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by zinkem 4mo ago
> Putting on a 'stateless' boxing glove won't mean there's no difference between punching a guy once or twice There are still side effects in the system, of course. But what your database looks like afterwards is the
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by zinkem 4mo ago
Whether or not your service does something useful is up to you. A database on it's own is enough for most business applications. If you haven't seen this yet, you're just rent seeking.
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by zinkem 4mo ago
Idempotency is easy if you don't use mutable state in your middleware. Auth, logging, and atomicity are all isolated concerns that should not affect the domain specific user contract with your API. How you handle unique keys is going t
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by zinkem 6mo ago
I believe this research is totally true-- I had a lot of memories come back after 1. I stopped drinking heavily and using other drugs, i.e. marijuana 2. managed my diet to avoid heartburn without medication 3. schedule my meals so it was ea
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by zinkem 7mo ago
> Strange game, the only winning move is not to play. What a tired aphorism. Just like PG's 50 year old insights.
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by zinkem 6y ago
I most commonly use random() for generating names (e.g. docker's container names) and generating test inputs. I don't care about cryptographic safety in either case.
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by zinkem 7y ago
> Microsoft teams is an extremely high quality product already. This has not been my experience with MS Teams. If I respond to a message on my phone, and then return to my laptop, Teams has disconnected and I have to restart the app on m
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by zinkem 7y ago
I've been using the Markdown Reader Chrome extension and using the browser print function to do this kind of conversion. What would be really useful (to me personally) is a tool that renders plantUML/mermaid embedded into markdown
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by zinkem 8y ago
> any stage of the request or the response L4-L7 at FPGA speeds I also work at F5, and used to work on the FPGA. This is unfortunately not true for TCL iRules. The FPGA basically only operates on L2-4, L7 is all software. There was some
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by zinkem 8y ago
Not mentioned in the article, but bit packed data structures are easier to interpret in hardware and offer more guarantees. If I'm designing an FPGA/ASIC I can predict how many clock cycles a statically sized data structure will n
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Ask HN: Is it ok for Lyft/Uber drivers to solicit unrelated businesses?
5 points by zinkem 8y ago|10 comments
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by zinkem 8y ago
I agree with others here that learning a language has a lot to do with learning an ecosystem, libraries, and culture. To contribute to an existing project, it's not necessary to really know the language that intimately. I "know&qu
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by zinkem 10y ago
I'm not sure where you're getting your pricing, but the Monologue is $299 [1] and a new MicroKorg is $399 [2]. The MicroKorg is a great piece of equipment, but it's also prone to aliasing problems at the upper end, which shou
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by zinkem 11y ago
For those who are curious like I was, the flagged words/phrases are: just actually sorry apologize I think I'm no expert does that make sense reasons are in the source here: https://github.com/cyrusinnovation/
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by zinkem 11y ago
so post some cat pics then
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by zinkem 11y ago
In all honesty, I think it'd be more interesting to see analysis of turing complete OISCs than repeatedly seeing these minified homework solutions posted to HN
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by zinkem 11y ago
I hope there's a laugh out there for some of you ... =|
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by zinkem 11y ago
I have the same feeling... I've been to places with the expressed goal of understanding and integrating into the culture, only to find out after I've left that there were actually 2 groups within the company: those that wanted cha
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by zinkem 11y ago
> Yet, here we are, over 30 years after the original IBM PC was released, and there's still a corner-office audience for "what is a computer?" As someone who got their start on DOS and BASIC back in the 80s, I say you rais
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by zinkem 11y ago
This should be a yawn for those with web and mobile dev experience, people I'd expect to already understand virtual machines and fractured encodings.
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by zinkem 11y ago
This is probably the most relevant post in this thread. I recently left the working world after realizing I really don't need that much money to be happy. In the turmoil, I realized some things I had read or thought that were a little
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by zinkem 12y ago
I'd actually love to see this done on a Genesis. The Genesis had an FM Synthesizer in it's sound chip, made by Yamaha. The Super Nintendo has a distinctive and pleasant sound that I like, but only outputs a 32khz signal. I really
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by zinkem 12y ago
Terrence McKenna explores this hypothesis in his book 'Food of the Gods.' Part speculation, part historical account of the role of chemicals in human culture. Great read if you're interested in this kind of thing.
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by zinkem 13y ago
390 of which were only released in Japan. The xbox actually had ~900 games and the GameCube had ~700. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dreamcast_games http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ninte
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by zinkem 13y ago
I don't think it quite works this way... if you deposit $1000, the bank isn't required to keep $1000 on hand, so with your 1/30 ratio, it means they would hold onto about $34 and loan out the rest with interest. I am definite
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by zinkem 13y ago
This comparison to steam is a bit of a false equivocation. I can run Steam on a variety of hardware configurations, which I can buy from a variety of vendors. Steam is better not because the DRM system is different, but because it's ha
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by zinkem 13y ago
I think that claim could also support that they "mustn't" be brought down.
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by zinkem 14y ago
I think it's really cool to see this practical use of genetic algorithms. I've written a few toy systems in the past, and have been told by (at least a few of) my mentors that GAs are a waste of time and can't solve any real problems.
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by zinkem 14y ago
I often come across these types of comments about the IRC protocol being 'crufty,' 'old,' etc. I recently (a year ago) implemented a subset of the IRC protocol for a project and I thought it was fairly modern, and not difficult to work with
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by zinkem 14y ago
I'm not sure I see the distinction you're identifying. If you're ever written code on the iPhone, everything is done via events. All the code you write is responding to an event fired in the runtime. Any synchronous network calls you make w

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