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by methodin 6y ago
I like the idea. Hell you wouldn't even need co-op at the start if you can implement a decent pathfinding AI and be able to swap between tank/turret. Would even be a bit more depth since you'd have to think about both things
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by methodin 6y ago
I should have perhaps phrased that differently as: If I desire end-to-end encryption but I do not want to be a conduit for nefarious activities then what are the options? Surely there is a spectrum between facebook messenger and a total sec
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Ask HN: Topics on Encryption vs. Abuse?
1 points by methodin 6y ago|4 comments
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by methodin 6y ago
I was only talking about function code. It should be painfully obvious to anyone that if you opt to leverage other AWS services that those are things you would ultimately have to replace but those decisions have nothing to do with serverles
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by methodin 6y ago
Most of your points are not relevant to my original statement of the code being generic - they are talking more about the architectural decisions. If I want to use DynamoDB I can do so in EC2 or Lambda, serverless doesn't dictate that.
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by methodin 6y ago
FWIW I haven't hit any scenario out of the basic services that localstack couldn't run locally. I even have it executing Terraform on localstack as if it was AWS (without IAM which is indeed a problem when I forget to create/
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by methodin 6y ago
I disagree. Every AWS Lambda function I've ever written can be ran as a regular node/python process. The lambda-specific part is miniscule. If I wanted to run these on Azure or Google only the most inconsequential parts of the fun
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by methodin 6y ago
I'm almost thinking it will lead to ROI being less at the end. As they filter everyone through nice funnels ultimately they restrict reach such that "new customers" are less. Once that happens they will come back out to targe
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by methodin 6y ago
I've found focusing on the hardest problems first when enthusiasm is high nets the best results as the difficulty over time of remaining tasks coincides with waning enthusiasm and fatigue. Focusing on small tasks first and delaying lar
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by methodin 6y ago
That's an interesting take as news organizations are not nonprofits. They are only businesses. The government is supposed to be acting as the central source of good information not a collection of for-profit companies. The issue we fac
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by methodin 6y ago
With no skin in the game, I could just as easily counter with: Supporting Apple in this fight is just setting a dangerous precedent that big players should be able to just intimidate platform developers into giving them whatever terms they
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by methodin 6y ago
Time it takes to build something is not even remotely the best metric for value or ease. Programming is never a box and things that took one afternoon to write at first could be thousands of lines long a year from now. To me this is as horr
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by methodin 6y ago
If it was discovered that the laws of nature prevent a species from expanding into the universe through whatever mechanisms plausible, what would that do the idea of free will? Does free will require unbounded possibilities or would an uppe
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by methodin 6y ago
Fair enough, though I would say if these stores are on a spectrum tilting towards "barely open" or "on the decline" that it doesn't provide a useful counter-argument for the overall sentiment which is that malls are
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by methodin 6y ago
I should have qualified that KOP was the largest mall I knew of which is why I called it out. I did forget about Springfield mall which is still alive I assume. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promenade_at_Granite_Run is
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by methodin 6y ago
Is it even possible not to "keep them in abnormal environments that affect their behavior or physiology"? Putting a rate in a cage alone is an abnormal environment for a rat.
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by methodin 6y ago
I would have assumed malls were already on the out prior to COVID - I assume this is just accelerating the timeline? I think every mall the knew of growing up and in college is no more except for the largest (Kind of Prussia). Did your Mall
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by methodin 6y ago
It's more important how one deals with being wrong than always being right.
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by methodin 6y ago
Seems like a fundamental truth of Capitalism: privatization and ultimate destruction of anything that can be monetized. Certain things are impossible without money and to make money to have to generate or consume something which leads to a
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by methodin 6y ago
I fail to understand how an open roadmap would make you less likely to buy a product. If you compare two products with the same current feature set but one has an open roadmap and one has none - are you saying physical access to a roadmap w
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by methodin 6y ago
Indeed and it's why organizations that execute well treat this process as a collaboration rather than a dictation and report-back.
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by methodin 6y ago
A lot of things are hard to do in DynamoDB but for the scenarios it excels at there are not many peers.
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by methodin 6y ago
Agreed. I think people do tend to forget jQuery's primary use and greatness came from masking browser inconsistencies and exposing things that just weren't even possible with vanilla JS. Necessity for that type of thing has waned
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by methodin 6y ago
I've often wondered what would happen to the jobscape if employers spent more to keep people then they do to hire their replacement. If jumping ship was always a pay cut, what would that do to both the company and employees?
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by methodin 6y ago
I disagree. Without getting to know the language you end up just memorizing commands which is akin to doing the same thing in school to pass a course but getting nothing out of it in the long run.
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by methodin 6y ago
Seems like this should be directed at the particular packaged and not the ecosystem as a whole? I do feel the pain of "I just want to try this out" and it's assumed I have webpack and all the other tooling already setup to do
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by methodin 6y ago
I don't necessarily agree with the sentiment as a whole as there's pretty consistent design patterns for things like routing, http requests and responses and user roles and permissions across many languages and frameworks both lar
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by methodin 6y ago
I would tend to think if you built your own framework the right way you would end up looking a lot like... an existing framework. If you build it the wrong way then it would look like an interwoven mashup of code that you would have no reme
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by methodin 7y ago
Why is it that free speech extends to organizations? I'm all for free speech but outside of individuals and nonprofits I'm struggling to think of good reason it should extend to corporate entities.
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by methodin 7y ago
Are there any good companies on the stock market? Seems like inevitably they either go under or inch further towards evil over time.

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