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by rcoder 10y ago
Also also: Be Inc. was founded by another ex-apple exec, Jean Louis Gassée. It was in many ways a better fit for Apple's core market (design pros and students who wanted a really slick, single-user multimedia workstation) but Gassée wa
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by rcoder 10y ago
The tooling and engineering required for a modern car (even just a refresh of an existing model) costs hundreds of millions of dollars. Ignoring that cost automation might be cheaper, but if you expect to produce thousands, not millions, yo
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by rcoder 10y ago
I think the barriers to getting ZFS into OS-X were probably legal, not technical ones. There's long history of the CDDL tripping up reasonable attempts to use ZFS and I doubt Apple would have wanted to proceed without approval and&#x2F
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by rcoder 11y ago
I think it could be a really interesting model for folks who need to run legacy Windows software in the future, as well. Instead of keeping a few XP machines around (lack of security patches and all) why not just spin up a lightweight React
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by rcoder 11y ago
This happened to me a week or so ago. Unlike the OP, I searched for "Nest Protect false alarm" and was sent directly to this helpful page: https://nest.com/support/article/Nest-Protect-sounds-false-s...
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by rcoder 11y ago
I know I'm feeding the trolls here, but this just demands an answer: "Given the data is 3 years out of date, it's possible employment rate has jumped to 63% (the highest its been since 1998!) and that 14% is exactly on-par fo
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by rcoder 11y ago
/me sighs Where to start? First, to your (horribly sexist) implication that women opt out of the workforce by studying "Gender or Women's Studies": it isn't even in the top 10 majors for women. You know what the #1
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by rcoder 11y ago
I've been part of three teams who attempted monolith->microsystem transitions. Two succeeded (though at wildly different costs in terms of engineering time and delay) and the other was abandoned after person-years of effort. The com
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by rcoder 11y ago
It's totally reasonable to say you wouldn't want to work in a company that prioritized unsurprising, proven technology over novelty and in-house solutions. That's a far cry from it being unilaterally a "terribly place to
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by rcoder 11y ago
I seriously disagree with just about every point in this. First off, transparency != lack of negotiation. It just means that your colleagues might be able to see the outcome of that negotiation. Even with salary bands you still need to dete
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by rcoder 11y ago
Huge +1. This is one of the best and most informative books about engineering process I've ever read. The numerous real-world examples from airplane crash investigation also help put into perspective the relative unimportance of the &q
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by rcoder 11y ago
How does this make it harder to move out of AWS? If anything, their use of NFSv4 means there are plenty of competitive offerings if you decide that performance, security, or physical access constraints dictate migrating off their service. I
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by rcoder 12y ago
While I agree with the basic tenet that experienced developers make better direct managers for other developers, I strongly disagree that "any programmer can do it", or that "biz guys can't learn programming", much
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by rcoder 12y ago
Re: storage engines, my apologies; those mean something very specific in the MySQL world and the more appropriate term for Postgres-land would be foreign data wrappers. I stand by my point about flexibility regardless.
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by rcoder 12y ago
Rather different, actually. If I decide your inbound SMTP mail is spam, I can block it. Ditto for blog comments, XMPP contact requests, or really most any protocol in use on the public Internet b/c of course there will be griefers an
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by rcoder 12y ago
This. The project homepage literally claims (as a good thing ) that "...no one can censor you. No one can remove your posts. Your account cannot be blocked." So not only does this not help with abusive behavior, it states that ab
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by rcoder 12y ago
PostgreSQL displays an amazing and rare combination in _any_ software, much less a free (beer/libre) product: reliable, predictable performance and usability for standard workloads combined with an extensible, flexible platform for exp
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by rcoder 12y ago
If you honestly believe your lifestyle is no different from someone getting by on $10 per hour then I doubt there's much I can do to dissuade you. That being said, I still believe you're underestimating just how much more stabilit
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by rcoder 12y ago
Please re-read what you just wrote about race and consider whether it might have interpretations other than the one you intended. To me you seem to be asserting that race is a priori indicative of socioeconomic status, rather than the (like
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by rcoder 12y ago
If you're making an order of magnitude more than minimum wage that puts you at $72.50 per hour, or about $145k per year. That might not sound like a lot to the regulars on this site, but it's almost triple the median US household
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by rcoder 12y ago
My wife is a transportation planner with ~10 years' experience working with city and regional governments all over the US. As she has explained to me, urban planning (esp. in denser cities) is very much about increasing density, improv
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by rcoder 12y ago
While I appreciate the convenience of this, I think you may be misunderstanding how Julia does method dispatch. Rather than dispatching purely on the type of their first argument (as in Python) or into a class hierarchy/namespace based
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by rcoder 12y ago
Wow. That's a fun one. It's also a perfect example of why even really amazing teams reinventing a language/tooling ecosystem from scratch stumble over problems that were solved years (or even decades ago) in preceding platfor
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by rcoder 12y ago
I agree strongly this is the best way to interview a candidate. It's even relatively easy to set up for a new grad or junior candidate who isn't currently working. They should of course also be local or have no family or profess
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by rcoder 12y ago
The difference here is that apt-get and its ilk need to modify critical system state basically every time they run, and that state isn't controlled by a persistent daemon. I actually consider this a great tradeoff: yes I have to use su
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by rcoder 12y ago
The entire model looks to me like it never had even the most superficial security analysis done. It's like a smorgasbord of insecure decisions: * the false sense of security from putting signatures in the manifests then ignoring them *
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by rcoder 12y ago
I'm not sure how your Maybe type representation would help with the OP's concern about SIMD optimization. It's a theoretically clean approach, but this article is largely focused on how to keep the (SIMD-aware) compiler hummi
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by rcoder 12y ago
Like traditional BBQ (e.g., low-and-slow cooking over coals) sous vide is most interesting when applied to meat, especially cheaper cuts that would normally have to get boiled, braised, or roasted to within an inch of inedibility before bei
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by rcoder 12y ago
Mounting your database storage volume via NFS seems like a surefire way to cause yourself pain down the road. You might want to review the following (old but still relevant) article to understand some of the pitfalls: http://www.
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by rcoder 12y ago
This, +1000: 'Isn't "no solutions that can be deployed with minimal security expertise" just about the whole point of this compliance?' If you aren't a trained, competent security analyst/engineer (or work

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