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This is the case with all you can eat sushi places in the US as well

>Edit: Equivalently any SAAS sucks since they may in the future raise their prices is your argument.

This is a very real argument though? Reliance of a core part of your saas on another company, who is liable to change prices at any time, is a real business risk. The Google Maps API pricing change is a big example.

Gandi is never really impressive, but they're one of the few registrars where I can get .af domains without a hassle.

Aspera is among the most frustrating technologies I've been forced to use. I used to work at a video website where we would acquire film files from studios directly, and the amount of times Aspera would fritz out easily justified the time to try and develop and internal alternative. We ended up terminating all the Aspera connections at a service and transferring over direct datagrams for the rest.

This is an extraordinary comment, especially in how ghoulish it is. It makes a head fake towards the "welfare queens" myth, ignores the fact that collection is decriminalized and calls it "stealing", and best of all, the commenter makes the off handed implication that this story is emotional manipulation.

I wonder if HN really thinks journalism should have the writing of an API documentation.

You can avoid committing that crime by refusing to speak to agents.

I'm not sure what GP means by special characters, but I use fedora workstation 30 for my day to day life and I can attest that Arabic and Chinese input are absolute garbage compared to OS X.

Arabic key layout is different (which fine, OS X uses something non-standard anyways), but makes it absolutely impossible to customize it. Text boxes frequently jumble themselves up with left/right mixed input, while OS X handles this as expected.

Chinese input is slightly better, as you don't have to deal with order wonkiness. But pinyin input is halfhearted at best, and requires a bunch of qol changes.

Every friend I have with a job that involves picking up something heavier than a laptop more than twice a week eventually finds a way to slip something like this into conversation: “Bro, you don’t work hard. I just worked a 4700-hour week digging a tunnel under Mordor with a screwdriver.”

They have a point. Mordor sucks, and it’s certainly more physically taxing to dig a tunnel than poke at a keyboard unless you’re an ant. But, for the sake of the argument, can we agree that stress and insanity are bad things? Awesome. Welcome to ~~programming~~ grad school.

from the classic "Programming Sucks" article.

Monaco 12pt has been my font for the past decade

Per vehicle yes, per capita no.

Ignoring the feature set, is data retention policy not a consideration? For us, we paste customer log data for debugging purposes, and Discord's lack of a clear enterprise data retention policy means that we're not assured customer data isn't winding up where it shouldn't be.

Honestly I couldn't care about gifs/emojis/themes/threads/etc, but also the lack of SSO means it's a giant security issue. What if one of your devs loses their password, and you can't mandate 2 factor because Discord sign in is out of your control?

You're definitely doing something wrong if you're a senior dev with 82k in NY

He's announced he's not running though.

I screw around at least 25% of the time as a dev

I would rather have you whiteboard me 20x then answer these questions

I'm with you on this one. Back in college I used to spend an absurd amount of time tinkering with XMonad, rainmeter, custom themes, but now my requirements for a computer are:

- it has a basic window manager (half screen left/right, full screen)

- it has emacs

- it has Firefox

- it has tmux

- (if the computer is really fancy) it has a calendar application

Half of these is the Red Hat business model.

Al-kitaab is a diffcult book to self study, and somehow an even harder one to work with in class. While it's inefficient, somewhere around book 2 you've aquired enough vocabulary and grammar to speak in fusha, although unless you've really followed through with a dialect for ammiya you're going to need a tutor to help you out. I wouldn't put too much stock in the reviews for the textbook.

Realistically, arabic is difficult, and actually speaking street arabic is frustrating.

Source: Currently doing arabic, spending the month in Jordan on vacation doing an arabic intensive, using al-kitaab in both classroom settings and self study.

Arabic is, however, definitely terrific. I'm definitely going to blow all my vacation days next year to come back again.

> I'd like to see the client code, see how it manages backpressure.

That should (in theory) be handled on layer 7, not really on the network end (beyond regular TCP flow control), whereas this article is mostly about optimization on the network layer.

If you're fiddling with redis to the point where you're optimizing to use DPDK/OpenOnload/Exablaze/etc you've probably already exhausted the typical optimization paths (redis pipelining, tuning your queries, potentially implementing a stripped down client library implementing RESP, etc).

ROTC paid him for some amount of college without him ever needing to join.

I honestly don't understand how people are still bickering over style guides in modern programming. Autoformatters exist in every major language. Git hooks exist. Company style guides exist. Pick one, and then it's never an issue what editor people are using, it's bizarre that this bikeshed still exists.

You can buy location data from companies that buy it from carriers, some weather companies, and some advertising companies. If you're an oil trader, you almost certainly have the resources required to accept all these feeds and clean + cross ref them for a couple hundred locations.

>Autodidacticism can lead to new perspectives on projects, and allows people to focus on things that are important, but not emphasized in most colleges.

It also allows people to veer into becoming cranks, without appropriate teachers to guide you along the way. As long as we're exchanging anecdotes, in my undergrad I've met my fair share of "physics autodidacts" who seem to believe they've "solved" massive problems related to engineering/physics.

Out of curiosity, do you offer visa's for people who wish to relocate to Istanbul from the US?

>The original comment did tangentially bring up anti-vax

the literal original comment brought up how demonetization of anti-vaccination youtubers is a "first they came for me" slippery slope, what definition of "tangential" are you operating on?

Do you offer visa support?

I'm sure there's no middle aged programmers working at defense contractors build unethical things.

There are multiple layers in this shutdown:

1. This is a "partial government shutdown", so only some agencies (homeland security, state, SEC, etc) are affected. Some agencies like the Department of Defense are not affected and funded at previous levels.

And

2. There are different levels of "federal workers":

- "Essential" employees: government workers whose job are deemed to endanger "life" or "property", so they are working without pay and told to report to work. These people will (very likely receive back pay once the shutdown ends)

- "Nonessential" government employees: people who are not currently working and not receiving paychecks. These people will also most likely receive backpay once the shutdown ends.

- Federal contractors: janitors, drivers, caterers, temporary staff, part time staff, paid interns, etc are not currently working and will most likely not receive backpay once the shutdown ends.

Note that with very few exceptions (like congressmen/congresswomen/senators, etc) most people in the federal government who are affected by the shutdown are not getting paid currently at all, even if they are told to show up to work.

Air traffic controllers are essential to life, which is why they are asked to go to work currently. Not getting paid is a different question entirely.

The recent interpretations of the anti-deficiency act (https://www.gao.gov/legal/appropriations-law-decisions/resou...) means that the government can be shut down unless functions endanger "life" or "property". Congress could amend the anti-deficiency act to fund the government at previous levels, but that would remove the shutdown process as a political cudgel.