abraxas

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by abraxas 4y ago
It really needs a non-dark theme for those of us who can't use a dark theme.
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by abraxas 4y ago
Having used both languages at work my opinion is that Java has a better developer experience due to the strong type system allowing you to use third party libraries much more easily even when their documentation is not quite up to par. In
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by abraxas 4y ago
Not sure that I see the point of this. Such ascii art seems more trouble to create than an equivalent diagram in an svg editor? And if I want pretty output from a textual input wouldn't mermaid[1] make much more sense? [1] https:&#x2F
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by abraxas 4y ago
I recall building my first FLTK app in 1998 and being somewhat dismayed that it was more than 1.2 MB in size. With some craftiness I had it down to just under a Meg. It was a 3D model viewer that allowed me to load some common 3d files incl
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by abraxas 4y ago
You mean like eventual consistency vs immediate consistency? Because a database that reflects its changes at the end of a transaction is called an ACID database not a real-time database.
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by abraxas 4y ago
Nice but my super anal quip is please don't call this thing "realtime". It doesn't make sense in this context. What is realtime about it? Are there timing guarantees or are timing constraints provided in API requests? Be
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by abraxas 4y ago
Careful there. The JavaScript ecosystem is nothing if not diverse...
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by abraxas 4y ago
> when you have a very large number of employees developing software it means that you can keep your teams out of each others' hair Two things here. One is that it often looks like the tail wagging the dog. Microservices are often i
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by abraxas 4y ago
Cvent?
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by abraxas 4y ago
Not sure it’s a good idea to post your personal coordinates on a public forum on a dating thread even in this “obfuscated” format. You’ll probably get some unwelcome attention or at least get spambot subscribed to “newsletters” and “offers
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by abraxas 4y ago
The cognitive overhead for coding web apps in a modern enterprise environment is enormous. It tends to be a big pile of spaghetti where the hipsters changed the noodles to the RPC flavour and called it "microservices". Most times
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by abraxas 4y ago
In 5 years? I think you misspelled weeks here. Last six months with my last employer I spent immersed in the full Next, React, Prisma ecosystem. I swear that 80% of developers' time was wasted on fighting compatibility issues. Actual w
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by abraxas 4y ago
Thank you for the great response and to fill in some details here, my son is 10 and he goes to a public school and has a handful of friends through school but unfortunately none of them are within a walking distance. He likes the kind of st
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by abraxas 4y ago
I have only one child and making sure he doesn’t feel lonely or bored when no friends are around is my biggest challenge. Raising an only brings about challenges that aren’t discussed as much as they should be. I think there is a huge diffe
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by abraxas 4y ago
I'm not digging this. I don't think a full Turing complete language syntax adds much to a diagram tool. I much prefer the conciseness of the syntax of Mermaid compared to this.
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by abraxas 4y ago
I miss furl a lot. It was a short lived service in the days of Web 2.0 where it not only bookmarked the pages for you but also saved a scraped copy and indexed it so it was really easy to find content later. It was an amazing academic resea
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by abraxas 4y ago
Yep, many (especially younger) programmers don't get the "feel" for how fast things should run and as a result often "optimize" things horribly by either "scaling out" i.e. running things on clusters way l
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by abraxas 4y ago
Yeah, obviously there is nostalgia value for a lot of people but objectively it's a pretty average looking case even for the era... which leads me to ask this: what _was_ the best looking computer case of the retro era?
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by abraxas 4y ago
Nice although this would not have been my choice of a case to mod. I'd love to and some day may attempt to do this to a well preserved SGI Octane or O2.
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by abraxas 4y ago
ORM, DI, reflection, config, validation, events... So... a hipster SpringBoot then? The history doesn't repeat but it rhymes indeed :)
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by abraxas 4y ago
that's not a lot to show for over a decade when you compare that to the relative progress made over previous decades.
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by abraxas 4y ago
It may be fine to route the alert to the code owner but yet another gotcha of the microsevice architecture is that a localized alert will often issue a cascade of failures and the component that alerts may or may not be the one that needs a
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by abraxas 4y ago
I left my last job as a senior architect mostly because of microservices ran amok. I decided that there was little I could do to move the needle and since the microsevice mania drove them also to having close to a hundred of those things th
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by abraxas 4y ago
I disagree. As someone born in the early seventies I was already an adult in 1997. The problems did exist back then but the scale of them was different and hence was the focus and so the mood of the population not just in America but in pl
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by abraxas 4y ago
Very, very few places will let you not use a framework nowadays. There is a ton of cargo culting around JS frameworks and coding vanilla is pretty much heresy land these days. Personal projects? Go for it. Commercial apps built for your emp
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by abraxas 4y ago
> China wanting to build a security alliance with Canada and Mexico and install advanced weapons systems This analogy is flawed for two reasons. First, the USA is not trying to build advanced weapons systems on Russia's borders. Rus
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by abraxas 4y ago
> Webpack has been the de facto build system for react since 2017 lol and that's why we saw the emergence of rollup and parcel and snowpack and whatever the hell else came along since then?
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by abraxas 4y ago
If you don't know these words you haven't been coding JS long enough. Those like myself who started in 2014 or earlier know all of those and more (anyone still remember shrinkwrap for example)?
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by abraxas 4y ago
> Also, Russia is not the USSR. Russia is a direct inheritor of the legacy of USSR. Culturally as well as legally. But I digress. My personal experience is but one data point for you and other westerners. Just be aware that sometimes a s
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by abraxas 4y ago
I don't get why such commitments were made in the first place. Why is it OK for Russia to be dictating what sovereign countries can or cannot do within their own borders? Especially now, given their behaviour on the world stage the Wes

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