sirmiller

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by sirmiller 11y ago
They will just move all business and all assets out of the country. Having quite a big impact on US economy. Or: Govt will seize control of Apple ... and destroy it within six month. Throwing technology back by 10-15 years.
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by sirmiller 11y ago
We are overworked, underemployed and (feel) powerless, because social security has failed. 30% of my income goes to social security systems, so I have to work 50% to earn the same. I can earn (up to) 50% more from social benefits than from
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by sirmiller 11y ago
The premise is wrong: "constructing a larger string out of multiple smaller strings is a pretty common programming task" No, it's not. "strcat(strcat(strcat(strcpy(buf, "This "),"is "),"a long &q
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by sirmiller 11y ago
Tried to buy a Visual Studio license for porting our game to Windows Phone last year. Ended up paying $2K for a version that was able to build WP apps, but not allowed to release them. VS + VA used to be fantastic, today it's just a pi
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by sirmiller 11y ago
Not sure about the "fans", but us mere mortals are quite ok with the quality.
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by sirmiller 11y ago
99% of "rags-to-riches" stories start past 40. The selfmade millionaires under 40 are statistical outliers ;) (Not strictly "auto"biographies, but most of them have ghostwriters anyway) "Virgin Rebel" (Richard
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by sirmiller 11y ago
Running a large scale analytics tracking backend for a game on AWS (written in swift, needs some hacks). About 5 million requests/hour. Pro: - Dirt cheap (pay only what you need) - Scales fast and large - Just works Cons: - Getting swi
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by sirmiller 11y ago
The common misconception being that the poor are poor because the rich are rich; But there is no causality. Not even a correlation.
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by sirmiller 11y ago
The only reason we smoke pot is that the FBI can't coerce us into working for them.
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by sirmiller 11y ago
So maybe putting the number that we can text from outside the US networks on the website might help.
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by sirmiller 11y ago
To elaborate a little with one example: 1) One of our server goes down. 2) My watch tells me about it. 3) I can decide a) Reboot it b) Replace it c) Send a callout to my Ops team. All in less than 10 seconds ... used to take 10 minutes,
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by sirmiller 11y ago
Looks like you have been living under a rock. I constantly add new stuff to my watch. Ranging from simple apps to complete workflow solutions. Give me 2 more month and I can replace one of my DevOps with my watch.
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by sirmiller 11y ago
After struggling with a similiar problem for nearly ten years I finally bit the bullet and took 6 month "me time" last year. Had to beg friends and family for money, but now I'm more stable than anyone else. You need to step
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by sirmiller 11y ago
He wasn't "developing". He connected off the shelf components. It wasn't a "WiFi Router". It was a WiFi over HAM bridge. It wasn't for "Whistleblowers". It was to steal WiFi. And it was insanely
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by sirmiller 11y ago
We recently replaced all (~300) our 2012 MPBs with 2015 MBPs. We didn't have a single complaint so far. And we have a lot of power users. Maybe you just attract bad luck.
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by sirmiller 11y ago
My ASUS PB287Q is PLS and not IPS, but I just love it. Not a single glitch in the last 8 month.
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by sirmiller 15y ago
Almost forgot: Sharding 101 "Always shard via directory..."
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by sirmiller 15y ago
I just love how startups keep reinventing the wheel to solve problems that haven't been problems for decades. Come on, 25 pics + 90 likes per second... that almost like... [wait for it]... nothing. I'm pretty sure you got your number wrong.