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Re:Review of “Adults in the Room” by Yanis Varoufakis on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @10:51AM (#14256146)

Grexit blackmail didn't work, so run away and got rich writing books.

Re:Etsy has ousted its CEO and is laying off 8 percent of its staff on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @06:45AM (#14254522)

Always dreadful to hear this.

Years of best practices in product/engineering in blogs (DevOps, I also remember their endless scrolling A/B tests!), youtube, conferences, then product doesn't work, company fires people.

Re:SQL is 43 years old – Here’s why we still use it today on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @10:45AM (#14246740)

It works my young Padawan.

Re:Show HN: VPS Comparison – Automated tests to compare VPS by yourself on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @09:02AM (#14245974)

Strasboug (DE) - not for quite some time.

Re:SQL is 43 years old – Here’s why we still use it today on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @08:19AM (#14245727)

It works.

Re:Louisiana prosecutors are using fake subpoenas to pressure witnesse... on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @04:49AM (#14244943)

These are the people who destroy democracy.

Re:The 10x developer is not a myth (2013) on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @03:54AM (#14244711)

There are two kinds of developers:

1. Those who are good developers 2. Those who can't write any real code (cargo cult or cut&paste developers, e.g. the 25% who I didn't hire over the years because they were not able to FizzBuzz)(25%-50% of the market)

The 10x comes from comparing (1) and (2) - although dividing anything by 0 is larger than 10x.

Re:Ryzen is for Programmers on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @03:26AM (#14244584)

My learning with tuning computers in several companies with a lot of money for faster turn around speeds:

1. IO is not as important as your gut feeling tells you (e.g. 5x faster IO often led to <2x faster compiles)

2. Programming languages tout the parallelism horn, but their compilers and tools are really not optimized for many cores.