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by zaphar 4y ago
It has been a while since I was at Google so the story could have changed I suppose but Youtube was quite profitable when I was there about a decade ago. I'm struggling to see why it would have changed now.
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by zaphar 4y ago
Now flip the story and you are the contractor and hit the first milestone. The customer however refuses to acknowledge that milestone and holds on to the funds demanding some extra work not in the original contract. You are out the labor an
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by zaphar 4y ago
I once presided over a DB2 to Oracle migration for reasons that had nothing to do with technological considerations and everything to do with politics. The hardest thing to get right was the different interpretations of what was 'null&
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by zaphar 4y ago
We have soooooo many war stories. I always like to think they are entertaining for my colleagues so it's good to hear that I'm not totally off-base.
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by zaphar 4y ago
Especially for the the specific demographic that this letter is referring to. It's so easy to get caught in a catch-22.
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by zaphar 4y ago
They can absolutely prevent you from using it to buy milk at your local grocery store. In practice having bitcoin is no help if you can't convert it into something else. The regulation won't happen at on the blockchain. It will ha
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by zaphar 4y ago
In the era that these formats were started it was fairly commmon to treat your file format as a dump of memory. It wasn't about preventing competitors from reading it. It was more about the speed of loading it and the lower overhead. T
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by zaphar 4y ago
As a Go user who values statically linked executables I can definitely say I was around when this was the only thing our compilers could spit out. The reason I value it is because it makes deployment so much easier. I've re-lived DLL H
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by zaphar 4y ago
I’d change a configuration flag, some part of std would break because my flag was wrong, and I’d learn something new about Rust and how std worked. The project was probably worth doing just because of this. Breaking things i
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by zaphar 4y ago
Vice President of Engineering. Which is a fancy way of saying that instead of systems I design Organizations now. I kind of miss designing systems.
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by zaphar 4y ago
And none of the mainstream used it. Which only makes my point for me.
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by zaphar 4y ago
You are looking at the last 200 to 300 years and extrapolating. I think however that if you expand the horizon to several thousand years what you see is a very different cycle. A cycle where progress is made over a few hundred years and the
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by zaphar 4y ago
This feels like moving the goal posts a bit. Before Signal, literally all the other options were orders of magnitude worse on either the privacy or the usability dimensions. Which is why there was essentially no mainstream E2E messaging a
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by zaphar 4y ago
Major upgrades that are fully backward compatible and therefore leave some significant performance and safety bugs untouched. What they mean by "slow evolution" is the increasing rigidity of core data structures and resistance t
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by zaphar 4y ago
Ukraine is a terrible example. Russia started that, not Ukraine or the US. Giving weapons and funding it would have been completely absent without Russian aggression. Promoting a better way for countries to adopt, partnering with them in ec
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by zaphar 4y ago
I don't think anything disturbs me more than the effects of American public discourse. It's gotten impossible to have reasonable conversations on most things.
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by zaphar 4y ago
That doesn't solve the problem at all, Because you still have to decide if the the fetus get's the right to that same absolute bodily autonomy. Take that all the way to the extreme though and you would need to wait for the zygote
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by zaphar 4y ago
In a sense, the refusal of most of American media to even give airtime to the discussion of when a fetus should gain rights/protections is why such extreme measures are being on the table. They painted this as a binary issue with no nu
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by zaphar 4y ago
Jira's querying and reporting facilities leave a lot to be desired. I have some scripts to pull the data down into a sqlite database so I can query it much better.
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by zaphar 4y ago
I think what you are missing is that the author of the article does not consider the affordances of those languages as sufficient exploration of the space. Just because they can express these things and are meant to fulfill his intent d
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by zaphar 4y ago
He doesn't want the building blocks though. I could build those 6 things in any number of languages. What he want's are languages that explore making them ergonomic at the language level. That's like saying everything is doab
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by zaphar 4y ago
Actually he wants 6 different things. Some of those six different things might live in the same language some of them wouldn't but wanting six different things is in no way problematic. Different tools/toys for different jobs&#x2F
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by zaphar 4y ago
I use it for some personal stuff because I like using non-javascript languages in the browser. For that reason I don't consider it useless at all.
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by zaphar 4y ago
None of those studies isolate peer interaction. As such they are a valid indication of the effect of school closures but the event is multivariate and you can draw no conclusions about the peer interaction effects directly. It amounts to &q
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by zaphar 4y ago
I suppose I should provide some links to what I was able to find: Contra studies on the importance of inter-child interactions: * https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4684-2187-3_... * https:/&#x
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by zaphar 4y ago
I have only anecdotal evidence so this is a fair point. However I'll point out that I have not seen the experts provide facts or research either so it appears that they have the same obligation. In fact a cursory survey of the research
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by zaphar 4y ago
Anecdotal evidence only but I and my two brothers were all homeschooled and learned these skills from our parents. There is a great deal opinion among child development experts that is not necessarily backed up by evidence. I would need to
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by zaphar 4y ago
Just install the VIM bindings on VS Code. They are good enough (Don't flame me) and most of the speed you get from VIM is in the modal editing language. VS Code will give you other speed ups that are often difficult to set up in VIM so
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by zaphar 4y ago
I don't have the background to really understand this but it sounds like: in order for information (we correlated our spins) to be passed you would first have to know what the other side is doing which requires side band communication
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by zaphar 4y ago
You can vendor your go dependencies the same way as you can java. Go is perfectly happy developing on non internet capable devices. In fact after vendoring the go tool will happily serve all of your documentation via command line or localho

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