SoftwareMaven

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by SoftwareMaven 3mo ago
Over-abstraction is as much of a problem as under-abstraction. If the abstraction isn’t improving your ability to produce good code, it’s a bad abstraction. I’ve worked with a lot of abstraction patterns in a lot of languages over the 30 ye
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by SoftwareMaven 1y ago
While I agree with you almost universally, I think in this case, the pricing is meant to be part of the loss aversion technique the creator is employing. My problem is there is no such thing as a lifetime subscription anymore. More like &qu
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by SoftwareMaven 3y ago
There is an ecological cost to miles and miles of solar panels. Desert ecosystems are extremely fragile, and these kinds of projects can be very damaging. It’s not just wasteland. (Said as a desert Southwest denizen and lover who gets the i
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by SoftwareMaven 3y ago
The first series of courses in my CS program introduced us to building a pascal interpreter using scheme. It all depends on the pedagogical needs, I suppose.
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by SoftwareMaven 4y ago
I doubt it. A human should be able to tell whether they are breaking the law or doing something that is dangerous and, thus, stop. If a human moved forward with something they should have known was dangerous or illegal, it would be grounds
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by SoftwareMaven 5y ago
Extremely rare diseases and diseases that have no known treatment options are given more lax rules for testing. Without that, there would be no way to develop treatments for them, but it comes with a side benefit of providing a method to at
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by SoftwareMaven 6y ago
Oracle Ksplice | https://ksplice.oracle.com/ | Full-time | Remote Ksplice is the leading technology that allows administrators to patch the kernel on the fly with zero downtime and zero disruption. We're a distributed
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by SoftwareMaven 7y ago
Ships lost at sea are also still commissioned and patrolling. I suspect it is part of naval culture.
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by SoftwareMaven 7y ago
Let's be clear here, though: it's the airlines who refuse to buy an aircraft with additional training requirements. Pilots can only fly one aircraft type, and retraining to a different type is an expensive proposition. If Boeing
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by SoftwareMaven 7y ago
> Design a damned airframe that's airworthy without needing stabilization hacks. The 737 Max is stable, as all commercial aircraft have to be. MCAS is not a system to take an unstable 737 and make it stable. It's a system t
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by SoftwareMaven 7y ago
One of the most important things I've learned over the years I've managed people is that processes and policies of any sort are two-edged swords. It's easy to add a policy, and to convince oneself of the advantage the policy
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by SoftwareMaven 7y ago
Ksplice @ Oracle | Full Time | Remote | https://ksplice.oracle.com/ The Ksplice group at Oracle develops technology to patch the Linux kernel and applications while they are running, eliminating unplanned downtime for syste
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by SoftwareMaven 7y ago
Ksplice @ Oracle | Full Time | Remote | https://ksplice.oracle.com/ The Ksplice group at Oracle develops exciting technology to patch the Linux kernel and applications while they are running, eliminating unplanned downtime
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by SoftwareMaven 7y ago
Ksplice @ Oracle | Full Time | Remote | https://ksplice.oracle.com/ The Ksplice group at Oracle develops exciting technology to patch the Linux kernel and applications while they are running, eliminating unplanned downtime
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by SoftwareMaven 8y ago
Oracle | Remote Ksplice is the leading technology that allows administrators to patch the critical components of a Linux system on the fly with zero downtime and zero disruption. We're looking for an experienced DevOps engineer to join
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by SoftwareMaven 8y ago
Oracle | Remote Ksplice is the leading technology that allows administrators to patch the critical components of a Linux system on the fly with zero downtime and zero disruption. We're looking for an experienced DevOps engineer to join
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by SoftwareMaven 8y ago
Ksplice @ Oracle | Devops | Remote | https://ksplice.oracle.com Ksplice is the leading technology that allows administrators to patch the critical components of a Linux system on the fly with zero downtime and zero disruption, a
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by SoftwareMaven 9y ago
I had to take narcotics into Dubai for a health issue I was facing at the time. You can bet I had the clearly marked prescription bottle with the minimum amount I needed for my trip along with a note from my doctor explaining the medication
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by SoftwareMaven 10y ago
If people are emboldened to blow the whistle on outrageous, secret, unconstitutional, anti-democratic activities of the US or state governments, then this is the best possible outcome.
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by SoftwareMaven 10y ago
And, perhaps not surprisingly, Ballmer didn't last much over ten years as CEO and left MS in a very precarious position when he did leave.
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by SoftwareMaven 10y ago
But that's a function of API, not the language itself. Django (and most ORMs, I believe) support that kind of behavior: MyTable.objects. filter(some_row__gt=5). exlude(other_row='q'). order_by(&#
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by SoftwareMaven 10y ago
$100,000 in bitcoin would belie the "obvious to anyone". People don't understand what a DDoS really is, nor how to fix it, so the email becomes much more ominous than a Nigerian 419 scam.
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by SoftwareMaven 10y ago
The NSA Bluffdale facility might just squeak in that line for me. Think they'd hook me up?
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by SoftwareMaven 10y ago
Should fit in well on Reddit.
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by SoftwareMaven 10y ago
Or are trying to tell you what the weather is going to be this week.
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
> Did they expect us to cheer for them and complain about evil Apple not helping to break evil terrorists' phone? I think that is exactly what they expected. Terrorists and pedophiles are the best way for federal TLAs to expand th
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
That part doesn't matter. Ownership of work done by SUN employees would have been transferred to SUN, then transferred to Oracle. Ownership of work done by Oracle employees would have been transferred to Oracle. It's only the non-
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
That's because his argument is orthogonal to the performance and security arguments. His argument is basically even if unikernels are faster and even if they are just as secure, they are still operationally broken because you cannot d
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
The bitcoin client would be the training set.
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
Beginners tend to think alike, while experts develop an original line of thinking, that is identifiable. I'm not sure I agree with your conclusion. Beginners tend to look to others' code more frequently (often including copying

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