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haggy102··on Get a cable modem, go to jail (1999)
The problem is that it's often the only choice. ISPs often have a monopoly over their territory.
haggy102··on A Modern C Development Environment
Why not advocate for better testing? What was preventing you from spending more time unit testing code running a billion dollar business?
haggy102··on Crawling a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours (2012)
Wow crazy how time flies. I did not realize Go has been in production for over 10 years now.
haggy102··on The growing pains of database architecture
Nice spam/sales link
haggy102··on New study puts a number on what 'Exxon knew' decades ago about climate science
Where are you pulling that stat from?
haggy102··on SQLite's Automatic Indexes
I'm glad you said it because I was about to say the exact same thing.
haggy102··on The $42B Question: Why Aren’t Americans Ditching Big Banks?
For low-middle class, yes. For upper middle class+, it depends.
haggy102··on Court Orders U.S. Navy to Pay $154,400 in Software Piracy Damages
The first paragraph...

"The United States Navy must pay $154,400 in copyright infringement damages to German software company Bitmanagement. The U.S. Court of Federal Claims awarded the compensation after the Navy was shown to have copied and used software without permission. Whether Bitmanagement will celebrate this win is up for question as the damages are less than 0.1% of the $155 million it asked for."

haggy102··on Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce
I would yea, especially if the separation was handled well and I was still looking for consistent work.
haggy102··on C Minus Minus
Well not ALWAYS a more scalable DB ;)
haggy102··on Ask HN: How did you stop drinking?
> it's also very boring

I think SO many people overlook this very fact. Most people don't need alcohol to have a good time however it's called a "social lubricant" for a reason.

Sometimes people just need a tiny push to become less self conscious or less introverted. Life is short. You can spend years trying to be healthy and perfect but you need to ask yourself whether you're happy while doing that. If the answer is "Yes" then great. If it's "No" then you should reevaluate your path.

haggy102··on Will young Americans want to work in semiconductor manufacturing? [video]
I'm all for sarcasm but please show me a calculator that needs 16GB of RAM. Your input detracts from the original argument and doesn't progress the discussion at all.
haggy102··on U.S. life expectancy drops sharply, the second consecutive decline
Source?
haggy102··on Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?
This is the way
haggy102··on Trust in newspapers and television news collapses to historic low
CNN is credible? According to whom?
haggy102··on Some online businesses thrived during lockdown – how are they doing now?
That was always going to be a very temporary boom. The only reason there was an opportunity was because supply was suddenly and vastly dwarfed by demand for weeks. As soon as large mask manufacturers were able to ramp up production, the grannies were doomed.
haggy102··on Illinois college, hit by ransomware attack, to shut down
Greatly appreciate the context. Closures like this are rarely (if ever) as one dimensional as the public announcements make them appear to be.
haggy102··on Netflix End of Series 1
Ignore the troll and thank you for all your content Brendan!
haggy102··on Curious lack of sprintf scaling
Don't forget about "is-thirteen" and its inverse lol

https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-thirteen https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-not-thirteen

haggy102··on A career ending mistake
Assuming you don't live in a major US city? $5 latte's and $70+ just for Internet (forget cable) is pretty standard now.
haggy102··on SimpleDB: A Basic RDBMS Built from Scratch
I think the main issue that universities face is time. There is only so much time in each semester and, as we all know, building and improving on a database is a lifelong task.
haggy102··on Ask HN: What to do instead of drinking alcohol?
The OP said they had no issues with alcohol (not an alcoholic). Moderation is something that everyone should do anyway
haggy102··on Code Review as a Service
Anyone with Architect in their title receives skepticism from me. I've turned down title changes that include it and I refuse to put it on my LinkedIn.
haggy102··on Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery havoc
Multi AZ != Multi region. AWS has many services that run in multiple regions but some of their services are not.
haggy102··on Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe
Very sorry that you had this experience but yes NEVER consider a job offer finalized until a contract has been drafted and both parties sign. Until then it's all basically vaporware
haggy102··on PlanetScale is now generally available
They almost never shut down the actual VMs, they are simply re-allocated. (Semi)Auto scaling exists behind the scenes but once a provider becomes popular enough the VMs become more expensive to stop.
haggy102··on PlanetScale is now generally available
Happy to be wrong but both of you sound like you're commenting without any operational knowledge about either database technology.
haggy102··on A 29-year-oldused a weird resume to get 30k interviews in a week
Per the article: "No coding was involved"
haggy102··on Backblaze S-1 IPO
They essentially market themselves as "S3 without the surprise costs" as well as "trust as more than amazon" which I think they hold up to. What they lack is the insane amount of reliability and scalability that S3 offers. I'm not saying this as a fanboy of S3. They (aws) have their share of issues and AWS has never been transparent about their pricing structure. If you don't believe me there just Google "surprise AWS costs". Just like everything in life B2 is a tradeoff. I love healthy competition and I hope backblaze continues to crush it!
haggy102··on Backblaze S-1 IPO
What hobby has 80TB of data?
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