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That's like- the whole point. If you as a manager set a goal, those three choices are all the choices the people under you have to meet the goal, and you often set it up so that th…

JVM can run apps _compiled_ for it. WASM has the _exact same_ limitation. Someone put in the effort to get Postgres to compile for WASM. That's great :) Maybe someday every applica…

It can run "anything" ... so long as someone has set up that project to correctly compile to a wasm target. "docker build" lets you build a package out of any software, without hav…

I don't think the statement "fairly simple to compile an arbitrary program" hasn't been true for any ecosystem, ever.

no, you're right. Terraform/Pulumi are much more focused on provisioning resources, while Ansible has its sweet spot in configuring a machine once its running.

Was a generator technician before I got into programming. Even the 2 megawatt systems could start up and take full load in 10-20 seconds. It sounds basically like starting your car…

The weird thing is- it could be a scam that is not actually a scam. If they have somehow acquired the legal right to use the author's name to release books, they don't need to swin…

The author of the article had a great point. Developers often DO treat me as an IT person. The number of times I've taught a developer what an SSH key is or how to install a python…

Even in 2016, I had been running production services in Docker successfully. Its interesting to me that they see the problem "Docker isn't designed to store data" without also seei…

A little. The thesis behind 'trickle down' sorta makes sense if you think about it. Less taxes = more money to invest = more investment = more economic activity. I did kind of expe…

Just because a company has SOME open source software, probably doesn't mean that all of their software is.

Yeah, I'm all on board with trashing the company. Those emails were terrible.

The emails from the company make it clear that at least one party to the dispute believed that they did use Replit's internal design decisions. Commercial companies approaching the…

This wouldn't be an issue of non-compete, but of intellectual property - and I can't imagine there was no intellectual property agreement signed. I've never had a job that didn't h…

I...am on the side of the company here? wierd... An employee of a company left, and then made an open source clone of the company's software. The fact that the software was easy to…

Guessing you didn't read the article? This article is saying that when Tesla made those complaints, Edmunds reran the test the way that Tesla suggested and got the following result…

I've certainly never been bottlenecked on date parsing :) However, many/most of the high performance python libraries are built in C code, and compiled down into something the pyth…

If you already have all of that working, why would you change? Containers are valuable for a couple things- 1. Packaging and distribution- it's very easy to set up a known good fil…

I dunno what the law says. However, it is very easy to imagine a situation where someone LEGITIMATELY cannot decrypt the device. Is indefinite detention without even a criminal cha…

But... we understand EXACTLY why developers are paid so well. Economics (the same reason EVERY profession is paid the way they are). There are two factors that come into play for e…

Even when they do, there is a problem. They specialize in DB code. AWS specializes in infra... and can just take the DB code as well. That is a pretty huge competitive advantage (w…

If the accepted wisdom was true, that you can trade quality for speed, then you shouldn't write tests. I do not believe that to be the case. I find the biggest value of tests is be…

If you have taken enough VC that the only way to get any value at all is through a huge exit, this statement is true. If you run a normal business, it is not true :)

So yeah, React may go away in three years. Do you think you would have been better off during those three years continuing to use jquery? Do you think the hours spent learning the …

I mean, if I hire a contractor that I got through a staff augmentation agency, I have to pay a fee. That is part of the agreement with the agency. This seems the same?