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> Microservice architectures can't have big global variables typing things together, structurally. Oh sure they can, just call it “the DB”. Shared state between services/components is the…

It pains me to see websites and VMs still being conflated in this day and age.

What is the definition of “a posting” under Colorado law? Versus a link to a posting with a description?

Coming to “agreement” over a fiction isn’t okay. No amount of rationalization makes it “business”. More to the point, it is unnecessary. I hold there is harm here. A different skillset is needed to ne…

Down the road, when substantial language content is made up of the output of such models, what will the models learn from? Seriously.

> … it should be possible to bring it into widespread usage by integrating it with RPC frameworks. That’s a powerful word, “should”. Many software in the datacenter are almost as old as TCP itself,…

Bonuses (and the like) seem very different than piece work, which the author conflates. I worked for a few years doing piecework and the direct correlation between my productivity and my income was pe…

Having also taught coding to new programmers: Yes, “like learning to speak a new language” is a bad metaphor if it’s delivered the way it’s presented in the text. However the same metaphor delivered w…

Maybe I’m missing the point, but this (essentially random example) is multithreaded (asynchronous) and gracefully handles ctrl-c. Yes, it’s a high level language that makes it easy, I guess. https:&#…

Likewise, I read this story at an early age and have never forgotten it. It was moving and terrifying to feel that progression and regression against the backdrop of education and grades and fitting i…