Wow. This is all kinds of wrong. * Java is far faster than Go. Nobody is working on high-performance low-latency systems in Go while Java is quickly becoming de-rigueur in this space. * Java was in fact the first…
You simply stop talking to them. In the real world when people begin spouting nonsense they are ejected from the community almost immediately. At elite institutions claims to not "believe" the Western synthesis are met…
For somebody who claims to live science you really don't seem to understand how our why it works. Replication is not at all important to science. It never had been and never will be. What is important is falsifiability…
The goal of such "controversial discussions" is always to silence the minorities. The goal is not discussion or debate but normalization of extreme views. The mechanism here is very simple. A "controversial subject" is…
HN is a very carefully controlled bubble. It's almost completely dominated by a crypto-libertarian groupthink. The article [1] is interesting though. What we're witnessing is the complete self-exile of Republicans from…
I think XML is better than protobufs when it comes to long-term even storage. Three very big problems with protobufs: (1) Protobufs are not self-describing. There is a meta-model but you can't really understand the data…
GP is clueless. Kafka is in fact more resilient and much more performant than systems like MySQL. It's the difference between having one writer and many writers. More importantly, adding yet another database to an…
That write-up sounds absolutely terrifying. I really fear for what the .NET community might be doing with event sourcing. Event sourcing is the definitive way to write high-performance front-office trading systems.…
There's no proof or sources for this. It's just more malicious nonsense. Salaries in Spain are less because, ironically, many Spanish harvest workers are from Eastern Europe and Poland and they accept these wages. And…
> If you're not white, it's almost socially acceptable to say "fuck white people" in cities like SF, NYC, and Chicago. This is a fucking joke. You would only believe this if you had completely retreated into a paranoid…
Virtually all of these currencies are very vulnerable to what's called a "Sybil attack." Bitcoin is no different [1]. Of course, to economists the concept of a "Sybil attack" is nonsense. Imagine if tomorrow the US…
What you're saying is absolutely nothing new. There's a lot of FUD and confusion in this thread (no surprise) but this has been apparent from the very beginning. "A Proof of Stake Design Philosophy" [1] makes the…
No, the result of a "narrow Overton window" is just anybody worth a damn leaving the conversation. Which is what the trolls and their heroic free speech defenders really want. The primary objective of carrying around…
> It's my opinion that most women don't want to be programmers/ICs deep down, but in a bubble environment many women will gravitate towards CS because it's where the action is in the economy, and feminists pave the way…
The thing stopping San Francisco from increasing density is democracy. The people of San Francisco do not want more density. They don't want more traffic and traffic fumes. They don't want more vehicles fighting over…
It's because everybody knows that this has nothing to do with free speech. People like to be pretend to be concerned about free speech up until a very specific point. Everybody draws the line somewhere different. (And…
It's worth mentioning: Google broke the web when it monetized linking via PageRank. Literally overnight links went from being an organic expression of organization and interest to being currency that needed to be…
> The other companies won't have as many high quality women because Google scouted and hired them already, but will have just as many low and medium quality women who aren't good enough for Google, and more high quality…
This is the funny thing about the memo. How it's read is completely determined by people's own biases. That sentence makes it very clear that Damore considers women to be biologically differently abled from men when it…
You wouldn't be surprised because that's exactly what you want to believe. It's so funny: the more things change. For decades we've been hearing arguments about why women can't go to college, shouldn't vote, can't serve…
> Because you have cases like Norway, one of the most genre equality countries, where the ratios or men/women in tech are even worse that less genre equality countries. And the most accepted theory for this is based on…
Wow. This is all kinds of wrong. * Java is far faster than Go. Nobody is working on high-performance low-latency systems in Go while Java is quickly becoming de-rigueur in this space. * Java was in fact the first…
You simply stop talking to them. In the real world when people begin spouting nonsense they are ejected from the community almost immediately. At elite institutions claims to not "believe" the Western synthesis are met…
For somebody who claims to live science you really don't seem to understand how our why it works. Replication is not at all important to science. It never had been and never will be. What is important is falsifiability…
The goal of such "controversial discussions" is always to silence the minorities. The goal is not discussion or debate but normalization of extreme views. The mechanism here is very simple. A "controversial subject" is…
HN is a very carefully controlled bubble. It's almost completely dominated by a crypto-libertarian groupthink. The article [1] is interesting though. What we're witnessing is the complete self-exile of Republicans from…
I think XML is better than protobufs when it comes to long-term even storage. Three very big problems with protobufs: (1) Protobufs are not self-describing. There is a meta-model but you can't really understand the data…
GP is clueless. Kafka is in fact more resilient and much more performant than systems like MySQL. It's the difference between having one writer and many writers. More importantly, adding yet another database to an…
That write-up sounds absolutely terrifying. I really fear for what the .NET community might be doing with event sourcing. Event sourcing is the definitive way to write high-performance front-office trading systems.…
There's no proof or sources for this. It's just more malicious nonsense. Salaries in Spain are less because, ironically, many Spanish harvest workers are from Eastern Europe and Poland and they accept these wages. And…
> If you're not white, it's almost socially acceptable to say "fuck white people" in cities like SF, NYC, and Chicago. This is a fucking joke. You would only believe this if you had completely retreated into a paranoid…
Virtually all of these currencies are very vulnerable to what's called a "Sybil attack." Bitcoin is no different [1]. Of course, to economists the concept of a "Sybil attack" is nonsense. Imagine if tomorrow the US…
What you're saying is absolutely nothing new. There's a lot of FUD and confusion in this thread (no surprise) but this has been apparent from the very beginning. "A Proof of Stake Design Philosophy" [1] makes the…
No, the result of a "narrow Overton window" is just anybody worth a damn leaving the conversation. Which is what the trolls and their heroic free speech defenders really want. The primary objective of carrying around…
> It's my opinion that most women don't want to be programmers/ICs deep down, but in a bubble environment many women will gravitate towards CS because it's where the action is in the economy, and feminists pave the way…
The thing stopping San Francisco from increasing density is democracy. The people of San Francisco do not want more density. They don't want more traffic and traffic fumes. They don't want more vehicles fighting over…
It's because everybody knows that this has nothing to do with free speech. People like to be pretend to be concerned about free speech up until a very specific point. Everybody draws the line somewhere different. (And…
It's worth mentioning: Google broke the web when it monetized linking via PageRank. Literally overnight links went from being an organic expression of organization and interest to being currency that needed to be…
> The other companies won't have as many high quality women because Google scouted and hired them already, but will have just as many low and medium quality women who aren't good enough for Google, and more high quality…
This is the funny thing about the memo. How it's read is completely determined by people's own biases. That sentence makes it very clear that Damore considers women to be biologically differently abled from men when it…
You wouldn't be surprised because that's exactly what you want to believe. It's so funny: the more things change. For decades we've been hearing arguments about why women can't go to college, shouldn't vote, can't serve…
> Because you have cases like Norway, one of the most genre equality countries, where the ratios or men/women in tech are even worse that less genre equality countries. And the most accepted theory for this is based on…