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Re:Google, nobody asked for a new Blogger interface on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @11:46PM (#24500987)
Debugging? If you could write to disk and suddenly can't.. you are out of diskspace.

If you can't tab complete you are out of diskspace.

Migrating for additional storage? Why not add additional storage..

Re:91% of plastic isn't recycled (2018) on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @03:24PM (#24485617)
Doesn't this hurt the poor while enabling the rich to continue being wasteful.
Re:Statement Regarding the Zen Programming Language on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @11:05AM (#24481987)
Sort of but only the new parts would fall under gpl the rest bsd.
Re:Your Language Sucks, It Doesn’t Matter on Monday September 14, 2020 @03:29PM (#24474105)
I doubt you could write unmaintainable insecure php code. I'm positive you could write error prone garbage in any language.
To hire back young people on contract would cost more than the entry level salaries they hold.
Re:Google says its carbon footprint is now zero on Monday September 14, 2020 @01:54PM (#24473051)
Wouldn't they be cheaper as businesses invest to use less carbon over time.
Re:Google says its carbon footprint is now zero on Monday September 14, 2020 @01:52PM (#24473031)
As a child in the late 80s it was the three r's. Then the bluebox program became the focus.
Re:Google says its carbon footprint is now zero on Monday September 14, 2020 @01:49PM (#24472999)
If they didn't receive those high salaries they wouldn't be able to take those personal trips. The more employees the higher the multiplier. So what are we exactly offsetting.
Re:Free hosting providers for static websites in 2020 on Monday September 14, 2020 @01:34PM (#24472778)
Amazon doesn't belong on the list because it's a limited trial one year. Plus if you go over the limits you are charged.

You can game some free resources over the trial period if you are careful. Not the best for set and forget.

Re:I lost €4k in a Facebook scam on Monday September 14, 2020 @12:50PM (#24472308)
No I have an older relative who creates a new account every other week for whatever reason.

Think of how many accounts are created for games reasons. Some games require friends taking action to progress. Some allow friends to send prizes like lives/money/resource.

Re:The technical interview is an ego trip on Friday September 11, 2020 @10:13PM (#24449274)
It would be more impressive if you solved it right away.
Re:The technical interview is an ego trip on Friday September 11, 2020 @08:11PM (#24448680)
Can you come back in a year and share?
Re:I don’t have time for coding challenges on Friday September 11, 2020 @07:32PM (#24448438)
Are you sure? I mean the 10 years of success spent over various companies projects on resumes have a high false rate because after they took your coding test they didn't do as well as you thought they should? Did you hire any of them and did they out perform your initial assessment.

If you didn't hire them and compare them to new hires who have bad resumes but did well on your test how would you know?

You can't objectivity judge a candidate by your test results only. Otherwise your test is just randomly filtering people. Until you do that you don't know how effective your test is. You could be flipping a coin and getting the same results.

Re:I don’t have time for coding challenges on Friday September 11, 2020 @07:17PM (#24448345)
This only makes sense if they want top talent. Usually they want cheap/easy to push around talent and for that you need a screener that filters out the best and whoever remains will have the strength to deal with bully managers or lack of requirements
Re:Docker Considered Harmful (2016) on Thursday September 10, 2020 @03:39PM (#24435770)
Docker doesn't run on windows 10 without virtualization enabled in the bios. The computer a purchased last year didn't have support for this feature and there is no way to run docker.
Re:Relativty – An open-source VR headset on Thursday September 10, 2020 @10:55AM (#24432904)
The people in the know who believe it's obvious will be the same people who know the price of an oculus.

As for the rest of us. We neither know the price of an oculus $150? or that an oculus isn't as open source as other products.

Valid point for the rest of us.

Re:Relativty – An open-source VR headset on Thursday September 10, 2020 @09:45AM (#24432284)
It is a valid retort and trying to hide that fact when comparing doesn't do it justice.
Re:Vue.js Creator Evan You Interview on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @10:10PM (#24428225)
He would probably double that by selling t-shirts.
Re:Vue.js Creator Evan You Interview on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @10:09PM (#24428218)
This is new and exciting but we must understand the use case. For solo developers on projects with a huge amount of github stars this might make sense. It enables you to work on the project full time.

The tailwind project model seems like it would pay better. The profit amount might make for sense for the pretty popular project vs the extremely popular project. It's a compromise because you stop working on the core project and start building these additional businesses that take time/effort away the project.

Corporate backing would make sense but enterprise has picked react. Vue lives because it's a great framework that is easily assessible not because it started as a corporate sponsored project with a popularity boost buildin.

Re:The Humiliating Practice of Sex-Testing Female Athletes on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @07:28PM (#24427181)
The dangers in some sports when people are at different levels is great. Football, hockey even baseball can result in death.
Re:The Humiliating Practice of Sex-Testing Female Athletes on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @07:24PM (#24427147)
Wow did not realize these open gender policies have resulted in such outcomes. I guess the only option is to remove men/womens altogether and have them complete against all sexes.

Another option is to have a separate category for them or many seperate categories.

Now if you started sooner and if people took it more seriously perhaps numbers would be different.
Re:Ask HN: Any open problems in PHP that need solving? on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:45PM (#24423646)
I like ReactPHP I've been using a really small project that has a good implementation of workman.

https://github.com/walkor/phpsocket.io

Re:How we learnt to stop worrying and love web scraping on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @10:07AM (#24421109)
The big problem is once google killed it no new information will come and google can't scrape what doesn't exist
Re:Ask HN: Any open problems in PHP that need solving? on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:52AM (#24417660)
a) no

b) yes

I'm pretty happy with what php has become. Don't really understand the typescript benefit here.

I would like to see a popular async framework.

Re:Is the web getting slower? on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @12:40AM (#24417193)
34m ads on each page load? Why not use an ad serving network?
Re:Is the web getting slower? on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @12:33AM (#24417154)
The question is why did he need that specific php version? Was there something that required it and if so could that be isolated?
Have you joined second life yet?
Re:Why I link to Wayback Machine instead of original web content on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @01:54PM (#24410871)
No one touched on this but the experience of viewing through the waybackmachine is awful.

Media many times will not be saved so pages look broken. The iframe and the iframe breakers on original sites can kill any navigating.

The waybackmachine is okay for researching but a poor replacement as a perm link.

Re:What killed Haskell, could kill Rust, too on Monday September 07, 2020 @08:40PM (#24404154)
Perl was mainstream and exists in many corners. Haskell was never mainstream.

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