nixlim

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by nixlim 3y ago
Thank you for this. A good read and useful information.
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by nixlim 3y ago
Love this analogy. I think most of the arguments above seek to establish that the soft, as your analogy goes, is not the main or the only participant in the whole.
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by nixlim 3y ago
I am somewhat inclined to believe that this statement is aimed entirely at commercial sphere, which, at least in my mind, supports those arguing that this is a marketing ploy by the organizers of this campaign to make sure that their market
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by nixlim 3y ago
I work for a smallish supermarket chain (I assume, by the US standards) - we have about a 1000 stores in 5 countries, about 40-45K tills. At peak trading my teams' services handle a combined 250K tps. We run a bunch of distributed syst
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by nixlim 3y ago
As a lawyer with 13 years experience in my previous life, I can tell you that you can't trust a paralegal either. What it does do is give you the "first pass" - if I could automate the first pass over 100,000 pages and the AI
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by nixlim 4y ago
This, more than anything and it doesn't only apply to the "new" languages. I spent the last year picking up basic Common Lisp and Elixir just for the fun of it. As "languages" they are great, but their ecosystems ma
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by nixlim 4y ago
And, for avoidance of doubt, I do think immigration is both a good thing and a necessary thing. Of course, being an immigrant, I am somewhat biased.
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by nixlim 4y ago
It's not a defence. The "new city" per year is a scare mongering tactic that presents only a partial data picture as its basis.
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by nixlim 4y ago
International student fees. I did say "all legal, privately paid for"
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by nixlim 4y ago
Miniscule amount over thousands iterations... adds up
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by nixlim 4y ago
I sort of think you just proved the author's point - you are using the AI to increase your productivity. People who cannot adjust in that way will be less productive and loose out.
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by nixlim 4y ago
Primary school here is until 12 (Year 6)
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by nixlim 4y ago
The problem with this argument is that completely ignores the die-off rate of the population or the demographics. On average, our population is dieing off at about 600k per year - 500k immigrants does not even break even. We have a negative
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by nixlim 4y ago
So, I came to the UK when I was 15, studied for over 10 years, got my citizenship. All legal, privately paid for. Incidentally, I worked as a solicitor for over 10 years, large part of my work was immigration law. There is no such thing as
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by nixlim 4y ago
"The UK would face economic collapse without significant immigration." Demographics of our country guarantee a demographic collapse. Not as bad as say Japan or Germany, but enough of an impact to maintain wage inflation. The level
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by nixlim 4y ago
You would be surprised, but that was the plan in 50s and 70s, when we got a people from Pakistan and South East Asia to come to work in the factories. They did not go back and settled here. The actual result is that they stay here and bring
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by nixlim 4y ago
This. I am working on a personal project and definitely initial design and dev is easier in a monolith. Microservices, at the stage my project is at, will bring too much overhead to solve a problem I don't have (scale).
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by nixlim 4y ago
I think that this is a very solid point, but perhaps the reasoning underlying this type of issue is somewhat more complex. For example, we run a what is now a v5 of our API as a bunch of microservices and have been running it as microservic
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by nixlim 4y ago
Awesome read, cool idea. From software engineering perspective, this is a great example of a product being put to use that was not anticipated by the dev. Thank you for the link!
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by nixlim 4y ago
I used kinesis advantage for about two months. Ended switching to Ultimate Hacking Keyboard and have never been happier - haven't switched the keyboard since - about 4 years now. Coding on Kinesis was just such a pain in terms of usual
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by nixlim 4y ago
This. Absolutely the feeling I had after reading both of them
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by nixlim 4y ago
I work in a team of 45 devs. We develop, deploy and maintain our code. Maintenance is done on rotation, everyone is responsible for deployment of their code all the way to prod and we maintain the CI/CD pipelines ourselves. K8s is the
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by nixlim 4y ago
> the entire point of DevOps was that "operations" shouldn't exist, and that operations is a task that should be done by the developers. Ergo, if you even have operations people to comment on it, or if you are hiring dedic
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by nixlim 4y ago
To pick one: - getting paid from abroad qualifies a journalist, or anyone for that matter, as foreign agent in Russia. This comes with obligations of monthly income/expenditure reporting, and unemployability for as long as you are on t
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by nixlim 4y ago
I think you misunderstand the Russian situation a little bit. Russia has not blocked the movement of cash - you can transfer out up to $50k per month to self or relative. Secondly, the cut off from SWIFT has meant that it takes longer to tr
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by nixlim 4y ago
So, slightly on a tangent, but I feel it is still applicable: several of the people I work with live in countries with restrictive currency controls, specifically, moving money out of the country above certain trivial sum requires gov permi
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by nixlim 4y ago
The thing to remember is that a "camp" comprised thousands of people, livestock and other moving parts. She was essentially project and logistics manager of a massive project, with no automation tools or modern mechanical equipmen
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by nixlim 4y ago
Assuming all of the assumptions in that article come to pass, why ignore Elixir/Erlang as a viable option for language & infrastructure?
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by nixlim 4y ago
100% agree and can relate. Part of our "estate" is exactly that type of a project - all that was required was a CRUD app, what we got and have to maintain is an app written in functional style written with 3 layered frameworks usi
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by nixlim 5y ago
How is the rest of the world supposed to distinguish between 10% who sit at home but are against it and 90% who sit at home and are for it? And why should it? Choices have consequences. Always.

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