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by zerkten 6y ago
> A lot things can be easier if you do things the "wrong way". > It depends on your setup and use cases whether or not something is overkill, but for any reasonably large app just doing some HTML and javascript is not going
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by zerkten 6y ago
The people that use Spring love it, well, at least they did when I was last working with them. They also loved talking about patterns, often didn't have enough traffic to stress the systems built on these relatively heavy object hierar
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by zerkten 6y ago
I think that's a fair point.
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by zerkten 6y ago
The other context here is that IE was a competitive browser in its time: 1998-2001. The problem is that it won and then languished. IE had a lot of sway over how developers built things as the market share grew. Then it locked in users in v
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by zerkten 6y ago
Have you asked them? You can hit up pretty much anyone these days on Twitter and they'll respond, if the question is reasonable. You make it sound like someone owes you a response. If this is about GitHub Actions specifically there is
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by zerkten 6y ago
The Visual Studio Codespaces have coverage of using your own server at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/online/how-to/... .
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by zerkten 6y ago
It's your machine, but you are talking about software you don't control. This would imply that the software won't always follow your rules.
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by zerkten 6y ago
>> (That kinda reminds me of "trust us, we're the government and we know what's best for you".) Or, why we have regulations to protect workers. Everyone doesn't have to share your worldview. There are plenty o
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by zerkten 6y ago
I'm sorry that this is uncomfortable reading for you, but not everyone shares your values. What you describe is nice conceptually, but is not actually true for most of society. You can have opinions that people might bucket as libertar
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by zerkten 6y ago
> Honestly I don't have a problem with that. But if they don't give power user the option to opt out, this is just disrespectful The problem is that "power users" can't be trusted to use this power responsibly, o
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by zerkten 6y ago
>> Is "no code" meant to somehow imply something more? In a way it's less. The products you list are much more capable developer products. These are more in the direction of the FileMaker or Access level of constraint,
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by zerkten 6y ago
>> a massive whiplash once we start seeing higher unemployment numbers My bet is on this. A lot of people in the market and on main street are assuming that we'll be able to get up and running again quickly when we have better tr
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by zerkten 6y ago
There are lots of niche operations, but they tend to build their domain-specific work on top of these cloud providers. AWS's fork of Elasticsearch (ES) is a good example of the operationalization you talk about. If I was building a nic
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by zerkten 7y ago
I really like this, but it would be great if the example site didn't use that scrolling. I wanted to click between examples and I browsed away because it took too long. Bookmarked for my next project though.
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by zerkten 7y ago
The original timeline was very much a guess. By the time that people got into the details in 2010-2014, it was clearer it would take much longer. This doesn't make it failure unless you lost a bet with someone on the timeline.
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by zerkten 7y ago
How is it a failure? When they were talking about Python 3 at PyCon 2008 and 2009, it was expected that the migration would take this long. Folks knew migrating would be long and hard, and that the approach would need to be revised. It&#x27
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by zerkten 7y ago
There was a recent ATP.fm podcast with Chris Lattner of Swift fame. He talked about the topic of embedding Python code in Swift for TensorFlow and it overlaps with your suggestion.
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by zerkten 7y ago
> KISS is sure out of style when it comes to these fool's outrageous egos/budgets. We will see how it survives this potential long-term economic downturn we are in, or approaching. I laughed out loud when you mentioned K8s for
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by zerkten 7y ago
I wanted to love Storage Spaces, but I had huge issue with a leak in the driver that caused the non-paged pool to grow on my machines. It got fixed, but I'm struggling with the idea of going back to it after the experience and stuck wi
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by zerkten 7y ago
>> While this is indeed overly complicated, you have to take into account the fact that there are websites of all shapes and sizes powered by WordPress these days, and not just blogs, but things like eCommerce, booking, dating sites,
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by zerkten 7y ago
It seems reasonable to expect this, but it can fall down in practice for several reasons: * Sometimes legal counsel provide advice that there should be no further response to the individual or organization. Often technical people don't
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by zerkten 7y ago
When I tried it last year it was a pretty horrible experience because it installed client and server on Windows and macOS when I just wanted the client. I had to go in and kill some services for the server part. Having to do stuff like that
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by zerkten 7y ago
I have only experimented a bit with WireGuard because I wanted to avoid OpenVPN. The argument seems to be that it's more secure because it's implementation is small (the implication being that it's easier to audit) and being
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by zerkten 7y ago
Drexel is a pretty good school in Philadelphia and they have online bachelors degrees ( https://online.drexel.edu/online-degrees/computing-informati... ). The Open University satisfies the requirements for US visas, so i
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by zerkten 7y ago
> The big question is who you're solving problems for > Once I started working with other developers, I think the problem is about drift. Moving from working on your own problems as a freelancer, to bigger teams and organizations
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by zerkten 7y ago
If your employer is paying, how much more runway do you have to make a decision? Given the current situation, I'd expect many companies to start cutting expenses and making excuses. If there is a virtual training class rather than an o
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by zerkten 7y ago
You are still going to need these in 90-120 days. There is the potential for a horrible situation soon, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't make an effort. I would only argue against, if the effort was somehow detrimental to the
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by zerkten 7y ago
> Why would my friends loose all of their hours if their employers don't shut down? My friends are young enough that they would likely recover quickly from the virus if they got it. There is a chance your friends may lose their jobs
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by zerkten 7y ago
> Yes, it's true that all software occasionally has bugs. But when all the software fails at the same time, a lot of the backup systems simultaneously fail, and you lose the infrastructure to fix things. This is especially important
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by zerkten 7y ago
This is a bit of a naive question, but do the Ice Lake mitigations address any of the performance impact from the software updates that address earlier issues?

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