archgrove

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by archgrove 2y ago
You mention choosing between "growth" and "kicking back" - that seems to me to be the key question you need to answer. Do you want to be stretched, or take some less stressful "passive work"? Neither answer is
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by archgrove 3y ago
A fair sized pause, sure. But if the argument is “Don’t throw it up unedited”, and what it provides me is bare bones generic/junior stuff, I’m not sure of the huge win at this point in time . The world wasn’t short of “Generic low gra
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by archgrove 3y ago
I'm not an AI skeptic (this stuff will change the world), but I'm not as impressed as the author. The primary problem, which seems common to LLMs asked to do this stuff, is "very high level output" - a content smoothie,
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by archgrove 5y ago
The Monty Hall problem continued to short circuit the “intuitive reasoning” part of my maths brain until I saw it explained as “Imagine there are a million goats and one car. You pick a door, Monty opens 999,998 doors. Should you switch?”,
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by archgrove 7y ago
I think you’re misunderstanding. This was built. The BBC iPlayer was streaming video to the whole of the U.K. in 2007.
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by archgrove 8y ago
This is a nice micro-tutorial, but it does not build you a production ready system. You don't seem to get backups, redundancy, automated updates, replicability, or anything else that most people would view as mandatory. It seems just
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by archgrove 8y ago
Ah, a bit out of my experience alas. Sorry! However, I'm still not sure how container orchestration would help with this. I can still endorse PAAS for any "cloud" applications you may want to deploy.
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by archgrove 8y ago
You almost certainly don't need containers. Just use a PAAS (platform as a service). Heroku is the "go to" default, and will be worth much more than they charge. If you're worried about scaling, I've run off the sh
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by archgrove 8y ago
Thanks. I really appreciate these sessions - it's good of you to do them.
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by archgrove 8y ago
Is there any advantage in seeking visas for less trafficked parts of the US tech scene (e.g. not just SF, Seattle, etc)? Or is the location of the employer entirely divorced from the success rate?
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by archgrove 8y ago
Flyby comment: As someone who straddled academia and industry (but mostly research; never lectured), you have a unique advantage you should utilise: You've done both. First, most of your students are not going to be academics. They&#x2
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by archgrove 8y ago
Well sure. If you basically redefine Malware to be "Anything other than GPL software", then you're going to consider most software malware. That doesn't mean it's the definition of Malware that most (i.e. all) other
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by archgrove 9y ago
Clarification: 18 containerised services can absolutely be the right choice. It’s just my experience says the trade off between the costs of maintaining that versus a smaller PAASed system rarely come out in favour of it.
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by archgrove 9y ago
I'll stand by my assertion that for 99% of users (maybe even 99.99%), Kubernetes offers entirely the wrong abstraction. They don't want to run a container, they want to run an application (Node, Go, Ruby, Python, Java, whatever).
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by archgrove 9y ago
No, I don't regret it. We picked it for our startup as we wanted a cross platform solution, that genuinely felt native (without the huge effort it takes to make a webapp feel that smooth), and that still gave us a chance to easily nati
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by archgrove 9y ago
Everything old is new again, except tunnelled over HTTP.
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by archgrove 9y ago
Amen: "Aw snap! The new Google Earth isn't supported by your browser yet". No. _You_ didn't support my browser. The web is not "Just Chrome" any more than the web was "Just Internet Explorer". Same ga
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by archgrove 10y ago
It wasn't intended to be sarcastic. I suspect there will be a lot of businesses (especially finance) interested in verifying that the "ancient" Linux system they setup to replace their mainframe 25 years "ago" is s
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by archgrove 10y ago
This is (serious) a part of my retirement planning. I'll be mid-50s when this hits, and have enough low level system knowledge to be dangerous. In about 15 years, I'll start spinning up my epochalypse consultancy, and I'm exp
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by archgrove 10y ago
It seems to really hate profanity. `I love it` is 1% toxic. `I bloody love it.` 38%; `I f king love it` 95%. In many circles, the more profane are more congratulatory.
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Asheron's Call, one of the original “big three” 3D MMORPGs, is closing(asheronscall.com)
4 points by archgrove 10y ago|2 comments
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by archgrove 10y ago
Circles | London, UK (No remote) | Ruby/Swift/Java/JavaScript/React Native Circles was founded in 2016 with the belief that when it comes to supporting each other, social networks are the wrong model. Our idea is that an
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by archgrove 10y ago
Woah now, everyone knows making a site with less than 10,000 dependencies isn't possible these days. Wait, we're talking about bytes?
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by archgrove 10y ago
Any love for Elastic Beanstalk with these? They seem well matched. Though EB always feels a bit of a red-headed stepchild in the AWS portfolio.
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by archgrove 11y ago
An interesting paper, but worth noting it was published in ECOOP 2011 (so written largely in 2010, probably). The landscape has undoubtedly changed a lot since then.
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by archgrove 11y ago
I think it's a lovely idea, with an interesting implementation. Obligatory HN style comment: It might be wise to strengthen the description from "pure" functions to "pure and terminating". I've not had time to
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by archgrove 11y ago
This model still depends on copyright. Yes, they give it away for free, but that's _cost freedom_, not _copyright freedom_. Without copyright, I can take all their works, strip off their name, put them on my own site, add a tip jar of
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by archgrove 11y ago
We're already using "private" modules, by hosting them in a private git repo. NPM can install from these, e.g., git+ssh://user@server:Account/Repo.git, without problems. I'm not sure what value this would
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by archgrove 11y ago
Sure it does (at least, as much as any other "intellectual" field, like accounting or law). Do you want the guy who knows X (or 3 variants of X, each sequentially in fashion)? Or the guy who knows X, Y and Z? The key is, no matter
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by archgrove 11y ago
I'm quite sure there's more to software engineering than can be learned in 8-10 years. I spent 7 years working with one tiny part of formal software verification, and still didn't get to the bottom of it. Perhaps it's tr

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