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by YouWhy 3y ago
TL;DR: There're few global incentives for a LinkedIn app developer to make an overall good app, as opposed to making their PM happy. In detail: This is how death by a thousand papercuts looks like. I've had the (dubious) pleasure
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by YouWhy 3y ago
The article is well written, but I am annoyed at the attempt to gatekeep the definition of a filesystem. Like literally any abstraction out there, filesystems are associated with a multitude of possible approaches with conceptually differen
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by YouWhy 3y ago
The scenario at hand is data leakage; accordingly the prevention strategy is by having a more secure storage system. One way of addressing that is by using a secure vault for sensitive data storage. This is beyond the skillset of most backe
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by YouWhy 3y ago
The most useful construct I am aware of that I wish became more popular in backend languages is strongly typed tree literals. (Introduced by Meta in Hack as "XHP") Consider this pseudocode expression: :Div{Hello :Span(style='
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by YouWhy 3y ago
My reading of the text is as a foreigner's critique of the American trope of asserting an ideal purpose to everything. An example from my own experience: an org leader proclaiming the need for "laser sharp focus". Amigo, you&
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by YouWhy 3y ago
I think we have a case of survivorship bias. A considerable majority of the science-non-SWE crowd are de facto incapable of writing more than 100 lines of runs-in-my-notebook code. Hence, if a change/bug is necessary, it is much likeli
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by YouWhy 3y ago
Design iteration is typically a long tail phenomenon - new issues keep coming up as the system (car) faces new scenarios. Even a high-resource prototyping program can only go so far with scenarios like - wear and tear/part fatigue, adv
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by YouWhy 3y ago
I would not expect RR to be particularly high quality, due to: 1. Small production batches, 2. Low typical usage - most RR owners do not use it to commute on a daily basis, hence do not face high reliability requirements, 3. The ability of
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by YouWhy 3y ago
I'm yet to see a single business case of money entering the QC value chain outside of (a) other QC businesses and (b) moonshot investments. After ~15 years of literally the world's smartest people trying to come up with exactly th
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by YouWhy 3y ago
I think the OP (hat off!) needed a way to transfer data to the front-end of another application. Since there's no back end involved, the only available channel is the request URL
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by YouWhy 3y ago
Quite the opposite. Piracy (more precisely: systematically and arbitrarily attacking vessels in the open seas) is not considered legitimate for any government - not the US, not China and certainly not Israel. The violation of this rule by i
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by YouWhy 3y ago
> deliver "enough" food and medicine to people in gaza? You assert that this case of piracy is driven by noble causes, as opposed to literally any use of force by any government in human history. Assuming that the Houthi demand
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by YouWhy 3y ago
With respect to Chan Zuckerberg Science: As an engineer who had worked for a number of years in biotech and med-tech, I find fault with the underlying assumption that one can build an organization out of bio-PI types and get anything out of
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by YouWhy 3y ago
Thank you for the clarity and precision of your writeup. The organization you described exhibits a fundamental attitude of learned helplessness when it comes down to software development, as opposed to operations (tech or otherwise). I saw
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by YouWhy 3y ago
The IDF is a negligible source when it comes to reporting on Israeli civilian casualties. The tally of multiple hundreds of civilians murdered is easily verifiable - for about 400 civilians, names have been published [1]. One reason for the
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by YouWhy 3y ago
0. Realistically, any mature MFA app needs to have a cloud backup option enabled by default. 1. Google did not message their induction of Authenticator cloud backups as having a massive impact on their clients' vulnerability surface. 2
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by YouWhy 3y ago
Marie Curie died of acute aplastic anemia [1], at age 66, after decades of working with radioactive materials and operating an unshielded X-ray machine thousands of times during World War I. While long term radium exposure has been known to
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by YouWhy 3y ago
TL;DR: Good step for the entire market, productization is the harder problem. I had been formerly involved with Kemtai, which built a fantastic physical therapy/fitness experience (in my biased view) using motion tracking. If anyone&#x
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by YouWhy 3y ago
Proper disclosure: I had been formerly involved with them. Try Kemtai.com. There's a demo section at https://app.kemtai.com/sample-workouts We took workout experience super seriously, and in my biased view, got it to
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by YouWhy 3y ago
You're fully right! I added them both - E.A. was the original toolmaker, and A.S. worked more down the chain. He definitely was the person who walked me through the finer points of retrieving the data.
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by YouWhy 3y ago
Wow! So this is actually a drama I had a secondary role in. A few remarks: 1. Team: Nitzan (the blog author, and an awesome dude!) was at the time the Production Engineer monitoring the top-line capacity metrics. The Java heapdump tooling w
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by YouWhy 4y ago
I am trying hard to see who could be the target audience for such a thing. My best guess is engineers who are not currently employed, but who would like to up specifically their Oracle skills, as opposed to other valuable alternatives like
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by YouWhy 4y ago
While the basic technique is sound, SQL recursive queries' no-side-effects character means a huge number of basic graph traversal strategies (e.g.: pruning, shortest path first/Dijkstra) are beyond reasonable engineering. In addit
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by YouWhy 4y ago
While the "incompetent youth" trope is trite, I do feel we're past "peak learning curve" on systems for youth. I think photography is even a better example than scanners: so many things that were super hard once are
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by YouWhy 4y ago
Towards the end of my tenure in a team, a new boss instituted mandatory viewing sessions of Martin's training videos; I grew somewhat averse of them. While the heart of Martin's teachings are about expressivity and semantics, the
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by YouWhy 4y ago
Wow, a blast from the past! I first stumbled on these some time in the early 2000s. During my stint in Big Tech, I would often times reflect how much of what I was seeing was an instance of: > With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.
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by YouWhy 4y ago
I think of the difference more as a Kuhnian paradigm shift, rather than than as clan warfare. The whole value chain changed. PSTN is a highly fragile, highly standardized, high expertise technology that was possible using very rudimentary b
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by YouWhy 4y ago
I think the name was a play on both "Ericsson Language" and the name of Agner Krarup Erlang, who pioneered queuing theory (before it was known as such) to address the fundamental question of inter-exchange capacity planning. The u
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by YouWhy 4y ago
I can't access the article due to the paywall, but I do have a take worth sharing. I think there's a perfect synergy between: 1. Corporates being an immensely near sighted form of human interaction, 2. Creation of massive, high-ma
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by YouWhy 4y ago
I like where this is headed. A lot of application frameworks have some kind of a security policy engine, but all of these invariably are inadequate - because modern policy management is about interfacing outside of systems, and that they do

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