasn’t a hard argument to follow .
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by zBard 8y ago
Shouldn't everyone be judging (and improving) the quality of everyone's work in a team, if you want the project to succeed ? How is a manager to judge the quality of technical output other than peer feedback ?
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by zBard 8y ago
Or they get tired/can't keep up with having to continuously learn and adapt, which cognitive dissonance defensively turns into disdain for 'something new'.
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by zBard 8y ago
Software engineers should know and start from Computer Science, why not ? Mechanical and Electrical engineers have to learn Physics, Control dynamics and Differential equations the first couple of years.
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by zBard 8y ago
I believe the parent probably meant service as in the 'service' in SOA.
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by zBard 8y ago
It's interesting to see the HN responses in the GPA thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17441601 when compared to this one, although both boil down to the measure of scholastic tests as a ingress criteria.
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by zBard 9y ago
Comparing tax paid to market cap is disingenuous at best - I was surprised Bloomberg would print that, but they then go on to explain it in the article.
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by zBard 9y ago
Who has trillions ?
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by zBard 9y ago
Since you mentioned KMS, S3 has ACL mechanisms, along with separate mechanisms to encrypt at rest using KMS, or any client based key. On cloud based stores, you can't basically guarantee systems security against the cloud provider or i
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by zBard 9y ago
I am not sure if thats necessarily true - a lot of folks are using cloud databases/datastores (Azure, S3 etc). Getting access to that is a different problem than remote code execution. Unless I am misunderstanding something, or you are
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by zBard 9y ago
Partially because Amazon lost to the Publishers in 2014-15 - https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/technology/amazon-hachett... ? All ebook prices jumped after that. I am not sure why no one is correlating
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by zBard 11y ago
> and had a few people conspire to potentially remove a few select items from my house. So I started going out in the city more, and now everything's back to the nice vibe it once was. I'm just as comfortable as I was before an
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by zBard 11y ago
Wouldn't the equivalent of burger flipping be Java development, perhaps in a standardized framework ?
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by zBard 11y ago
Last I heard Google is still on Java 7 precisely because of this, although that might have changed. It's fun seeing the different theologies at Amazon and Google - I remember Yegge's famous platform rant, and he highlighted the Am
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by zBard 12y ago
For finite judges of imperfect knowledge it must lead to the use of two different scales of 'morality'. To ourselves we must present the absolute ideal without compromise, for we do not know our own limits of natural strength (+gr
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by zBard 12y ago
"Neckbeard" crowd ?
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by zBard 12y ago
How is that in anyway a reply to what s/he wrote ? Even snark should have a purpose.
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by zBard 12y ago
When did it come out ? I suspect it wasn't adopted widely a year ago.