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Interestingly, the US government may have plasma weapons as far back as 1993. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARAUDER The first attempt at a plasma ring weapon was successful enou…

Python and Node use far more memory than Java. Golang uses less but not by orders of magnitude, maybe 3x less. Sounds like your JVM GC settings were off, Golang has GC just like Ja…

NYC aggressively arrests anyone breaking the rules so homeless don't stay there. Now I'm in a city with a lot of visible homeless and the government tolerating it is the real probl…

It's all part of the endless fight against proprietary systems. When cloud providers started using 'optimized' images the response was to move everything above the VM to 'container…

It doesn't feel like a tech bubble really. The recent crop of unicorns may not be as successful as FB/Google but besides theranos they're making good money. Most are busy burning f…

I agree. Microservices have no tooling and a shitload of overhead. After working on such a project I think microservices are an anti-pattern. After a certain point you have to main…

Not according to Google :). They actually support and encourage distributed transactions across boundaries. Imagine all the data Google stores with your user profile across their h…

I love how Netflix is so open about their architecture, but I have one strong criticism. After trying to get Spinnaker running, which is like 10 services for a fairly straightforwa…

It only costs maybe 12k to put together something that can go 180-200. Early 2000 f-body with nitrous alone will get you to 160. Sure the average person hasn't gone that fast but i…

Speed is overrated. Every airliner you've ridden on hits almost 200 on the ground. I've been over 160 multiple times in fairly normal cars with uprated tires and brakes. Going 200 …

Tons of stuff is still built on the JVM. The big five tech companies (besides MS) use Java nearly exclusively for back end development. Python is good for ML and data crunching, bu…

I abandoned .NET over a lack of http2 support as well. The reason? It uses an HTTP implementation baked into the windows kernel. Wtf? So not only does it lack HTTP2 support on Linu…

Just use React. The frontend SPA frameworks are thankfully converging so there's not a huge advantage to using one over the other. So if you're just getting into the fray, use the …

Anyone doubting we're in a cryptocurrency bubble can take comfort in the stabilizing force provided by exchanges failing whenever the price changes significantly

Shhhh it's semantic versioning

There is something else, in the darkest reaches. It has many incantations, but the non-believers have a singular name. Lisp.

I doubt it with the insane transaction fees and confirmation delays, they're better off using Western Union on both counts at this point

I wasn't going to say it... But somebody did

I love that Apple cares about privacy when just about every other megacorp is a really fancy advertising agency

IMO Lightning network solves a non-problem. It only sets up a transactionless channel between two parties. The whole promise of Bitcoin was secure transfer to anyone. Maintaining a…

For technical reasons, Bitcoin honestly sucks. The block rate is so low that transactions cost many dollars and take hours to confirm. This is only going to continue to get worse, …

I can picture these poor souls vividly. Millions of lines of python, flowing like the mightiest of rivers. Nobody really knowing whence it cometh and goeth. A hero arises, offering…

If the trolling gets me a response from one of HN's most famous members then so be it edit: You gotta admit, my point isn't groundless. I would disagree that it's trolling since HN…

Aka... 'too many' companies go on to raise outside money and dilute ycombinator shares. How unfortunate that ycombinator can invest a limited amount of money and have graduates tur…

Could have been, injectables are frequently sold as reconstitutable powders where refrigeration isn't reliable. It's easy enough to just measure an oral dose from that in pinch