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by hifier 10y ago
I suspect that you have never actually used a phone-dispatch car service in NYC. You have no visibility into their ETA. Call back and ask... the answer is always the same "5 minutes".
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by hifier 10y ago
This might be the best comment I have ever read on HN.
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by hifier 10y ago
Classes do not imply inheritance. Classes are a means of defining an interface, albeit a heavy one. The statement that it is better to separate data and behavior is far from self-evident IMO, and I would be very interested to understand why
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by hifier 10y ago
If you are running this from your own AWS account doesn't it have the problem of not anonymizing the traffic - since it can all be tied to your identity?
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by hifier 10y ago
This is what happens when you do business with a company who views you as the product.
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by hifier 10y ago
Interesting. Noted.
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by hifier 10y ago
Seems like mostly FUD. No mention of specific issues in any clients. And please have a look at other high throughput systems (like Cassandra or VoltDB) before claiming that a load balancer is the proper way to connect clients to a distribut
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by hifier 10y ago
This person has obviously never worked on a project of any scale. See where your ad-hoc practices get you when you have millions of LOC. Can we all agree that there is good code and bad code and the difference between the two is often conte
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by hifier 10y ago
Why no to Cassandra? I don't have the reference on hand, but I believe the issues identified by aphyr have since been addressed. It is important to do your own due diligence, especially when referencing work that is more than a year or
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by hifier 10y ago
It seems to me that one of the core differences between MySQL/Postgres and distributed stores like Cassandra / Hbase is that with the former your data and your write workload have to fit onto a single host. If either one cannot fi
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by hifier 10y ago
While I agree that the author and others in the same role clearly do not feel apart of the culture, could you really expect them to? They don't have any equity, they don't make very much, they are monitored and evaluated like tele
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by hifier 10y ago
It's disgusting to be comparing a veteran's suffering to a beggar's.
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by hifier 10y ago
No. The veteran is worthy because in his suffering, he provided value to the community.
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by hifier 11y ago
Lots of hate here so far. I agree more explanation of their premise would go a long way towards convincing skeptics. However, I think this is an interesting perspective and deserves better conversation. Fiscal policy is progressive and has
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by hifier 11y ago
So?
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by hifier 11y ago
Not until they change the 5th amendment.
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by hifier 11y ago
The entirety of the US system of government is predicated on lack of trust. Hence checks and balances through branches and the limits placed on the government by the constitution. The founders saw this coming. They didn't trust the gov
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by hifier 11y ago
The difference is not about who is more powerful. The difference is that I can choose to use DuckDuckGo instead of Google. I cannot (barring extreme measures) choose to disobey the government.
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by hifier 11y ago
He very often applies this tactic of trying to make the other side seem unreasonable. This is the most important issue of our generation. You cannot have it both ways Mr. President. There is no middle ground. You either support the right to
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by hifier 11y ago
I don't like this line of reasoning because it allows for a pro-surveillance outcome if you change the statistics. At what threshold do you switch sides? Ben Franklin is pretty clear and so is the constitution. We don't need to ar
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by hifier 11y ago
And this is exactly what the constitution is for. Changing the constitution requires much more than a simple majority.
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by hifier 11y ago
"If she wanted a good job, she should have racked up a lot of dept and rolled the dice" Nice straw man.
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by hifier 11y ago
My point is that there are tools and techniques that will solve these problems in ways that are more valuable than the compiler's type system. If you seriously "refuse to review Python code" because you feel you need to visua
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by hifier 11y ago
Ummm, unit tests? The compiler offers a false sense of security. Type safety is not correctness.
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by hifier 11y ago
While this particular solution may be a failure, it is a reflection of the demand, which I don't see changing direction anytime soon. This is an attempt to cache in on the fact that competent engineers cannot be found at this price, wh
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by hifier 11y ago
Do you honestly think the demand for software engineers will go down in the next 10-20 years?
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by hifier 11y ago
75 is not high in NY and SF for entry level. Probably low for even average candidates.
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by hifier 11y ago
This is the single most important issue of the internet era. The current policy will erase the concept of privacy altogether. It is hardly "just a single issue".
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by hifier 11y ago
This is my litmus test for all future elections until this issue is resolved. There is and will never be a candidate that reflects all or even most of my positions. But, if a candidate is willing to unequivocally say that they will end dome
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by hifier 11y ago
Sure. I suppose that could be the reason. However, something like HA proxy[1] and (IIRC) CDNs like Akamai can be configured to inspect the headers and take various action. [1] http://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/confi

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