alkaline9

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   Show HN: I created a translation service prompt(github.com)

   2 points by alkaline9 29d ago|1 comments
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   by alkaline9 6y ago

   Some years back, I was a senior software engineer and I was becoming less productive, because I was afraid I might produce code that wasn't judged as senior-software-engineer quality. My manager started to get a little concerned. One d
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   by alkaline9 7y ago

   Perhaps I should amend my statement: "such that they would fall apart as soon as we stop putting energy into maintaining hardware and software dependencies" Software assumes that there exists specific hardware, operating systems,
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   by alkaline9 7y ago

   No, it is asking people to design and test systems for the long-term. It would require establishing strong interfaces between components that will hold up when subcomponents are swapped out. I think of it like a car where parts can be repla
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   by alkaline9 7y ago

   Perishable software is a huge problem - things keep operating only in dynamic equilibrium, such that they would fall apart as soon as we stop putting energy into fixing flaws. I have been thinking for years that as a society, we need 100-ye