And we will complain about this here on Hacker News and the American public still won't give a flying fuck...I wonder if our "democracy" will stop being such a disappointment in our lifetimes. And I say it in quotes not because I have any opposition to democracy but because our "representatives" and unelected members of government regularly act against our interests. The system is broken.
Probably not, technically, but it's sort of in that (Gandalf The) Grey area where nobody really gives a shit so you'll get away with it. This is just a random project on GitHub, it's not like a major corporation is putting this out. If they did, they could just remove the copyright images and possibly rename it if they felt it was really necessary.
It seems Hyundai doesn’t suffer from these problems, at least now. Is this just a difference in the priorities and expectations of leadership there? FWIW their reliability is generally considered to be nearly on par with Toyota and Honda now
Should you even use microservices? I'd argue probably not. In my experience most people start looking at this because they hate their existing code (often for good reason) and just want to spend less time working with that code. It's just easier to do than refactor a monolith with serious problems...but then you have all the issues of a distributed system, and it's never been worth it in my experience.
If you find yourself in this situation, I'd recommend identifying the problems you have with your current monolith and hopefully refactor it, otherwise it's a lot more sane to gradually migrate to a new monolith by slowly moving responsibilities to it rather than attempting to go down the microservices route.
Am I honestly supposed to believe they achieved this without employing discriminatory hiring practices? The demographics of people applying for jobs in this industry is so far from 50% that I’m extremely skeptical of this. Although with a certain amount of effort I’m sure they simply reduce the number of male applicants. Personally I’d be reluctant to apply somewhere that had this stance on diversity because it seems more likely I’d get crucified for some micro aggression I didn’t commit if I ever pissed anyone off.
I mean I get there’s this whole meme of “reverse discrimination” not existing or being possible because of systemic whatever the fuck, but considering I’ve only been in this industry for six years and I’ve already seen blatant and concrete examples of this behavior that went entirely unpunished, I think it’s ridiculous that people treat you like some kind of fascist for even disagreeing with it. I’m not okay with sacrificing basic principles of equality or human decency in the pursuit of more ideal outcomes.
Biggest issue for me is Twitch, HBO Now, and to a lesser extent YouTube although I've noticed issues with any site streaming video. Even on a gigabit connection and a new $2k desktop, Firefox buffers or the video just goes black and I have to refresh the page to watch for another 10-15 minutes before it happens again. Chrome never does this. I can't be the only person that's had this experience.
I know I also had issues with JavaScript on some sites causing tabs to freeze that wasn't an issue in Chrome as well, but it's been long enough (6+ months) I have no idea what those sites even are now.
It's too late. Firefox already has compatibility issues with sites I use heavily. There's a much better chance I'd use the new Chromium based Edge than Firefox at this point. And with it's usage share dropping...if moral superiority is the only thing Firefox has going for it, it's a sinking ship. Having more contributors/users of Chromium/Blink seems to be a better path towards a less Google-dominated browser landscape at this point.
The biggest problem with Kotlin is also it's biggest strength: excellent interop with Java. This means that you can use all of the Java libraries...but that also makes writing new libraries in idiomatic Kotlin unnecessary, so you're going to get less of them, and have to use a lot of crummy old Java APIs.
Rails has so much metaprogramming that static typing isn't really going to get you very far. Type checkers and linters won't know what the hell is going on.
I would not recommend most people to run their own k8s cluster. Even Amazon's EKS is enough of a pain in the ass I don't think it's close to a "define once, forget about it" type of experience.
However, this is pretty much my experience using GKE on Google Cloud. You can get a cluster up and running and start deploying stuff to it in a matter of minutes.
Because any male dominated space is seen as a threat and must be eliminated, even if men initially gravitated into that space partly due to social rejection outside of it.
Well the people that profit from this kind of narrative haven't gotten enough corporate influence and money from beating us over the head with it yet so it has to continue.
Personally I think an even bigger factor than not feeling welcome, if we're talking about getting people in the door in the first place, is the negative connotations associated with being in this industry to begin with. As far as social status goes, it's probably below average. Men who work in tech have a pretty negative stereotype. But because we're men, we can't even explore the possibility that this could have an impact because the immediate outrage and accusations of sexism it would cause.
There is a difference between a disadvantaged person and a disadvantaged group. In my opinion that is the primary issue with prioritizing the needs of disadvantaged groups over the needs of disadvantaged individuals.
It may be better than humans on average, but is it safer than a sober person who is driving responsibly in a similarly priced vehicle? Anecdotally, most accidents I've seen have been caused by at least one driver doing some stupid shit. Based on my own personal experiences, I'm just not comfortable surrending control of my vehicle. Especially not when we could be comparing apples to oranges. Safety of a self driving system should be evaluated against currently available safety technologies like blind spot detection etc. If you're including older vehicles that don't have the best possible non-self driving technology in your data, you're making a comparison that is inherently biased in favor of self driving cars.
All that being said, I do think self driving is what we will inevitably arrive at...we just need to have a higher degree of confidence in it before it's widely used in my opinion.
I don't think it matters, and I don't think it's a proposal that will actually be acted upon. It's just an attempt to get attention for an election she has virtually no chance of winning and posture as being the most progressive candidate.
It doesn't matter if Firefox has caught up if their usage share is still dropping. With Microsoft moving to a Chromium based browser as well, Firefox is very close to being irrelevant. More than 90% of the market will be Webkit or Blink.
In my opinion, despite their technical achievements, Firefox is currently headed down the same path Opera went down before they became essentially a Chromium reskin. Their dropping usage share is negatively affecting sites compatibility with Firefox, which is the only reason I went back to Chrome after giving Quantum a try.
No, I dont think Amazon wants those people at all, but that's what you're going to get in "tech hubs" a lot of the time. If they were to choose a more atypical location, and everyone had a bigger investment into their job coming in, then they could improve retention & as a result the quality of their engineering teams.
If they really want to have any control over what Microsoft does with their technology they should unionize. Same goes for any other large tech company.
Personally I've had a good amount of both experiences, and that's convinced me that either one will suck if you let them. Only good development practices can save you.
It's also possible that people that would move somewhere they'd probably not want to live otherwise just to work for Amazon would be more motivated and less likely to leave in 2 years for a raise
They probably did...in an artificial environment with dust and crumbs. Or they figured they were at an "acceptable" failure rate without considering how much more severe the cost to repair was.
I think it's worth noting that the issue with their keyboard was only really known of after the keyboard was brought to the MacBook Pro. It didn't occur at a high enough rate on the 12" MacBook for it to be publicized.
No, it won't. It will enable India to cut out U.S. service providers as much as they want. That hurts us more than economically, it reduces our governments ability to gather intelligence there as well.
This level of state control if the internet is a very bad thing for the U.S. even if you don't take any humanitarian considerations into account.