Person5478

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by Person5478 6y ago
I actually wonder if it's due to being a software developer. Over time I've come to realize I'm a software developer who hates software. I love the process of developing software, it's a creative outlet for me, but more
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by Person5478 6y ago
And maybe the more experienced developers have, over time, developed a better sense of what's important and what's not.
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by Person5478 6y ago
> This is why we need to program defensively. I agree wholeheartedly and I wish more developers felt this way. I hate opening new projects and seeing the potential for null reference exceptions everywhere when you could instead just chec
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by Person5478 6y ago
> This has been a big thing on my mind recently because I've been asked to do a design review for a system created by some high-SLOC-productivity people who built a complex system with a sophisticated-looking architecture but who ke
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by Person5478 6y ago
In practice code review allows 1 or 2 people on the team to insist on their preferences throughout the project. I once saw a 3-4 line fix turn into a rewrite of an entire page that took several full-time days to finish because the developer
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by Person5478 6y ago
This is probably my biggest beef with the "culture" of software development nowadays. Back in my day (hold on while I go grab my cane...) software developers would just flap their lips and sound would come out at each other. Nowad
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by Person5478 6y ago
I understand and agree with your point, but I think the word enriched is too ambiguous here. He definitely enriched the software industry, just not monetarily.
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by Person5478 6y ago
yeah, and that idea is so obvious it's a little difficult for me to understand why the original comparison was even made.
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by Person5478 6y ago
> The Clintons earned over $150 in speaking fees Man, a whole 150 dollars, those Clintons must be making bank! :P
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by Person5478 6y ago
we as a society will move on from it at some point. It's not really about winning the cultural war, it's about the elites manipulating the population and thus using the language du jour. 20-30 years ago it would have been about f
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by Person5478 6y ago
seriously. What next, Jeff Bezos can throw around 100 million without being accused of corruption because it's such a % of his overall worth? I can't even think of a way that attitude makes sense.
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by Person5478 6y ago
yeah, that was my thought too. I can literally pay for a $5 VPS and get off the ground in mere weeks as well. The only thing I don't get is the potential performance of AWS, but you have to pay extra for that at AWS as well, so paying
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by Person5478 6y ago
My biggest complaint wrt their prime video player is that the subtitles will, over time, slowly desync more and more with the audio. Having said that, one of the reasons why I'm a huge Amazon fan is because they have such great service
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by Person5478 6y ago
I feel the same. I've fallen behind in terms of the episodes being released and don't feel any particular need to catch up. I'll watch them eventually, but it's just not exciting enough for me to make it a priority.
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by Person5478 6y ago
From my perspective, that back and forth is a natural part of software development. If they wanted red and once they see it they decide they want a different shade, to me that's good software development (as long as it doesn't tu
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by Person5478 6y ago
That's so foreign to me I just have to ask why.
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by Person5478 6y ago
My experience is that people rationalize what they want. If they want microservices then you're going to get microservices. It's not all nefarious, I think if many of them truly _UNDERSTOOD_ the difficulties of microservices it w
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by Person5478 6y ago
I have an analogy I like to use. No one in their right mind would put an engineer on a factory line because said engineer built the machine. Yet people are completely ok handing off tasks to developers and asking them to do the mechanical
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by Person5478 6y ago
The biggest issue I've seen with Indian workers is they want to be handed everything so they can be left to the mechanical aspect of typing in code. The first time you come across this it's a bit of a culture shock as I think most
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by Person5478 6y ago
As companies grow there will be "pain points" that come up due to scaling (performance, architecture, development, etc). When you get to that point it's normal to wish the pain didn't exist by "doing it right"
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by Person5478 6y ago
I agree with him. It's indicative of more idealism than practical sense, which is indicative of inexperience.
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by Person5478 6y ago
As a 20+ year vet, what worries me is when someone starts talking in terms of good or bad. It's a spectrum, not a binary. There is code that's just egregiously bad. There's code that's just egregiously good (and it&#x2
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by Person5478 6y ago
I made myself clear in my initial response: > Webforms was their attempt to bring the VB6 workflow onto the web and it was a terrible idea specifically because the web is not desktop. As for performance, viewstate was a huge performance
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by Person5478 6y ago
I never said it was a moderation failure, as I said it was politely given. And I'm not providing links because I don't have them, these are things I've noted over the years as a lurker. There's so much back patting abou
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by Person5478 6y ago
You said the following: > it had much better benchmarks than interpreted languages at the time That seems an odd statement for someone not confusing WebForms with the tech stack. You can build applications in asp.net framework without th
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by Person5478 6y ago
> As far as I can tell, HN mods focus more on how you say something rather than what you say. This is true and I've seen some extremely vile, reprehensible things said, but that went unmoderated because they were said politely (I&#x
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by Person5478 6y ago
Until Google does something else I'd give them a pass. Steam, for example, will give you more information about the reviews to avoid brigading. I'm more inclined to believe Google is trying to head brigading off. When they start
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by Person5478 6y ago
> With that out of the way, I would recommend using a test double in exactly one kind of situation: When it's genuinely awkward to use the real thing. THANK YOU. I'm actually pretty staunchly anti-mocking (and anything similar)
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by Person5478 6y ago
You're confusing webforms with the asp.net framework. The framework itself was mostly good tech, as long as you didn't use webforms. Probably the biggest flaw in the framework was not having a way to capture all unhandled exceptio
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by Person5478 6y ago
I've never seen anyone actually say MS got it RIGHT with webforms. Webforms was their attempt to bring the VB6 workflow onto the web and it was a terrible idea specifically because the web is not desktop. I get your point, but as far a

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