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541.
by alkonaut 2y ago
It’s obviously more likely to find a C# codebase riddled with obsolete OO patterns than a Rust one. But I think the strongest signal for that would rather be e.g the code being related to web/service backends of some kind. I much more
542.
by alkonaut 2y ago
The correct amount of OO in any language is ”as little as possible”. It’s quite possible to do this well in C#. There are levels of OO to not just on or off. E.g there is a difference between order.Process() and OrderProcessor.Process(order
543.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Yeah static types as containers for functions just means the hierarchy becomes easier. In A.B.C.D() you know A.B is a namespace, C is a type and D() is a static method. With free functions you’d be unsure if this is a free method in the A.B
544.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Same. I think it’s because it’s easy to read and write, and its worst design warts are at least not ridiculous like they are in say JS or Go, where there are massive cons to weigh against the pros. C# just feels like it’s pretty decent acro
545.
by alkonaut 2y ago
These were the first lines of Go I ever wrote 15 minutes ago, as a response to the claim that Go had working enums. This is the kind of thing that makes me itch. https://go.dev/play/p/MMPMh7_U81- I think "be
546.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Next day I have this (added one entry). I forgot to update the string list elsewhere however. const ( Pending Status = iota InProgress Completed Cancelled Failed ) func (s Status) String() string { return [...]string{"Pending", &q
547.
by alkonaut 2y ago
You can still use Facebook or whatever. But not having all eggs in one basket is always a good idea.
548.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Do NOT grow a business based on some single closed single ecosystem. That's especially true for Facebook (Do NOT host your company "webpage" on Facebook only, for example) and LinkedIn. The final nail in the coffin for Linked
549.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Yeah same thing. Such a company is just 100 different 100 people companies. Plus a lot of big enterprise bs. Working at a 100 ppl company that has 105 people next year, that sounds great. Or even a 1000 people company that has 1000 or 1050
550.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Can't think of anything I'd like less than working at a company that has 100 employees after 1 year and then 200 the next year. Talk about mostly being occupied with moving desks, onboarding people and having growth other such gro
551.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Yeah. But again, it basically means you have no handover of anything, and in many (most?) places around the world you are still required to pay employees for a long period after notice. So you have an opportunity for handover that you are p
552.
by alkonaut 2y ago
There are tons of use cases. E.g. if you know an algorithm (take any pseudocode description from a moderately complex algorithm on Wikipedia for example) and you know the programming language, you still may be looking at an hour or two of t
553.
by alkonaut 2y ago
That’s a waste of resources the company pays for anyway.
554.
by alkonaut 2y ago
If I was hellbent on doing that, I’d likely pull it off anyway. It seems like a massive trouble to avoid something quite rare.
555.
by alkonaut 2y ago
These leave-on-the-day layoffs are really strange to me. Unless there was a bankruptcy or something, I'd most likely be convinced by management to stay my entire period of notice (3 months) because the company would need to PAY me 100%
556.
by alkonaut 2y ago
What do you mean?
557.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Wait there is no service schedule? Surely there's at least a recommended schedule, but not following it won't void the warranty? I mean recurring things like changing (passenger) air filters or brake fluid work about the same fo
558.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Depends. I wouldn’t want to work in the oil industry if I could avoid it. But I’m sure it could be greenwashed, even to myself. I’d have no second thoughts about working in defense (I’m from a small country on Russia’s doorstep, not the US
559.
by alkonaut 2y ago
The reason I’m on year 20 with an employer is because they tick those boxes. And also box 5: reasonably interesting/challenging/creative work. For me as a software developer that’s as simple as ”not making CRUD webapps”.
560.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Yeah I think it says a lot about (possibly US?) office culture if ”not doing anything more than expected” is labeled ”quitting”.
561.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Exactly. And in that context I really don’t care. Similarly if I wrote the blog post. People can leave after the first paragraph because it’s uninteresting. If they leave because it looks generated it’s the same thing. Writing in an inter
562.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Denmark can put some constraints for ships passing the straits. They are danish water. So the Baltic is special in that you can’t reach it on international water. Similar to the Black Sea. But these restrictions are codified in existing ag
563.
by alkonaut 2y ago
I don’t think we’ll want to be in a war of escalating service-denial with a country full of people used to not having indoor plumbing. Seems like we’d suffer more.
564.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Since these cables are repaired within days or up to 2 weeks it seems, it can’t cost a fortune. A reasonably sized ship sounds like it would pay for it easily. Especially as authorities seem to have trouble finding those responsible. Tracin
565.
by alkonaut 2y ago
False positives must be zero in that context. Not when I choose which blog posts to spend 30 minutes on. Quite different.
566.
by alkonaut 2y ago
False positives aren’t a big problem. There’s more content than I have time to read and my tolerance for reading anything generated is zero. So it’s better to label too much human content as generated and risk ignoring something insightful
567.
by alkonaut 2y ago
I'm saying you'd just record perf stats with a normal profiler and never do any sort of decision or analysis based on what you read in a log?
568.
by alkonaut 2y ago
In CS you can probably get away with fewer and async. But even so, admin powers doesn't weigh anyone down. It's not a chore. You have N admins and then N/10 or so sub-admins who can't ban or unban people but can e.g. sil
569.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Sure but if you look at that logging data which you might be collecting regardless, adn you see anything that in the slightest way suggests a performance issue, or if you look at your hosting bill and wonder where the money is going, or if
570.
by alkonaut 2y ago
The article gives an example of how apps are usually benchmarked with log queries. But in a real world scenario wouldn't you just analyze what the app is actually doing and see whether what fraction it actually waits for IO, waits for

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