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Re:DuckDuckGo was down on Monday June 08, 2020 @01:23PM (#23458556)
I agree with everything you say.
Re:DuckDuckGo was down on Monday June 08, 2020 @12:52PM (#23458249)
Good teams don't blame individuals. You can praise individuals, but you take blame as a team.

Hopefully at least two people reviewed the commit before it was put into production. Someone set up the post-launch smoke-tests/api-test-suits. Someone built the CI/CD-system. Etc etc.

My point is, it is rarely a single individuals fault when something at this scale goes down.

>I think we should also start with 6 hours work days or 4 days 8 hours.

I hope you are not alluding that Sweden has 6 hour work days? That is not true. It has 8 hours, like most other countries.

Re:A Tour of Standard ML on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @11:37AM (#22182439)
Nah, It's Meta (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_ML).

SideNote: I have a friend though, who used it for almost 15 years and thought the M stood for Math before we spook about this.

Re:Philae Found on Monday September 05, 2016 @10:18AM (#12430439)
Philae did send data for three days (unless i miss-remember). Knowing where that data was taken helps put it into context. So quite important for the mission.
Human language is basically a very lossy compression algorithm. It can never convey in full what your brain is experiencing
Re:A Swede Returns to Silicon Valley from China on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @01:12PM (#12219586)
Why do you assume this was illegal in Sweden in the late nineties? In Sweden, downloading of IP was illegalized 2005-06-01. Before that it was only illegal to spread digital IP...
Surprise! Serverless runs on... gasp servers!
Re:Reason: A new interface to OCaml on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @10:34PM (#11719328)
OCaml, like SML, have the syntax for defining their own operators. |> is defined, to my knowledge, both in the standard prelude and in core.
Re:Generate CoreOS cloud-config with Terraform on Thursday May 05, 2016 @05:29PM (#11639793)
Does this in any way handle the 16KB limit on user-data on AWS? (i assume not)

Great job in any case!

Re:Erlang Scheduler Details and Why They Matter on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @02:41PM (#11068153)
To my knowledge, Erlang uses a cooperative scheduler. The process itself counts downs its reductions and yields when it is time. The programmer can call erlang:yield() to do this before time if he wants. Calling something like receive will also yield. I guess it comes down to definitions, but since Erlang is said to have only soft real-time (as opposed to hard real-time) properties, this makes more sense. The schedulers doesn't give any guarantees as to when a process gets to run and the scheduler never really preempts a process. Again, to my knowledge.

Great article though!