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20,187karma·4,632submissions·June 13, 2018
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Looks great. Does it have multilingual support? A few remarks: - It would be nice to have a button to collapse replies for a given comment, but not the comment itself. - On mobile (andoid), it is bit …
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A good start is this article by Jay Kreps (Apache Kafka co-creator and Confluent co-founder) : The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction : htt…
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Relatedly, some engineering students from Tunisia created 3D printed protective masks and started supplying hospitals as they have a shortage of those. The prototype is open source : https:/…
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Thank you for taking the time to write this.
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The article asks some legitimate questions that beg for answers: If we succeed in slowing the spread of coronavirus from torrent to trickle, then when does the society-wide disruption end? When will …
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Belief does not necessarily come from provability. Wittgesnstein's On Certainty contains some interesting thoughts in this regard. Quoting a few extracts: "If you tried to doubt everything…
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Related discussion: "Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People (2019)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18881827 …
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I'm also curious about the old-wives tale, you are not claiming it's a scientific fact and if it worked for you, it might work for others. There is no reason someone mocks you about it, they…
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> It’s almost impossible for a human to figure out how to handle UNKNOWN correctly. What does UNKNOWN really mean? Should the code retry? If so, how many times? How long should it wait between retr…
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Interesting read. Relatedly, FoundationDB has a distributed testing framework called “Simulation”, which can simulate distributed failures on a single machine (thread!). Quoting from https:/…
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Extended families have more people to share the unexpected burdens—when a kid gets sick in the middle of the day or when an adult unexpectedly loses a job. Very true. Nowadays society/state is …
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I used to enjoy Quora, but it lost its charm and I quit once my feed became mostly filled with questions such as: - As a software engineer, what makes you roll your eyes every time you hear it? - What…
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I’m currently using Thinkpad X1C6 with Fedora for development. Works like a charm, no issues so far.
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It would’ve been great to have a “Political/controversial HN”, as a separate section of the site like Ask and Show.
Obviously with the HN guidelines, and where the posts and moderation have the …
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This is the right answer. Thank you. But I still have a question : > Unfortunately, on some teams, a strict hierarchy is imposed and you ARE expected to comply with a peer's instruction in all…
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Aren’t incentives hidden principles?
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What exactly is wrong with using master/slave?
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Why is this the top comment? @dang, spam account posting misleading comments
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Which alternatives worked for you?
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> has not been scientifically validated, but this does not mean they do not work. I’m wondering the same, but for the opposite : What things did you notice badly affect your health, but has not nec…