ascotan

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by ascotan 4y ago
Creepy.
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by ascotan 4y ago
>>> America should retaliate with its own balloons I can imagine someone playing 99 luftballons in the background during the launch.
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by ascotan 4y ago
Now we need to develop a high altitude needle gun for popping balloons. I knew all those games I played in school would come in handy one day.
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by ascotan 4y ago
This isn't the first balloon with equipment on it that has overflown US territory (which should also put to rest the 'rogue weather balloon' theory). China has been doing this ever since Trump started levying import taxes on
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by ascotan 4y ago
I think that as technologists we tend to assume that people in the future will come and build on our work and make better things. However, we have by sad experience seen that, technology and information simply gets lost unless some effort w
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by ascotan 4y ago
Cutting people as a form of making companies more profitable doesn't work as per the article.
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by ascotan 4y ago
Languages are becoming more and more dumbed down. These languages become the standard learning languages. Eventually Python will become too complicated for the next generation of developers who are are learning low-code platforms. When that
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by ascotan 4y ago
When you talk about software maintenance you're trying to get a hold on the cost of software. Most projects have a full development cycle to 1.0 and that after the initial release that team may be prioritized to work on something else
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by ascotan 4y ago
Plot twist - the article on Bloomberg is the result of the a chatGPT query for "Write an article in the style of a press release that discusses chatGPT being added to the Bing search engine".
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by ascotan 4y ago
"""Fundamentally, this emphasis on short term productivity is a problem rooted deep in the modern tech culture.""" I think it's mostly driven by agile development. Agile has killed technical apprenticeship
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by ascotan 4y ago
Apparently they're not the source of profit: ```Amazon initiated a broad cost-cutting review to pare back on units that were unprofitable```
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by ascotan 4y ago
Software is both creative and complex. We all muddle through this field. We've all developed our own biases based on experience and along the way we form a mental model of how "software" should be built. For example, many of
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by ascotan 4y ago
Could be worse - my first was a program where someone had written the source in Delphi and run it through a Delphi -> C converter and then they threw away the original Delphi code. The resulting spaghetti was the only production code av
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by ascotan 4y ago
I feel like boring to some extent means that poor communication is happening. What you're learning when dealing with a boring subject is how to deal with something/someone that is unengaging, dense or confusing. Although this is
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by ascotan 4y ago
Maybe but as long as there is a trade war between the US and China, China seems to be a bad place to make iphones. Apples contractors need to find another place to due business so they dont take a hit to their bottom lines.
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by ascotan 4y ago
I learned never to use autoinc IDs in anything especially not URLs where they leak DB info, etc. However, I've seen it many times where younger devs do exactly that because they're learning from bad online books or tutorials. Ever
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by ascotan 4y ago
There is water here but not as rain. The cold of the ocean sometimes creates fog banks that shirt along the shore. It doesn't surprise me that life might be able to be able survive like this.
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by ascotan 5y ago
Going to drop this Dan Pink video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgGhSOAtAyQ Basically what motivates good engineers is a good problem. If we can meet our basic needs we give the rest away for free. Companies/en
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by ascotan 5y ago
There was a time back not so long ago when there was a craze to rewrite every desktop app as a webapp because the web was going to eat everything. It was the hype cycle of web 2.0. Those days are gone imho. Instead it was mobile that ate ev
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by ascotan 5y ago
Good example of this is where you can only unsubscribe via phone so they can route you to a 'specialist' that attempts to talk you out of it. i.e. you can subscribe via software but but unsubscribe via phone.
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by ascotan 5y ago
Wow. So if a public domain piece of music (which does not have a copyright) is played by someone and recorded (which does have a copyright) the Google AI has no way to know if you're reproducing the the public domain music (which you a
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by ascotan 6y ago
For everyone that complains about interacting with colleagues. I feel that this can be addressed by having managers do periodic offsite meet-ups. However there are those people that comes to the office to talk all day, and honestly, for eve
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by ascotan 6y ago
Next step: add a telnetd server and give it the root password of 123.
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by ascotan 6y ago
#2 is the biggest issue Management and non-management have different subcultures. Managers need power meetings, lunch meetings, shoulder-taps, etc. They are tasked with watching you and making sure everyone is on task. Non-managers don&#x2
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by ascotan 6y ago
The problem with 'pokemon' exception handling (you have a 'gotta catchem all' exception handler) is that when someone inadvertantly puts a exception handler somewhere in the middle of the call stack it creates hard to fi
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by ascotan 6y ago
Living microbes, possibly 100M years old, pulled from beneath the sea with this weird trick https://xkcd.com/1283/
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by ascotan 6y ago
I have seen that a lot of people that now have "software engineering" titles that are not doing "engineering of software". They're doing network/platform management or some other task that doesn't involve
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by ascotan 6y ago
Why bother with CCTV when everyone is filming themselves.
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by ascotan 6y ago
Technologists tend to not think through the humanist problem very well. Just because you can doesn't always mean you should. Associations between appearance (as expressed genetically) and that person's capacity for something (inte
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by ascotan 6y ago
1. simpler architecture - python typically requires multiple systems to deal with concurrency (ioloops, celery, etc) 2. execution speed - Django's ORM comes to mind 3. concurrency That being said there are alot of great features with p

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