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Totally looks like Tacotron. I heard there was interest in Amazon in buying the project, now it looks like they copied it.

ouch, this hurts

Poor guys; that's really all I can say now.

Get yourself uBlock Origin

Here's a much better one: mandatory melted cheese in their fruit salad (due to their criminal misuse of pineapple)

It's Bismarck pizza: margherita with open egg in the middle (not fried, but cooked in the oven)

>machines with over 1TB memory already commonplace

WTF

same here.... This will be Hackernews' own version of "rickrolling"

I recall UnitedDomains (German provider) who wanted me in 2016 to fax the request to update the contact information. Fax it.

Times are mature for the equivalent of Letsencrypt for registering domains, something like Letsregistrar. We need to have this inefficient industry wiped away since it's really too much manual and too much in the way.

If somebody wants to found a noprofit to create a free registrar, I'm 100% in.

Nice adventure, but I got mad at "1-item-at-time" picking rule. I'd rather prefer all of them being collectable, instead of putting an ordering that forces you resorting every time to the Uncle. Very nice, though. Keep it up!

So, it's just of matter of reverse engineering the driver?

The metodologies and all of the aforementioned tools are fine. But instead of using them to stay in the schedules with less, we used them to make more in the same amount of time. We pursued efficiency ("more with less") and profit instead of keeping the profits constant and give more free time to people. In other words, economic growth demand eroded the margin that we gained through these efficiencies.

I agree that the link with SWE is not so apparent, but there is and it's a subtle one:

as software engineering, we take pride in researching and leveraging the best and latest to solve our challenges. Time management included. And yet we systematically end up working in overburdened teams and overdue projects.

We surrounded ourselves of IDEs, instant messaging platforms, calendars with reminders, automation and all sort of stuff to be more productive.

And the agile methodologies! The holy Scrum/Kanban! How much time we dedicated to People Management, Release Management, Sprint Planning and the like.

Our schedules should be bulletproof.

And, yet, we work at least 50 hours per week with continuous surprises from the managerial perspective due to disorganization. And we tolerate all of this because we have been told it's heroic, instead of beheading the profitering gluttons that come up with the usual "goodmorning, this unannounced thing must be delivered tomorrow".

This is the bullshit. The cultural hysteria that sacrificing our health and free time is necessary due to some kind of higher purpose

>You're also most likely going to pay per word, so if you can figure out a good way to not send them sentences you've already had translated you can save some money.

That's why they build those databases of phrases you were referring to, since they apply discounts on matches against those DBs and on repetitions in your document.

Instead, ask explicitly for a Translation Memory file at the end of the job, so that you can retain your personal piece of database of phrases that was produced during the localization of your file (it's your right to have it and serious companies will hand it without fuss).

https://www.translated.net: fast, cheap and 100% refund policy

This is plain bullshit. Opensource gives no guarantee that the vote won't be altered by whoever runs the machine.

What we need is a zero-knowledge proof: we need the entire voting dataset to be publicly downloadable and some kind of checksumming so that, while maintaining anonimity, I can 1)check that my vote is the same 2)run whole the counting in a blink on my PC.

This gives much better guarantees of no tampering

Banning free speech is unconstitutional. Any "Code of Conduct" or other self proclaiming binding clauses on your contract that try to go against your constitutional rights should be void.

While a completely stateless and auto scalable infrastructure is desirable even by Ops people themselves, reality doesn’t always allow for this because: Not everything can be event driven. Persistent data will always have to be managed by somebody.

Plus, NoOps conceals the risk to have a de-evolutions of devs into even dumber IDE users that can’t even type “sudo systemctl start mysql” at the terminal.

NoOps as a company wide phylosophy can’t be tenable.

Because of EU influence: Turkey acts like a bottle cap to seal the wave of refugees coming from ISIS war. That's why they are tolerated. EU gave Turkey a lot of money to keep the refugees, fleeing from Middle East wars, away from entering en masse in Europe.

Why so defensive? This is actually a very close representation of Google hiring funnel.

I don't think the point is the tests described into the article (which I found hilarious, btw). I think the point is about the amount of resources, perceived by the candidate, that the company pours into a totally jammed hiring process.

Checked HN before going to bed. Played for 2 hours till 1:30. Great game.

Thank God

The link is broken

Why would someone push for those "5 thruths"? The point of microservices is to ease Ops life, so that deploying is less of a "big bang"-like event and more geared towards incremental and local evolutions.

MySQL looks great when used as K-V because it avoids the bad planner (when you have a primary key as the only searching key, a planner is useless) and denormalizing avoids expensive JOIN ops.

But there is the awkward replication model, the lack of native data structures as column type and the lack of sharding support.

What do you expect from somebody that manages a unit called "branded content and global creative"?

wow

Goog luck hacking in my Ubuntu box with latest patches and an iptables firewall... The only reasonable way to obtain people's data is to lock them in some Guantanamo like infrastructure and get their password. Betting on weak security as a mean to control people can't eventually prevail because open systems get patched at faster speed than vulnerabilities found.

still down, and it was down since an hour when I posted..

THe article seems to miss a crucial point: if everything is so screwed up, why it has been the dominant technology for 24 years? I mean, we are all still there alive and breathing.