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So youtube used ffmpeg quite extensively.

https://multimedia.cx/eggs/googles-youtube-uses-ffmpeg/

It wouldn't be too surprising if they still did.

We do have a couple examples of companies that are transparent with salaries or comp plans (Buffer, Gitlab, even places like Basecamp).

Nowhere with open published comp numbers has ever come close to my comp. Maybe it would work better as a system if everyone was opted in but the current data points I see don't support higher salaries for people with my skillset.

There's really 2 things that you get. The first is that by having servers close to clients you can minimize latency, and you get scalability for free. The big architectural difference is that generally read/write databases become extremely challenging so you either have to get into some crazy CAP territory OR you architect around essentially event sourcing/logging. It works great for some applications, terrible for others.

Perl has some similar features and they tend to make syntax highlighting and editor support more difficult. Will that be a problem with swift?

I'm a little confused. My reading of the article was that if only we could cache HTML, things will be faster. So the article proposes some new headers for that purpose.

I didn't see the existing headers, which are standardized and supported by browsers and CDNs already.

Without a comparison to the existing tools that solve this problem, I'm unclear on what additional value this vendor specific standard provides.

Yes. It stopped providing value. It used to provide a way to stay in touch with friends from college.

Then it provided too much info about how my family and co-workers really feel about the world. Turns out ignorance is bliss. I am happier not knowing about their contrail conspiracy theories or their racist Obama cartoons.

> at best it's reasonable option for places outside of denser areas

AKA 99% of North America.

In my state (Utah). The government is attempting to roll back solar subsidies because "that industry should stand on it's own two feet". Conveniently neglecting to mention the massive tax breaks to fossil fuels.

I wish everyone competed in a free market (for the most part), but the energy market is not that.

Encrypted SNI?

I had a shoulder surgery last year. I definitely learned about constant pain and some tips for dealing with it (with and without drugs).

Some random observations:

Meditation can help. My pain was more connected with my emotional state than I expected (much worse when stressed and much better when distracted by an enjoyable experience). Pain and negative emotions reinforce each other. Narcotics often break the concentration that makes meditation reduce pain. Nevertheless sometimes you gotta load up on narcotics so you can attempt to get the sleep your body needs to heal.

In my case I went through about 40 percacet the first week. But took 5-6 weeks for the next 40, and then I was off the heavy stuff and stuck to ibuprofin.

My shoulder still hurts.

The enable ssh mastercontrol and persistent connections.

Just as soon as oil and gas stands on its own (it doesn't) and correctly prices in the negative externalities (it doesn't). Then the free market can knock itself out.

I feel like there's weird fud around gdb and go. It's worked for me just fine every time I've used it.

If I had to guess the people who wrote this are just assuming tls on top.

I strongly believe stuff like this doesn't happen by accident. It's easy to write pieces about how a soulless algorithm is determining stuff and we can all be sad about it, but in my experience, that's rarely true.

There's almost always at least a software developer (or technical person of some sort) calling out "Hey, are you sure we should rank by $X? It will have this edge case in situations $Y and $X?". Usually they get steamrolled by a "product" person who's invented some new terminology for whatever shady shit they are pushing now. "It's just growth hacking" "complimentary contextually relevant ads will improve the user experience".

People know. They always know. They just choose to feign ignorance when they get busted.

Also there's a "best effort" concurrent map access detector that runs even when you don't compile with race detector support enabled.

I have a $700 dollar phone I bought from Google with apps made by Google and Gmail search hasn't worked in weeks.

Don't know if I got feature flagged or what. Unaffected by clearing data, clearing cache, or signing out of my account.

Search just returns nonsensical results.

It's funny but true. All observable properties of a system will eventually become hard dependencies for someone.

Yeah. Maybe in the 1800s or within a few already high status circles (being a rich Mormon doctor that can afford to have 6 kids in all the sports).

Inversely correlated to number of comments.

Fluff article on bike shedding? 500 comments by know it all.

Technical deep dive into exciting new area? No comments.

I have a trailer for grocery store runs. I feel like a total hipster, probably because I am.

But I have so much shit to do and so little time to exercise I have to multitask and game myself into doing things. A good grocery store recently opened up near me and I committed to riding my bike there whenever possible.

It literally takes 5-10m more but in return I get 20-30m of good exercise. Seems like a good trade.

So to be clear most "code" shipping frameworks in jvm land use jar files. Big data systems are not using native serialization for either code or data.

Would golang count?

A good default might be based on current browser behavior. Keep in mind http2 might make everything use one connection but allow 100 concurrent requests.

It's not just the general public. There's a much deeper problem here. Everyone from Medical doctors to phds to basically everyone on this forum is in the same boat.

We believe what we want to believe and we overwhelmingly reject data that doesn't fit our narrative.

I don't have as much sympathy for this person as I probably should. So someone decided being a waiter sucked and they wanted one of those cushy tech jobs. Without much self awareness as to why they exist or which jobs are valuable. Later in the article they almost figure it out:

> One of the more apparent lessons I've learned during all this is that when working in tech, anyone is dispensable, from the C-suite to the sales floor. (Actually, IT is untouchable, and rightfully so.)

This former waiter then proceeds to land not one but three tech jobs. Based on what qualifications? Apparently just good networking skills. Wow, what a rough industry. Oh I almost forgot they turned down a fourth job because that would have meant relocation.

It sounds like "tech" was willing to give a go-getter chance after chance and either due to their performance or the company's performance it just didn't stick. Maybe despite many people being willing to give the author a chance, he/she just wasn't qualified to do the job?

*.pgpass

For anything using libpq a .pgpase file can help separate creds in source/conf from now machine level ACLS.

It's a good strategy for many. My community college let me take basic calc based physics with a small class of 20 pre-engineering majors. After transferring to a big engineering school I met my wife. She took the exact same class but it now had 400 people and zero time with the professor. Also now it didn't use calculus.

Iirc it was phys2210

My first remote job happened because I hung out in an IRC channel for a technology I was interested in. Technically I was marketing myself or at least networking but it didn't feel that way.

It was just a normal w-2 fte role so there was no concern about being on a contract.