angrybits

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by angrybits 11y ago
What can I say, being an asshole is one of my diversity dimensions. We just had that training at work, it was very helpful. Also, I hope you aren't a Python dev in your spare time. Guido would be appalled. https://www.yout
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by angrybits 11y ago
I know. And I'm sorry, bitterly sorry, but I know that... no apologies I can make can alter the fact that in our thread you have been given a dirty, filthy, smelly piece of technical argument.
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by angrybits 11y ago
Those optimizers you are fighting with have thousands of man hours of research behind them. For every silly choice they make, they make hundreds or thousands of correct ones.
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by angrybits 11y ago
You can have locked cage space leased from a datacenter if you want to be in control of all the things you have any business being in control of.
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by angrybits 11y ago
Except for the fact that you can explicitly contain the potential damage by controlling which accounts can do what. It's not like you have to have one god account with no MFA that has the keys to the city.
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by angrybits 11y ago
Not trying to be snarky, but why on Earth would I mind that my government is trying to prevent a rival government from gaining nuclear capability? World politics are what they are, and they are unavoidable, so my preference is that we do a
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by angrybits 11y ago
That is total bullshit and you know it. This whole culture of self-loathing was cute at the beginning, but it's descended into absolute absurdity. You are patently out of your mind if you actually believe what you wrote. You don&#x2
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by angrybits 11y ago
This is a good thing even for those outside of San Antonio proper. I was able to upgrade to 1 Gbps on a small-time ISP this weekend, and it's because Google is coming to the large city near me. Competition is a wonderful thing.
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by angrybits 11y ago
No, I value any 1 human over all 30000 remaining lions. How could you not do otherwise?
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by angrybits 11y ago
> I'll be over here riding out the inevitable with my own file sync, git server, chat server, web server, and making my internet how I want it to be To me, this is exactly why we're not headed for an internet-solely-comprised
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by angrybits 11y ago
> when the last user of it finally gives up and moves to gmail so they can continue to communicate with their contacts or maybe they give up entirely Between the title and the quoted, I think you have used up your hyperbole quota for one
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by angrybits 11y ago
> the poor rarely can take advantage of them I'm pretty sure the solution to that is clean public transportation, no?
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by angrybits 11y ago
Who cares how many lines it takes to do Hello World? Honestly, that isn't a benchmark for any meaningful thing.
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by angrybits 11y ago
There are lots of good sibling comments to this one, but I want to get one more point in before we all move on. Spending an hour yielding to something larger than yourself is probably good for the soul and definitely good for the ego. You
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by angrybits 11y ago
If you join a fundamentalist cult, then yes. Lots of modern churches are non-denominational and quite relaxed. In fact, they are surprisingly similar to the entity being described in the article.
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by angrybits 11y ago
I liked the article, but this is like the cultural equivalent of Not Invented Here. Does it really matter that organized Christianity believes that a guy woke up from the dead? If you want a sense of community and the rituals that go alon
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by angrybits 11y ago
We have a POC running where we stream web hit data onto HDFS in near real time (several seconds of latency perhaps). There's no reason to think you couldn't do it with other streams of data as well. edit: Not sure about Salesforc
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by angrybits 11y ago
> separately managed relational dbs all over the place On the BI side, this is overwhelmingly the outcome for large companies. The business units get silo'ed, they build their fiefdoms, a consolidation project gets kicked off and f
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by angrybits 11y ago
The enterprise I work for won't touch cloud with a 10 foot pole, and I know this because we literally got told to quit asking about it. :) So yes, even we are building out a pretty beefy internal Hadoop cluster, so I would never say t
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by angrybits 11y ago
> The one big vertically scaled database at the hub of everything is definitely disappearing. Maybe in Startupville, CA. But I think you're forgetting that it's a big world out there and there are lots of systems that are buil
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by angrybits 11y ago
Administrations often change their tunes to maintain a populist backing. They could have just said plainly, "Look, he did the crime and we are required by the rule of law to bring him to trial." and left it at that. But they didn
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by angrybits 11y ago
The story this tells is so stark, I don't know what else there is left to say on it. They guy sealed his own fate when he made himself an enemy of the state, and I fear he will never get to set foot on his homeland again. One day, I h
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by angrybits 11y ago
It changes over time, and ranges anywhere from the use of force to achieve an objective all the way to simply humanitarian. Sometimes a mix. (delivery of supplies + security) The world is not in a steady state, so as our needs change ove
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by angrybits 11y ago
> I have zero respect for someone that was there Serving isn't for everyone, and I don't expect you to understand it if you haven't. But either way your attitude is as discourteous as it is pretentious, and you have added
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by angrybits 11y ago
From TFA (although I realize he's not advocating for this): “Two of my colleagues will be joining us in a few minutes but I think we can get started. I’d like you to whiteboard an answer to the following prompt: given a string, write a
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by angrybits 11y ago
This is why I mentioned Occupy, they had the people in place to make a meaningful impact. They were able to come out in force so quickly because of the free flow of ideas and information. It may have been that quickness that kept them fro
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by angrybits 11y ago
Agreed, I just meant I choose self-sufficiency over dependence when possible/practical. As I get older, it seems to impact my choices more and more--and I'm not (just) talking about basic necessities, it's also guiding my in
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by angrybits 11y ago
The internet changes a lot of rules. Who will make the most effective use of these new rules remains to be seen, but the game has changed nonetheless.
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by angrybits 11y ago
From the fine article: > individualism replaced collectivism and solidarity I find myself wondering if I am part of a remaining few who treasure that. I value self-sufficiency over dependency, moreso as I get older. I have come to real
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by angrybits 11y ago
We had beer taps at my previous job, and nobody drank during business hours even though they could have. Any work past 5 or so might have been under the influence from time to time, but we really only drank in any quantity after quittin&#x

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