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I believe it was this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26143779

The OP didn't assert anyone was switching in droves... they were asking what feature of deno would _cause_ that to happen.

The rationale for the support cycle bump is a little surprising to me. I always thought it would happen with feature stabilisation, but tne reason given is simply “people weren’t upgrading”.

The biggest change for me is there’s no longer a risk of putting a screwdriver through your motherboard when attaching a CPU cooler. Why they didn’t address that a decade or more is beyond me!

There are probably a few people in this thread who saw 'pork' and instantly thought 'commodity', then extrapolated to 'soybeans'. Which doesn't sound like the game you're in based on this comment, which implies your bets were made via equities. That's not super clear from your original comment (which is neither here nor there, just saying).

Thanks for sharing though, it's quite interesting.

Sure, but you wouldn't teach them the alphabet starting with 'q'.

The list on the index page starts with 0, if nothing else it would be more consistent to start the counting section with 0 as well (FWIW I agree with the OP, I'm teaching my toddler to count starting with 0).

Nor consistency of pronunciation. Schedule / School is another good one if you’re in the UK.

It was the same this year, there were reports in the media questioning the efficacy of the 2019 vaccination due to mutation.

Anecdotally, there did seem to be a very large number of sick people around this year (even now, in spring) although I’m sure 99% of the cases weren’t flu proper.

Sydney, Australia is pretty much the same - 2 seasons, most trees are green all year, and things that you’d normally associate with Autumn tend to happen at the start of Winter.

> If Lambda makes it easy to call other cloud services ... Bringing this benefit to other function services should be a matter of using the right libraries.

You are correct in that the calling out to other things is just a concern of the function itself, but the value in the 'connecting' that Lambda does is from being _invoked_ by other Cloud services by way of integration to their event systems. e.g. Object storage file creation event X triggers Lambda function Y to update resource Z (resource Z isn't necessarily a Cloud service, it could be a database).

This is why I'm skeptical of on-prem FaaS. It's an easy value proposition to sell when you can use Lambda as an example. But Enterprises have heterogeneous environments so Lambda-like integration into other services is far from a given, and 'scaling to zero' is a little disingenuous because there always needs to be underlying infrastructure (k8s in the case of PFS) running to handle function invocation.

> If you shut down and start over around the new idea, maybe you’ll be able to raise money around that idea, but then again, maybe you won’t.

Is someone who chooses failure over pivoting likely to get some kind of negative association in the investor community at large? A perception that they don't do enough to protect investment or something like that? No judgement on whether that is right or wrong, just curious.

I’m not sure gVisor was incepted because Isolates didn’t provide strong enough isolation - wasn’t it because Google was looking for a way to provide stronger isolation for containers (i.e. not V8-only) without the overhead of traditional virtualization?

That is, totally different use case... going with V8-only in return for some better non-functional metrics is a trade off Cloudflare made for a serverless platform, but not one that Google (or anyone else, probably) would make for a container-based platform?

What does this mean, if anything, for PKS - i thought that was a joint Google/Pivotal/VMware effort?

That is not the case in UK however, which is where I'm drawing my (outlier, going by Wikipedia) experience.

Sure, but in terms of consistency they are 2 sides of the same coin.

If you commit a legal act today that becomes illegal in the future, is it reasonable to be retrospectively convicted? 2 sides of the same coin.

Ex post facto applies both ways - you can do something legal today and be punished in the future if it becomes illegal (UK tax law has some good examples of this).

It would be inconsistent to say past crimes should be revoked if the law changes, but present legal acts cannot be retrospectively classed as illegal if the law changes in the future. That's a contradiction I'm sure many people operate under however (myself included).

I am also not a lawyer :)

I’d be curious to know if there was a difference in engagement from Overwatchers. I basically stopped doing cases because there was so much junk in queue (rage reporting, skilled players playing against unskilled players, aka ‘smurfing’, etc). But after the introduction of VACnet the case quality went through the roof, i no longer felt like i was wasting my time doing cases and thus do more of them now.

It was Cloud Foundry, Spring, RabbitMQ and at the time they were sponsoring Antirez (Redis).

I always wished that Joshua Davis would offer a service like this... are you both the artist and the logistics for this? If so, have you considered just providing the logistics aspects for other artists to consume?

Congrats to the CoreOS team, although I’m a little bit sad to see this happen it’s a way better outcome than what happened with RethinkDB!

I always liked the way Bryan Cantrill defined it in one of his wonderful talks, which was basically that the difference between 'hard' real-time systems (eg missile guidance) and 'soft' real-time systems (eg whatsapp) boils down to the consequences of being late.

I know what you mean, but that scenario would also require the 'previousHash' of index 9 and 109 to be identical no?

That video is really good - perfect for the layperson such as myself!

Please add a 2015 to the title :)

I don't think Facebook ever grokked the concept of multiple personas - LinkedIn is for my work persona, Steam (and Origin, Twitch etc) is for my gaming persona, and on Twitter I can have different accounts for each.

As long as Facebook requires a single account with real identity, it will never be anything more than for my family & acquaintances persona. Most gamers I know feel the same... maybe we're in the minority, but maybe not. Be interesting to know how many Steam accounts are linked with Facebook as an indication of how this might play out (aside from the potential for exclusive titles etc).

Joseph Tainter has done some interesting work on the relation between societal complexity and collapse[1], here's a recent(ish) paper of his on the subject http://wtf.tw/ref/tainter_2006.pdf

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Complex-Societies-Studies-Ar...

If I'm reading their post-outage actions correctly, they certainly align with availability > durability.

There are many things to like about DynamoDB, but one of the things I really dislike is the 'abscence of an error == success' pattern that they implement for many operations. With less frequent metadata requests, I imagine there is a greater chance of silent failures (ie availability looks fine, durability is gone).

Could be wrong though, I'm not going to pretend to know more about distributed systems than the DynamoDB developers.

If your career starts out as a developer, there are going to be things you have to work on that you find no excitement in (gross generalisation of course, but true for the overwhelming majority of developers I'd say).

It wasn't until I got tasked with writing something I had no interest in as part of a recruitment process that I realised programming would always be a hobby for me, not a profession.

The sooner one realises that, the better I'd say!

Despite stating that this is intended for server side use, he's also ignoring a major node / io convention with 'callback(success, failure)' - that alone will probably kill it for many us!