nickh9000

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by nickh9000 8y ago
Erlang is not a panacea. It excels as a middle layer, one that orchestrates work. It's not a tool to perform intensive calculations.
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by nickh9000 9y ago
Maybe it is time to upgrade from that machine.
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by nickh9000 9y ago
(serious) hobby project: beanstalk, vertx, java, dynamodb, elasticache. Frontend: Kotlin.
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by nickh9000 9y ago
Yeah, but nope. Just get xfce, it has similar ideas and it is so much better.
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by nickh9000 9y ago
What briandear is trying to say is that extreme points of view damage the democracy regardless of whether they are to the left or right. And your point is extreme, for example. You are claiming that he is unfit. That's your opinion but
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by nickh9000 9y ago
Yes, why not.
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by nickh9000 9y ago
I am curious what would 10 years of experience would translate to.
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by nickh9000 9y ago
Dude, never ever sell yourself short. Also proposing a salary of zero implies you work will be worth zero.
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by nickh9000 9y ago
My kid would fall asleep 100% in the car. Heck there were times when I would take her for a drive precisely for this purpose. After five minutes driving she would fall asleep. I then used to take out the car seat with her so not to wake her
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by nickh9000 9y ago
Apparently the designers of Mass Effect did their Sci Fi homework.
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by nickh9000 9y ago
Thinking about how you would shard your data is hardly over engineering. On some storage systems you are forced to anyway: Cassandra, dynamodb. And the cost of building the solution from the onset is hardly a killer. The pain usually comes
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by nickh9000 9y ago
Apparently I should stop using gitlab.com By choosing to not shard your data you have basically put a cap on scalability... or at least one which will be reached faster than if you were to decide to shard.
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by nickh9000 9y ago
The whole point why you should worry from the beginning is so that you don't have to re-work everything and put a huge risk to the business when you have to do it.
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by nickh9000 9y ago
No, by all means share the MD5 hash of your passwords. After all it's a one way hash. /S
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by nickh9000 9y ago
While that's true the rest of the world does need concrete answers on questions, rather than, "We are only 95% certain that statement X is true." Basically scientific rigor is important to make good science, but that does not
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by nickh9000 9y ago
Seems like you are taking your interview rejections to heart. Don't do that. Most companies go with the mode don't hire unless the candidate is a great fit, because they don't want to bear the cost of a mistake. I have failed