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We wanted to use the KCL on the receiver side, but figured that it required building some sort of cluster to mediate which node would receive which shard. Tricky, especially when resharding. With Lambda, you get that for free. So we opted for lambda, but weren't overly happy. Did you solve that problem?

The sad truth is that most people just aren't very self-aware.

I had one wake-up call when I was called wierd by my training buddy, him question why I even took part in the classes we were taking. I asked him why, he responded that my T-shirt was cryptic.

After explaining the print to him (it was a film reference), he thought everything was fine again.

That's sadly the level some people operate on.

Ah. Went over my head, thanks.

Why do you say this?

Radical candor.

Wait, so according to you it's OK to be as rude as you wish, as long as you are technically correct?

I think most people couldn't care less who's right or wrong in this discussion. They are simply reacting to the discourse.

Personally, I'm far from convinced that there even is an objective right or wrong in this question. It's probably just a matter of taste and/or perspective.

I find Linus behavior rude because in discussions like this he seems to have little to no understanding of other perspectives than his own.

Either that or he is deliberately provoking this other fellow to get him off his high horses.

In either case, it's not exactly accepted public discourse.

He has said himself that he needs to do this to drive his point across, and given the medium and audience I can agree that the political challenge of running the project must be huge.

But surely there must be a more diplomatic way to the same end?

Actually, GDPR only requires that any links from the data to the user should be destroyed, so that you can no longer figure out who created the data. This means that a lot of data will be left. And realistically I think that a lot of it will remain identifiable, just like anonymized data can be traced back to real users pretty easily if you have enough data points.

Speaking as a Swede, that is not entirely true in my experience. It's still expensive for employers and they don't like hiring women who will soon be pregnant.Or their men for that matter, but those are harder to spot :) I have female friends who changed jobs just before getting pregnant or visibly pregnant, and those employers were not happy.

I agree, but ironic considering that you are focusing on OSGIs main selling points :)

I find IntelliJ much better at navigation and refactoring.

Eclipse was awesome straight out of IBM, but IMO OSGI killed it of. OSGI is such a clunky framework to work with/around, I think it slowed down the devs enough to eventually make it outshined by others.

IMO you won't miss it in the long run. IntelliJ is good enough to not require such an interface to keep you focused. There is a similar feature, but I never used it.

Very impressed by Eli's site. Has taught me a lot and introduced me to many interesting subjects.

They should call ROP style Spectre "In Spectre Gadget"

Plus that you might have to run it multiple times in the hopes that it'll eventually converge.

Breaking news: people who like attention and power also like to abuse their power.

Ah, come on. It's not like consumers are going to insert their sims into this device anyway.

Awesome! Why are routes added after the server has started? That makes me a bit worried, I would like to initialize the app completely before accepting requests, that's more or less necessary when under high load...

I urge people to fight this politically as well. We know from China that most technologies can be blocked or legislated against. If you want a future with more freedom and privacy, fight this politically.

I also found this effect super annoying when I switched to using a car - having to sell my carriage, get rid of my stable, sell or rent all my horses. All my connections in remote stables were suddenly useless. And I had to sell of all that hay! And oil, I had to get lots of oil! And it's nowhere to be found! Outrageous, I say.

This is something we discuss a lot in Sweden. The Nobel peace prize is issued by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, not the Swedish one. And the economy prize was constituted as a response to the bank who started financing the Nobel committee.

But can we do that in am efficient manner?

You really drank the coolaid I can see. I think dependency injection frameworks are a bad idea in general, and it seems as if the current trend goes against using them. Also I won't be expecting much good to happen after Eclipse takes over, they tend to complect implementation and not really drive development IMO.

It runs everywhere because it's really old and popular. So you could just call it momentum. I for one would never choose technology based on momentum alone.

And you might get PHP running in almost all servers, but that says nothing about all your dependencies such as mail servers, message queues and the like. So the fact that it runs everywhere doesn't actually mean that much.

I agree. And if you view HTML as presentation there is absolutely nothing wrong with embedding styles. The CSS separation only makes sense if you consider HTML data, which some people might do but I think is misguided.

I'm a lone wolf in the Java space, and I must say that this one really hits home. I've been dealing with so many Java devs who are unwilling to approach anything else that I am sick and tired of their whining! These people are even moaning about JavaScript. I mean - Come On! (Job style)

I feel like the length of the list of things "every programmer should know" is approaching infinity.

Again, I think it's a culture thing. He gets little to no automatic respect for being the maintainer. So either he has to engage in another endless discussion on the merits of the subject matter, or he has to shut the discussion down. He chooses the second option.

I think Linus is extreme, but I can totally understand that he got fed up with being nice and getting ignored. I don't agree with his conclusion that people don't get him reprimanding them, though. I think they mostly get it, but think they can get a way with ignoring him. And that is an attitude problem we have in our industry. A lot of people seem to think that they are the shit and are really bad listeners.

"This is not confusing enough to be considered C++"