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totallysnowman

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totallysnowman··on Hydrogen made using rust
Can't wait until someone does it in Go :-D
totallysnowman··on CowToilet, a Toilet for Cows
No it does not in agriculture. The toilet is not for bulls, simply because the bulls are already steaks. Farmers keep only a few of them. Just enough to fertilize the females.
totallysnowman··on Oracle allegedly underpaid $400M in wages to underrepresented employees
They don't give a ... You are just a number. Even if the hiring manager really wants you, s/he is not given the budget, so they are powerless.
totallysnowman··on Oracle allegedly underpaid $400M in wages to underrepresented employees
I was trying to say they don't seem racist or discriminating to me. They just want to save as much as possible. But they seem rather oblivious to the fact the system is set in a bit demotivating way.
totallysnowman··on Oracle allegedly underpaid $400M in wages to underrepresented employees
No. If you leave and come back within 2 years (I think), you get the same as you had before you had left.
totallysnowman··on Oracle allegedly underpaid $400M in wages to underrepresented employees
Sorry, I simplified a little. The newjoiners I was talking about are not interns, but a fresh-from-college full-time workers. But still...
totallysnowman··on Oracle allegedly underpaid $400M in wages to underrepresented employees
Oracle pays its long-term employees less than newjoiners, that is no news. If you think you can get a raise by switching positions within the company - wrong! You get exactly the same no matter the position. Also nobody in the office got a raise in years (not even the inflation rate). The only option to get some raise is to be promoted, which does not happen very often. I don't think it has anything to do with race/gender.
totallysnowman··on Monorepo: please do
The 5 apps and their 25 libraries are in fact one entangled monolith. That is what I am talking about. It is only marketed as 5 apps. That has some hundreds external dependencies, of course.
totallysnowman··on Monorepo: please do
I think that the reason of the argument is that both authors understand the definition of "large repository" very differently.

With 100 engineers a monorepo might seem a good idea. With 500 it becomes nearly impossible to do anything involving a build. Some isolation is needed.

Also from my experience many engineers just don't give a shit about architecture. They create entangled mess, that kind of works for the customer, and go home. Without some enforced isolation it is impossible to maintain it.

That being said I am more inclined to polyrepos.

totallysnowman··on Olin – Defining a new operating primitive for event-driven services
Reminds me of Akka on JVM.
totallysnowman··on You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS
Two package managers are a bad idea. They would need to cooperate somehow. Pacman developers probably have heard of Gentoo, but I wouldn't call it "based on Gentoo".
totallysnowman··on You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS
Neat! So now you can run JavaScript "IDE" inside a browser inside a Linux VM inside a browser on Linux!
totallysnowman··on Ask HN: Why does Slack App on macOS drain 3GB of memory?
This is what you get when you use a full-blown web browser for a simple messaging app.
totallysnowman··on Luxury Home Mainstays May Be Gone in 20 Years
Car sharing... Interesting. So I buy a car and some random dude crashes it for me. This is the thing everybody can't wait to see.