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mackwic
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Comment #40577010
I can vouch for Tuple, it's an excellent app. Far better experience than Discord or Google meet screen sharing. Give it a try !
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Comment #40404842
It's not that hard for any competent organization: document what PII you store, who has access to it, and what you do with it. Also have an internal procedure to scramble someone's…
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Comment #40404812
Just so you know, it's a common practice in the US. As europeans, we are almost required to open LLCs in your states, do a joint venture with a local US company, and hire US person…
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Comment #11327402
I think you highlighted the main issue: it's not sexism, it's simply misplaced. Would it be 4 women and 4 men, it would still be out of context and not right. I don't know if it's …
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Comment #11249576
moul: care to comment about how things are at scaleway and how's the roadmap going ? Is VPC the next item on the list ? :) Congrats on the steady advance anyway. It's been a pleasu…
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Comment #11203227
Just quit my last startup because it didn't worked with my associates. We made an ISO certified medical wearable: a connected insole with pressure sensors with its associated softw…
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Comment #11114107
You can take a look at Rust. The authors are really careful to design an elegant C++ replacement, with no troll features and zero-cost abstractions.
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Comment #10930683
> with dailymotion now close to death Not close to death, it's just not a unicorn. They can IPO whenever they want as long as they claim a correct valuation.
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Comment #10575856
thanks for your detailed answer. It's an interesting stack ! Using docker for integration testing seems like a good idea. > Although perhaps writing code in OCaml has made me somew…
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Comment #10575833
Excellent insight, thanks for your clarification.
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Comment #10575038
You can't reasonably use functors of all your code dependencies (function arguments mostly). I am amazed to see how the MirageOS team used this, but this method cannot be used for …
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Comment #10574978
> Did you try to use OCaml and run into a bunch of difficult problems? Yeah, I am a long date contributor and user of ocaml for little projects (mostly compilers and AIs). But not …
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Comment #10574757
Now you have a very smooth ocaml worklow: - you create and manage the build of your project with Oasis which call ocamlbuild nicely - Opam works great with ocamlfind to manage the …
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Comment #10574737
F# is an excellent technology, and inspired some of the recent Ocaml developments (we still look at ActivePattern with envy). I saw some pieces of F# in the FinTech here and there,…
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Comment #10574722
Thanks for your detailed answer and congrats for successfully maintaining libguestfs. > I'd also say the killer advantages of OCaml for me are: Easy calling into C, and compiles to…
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Comment #10574679
> I'm always very amused when people say OCaml can't work at "enterprise scale" Yeah, you will notice that quotes that show you shouldn't take it too literally. ;) (also I have no …
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Comment #10573998
I don't know if it brings anything new on the table. Also, I am not convinced that Ocaml is state-of-the-art in term of development productivity, relase-management, debugging, etc.…
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Comment #10346408
As a user, I am always a bit afraid that DuckDuckGo might be gone one day. How do you keep the DuckDuckGo afloat ?
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Comment #10346043
This is relevant to the discussion: - http://udidahan.com/2007/12/29/wcf-everywhere-not-on-my-watc... (MS SOA technology) - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2015/15-…
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Ask HN: Any veteran feedback from the SOA era?
My old grumpy mentor from France Télécom was often joking about the failure of the SOA Java stack (and particularly the state of RPC and Service Buses). I don't remember his argume…
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Comment #10345693
And here again we will see the raise of the mighty, the glorious ENTREPRISE SERVICE BUS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_service_bus Were are my mainframes ? I think I'll …