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by Guid_NewGuid 3y ago
You've obviously hit a sore spot for some people. The system is built to capture value (not create it) while externalising as much damage and cost as possible. The sooner one accepts that the less deluded one needs to be. There's
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by Guid_NewGuid 3y ago
I think this kind of belief in free markets should be treated as equivalent to beliefs in Santa or fairies at the bottom of the garden. 'Consumers don't want to die in plane crashes so if they are killed in a plane crash they will
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by Guid_NewGuid 3y ago
Yeah I've been following the thread but feeling a bit queasy because there's a real person on the end of all this vitriol. I think a lot of people's anger and waving the GDPR stuff around is excessive. It's understandabl
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by Guid_NewGuid 3y ago
Not to mention, some of us have to frikkin crap too! It's kinda a daft reason but for people with irritable bowels or other conditions work from home is an absolute godsend. No more terrible cramped toilet stalls with attendant embarra
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by Guid_NewGuid 3y ago
This is still like chaotic neutral at best. I refuse to believe computers can stay on overnight (spot the Windows user). I shut my computer down completely every afternoon so it can have a rest and start up refreshed tomorrow.* *What actual
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by Guid_NewGuid 3y ago
This is confusing to me. Rather than one or two good, open, reference implementations everyone uses you'd rather have multiple proprietary solutions? That seems worse for people who want to learn from a commons of knowledge and hugely
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by Guid_NewGuid 3y ago
To be fair it is somewhat a punching bag example but I think what people are reacting to, but maybe not articulating well, is the presumption for microservices by the powers-that-be. Of course the only rational take on monoliths versus micr
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by Guid_NewGuid 3y ago
I feel like it's a semantics thing. To me the meaning of microservices has undergone semantic drift to the antipattern in the article where every little component or database table is its own service with an associated "pizza team
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by Guid_NewGuid 3y ago
On here? Nothing will change from the chorus of "well I get all my meat from this local quaint little butcher who knows all the cows by name and they're raised on grassland that cannot sustain arable farming so it's fine, act
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by Guid_NewGuid 4y ago
No one likes these consent modals, not the EU, not the companies, not the end users. But they're good. They're making the negative externality visible. We had developed an ecosystem where as soon as you clicked on a webpage it wou
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by Guid_NewGuid 4y ago
Yeah the culture war seems to be seeping in everywhere and particularly badly on these topics as the bulk of comments on this article seem to show. At the boundaries even in humans this stuff gets really fuzzy and has real world implication
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by Guid_NewGuid 4y ago
Just to reinforce what you say here > I think we all live in our own bubbles, because I see so much discussion of SF crime. As a European on this platform it's ceaseless whinging about the state of SF and how the "woke mob&quot
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by Guid_NewGuid 4y ago
My thoughts on the co-pilot thing remain as vague as ever but I made something of a connection reading this: > GPL violations by soulless corporations stealing the hard work of independent programmers and assimilating it into their own p
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by Guid_NewGuid 4y ago
I'd agree here and I think there's a big flaw in how this period of history is taught to people in the 'victorious' powers. Generally a high-school level of history (assuming you're paying the normal level of attent
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by Guid_NewGuid 4y ago
Exactly this. You can hold that the current copyright system is good and fine. That's a moral position that is, in my view, entirely deluded but internally consistent and not really worth having a discussion about. People who conclude
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by Guid_NewGuid 4y ago
Yeah, certainly from a UK perspective that part of the GP didn't ring true. While my parent isn't one of the boomer generation that will be extremely well off and I personally worry for their retirement, across the generation in g
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by Guid_NewGuid 4y ago
I can only speak to the UK who remain a European (if not EU) country. My understanding having been through it in my first job, is in the UK you must make a given number of a specific role redundant. So it's not the people you're l
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by Guid_NewGuid 4y ago
I mean the example given with the star looks fine to me? Crucially it's not whitespace sensitive. YAML is a terrible terrible thing and yet another place we've collectively lost the plot.
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by Guid_NewGuid 4y ago
> if we're going to be ignoring copyright, everyone should be able to do it. Yes, yesss. You're getting to the logical conclusion. Now I don't think Microsoft have become 'based' and want to break the copyright s
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by Guid_NewGuid 4y ago
I mean on your incest example specifically there's an episode of New Amsterdam, a very Liberal show on what I assume is a Liberal channel, which deals with exactly the situation you raise and ends with a fairly "hands off" co
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by Guid_NewGuid 4y ago
One thing Atul Gawande writes about in Being Mortal is podiatry as a simple intervention to reduce the rate of falls amongst the elderly. I don't have the book to hand and don't know if it had a corresponding citation, but worth a
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by Guid_NewGuid 4y ago
Apologies for the delay in a reply. I think this has been a constructive discussion certainly for how I think about things. > Interfaces don't change under microservices. Communication by contract enshrines a contract. You must ensu
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by Guid_NewGuid 4y ago
I went back and forth on downvoting. I rarely ever do and don't think it's appropriate in this case since you certainly, uhm, sparked a lively discussion. What I would say is you take a, let's say, free-market aligned source,
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by Guid_NewGuid 4y ago
It's been hard to find a timeline or more general history of TDD and I should have probably used the word "had" above. But my understanding is RSpec[0] was a huge driver of the test driven development hype cycle. While DHH[1]
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by Guid_NewGuid 4y ago
# Microservices Agreed the same database gets difficult but I guess, where two things need to change dependently there's coordination overhead, that's inescapable. You can in general use e.g. schemas to keep domains fairly separat
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by Guid_NewGuid 4y ago
# Microservices I think at the root this idea that Microservices provide this technical solution to a social issue, coordinating teams at scale, hides the driving motivation. Why can't the teams work on the same codebase and the same d
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by Guid_NewGuid 4y ago
My understanding is that it's kind of a 3-pronged thing, It originates (or is "rediscovered") by Kent Beck working in, at-the-time, Smalltalk. It has huge adoption in the RonR community. And lastly the usual Java suspects who
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by Guid_NewGuid 4y ago
Time to throw the cat amongst the proverbial pigeons and start the year 2023 off with discord and disharmony. Microservices are a solution to a problem. TDD is a solution to a problem, the same problem. Both are solutions that themselves cr
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by Guid_NewGuid 4y ago
I had written a long reply but I don't think it was particularly constructive. I'd dispute it being inaccurate to talk about a generational divide when one clearly exists. We shouldn't avoid discussion of such a divide to sav

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