rdhatt

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by rdhatt 6mo ago
I had some books that referred to it as .NET Server printed before the name change. In the long history of terrible Microsoft names, this was a rare case where they were able to right the ship.
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by rdhatt 9mo ago
I find it interesting for your example you chose Moment.js -- a time library instead of something utilitarian like Lodash. For years I've following Jon Skeet's blog about implementing his time library NodaTime (a port of JodaTime
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by rdhatt 10mo ago
Really impressive since Internet Explorer 5 for Mac was the best browser anywhere at the time. First to support HTML4 & CSS1.
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by rdhatt 11mo ago
One unexpected upside moving from a DC to AWS is when a region is down, customers are far more understanding. Instead of being upset, they often shrug it off since nothing else they needed/wanted was up either.
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by rdhatt 2y ago
Has any CEO known a failure of this magnitude?
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by rdhatt 3y ago
It was originally an internal tool, so I would guess either A) he doesn't have permission from all the contributors or B) he used reused code from elsewhere within Microsoft that wasn't open source compatible.
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by rdhatt 3y ago
A lot of people here put Unix on a pedestal, so finding a published book that so explicitly hates Unix is quite novel. Furthermore, the criticism doesn't come from the typical demographic, Microsoft Windows users.
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by rdhatt 3y ago
Solr and Elasticsearch are both Java servers built on top of the Java search library Lucene. There are plenty of articles on the internet describing how they differ. However since they share the same core, so they are very similar as well.
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by rdhatt 3y ago
Practical Engineering did a video on the complexity of bringing a power grid back online, called "black start" (not cold start). https://practical.engineering/blog/2022/12/5/what-is-a-black...
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by rdhatt 3y ago
Second stage reusability was certainly proposed by SpaceX: https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/04/11/musk-wants-to-make-fal... https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/this-six-year-
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by rdhatt 4y ago
I think they mean to say that the animated gif[0] your site is misleading as it shows an animated transition that doesn't actually occur in the product. [0] https://www.screenstab.com/editor/resources/demo.gif
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by rdhatt 4y ago
Wendover Productions has a great video on this topic: Big Plane vs Little Plane (The Economics of Long-Haul Flights) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlIdzF1_b5M
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by rdhatt 4y ago
... imagine how far ahead their newer stuff is. Trump gave the whole world a good idea how far ahead the newer stuff is when he tweeted an image from an NRO satellite. Estimated at ~10cm/pixel resolution. Scott Manley published a gre
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by rdhatt 4y ago
This question comes up commonly on reddit —- yes iMessage is very popular here. In my experience - Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, Discord are the top messaging services. Whatsapp is not uncommon to be sure, but I would wager a significant p
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by rdhatt 4y ago
YouTube channel "LegalEagle" did a discussion contrasting two Florida women being charged with felonies for throwing a glitter bomb vs Mark Rober's glitter bomb pranks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRSHeKgM
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by rdhatt 5y ago
Strongly agree. There is a huge amount of value in what RDS provides (over DIY EC2). Fellow HN user quinnypig described it succinctly: RDS is a huge win not because of anything intrinsic to what the platform actually is, but because
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by rdhatt 5y ago
I think it's poor word choice from the author, not a transcription error. The article refers to 'stability' a second time at the end of article as well: As a result, it makes sense that even though Tesla and Lincoln are the
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by rdhatt 5y ago
> Microsoft spokesman Tom Pilla on Tuesday confirmed with iPod Observer that his company initiated the creation of the iPod packaging parody video that was first reported last month. "It was an internal-only video clip commissioned
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by rdhatt 5y ago
"Opinionated" means the software has made very deliberate design tradeoffs and is very inflexible/resistant to changing that. This is done to optimize certain objectives like software scope or increasing productivity by enfor
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by rdhatt 5y ago
Remember: "The x86 architecture is the weirdo" --Raymond Chen https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040914-00/?p=37... https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20130320-00&#
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by rdhatt 5y ago
I work for a company that sells images online. I could see a technique like this being used for NSFW images that come up in our search results. It would allow you to have an idea of the image before clicking into the image detail page to s
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by rdhatt 5y ago
That is a different entity than Getty Images. https://www.getty.edu/research/library/faq.html#gettyimages > No, Getty Images has no relationship to the J. Paul Getty Trust. The "Getty" name derived fr
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by rdhatt 6y ago
These are my mnemonics, pretty sure I'm not too far off though: r = RAM. Instances are biased toward having more memory. i = I/O. ... have fast SSDs. d = DISK. ... lots of disk space. x = XL. ... lots of RAM
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by rdhatt 6y ago
> it's just a slightly more usable list of EC2 properties and costs For anyone who has to constantly (re)evalaute EC2 instances, this is a huge understatement. Now, I just looked at AWS EC2 pricing page and it looks way better than
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by rdhatt 6y ago
This is the workaround my place is using for now: https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/10491#issuecomment-7684...
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by rdhatt 6y ago
I have to agree - the LinkedIn requirement was a deal breaker for myself. I have one, but I already gave my real name and email. What if I didn't have a one? My inner conspiracy voice is telling me this is a fake and just a front fo
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by rdhatt 6y ago
At my workplace we're using a modified version of ShadowReader - https://github.com/edmunds/shadowreader; note it is AWS-specific. It works by re-running the load balancer logs, either in near-real time or a re
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by rdhatt 6y ago
Typically, you're right - GC internals aren't usually relevant. That is, until you're fire-fighting a GC-related issue in production. GC internals aren't something you want do a crash-course on while your app burns.
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by rdhatt 6y ago
Funny enough given the linked post - Powershell owes it philosophy to VMS as well, e.g. the verb-noun command structure. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/verb-noun-vs-noun-... https://ilovepowershel
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by rdhatt 6y ago
I believe kayodelycaon is saying change tracking IS critical - specifically Word's implementation of it (aka "Track Changes"). Many authoring workflows I've witnessed heavily rely on all parties being able to see the cha

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