govolckurself

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by govolckurself 3y ago
I go to concerts to see bands, not talk to music managers. There's a reason why nobody stays after to chitchat with the head of marketing.
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by govolckurself 3y ago
The way to avoid this is for Amazon to hold itself accountable, or, if it is unable to do so, a government. You're telling me the trillion-dollar logistics company can't figure out how to make sure people get the correct items?
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by govolckurself 3y ago
If you mean cryptocurrency, then that's wrong, because its primary purpose is to facilitate illegal activity, or grifting. It isn't even good as money, and I still can't buy groceries with Bitcoin, which is like... one of the
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by govolckurself 3y ago
No, it really won't. You can't replace software developers with linear algebra that writes essays at a sixth-grade level. Or, perhaps the bar really is that low, although high interest rates should help filter out most of the nons
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by govolckurself 3y ago
An admission essay is hardly education, it's a pro forma hoop to jump through to get into college (especially now that more and more are ignoring test scores). So you have to invent eight hobbies and convince a bunch of bored administr
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by govolckurself 3y ago
The biggest bottleneck in web applications was, is, and ever shall be, roundtrip time to the database, especially now that nobody bothers to install MySQL on the same box anymore, so every query has to go over the network. Of course, that&#
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by govolckurself 3y ago
This is the weirdest gotcha. Nobody said it wasn't source anymore, they implied that it wouldn't be readable or conducive to sharing because it's unreadable.
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by govolckurself 3y ago
I expect better from Hacker News. Oh well.
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by govolckurself 3y ago
Having been, myself, relentlessly bullied by closed-minded bigots, I can confidently say that getting away from environments like that is priceless.
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by govolckurself 3y ago
What? No, there simply isn't enough housing. Prices don't always go up simply because of an increase in the money supply (which is also something you can measure).
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by govolckurself 3y ago
You can't host something like Imgur for free. No technological advancement can get over the fact that even electricity still costs money. And at their volume, they have nontrivial expenses. I have no idea how or where they're host
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by govolckurself 3y ago
No, but it makes it fairly likely that they were exposed to the fundamentals, like a lack of a degree makes it likely they weren't. "Well, actually, not EVERY CS major knows their fundamentals!" is not nearly as strong of an
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by govolckurself 3y ago
graphviz on a dot file to PNG, and then slap that bad boy in the README. Boom. Done.
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by govolckurself 3y ago
Pretty sure this is equivalent to solving the Halting Problem, which is... difficult, to say the least. But why should the OS try to stop you from making logic errors? Test your state machines. Test every transition you're interested i
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by govolckurself 3y ago
Tale as old as time. 1. "We need a better image host!" 2. Makes new image host. 3. Uh oh, hosting costs money. 4. Ads. 5. Lawsuits because illegal stuff. Uh oh, lawyers cost money. 6. "We need a better image host!"
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by govolckurself 3y ago
Vegetables aren't as great as ice cream, but you need vegetables, even if they aren't "palatable". Let's end the notion that everything in computer science is easy and hip and fun. No, recurrence relations probably
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by govolckurself 3y ago
It's not their size that's an issue. But astronomers have already voiced their concerns in great detail. It might be worth exploring the specifics.
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by govolckurself 3y ago
Except in the US, the government is... us. Show up to a local city council meeting sometime and tell me how many oligarchs show up to shout down new development, and then tell me how many of your own neighbors show up to do the same. You mi
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by govolckurself 3y ago
It's moot anyway. You shouldn't be able to veto a building you neither own nor live in simply because it doesn't suit your aesthetic tastes (ostensibly. I'm not convinced the accusations of "it's ugly!" ar
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by govolckurself 3y ago
Are our expectations so low now that developers can't be expected to put in a little effort to learn a text editor? Look, I promise I'm not the smartest guy, but I ground out a few weeks of memorizing key bindings like ten years a
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by govolckurself 3y ago
Same. Like a moron, apparently, I just use my text editor to get work done.
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by govolckurself 3y ago
But how many ads did your Windows 95 start menu have?
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by govolckurself 3y ago
Whoa now. Don't go after the cash cow! It's so much harder to rent-seek when people just run regular programs that don't require 10 gigs of RAM and internet access. But where's the career promotion in that?
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by govolckurself 3y ago
Depends on whose theory you're talking about. I never understood why budget cuts were the Republican rallying cry, because they're almost entirely meaningless when you mint your own reserve currency. If I could impart one thing an
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by govolckurself 3y ago
>I would rather solve fun problems than doing endless maintenance tasks. Not everything in your career will be fun and exciting, and what you consider to be maintenance that you can ignore, some of us consider fundamentals that one ought
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by govolckurself 3y ago
When all you have is a Heroku, everything starts to look like a nail.
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by govolckurself 3y ago
What about those things? They're just glittering generalities, and an appeal to them is frequently used to justify adding ever more complexity to software. The vast majority of startup web apps don't need anything more than a dece
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by govolckurself 3y ago
Docker is difficult to understand in-depth, and, at least in my career, I haven't met too many people who do more than just skim a blog post and then think they know everything about Docker. This is how you get Docker punching holes in
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by govolckurself 3y ago
But nobody was writing trendy Medium posts about PHP.
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by govolckurself 3y ago
Why is "learn more about how to properly host something" never an option for people? And in 2018! Suck it up and learn how to secure a VM, folks, especially if you're turning tutorials into production services. Most of those

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