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by aeschinder 4y ago
In the 1980s, COBOL was taught in my computer database class. I actually used my COBOL skills at the federal government Veteran's Affairs job I had for several years after college. If you are always chasing the latest language and ge
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by aeschinder 4y ago
Just so I understand...two stimmy checks are to blame for inflation and product shortages? I know this is a popular talking point, but there needs to be some facts to back this up. Supply chains were wrecked by shipping container shorta
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by aeschinder 4y ago
Microservices are excellent when you have a self-contained set of APIs that need to be updated independently of other code. You must adhere to a contract, publish the contract and provide backwards compatibility for all existing clients.
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by aeschinder 4y ago
Is the current API testable? So many times I've taken ownership of code that requires an active connection to a database to even be up and running. Changing the code so it's testable usually changes the code so much it is very
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by aeschinder 4y ago
I've been thrown to the wolves many times before, having to absorb and trace huge commercial codebases and be productive the same week on making updates and answering questions. Over abstraction is a real thing - real smart developers
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by aeschinder 4y ago
I was a manager at a well known .com for several years. HR exists to protect the company from its own employees. That's why you have to sit through mandatory DEI training, sexual harassment training and other indignities. Studies
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by aeschinder 4y ago
Previous company of mine wanted to make drastic reorganization changes and so they hired McKinsey to simply echo what they already wanted to happen. This is to provide cover for upper management (a.k.a. the "wooden desks") who c