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by abraae 10y ago
All these architectural discussions seem to assume a kind of black box business system where the microservices vs monolith discussion is an internal one, conducted by and for techies, and limited to a rigid view of the business requirements
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by abraae 10y ago
As they say "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
933.
by abraae 10y ago
From a global perspective (I don't live in the USA), this sort of thing keeps the world somewhat balanced. Clearly the US healthcare system is all screwed up. Its astonishing that the richest country in the world can't provide bas
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by abraae 10y ago
Except that you create a toxic environment inside your accounts team, who have to constantly deal with incoming calls demanding money. And if you're the kind of organization that makes a process out of paying each vendor as late as pos
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by abraae 10y ago
Most of the world seems happy to click through to read a Facebook notification, so I don't know why someone who gets paid to do it would not click through to see an invoice. The main problem with clicking through is normally clunky a
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by abraae 10y ago
RAML https://www.google.co.nz/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web... , with json schema http://json-schema.org/
937.
by abraae 10y ago
That sounds very credible. On a bus in Cambodia, I watched a man fixing potholes in the road. He had nothing but a spade, and each time a vehicle came past he leapt out if it's way, clinging to a dirt bank. When I got home after that h
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by abraae 10y ago
I agree. As a 50+ programmer/CTO I freely admit I'm nothing like as quick as I used to be at pure coding. I marvel at what some of the youngsters at work can do. I took a good long time out in management but even so, age catches u
939.
by abraae 10y ago
Excellent pedantry.
940.
by abraae 10y ago
Ah the beauty of the corporation. Make money while the sun shines, then when the downturn comes, wind up the company and move on to the next big idea. Preferably something counter cyclical to the housing market.
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by abraae 10y ago
Archiving emails was a true game changer. I often email documents to myself for future reference, even though I'm also uploading them to jira, or a wiki, or a shared drive or whatever. The one place I know I can always search all the w
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by abraae 10y ago
I prefer the theory that he lost his wallet and is too embarrassed to come forward.
943.
by abraae 10y ago
Nice concept! A missing area is identity management. Most likely this should be separated from your system (e.g. don't have a table somewhere with username, password in it). In consumer facing systems, OpenID Connect (better) as practi
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by abraae 10y ago
A good philosophy for businesses that deliberately take on risk to maximise reward, and where the worst case outcome of "breaking things" is insolvency and loss of jobs and investor's money.
945.
by abraae 10y ago
Because why abandon anything if it's better than the alternatives?
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by abraae 10y ago
We do recruitment software, and one of the features that just never seems to take life is asking managers why they have rejected a candidate - even though that would be extremely useful for fine tuning the process. It seems people just don&
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by abraae 10y ago
(I am not a doctor). Skipped beats are often normal (see PVCs, PACs). A highly irregular rhythm, e.g. where your heart goes beat..beat..beatbeatbeat.beat...beat..beatbeat may be a sign you have Atrial Fibrillation, and you should definitely
948.
by abraae 10y ago
Once I learned I had Atrial Fibrillation (AF) I wrote an app that pulls my heart rate data from a normal consumer Polar chestband, then pushes it to a server where I can see it on Grafana. It was incredibly useful, and helped me learn what
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by abraae 10y ago
Read-only or not, its still part of the resource, and so PUT must supply it. Here's a nice writeup: https://stormpath.com/blog/put-or-post
950.
by abraae 10y ago
To be fair, the verbs can feel a little weird. GET is easy. HEAD is easy. DELETE is easy. PATCH is easy, especially when you use one of the two more useful standards (RFC 7386: JSON Merge Patch, or RFC 6902: JSON Patch). PUT is not much use
951.
by abraae 10y ago
This article is largely bollocks. 1) Almost every gripe in it refers to bad implementations, not bad specs. 2) It doesn't even mention HATEOAS. I'm no fan, but usually arguments about whether your API is REST or not revolve around
952.
by abraae 10y ago
> Pocket makes money. Just pocket money though.
953.
by abraae 10y ago
Ouch, those caps. Yes, normally, HR acts in the company's interests. But for many companies, its in their best interests to identify and fire creeps who work there and abuse women (or others generally). What HR will do for you depend
954.
by abraae 10y ago
LinkedIn makes loads of money from their recruiting products. They likely care as much or more that you have a good profile that recruiters can search as that you spend time on the site.
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by abraae 10y ago
I'd guess that none of them want that to happen, and it would only be a new entrant who would ever be so disruptive. I hope you're right though, that could be a truly superior business model. You can't underestimate the power
956.
by abraae 10y ago
Crikey, I just saw a DeLorean fly by.
957.
by abraae 10y ago
That's a sweeping statement that I utterly disagree with. We do HR software, I've interacted with many HR people at many companies and I've never even heard of anything as outrageous as the behavior described in this case. In
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by abraae 10y ago
See also oauth2_proxy from bitly: https://github.com/bitly/oauth2_proxy
959.
by abraae 10y ago
Its so incredibly refreshing when technologies are positioned by saying what they don't do. When we describe our cool stuff to the world, its natural to go on and on about all the cool stuff it can do. But I'm more inclined to
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by abraae 10y ago
Many, many wasted hours.

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