throwaway189262

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by throwaway189262 5y ago
I'm of the opinion that any large project will eventually take as long as devs will tolerate. About a half hour. We run mostly Java backend and JS frontend, same story. Tons of opportunities for optimization but company doesn't wa
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
> As of a few years ago you can choose which rides you take without penalty. That wasn't there before and I have no reason to believe it now without evidence. Turning down rides always had negative effects such as less rides being a
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
That was rude especially for HN, my apologies. I'm a big Java fan but you're right about verbosity and ceremony about startup. There's ways around it but not stuff you would read in a book. Tribal knowledge really like starti
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
I'm a wage slave, but years ago I helped a struggling consulting agency blow up. It's usually marketing. That's probably why revenues are low too. Once we had marketing sorted out we had more work coming in than we knew what
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
Multi threading has zero overhead in normal Java web frameworks. It's thread-per-request so you don't need to worry about thread safety any more than you do in JS. That you didn't know that implies you haven't worked wit
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
I don't think an ask thread is a good spot for a rant, but the JVM languages have changed a lot over the years. You imply that Java is big and heavy when JS/Node Python and Ruby use more ram and run slower than Java in basically e
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
DropWizard is great. Spring Boot was based off it. It's a nice mix of simplicity and effectiveness. If you want performance above all else, Vert.X isn't too hard to use. But the async API's are a PITA, much like ExpressJS.
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
I heard it years ago, can't find a source either. I believe it was something related to a court case. Some legal argument that could apply if total employees was over 50% contractors.
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
I have also never heard of a contractor for big tech being hired full time. Ever.
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
It's similar to McConnells recent "My advice for corporations is stay out of politics. Not including contributions of course" The hypocrisy level continually reaches new heights
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
The irony is that Republicans caused this. More specifically, the Senate leader Mitch McConnell. He was instrumental in the Citizens United supreme court decision that gave free speech and unlimited campaign contributions to corporations as
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
Let us remember that big tech companies like Microsoft, Google, Facebook generally have 49.9% of their employees contractors. Why nearly 50%? Because that the highest amount you can have without additional liability. If they could get away
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
As someone that's forced to write C occasionally Rust is a godsend. I prefer high level languages but when I need the performance it's nice to have something that doesn't feel like it's from the 80's. C is extremely
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
It won't replace JVM/CLR. Rust community is pretty against GC and even though lifetimes are wayyyy better than C memory management they're not nearly as convenient as GC. If Rust ever gets a good GC it might very well replace
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
Depends on how fast your connection is. For DSL, anything will do. I picked up a TP-Link Archer C50 V4 for $22 and it's fast enough to shape and route a 12/2 DSL link while sweating a bit. The sub model matters. Some manufacturers
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
Yeah, I haven't lived in the sticks for some years and EV chargers might be more widespread than I thought. Rural folks still love their ICE cars though for sure
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
See my reply to sister comment
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
Linksys WRT 3200 and Netgear R7800 are the fastest popular OpenWrt routers. You want a popular ones because they are usually least broken and easiest to flash. Be warned, some routers have broken 5ghz and other issues. Make sure to check th
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
Most gigs jobs are exploitative. You're not setting your own rates. You can't choose which rides you take. You can't follow your own rules. Remember when Uber was giving back to back rides to drivers that had Lyft driver app
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
Contrary to microservice cargo cult, it's possible to build a relative monolith that scales infinitely. The bottleneck is the db, but if you have a schema where data is easily sharded you can scale it infinitely. There's plenty of
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
Do you indent with spaces?
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
I like OpenWrt better than PfSense. PfSense/OpnSense is BSD and the new SQM CAKE QoS stuff in OpenWrt (Linux based) is way ahead of anything else. My usual need for fancy routers is dealing with crap connections and/or abusive use
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
Perhaps. Canadian population is concentrated in southern areas. Majority of continental US is habitable and has population density less than 10 people per square mile.
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
I'm trying to convince people of this :) . In rural areas a car is frequently your only lifeline when power fails. It's a source of heat, power, and transport. Making that all dependant on electricity which you won't have whe
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
I grew up in the country. Outside urban areas it's normal to have multi day power outages in the US. The less people your circuit serves the lower it's prioritized for repair. Our longest outage was a bit over a week. Several days
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
I guess it depends on if you consider suburbs rural too. There's plenty of ~40,000 pop cities in the middle of nowhere
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
piece_of_cake setup script with IP based flows enabled uses both IP and Diffserv. It depends on protocol assigned DSCP values to prioritize traffic from a single host. You can easily assign these in Linux and Windows if your app doesn&#x27
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
I run OpenWrt on various "trash" routers from old x86 machines to $30 new cheapo AP's. It's never left me wanting. And SQM CAKE with IP based flows enabled is the best load balancing you will find anywhere. I've use
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
You can migrate your number off Verizon easily. Everyone else uses GSM, it's best to go with the flow. For GSM you have countless options
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
It's annoying when Windows, Linux, Android, and MacOS will let you play any resolution video you like even when it's above your native resolution. I bet it affects many people with HDR monitors that aren't 4K, there's to

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