pbecotte

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by pbecotte 4y ago
That's like- the whole point. If you as a manager set a goal, those three choices are all the choices the people under you have to meet the goal, and you often set it up so that the preferred choice (actually make things better) is imp
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by pbecotte 4y ago
JVM can run apps _compiled_ for it. WASM has the _exact same_ limitation. Someone put in the effort to get Postgres to compile for WASM. That's great :) Maybe someday every application will compile to WASM as the preferred choice over
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by pbecotte 4y ago
It can run "anything" ... so long as someone has set up that project to correctly compile to a wasm target. "docker build" lets you build a package out of any software, without having to know much about it. "setti
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by pbecotte 4y ago
I don't think the statement "fairly simple to compile an arbitrary program" hasn't been true for any ecosystem, ever.
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by pbecotte 4y ago
no, you're right. Terraform/Pulumi are much more focused on provisioning resources, while Ansible has its sweet spot in configuring a machine once its running.
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by pbecotte 5y ago
Was a generator technician before I got into programming. Even the 2 megawatt systems could start up and take full load in 10-20 seconds. It sounds basically like starting your car with your foot on the gas. The "when" shouldn&#x2
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by pbecotte 5y ago
The weird thing is- it could be a scam that is not actually a scam. If they have somehow acquired the legal right to use the author's name to release books, they don't need to swindle the ghost writers- they would probably be able
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by pbecotte 5y ago
The author of the article had a great point. Developers often DO treat me as an IT person. The number of times I've taught a developer what an SSH key is or how to install a python virtualenv on the dev box blows my mind. On the other
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by pbecotte 5y ago
Even in 2016, I had been running production services in Docker successfully. Its interesting to me that they see the problem "Docker isn't designed to store data" without also seeing the solution "the docker copy-on-writ
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by pbecotte 5y ago
A little. The thesis behind 'trickle down' sorta makes sense if you think about it. Less taxes = more money to invest = more investment = more economic activity. I did kind of expect to see SOME impact, though have felt for a whil
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by pbecotte 5y ago
Just because a company has SOME open source software, probably doesn't mean that all of their software is.
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by pbecotte 5y ago
Yeah, I'm all on board with trashing the company. Those emails were terrible.
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by pbecotte 5y ago
The emails from the company make it clear that at least one party to the dispute believed that they did use Replit's internal design decisions. Commercial companies approaching the same problem certainly would offer similar feature set
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by pbecotte 5y ago
This wouldn't be an issue of non-compete, but of intellectual property - and I can't imagine there was no intellectual property agreement signed. I've never had a job that didn't have one...
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by pbecotte 5y ago
I...am on the side of the company here? wierd... An employee of a company left, and then made an open source clone of the company's software. The fact that the software was easy to clone or that others had done it previously doesn&#x27
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by pbecotte 5y ago
Guessing you didn't read the article? This article is saying that when Tesla made those complaints, Edmunds reran the test the way that Tesla suggested and got the following results. Sure, maybe its not a big deal that the cars come up
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by pbecotte 6y ago
I've certainly never been bottlenecked on date parsing :) However, many/most of the high performance python libraries are built in C code, and compiled down into something the python interpreter can use directly. There are lots of
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by pbecotte 6y ago
If you already have all of that working, why would you change? Containers are valuable for a couple things- 1. Packaging and distribution- it's very easy to set up a known good filesystem using docker images and reuse that. There are o
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by pbecotte 7y ago
I dunno what the law says. However, it is very easy to imagine a situation where someone LEGITIMATELY cannot decrypt the device. Is indefinite detention without even a criminal charge a valid punishment for that? We can make analogies all d
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by pbecotte 7y ago
But... we understand EXACTLY why developers are paid so well. Economics (the same reason EVERY profession is paid the way they are). There are two factors that come into play for employee pay- 1. Supply/demand: When demand outstrips su
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by pbecotte 7y ago
Even when they do, there is a problem. They specialize in DB code. AWS specializes in infra... and can just take the DB code as well. That is a pretty huge competitive advantage (while the db company has to develop that second specialty). E
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by pbecotte 7y ago
If the accepted wisdom was true, that you can trade quality for speed, then you shouldn't write tests. I do not believe that to be the case. I find the biggest value of tests is being able to change the code more quickly. Running tests
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by pbecotte 7y ago
If you have taken enough VC that the only way to get any value at all is through a huge exit, this statement is true. If you run a normal business, it is not true :)
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by pbecotte 7y ago
So yeah, React may go away in three years. Do you think you would have been better off during those three years continuing to use jquery? Do you think the hours spent learning the new thing were more or less then the hours saved my the new
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by pbecotte 7y ago
I mean, if I hire a contractor that I got through a staff augmentation agency, I have to pay a fee. That is part of the agreement with the agency. This seems the same?
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by pbecotte 7y ago
This is only true in the limited case where you never have to share your code with anyone. If you want to share it, setting it up so others can get going without having to figure out which packages are missing is necessary. In that case, yo
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by pbecotte 7y ago
Yeah, I feel weird about the book. The devil's advocate stuff about climate science is NOT helpful or intellectually honest...but I find the broader argument about the media living from crises to crises very compelling. (Also, the actu
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by pbecotte 7y ago
Something I have thought privately for years is that lowering the "cost of money" is the best way to reduce inequality. It is beginning to look like we may find out as that cost keeps going lower.
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by pbecotte 7y ago
The AWS docs annoy me SO MUCH. As others have noted, there is a LOT of them, and they cover every feature. But I cant think of any of them that explain how stuff works. There will be three different versions explaining how to set some optio
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by pbecotte 7y ago
With the way the internet works and the tech they have built, it's harder not to collect stuff. All of these companies have all sorts of stuff they shouldn't, and I wouldn't trust anything they say about opting out.

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