bird_monster

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by bird_monster 6y ago
It's really not, and has never been. A group of people literally organized on Facebook and brought guns to overtake the capitol. It's pretty cut and dry. Again, nobody would've expected Microsoft to support ISIS' tech. B
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> I'm struggling to try to understand what this means for the risks of running a business in the cloud going forward. It was not just AWS dropping them, but many of their other vendors dropped them too, essentially killing their bus
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> Well I can't imagine how much more annoyed they'd be when using an interpreted language which lets the code run just fine but then fails at runtime in mysterious and subtle ways requiring hours of manually scanning though cod
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> The thing is, I don't think the complexity is even close to the same in the two cases. Agreed (but probably on the opposite end as you) It seems a lot like you've been scorned in the past and that's driving a lot of your
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> but the amount of added complexity to set up non-trivial networking and security and redundancy/failover and backups and all that stuff in the cloud is far more complicated This complexity exists either way, is my point. Whether y
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by bird_monster 6y ago
You've just wrapped a very specific definition of "Operational support" into a very vague term. From another post in this thread: If you want to deploy distributed stream processing like Apache Kafka, but do not want to roll
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> And diving into complicated cloud infrastructure with a small business, if you're not already an expert on it, is a very uncertain endeavour in terms of whether you'll get everything set up right I do not agree. The entire po
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by bird_monster 6y ago
https://github.com/vuejs/vue/graphs/contributors?from=2016-0... Here you can find the code additions Github Insight. The org can have 49 people in it, but 48 of them are not writing code for Vue.js.
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> That looks way cheaper, but then you have to do the engineering and the operational support yourself. In my experience, this is the piece that engineers rarely realize and that is actually one of the biggest factors in evaluating cloud
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by bird_monster 6y ago
+1, but with a container tool (Fargate/ECS, Azure Container Instances) instead of EC2.
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> There is no value to our customers in us stringing together a pile of someone else's products Maybe not your business, but there are many businesses in which this is exactly what happens. Any managed-service is just combining othe
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> I think this is a good thing generally, Vue has consistently been one of the best engineered and most effectively designed pieces of software in the Javascript world, largely due to uncompromising enforcement of the design opinions and
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by bird_monster 6y ago
Simple is without a doubt, not even close, the best bank app I have ever used. Simple as a bank is probably one of the worst banks I have ever tried to deal with. I very regularly wish that their app was a layer on top of other bank account
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by bird_monster 6y ago
Seems like you want vim or emacs? Why is more tools a problem?
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by bird_monster 6y ago
That's fair for you individually. For a lot of people, "I'd rather try to live than die" is a much more realistic viewpoint.
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by bird_monster 6y ago
You're right, I would delete/edit if I could, but I cannot.
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by bird_monster 6y ago
Pre implementation - Identify and document possible solutions. Think hard about why each solution is good and each decision is bad. - Within each solution, attempt to find common patterns in that problemspace (when working with Sharded data
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by bird_monster 6y ago
It kinda depends on your goals I think. The T shaped developer skillset is extremely, extremely valuable and will only probably continue. Sure, you could get deeper in a language you already have experience with, but do you think that will
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by bird_monster 6y ago
It sounds like you've made up your mind, but I might suggest reading less overwhelmingly biased critiques. That post makes incorrect assumptions about go, and then exhibits the result of their incorrect assumptions, and then brings up
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by bird_monster 6y ago
Is it defending a dictatorship to point out the reality of the situation? Where did OP defend it?
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> An internal team change is often a lot less stressful and less risky than going to a different company. This statement really nails it. If you change teams and are still unhappy you can always quit. If you quit without having changed t
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by bird_monster 6y ago
You're asking "Why" as in "Why shouldn't we listen to untrained professionals' opinions on supplement dosages" ? Also this person did not wikipedia what they posted, as wikipedia also lists tolerable upper
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> The study in question will be randomized, national and multi-center, carried out double-blind, and should involve teams from Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, Sorbonne University and Inserm. It is expected to include approximate
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by bird_monster 6y ago
Can you provide an example? I haven't seen anything as easy/cheap to address? Most of what I've seen is related to comorbidities and general health factors (weight). Nothing as easy as "Go sit in the sun for an hour and&
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by bird_monster 6y ago
It would probably be wise to not post your opinion on things like vitamin dosages unless you're a medical doctor. My doctor prescribed 1 week of 15000 IU a day, then a week of 10000 IU, then a running dose of 5000 IU a day. I've s
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> Man this board is really obsessed with things that might make you less likely to die from a COVID infection If you rewrite your first sentence this way, does it better highlight why this board is interested in this information?
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> As a corporation, Facebook truly seems to be trying to improve its behavior for the benefit of society at large, The nuance is that they're not - they're trying to improve their _image_.
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> We don’t want to live in a country where that would be enough evidence to invade and search his property without consent. It might make sense to switch this to "should be", as innocent people's privacy gets invaded by un
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by bird_monster 6y ago
I understand your point. My question, though, is: for what languages is this statement not true: " < language > is only safe if the authors of such code take advantage of the features that the language provides to write safe code
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> You are making a very common complaint, that comes from ignoring the problems of the tools you know while making a fuzz over anything you find on the new one. It's almost certain that whatever languages you are used to, they have

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