I built a proxy number for my sister who has to deal with her abusive ex-husband. She has court ordered visitations via phone for their kids. He would give her number to any multitude of people that would send harassing messages on his behalf.
The proxy allows any calls or texts from her number to send out with the proxy number. Any calls or texts from his number connect to her phone. All other communications are given a notice that they don't have access to call or message the proxy number and communications are recorded for court. It does not forward blocked communications to her phone. He continues to give out the number to harass her, but the family court judge gets a monthly report of all the attempted harassment.
To be honest I think this happens naturally and it's fine. The median age in the community feels older and more folks are working in management and business roles. Interests in a community ebb and flow in relation to what folks are working on these days.
The DNS hack is a nice low fidelity way to avoid procrastination helpers. I have also used https://www.rescuetime.com/ which provides a bit more of a polished interface for accomplishing the same effect.
One aspect is that LinkedIn is protective of plugins that incidentally cover up their own ads. Notably several entries on this list once had such grievances filed against them.
Much agreed. Verilog/VHDL are simply not programming languages. They are Hardware Description Languages. They describe parallel components that will actually be "wired" together.
My advice if you are a programmer or computer scientist and you get tasked with writing Verilog of VHDL "code" you need to be able to explain the difference -- You've just been offered a job as a hardware designer and engineer. Having spent 5 years doing hardware engineering and a lot longer doing software consulting I can say it's an entirely different set of skills if not an entirely different career path.
Time to market and developer productivity matter so much more than capital expenses that it is ridiculous. I could buy another server in the time it takes to pay a developer for a days work. Not to mention, not all the features on a web application need to serve more than 2500 requests per second. The ones that do can be refactored into a web service with higher throughput or designed to be scaled separately from the rest of the features. It doesn't make sense to daisy-tank (to pick daisies with a tank) every single feature to support throughput it doesn't need at the expense of developer time. More over until there are analytics for what your users are using deciding what to optimize is entirely speculation. Bad science. The best way to get those analytics is to be live and the best way to be live is to have a built product.
The benchmarks of linux on a physical machine rather than a virtual machine is not representative of performance for (gawd help me) cloud-centric deployments. These benchmarks assume the maximum benefit from compiler optimizations that would not be available on a virtualized machine.
I'm not sure what compilers check more than syntactical errors. Those aren't any slower to fix in a dynamic language. I'd recommend checking on Sandi Metz on testing
The rest is just language preference. And my preference is ruby. Python is fine with me too. Javascript makes me a sad panda, but it runs in all the browsers and it's a lot better with the magic of coffeescript.
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