abraxas

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541.
by abraxas 4y ago
For software engineering 2001 especially post 9/11 was brutal. Much more so than 2008 unless you worked for a financial company. 2008/2009 was lean times but good people were able to find work. After the dotcom bust however, thing
542.
by abraxas 4y ago
I want to remind all these "heads" of state around the world that Kubrick's "Dr Strangelove" was not meant as a policy guide.
543.
by abraxas 4y ago
We had this in the early 2000s. It was called J2EE application servers. All external dependencies were specified in terms of interfaces. Granted a lot of them were needlessly convoluted but the premise was good.
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by abraxas 4y ago
> You also therefore can’t truly run Firebase locally. To me this is just incredible. As an old timer who learned the ropes in the late eighties it never crossed my mind (what with computers always getting faster) that we would once agai
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by abraxas 4y ago
What does AR open up for boxing that VR doesn't? Genuinely asking as I'm a fellow ToTF fan. I just can't conceive what kind of enticing features would you introduce to the game in an AR headset?
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by abraxas 4y ago
Maybe I'm lucky. I'm on my fifth job (out of six) where calculus knowledge has been incredibly useful. I'm not even into ML or data analysis. Just a run of the mill software engineer/architect.
547.
by abraxas 4y ago
Unfortunately geolocking isn't new or unique to the pure bits movie format. DVDs were regionally locked as well and even analog media like VHS tapes used color encoding formats that were specific in different regions (NTSC vs PAL vs SE
548.
by abraxas 4y ago
Java always was fine for those of us who refused to get suckered into the j2ee/ejb vortex of nonsense.
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by abraxas 4y ago
I share your sentiment. Adopting each of these tools also implies adopting their roadmaps. It's a bet that your needs and their roadmaps align well in the future. Does anyone even look at that anymore when selecting vendors?
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by abraxas 4y ago
I have a hunch that the chief issue with the cloud is that it enables and promotes easy sprawl of the infrastructure. It's just so easy to "scale" your way out of glaring performance bugs such as unoptimized queries where tha
551.
by abraxas 4y ago
This is a worse mess than what preceded it.
552.
by abraxas 4y ago
Is there a reason this could not be a tiny dot matrix printer? Or would people scoff at the noise?
553.
by abraxas 4y ago
Almost certainly self driving vehicles of all kinds. Even in the absence of any major ML algorithm breakthrough, I believe there is enough work already accomplished where the industry can grind out a well functioning solution in 20 years. T
554.
by abraxas 4y ago
But the thing is that mainframes abstract a lot of the fault tolerance in hardware thus absolving the developer of a lot of the responsibility and the cognitive overhead. A mainframe in software pitch sounds a bit like that 90s RAM expansio
555.
by abraxas 4y ago
It's what we did in C in the 80s and 90s and all the young hipsters chose to ignore. This industry loves going in circles. In the same vein, I also heard that the new data exchange hotness is grpc. Reading a little into that thing it s
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by abraxas 4y ago
A Kubernetes based architecture exposes to the developer and the operator a lot of things that superior hardware can abstract almost completely. Things like Mainframes can offer performance and uptime that easily beats pretty large commodit
557.
by abraxas 4y ago
Most software development these days consists of applying glue code to myriad of frameworks and libraries as opposed to writing algorithmic code. This kind of work does not lend itself well to TDD.
558.
by abraxas 4y ago
Most businesses could easily handle their entire enterprise workloads on a single server. Add Raid and backups and for all practical purposes you have a system with the same uptime as the crazy Rube Goldberg contraptions people build in the
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by abraxas 4y ago
Literally, design by resume. I see it at my current workplace. Top talent guys are fucking around wit K8s even though we really have no use for it and could host the whole shebang on a single EC2 instance and be no worse off for it. But tha
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by abraxas 4y ago
And all the transactional challenges that having more than one persistent store brings with it. Either need to have XA orchestration or implement the saga pattern. Either way it's a massive complexity overhead if transactional consiste
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by abraxas 4y ago
Moreover, just with the sheer count of VCs, stock investors and other sorts that play with their (or more often other people's) money to try and earn outsized profits, it is inevitable that a small sliver of them will be wildly success
562.
by abraxas 4y ago
At these volumes they can very well be. And when that is no longer tenable the time comes to introduce a streaming message system like Kafka. In my experience the use case for something like Rabbit is a small crevice between these two solut
563.
by abraxas 4y ago
Let's be aggressive and interpret this into a worst case and assume that the author is referring to one week and 700 million messages. That's 100M messages per day or 1157 messages per second. That volume could be handled by a sin
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by abraxas 4y ago
> Throughout that time we have scaled to 200+ concurrent consumers running across a dozen virtual machines while coordinating message processing (1 queue to N consumers) and processed hundreds of millions of messages in our .NET applicat
565.
by abraxas 4y ago
I would wager that the landscape today is a bit of an opposite. The secret sauce today is to reject as much excessive technology as possible while still meeting your business goals. A lot of productivity is wasted on framework churn.
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by abraxas 4y ago
I believe this is far more pertinent in today's crazy zoo of languages, frameworks, freak show databases from flash in the pan vendors and the incidental complexity that is woven into nearly every project for no good reason.
567.
by abraxas 4y ago
I believe long gone are the days when the language choice would constitute a significant competitive edge. It can still hurt as heck if you pick a bad one but I don't think the post here aged all that well.
568.
by abraxas 4y ago
Great aspect ratio but pathetic DPI. I'd buy it in a heart beat if it had 4x the pixels.
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by abraxas 4y ago
Probably a teacher of programming. I love seeing the "aha" moment in people's faces when the finally get something. It's an instant gratification even bigger than when cutting code. I used to work as a teacher in a local
570.
by abraxas 4y ago
Oh, that's how you do that! Thanks. I could have spent more time looking for it but the dark theme really stings my eyes so I noped out of it too soon.

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