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> Putting on a 'stateless' boxing glove won't mean there's no difference between punching a guy once or twice There are still side effects in the system, of course. But what your d…

Whether or not your service does something useful is up to you. A database on it's own is enough for most business applications. If you haven't seen this yet, you're just rent seek…

Idempotency is easy if you don't use mutable state in your middleware. Auth, logging, and atomicity are all isolated concerns that should not affect the domain specific user contra…

I believe this research is totally true-- I had a lot of memories come back after 1. I stopped drinking heavily and using other drugs, i.e. marijuana 2. managed my diet to avoid he…

> Strange game, the only winning move is not to play. What a tired aphorism. Just like PG's 50 year old insights.

I most commonly use random() for generating names (e.g. docker's container names) and generating test inputs. I don't care about cryptographic safety in either case.

> Microsoft teams is an extremely high quality product already. This has not been my experience with MS Teams. If I respond to a message on my phone, and then return to my laptop, …

I've been using the Markdown Reader Chrome extension and using the browser print function to do this kind of conversion. What would be really useful (to me personally) is a tool th…

> any stage of the request or the response L4-L7 at FPGA speeds I also work at F5, and used to work on the FPGA. This is unfortunately not true for TCL iRules. The FPGA basically o…

Not mentioned in the article, but bit packed data structures are easier to interpret in hardware and offer more guarantees. If I'm designing an FPGA/ASIC I can predict how many clo…

Yesterday I ordered a Lyft to meet up with a friend, the ride started out normal enough with some small chit chat where the driver told me about a camping trip he went on with his …

I agree with others here that learning a language has a lot to do with learning an ecosystem, libraries, and culture. To contribute to an existing project, it's not necessary to re…

I'm not sure where you're getting your pricing, but the Monologue is $299 [1] and a new MicroKorg is $399 [2]. The MicroKorg is a great piece of equipment, but it's also prone to a…

For those who are curious like I was, the flagged words/phrases are: just actually sorry apologize I think I'm no expert does that make sense reasons are in the source here: https:…

so post some cat pics then

In all honesty, I think it'd be more interesting to see analysis of turing complete OISCs than repeatedly seeing these minified homework solutions posted to HN

I hope there's a laugh out there for some of you ... =|

I have the same feeling... I've been to places with the expressed goal of understanding and integrating into the culture, only to find out after I've left that there were actually …

> Yet, here we are, over 30 years after the original IBM PC was released, and there's still a corner-office audience for "what is a computer?" As someone who got their start on DOS…

This should be a yawn for those with web and mobile dev experience, people I'd expect to already understand virtual machines and fractured encodings.

This is probably the most relevant post in this thread. I recently left the working world after realizing I really don't need that much money to be happy. In the turmoil, I realize…

I'd actually love to see this done on a Genesis. The Genesis had an FM Synthesizer in it's sound chip, made by Yamaha. The Super Nintendo has a distinctive and pleasant sound that …

Terrence McKenna explores this hypothesis in his book 'Food of the Gods.' Part speculation, part historical account of the role of chemicals in human culture. Great read if you're …