CipherThrowaway

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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
FWIW, some version of your rant occurs in almost every industry. Even doctors have hospital administrators complaining about how arrogant and non-business minded they are, how they are opportunistically defending their turf and so on. What
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
>What did give me pause was how he handled negotiations over a clause in our potential agreement. He didn't listen to my concerns, and didn't budge one inch. I've learned to listen to my gut in these situations. The worse
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
>The amount of repos ( private ) I've stumble upon where only some documentation exists on how to build it but not even a word on what it is, what it does and where does it fit is quite high. When you find something consistently suc
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
The idea isn't "put no effort into keeping documentation up to date." It's to acknowledge that, in the real world, documentation does go out of date despite the best efforts of project maintainers. Sticking our fingers i
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
Which specific points in the post did you disagree with? "Just keep the documentation up-to-date" sounds about as practical as saying "just don't write bugs." The impact and importance of documentation varies from p
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
This doesn't say what you think it does. IBS being co-morbid with anxiety is not evidence that people are spuriously identifying as sufferers. It's the expected finding for a disorder in which psychological stress and the brain-gu
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
I don't understand the mindset behind a comment like this. Where does the confidence behind this opinion come from, when the knowledge basis falls below "bothered to Google it"? The idea of a hypochondriac making a spurious c
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
Classic HN conversation here. "The web is too complex! All these web frameworks are too complicated!" "Okay, what do you suggest instead?" "I'd just use [completely unmaintainable technology from the 90s that i
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
Maintaining VBScript sucked 100x worse than TypeScript. How would you approach SSG with Classic ASP?
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
F5ing to refresh is a heavier workflow than the hot-reload/refresh you get with every modern web framework.
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
> Are there a lot of server side template languages that can’t do this? Did I say there weren't a lot of template languages that can do this? A dead give-away that this subject isn't as "straight-forward" as you think
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
To me, that is a separate level of decision. Sure, you could avoid the whole problem of building a docs generator by using an off-the-shelf docs generator, and letting the Redoc and Swagger dev teams deal with all the development complexity
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
Going by the response headers, it seems that most if not all of the HTML served by docs.mux.com consists of cacheable static files. As the OP article mentions, using React for static generation is one of the big use cases for RSC and Next.
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
How much experience do you have with RSC and Next.js? I remember writing PHP and JSF back in the 90s and 00s, and the experience of both writing RSC and Next.js as well as using websites built with these technologies is simply not comparabl
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
I haven't used Blazor, but I shudder at the thought of using Jinja to generate the HTML here. Rendering documents from OpenAPI spec benefits from being able to easily transform data, map, filter and so on - especially if you are displa
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
I agree re: scroll hijacking and with a preference for minimal styling, while noting that the styling on docs.mux.com is pretty minimal compared to other docs sites. What I'm wondering is what the anti-React folks are recommending for
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
It seems most of the content is dynamically rendered (at build time with SSG). What alternative did you have in mind?
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
Standard playbook in this situation is everyone involved saves face by blaming the team who were driven out, then they adjust to the new normal and everyone forgets they were ever able to build and ship software.
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
You could flip the order and do a sequential read from the source with a random write to the destination. It sounds like this would still suffer from poor performance on the data mentioned in the article, but it is hard to feel like some ki
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
The permutation function is essentially a block cipher on the index. It's stateless and there is no need for intermediate files or buffers. The cost of running the function should be comparable to RNG.
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
I did not see it mentioned in the article, but I wonder why or if the team rejected a permutation function on the index. The shuffled dataset would then be Xs[i] = X[f(i)]
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
I read the dishonest employee story and, candidly, I did not find it to be an example of good leadership. You are recounting an argument that you are proud to have won, and where you are proud to have put a subordinate in his place. In your
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
That's not a principle. That's just a random thing that people thought back in the 80s and 90s because of some clever little comment in a spec, that sounded correct at the time but proved absolutely ruinous in the decades since. S
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
I would extend this to unused query parameters and trailing slashes or lack thereof.
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
This take is infinitely more naive. Everyone knows that companies act in economic self-interest. That's not the point of contention or where the discussion is situated at all. Orosz is knowingly evoking social and moral frameworks, rat
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
Maybe I've only worked in ass-backwards companies but it seems to me that for almost all stakeholders, including project managers, bosses and clients, the "requirement" abstraction really does mean: > [This feature is] s
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
IMO the XY problem problem eclipsed the XY problem in significance a while ago. Q&A communities are full of useless XYsplaining that pollutes search results with non-answers. If you know the answer to someone's question, and you wa
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
I have a similar struggle and find you are largely limited to learning piecemeal. I have found the best learning resources are the technical docs, specifications, proposals and source code of major language projects and VMs. Research langua
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
Generated lexers are still worth it but handwritten RD won on the parsing front. No other historical debate gets this Weekend at Bernie's treatment the way parser generators do. Is it from dated undergrad + research material? There mus
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by CipherThrowaway 3y ago
IME this dividing line exists more in theory than practice. Maybe your partner feeling upset or rejected leads to a fight about something unrelated the next day. Or maybe it's easier to rebuff some nagging than to deal with an insecure

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