matrix

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AI versus Microservices(michaelnygard.com)
3 points by matrix 4mo ago|0 comments
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CrowdStrike Hits Back in Heated Spat with Delta over Global Tech Outage(nytimes.com)
5 points by matrix 2y ago|2 comments
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by matrix 4y ago
The answer is: he didn't understand the business. There tens if not hundreds of competitors, and yet the tour operators still taking bookings over the phone. That tells you a lot. The market is ruthlessly efficient. If something has a
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by matrix 4y ago
Not mentioned in the article: the market which this person was trying to enter is saturated with competition. These tour operators are bombarded with pitches for these things every day, and of course every one of them wants a cut of their h
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by matrix 4y ago
Hats off to the engineers who pulled this off. This is not the first time someone has gotten PG running in a browser though. Here's another approach: https://github.com/oguimbal/pg-mem
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Tesla Falsely Advertises Autopilot, Full Self-Driving Tech: California DMV(thedrive.com)
36 points by matrix 4y ago|19 comments
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Hardening the registers: A cascading failure of edge induced fault tolerance(tech.target.com)
137 points by matrix 4y ago|75 comments
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by matrix 5y ago
For those that can’t access the article, here’s the key sentences: “In recent weeks, however, more data has become available, and it suggests that the true picture is less alarming. Yes, Delta has increased the chances of getting Covid for
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by matrix 5y ago
Amazon's co-mingling of inventory facilitated large-scale theft by enabling stolen goods to be sold along-side legitimately sourced items. One has to wonder: at what point does Amazon's reluctance to improve supply-chain integrity
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by matrix 5y ago
Has anyone found similar good-quality mathematics videos for young (elementary school age) kids?
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by matrix 5y ago
This feature is a big plus for parents. It's hard to appreciate how hard it is to protect kids online if you don't have kids yourself. I get that those without kids will find it intrusive, but it sounds like these feature are opt-
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by matrix 5y ago
For anyone interested in these - their consumer chargers are here: https://www.myinnergie.com/us Unfortunately, their "buy now" button links to Amazon; I don't trust Amazon not to sell me a counterfeit that w
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by matrix 6y ago
There's another really difficult challenge for hearing-impaired people not mentioned here: it's mentally exhausting to follow online meetings, even with captions. Hearing impaired people have to very intently while also trying to
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by matrix 7y ago
This is also the case in US. Contract formation requires that the signing party has an opportunity to read the contract. If the contract is subject to litigation and the signing party can show they did not have an opportunity to read it, th
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by matrix 7y ago
I think the author might not realize the substantial difference between working in a tech company (the HN audience) and in supporting roles in non-tech businesses. I have worked in both worlds, and it really just comes down to choosing the
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Open-plan offices reduce face-to-face interactions (2018)(digest.bps.org.uk)
86 points by matrix 7y ago|73 comments
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by matrix 8y ago
The heavy-handed updates forcing frequent reboots are the deal-breaker for me. It seriously pisses me off to come back to my machine only discover that all those editor windows I had open gone, the IDE close, and all the open browser tabs l
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by matrix 8y ago
As a counterpoint, I found "Accelerate" to be just ok. It is essentially a rehash of all the popular software and methodology best practices blog posts and articles we've all read in the last 15 years. This is disappointing b
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by matrix 8y ago
In my experience it's the loss (or masking) of high frequencies that are the most problematic for understanding speech. The most important sounds in speech are consonants, which are higher frequency sounds. Combine this with foreign ac
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by matrix 8y ago
This is good news for Groovy developers since the Groovy project seems to have run into significant roadblocks with migrating to Java 9+. I'd recommend most other developers on the JVM rip that bandaid off now and get onto Java 11 thou
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by matrix 8y ago
Looking at this, I can't seem to find any examples of Wiremock being used to test async callbacks, which is one of the more challenging things to get right. Can anyone point to some documentation or code samples showing how to do this
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by matrix 8y ago
It's called: a distributed monolith
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by matrix 8y ago
Why would a small business want to be part of some marketplace that just reduces their margins, commoditizes their business and and forces them into a race to the bottom? Marketplaces are often a terrible deal for small businesses and small
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by matrix 9y ago
The main point they author is making is: "the prevalence of a single, monocultural aesthetic that seemingly almost every startup and tech company and would-be industry disruptor out there has adopted, it’s worth wondering if there’s so
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by matrix 9y ago
While the article provides a basic definition of various types of pricing tactics/strategies, it doesn't address important questions such as which pricing strategies work best for which types of markets and products, and what kind
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by matrix 9y ago
Thank you for doing that. I sincerely hope this fight isn't over yet; hopefully your comment gets its rightful fair hearing.
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by matrix 9y ago
The video is unavailable. Is there somewhere else we can see it, or better yet a transcript?
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by matrix 9y ago
I'll subscribe to the NYT again when they stop requiring you to phone them to unsubscribe. I was a previous subscriber, and when I wanted to unsubscribe, I discovered there was no way to do it online. This is, of course, an intentional
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by matrix 9y ago
Thanks for this. It's a far more informative read than the original article.
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by matrix 9y ago
Looks nice and clean. What use cases make this a better choice than Ktor? This is an important question to answer because Ktor seems a bit more complete, has more contributors, and is backed by IntelliJ. One big point in Javalin's favo

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