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This is good advice and it's worked for other things I've been addicted to. I guess you can think of this as my retirement from Hacker News. Thank you kind stranger.

I don't think many of us find it acceptable judging by the comments here. Programmers aren't the target audience though, the actual target audience probably has no idea how much fa…

Says the company that only hires in India now and is notorious for disloyalty towards the workers that made them. $150 billion is bullshit as well, R&D spending they have committed…

Oh 100%. As far as I am concerned, anybody that has touched that stuff is blacklisted and radioactive.All its gonna take is a little prick and the financing on the whole house of c…

Lmao. Don't pay any attention to the thing about incels, which whether true or not, so obviously does not establish that android was a causative factor. Look at the percentage of U…

The pressure should obviously be applied on the underage children with the Apple products, or better yet on Apple. Perhaps the children should be punished and have their iPhones ta…

Yep, and I like it this way.

Worrying about whether or not somebody has an Android is going to be very bad for your mental health given that something like 42% of the US cell phone market is Android. Is it pos…

You can't compare cores like that. Take a look at the cache size on the Telum II, or better yet look at a die shot and do some measuring of the cores. Then consider that mainframe …

There are really applications that are large enough and hard enough to parallelize and/or shard that any rewrite on a different platform would turn into a performance catastrophe, …

Yeah the architectures focus on different things. The huge caches on the z series chips are designed primarily around the kind of latency sensitive workloads more common in finance…

They aren't the best, they are different, and the best in certain areas. In terms of cache size they are way out in front. That architecture has very very fat cores. That's the mai…

The legacy workloads are in some sense legacy, but in another sense the term legacy is misleading because at larger shops with capacity growth there has been no shortage of moderni…

I'd expect them to be significantly better than the competition in that area given the large part of the CPU that is a dedicated coprocessor specifically for crypto (called CPACF).…

While new processes don't often get created for mainframes (most of the tasks it is particulary suited for have already been automated by this point, and the market of companies do…

My theory: every (I'm exaggerating, more like most) systems programmer in the company was told to join Azure or get cut. Then outsourcing or something. It's been obvious that they …

There are an enormous number of people such as myself that work in tech and believe the same exact thing. At the end of the way we dont need to argue about this. The truth should b…

Lmao