bborud

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by bborud 1y ago
Some people complain about that, but I have yet to see anyone demonstrate that this is an actual problem. Show me the scenario where this is a show stopper. You have all the permutations that sail under the name "REST" to some de
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by bborud 1y ago
I think all of them came a bit later. And I do remember Thrift. With regret.
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by bborud 1y ago
People got things done with flint axes too. It isn't really a useful argument.
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by bborud 1y ago
In practical reality the distinction is mostly, if not completely, without a meaningful difference. The words "practical" and "meaningful" being key. The distinction only has relevance if one engages in pedantry. Or poss
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by bborud 1y ago
I don't see the point of ConnectRPC.
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by bborud 1y ago
Could you elaborate?
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by bborud 1y ago
What RPC mechanisms, in your opinion, are the most ergonomic and why? (I have been offering REST’ish and gRPC in software I write for many years now. With the REST’ish api generated from the gRPC APIs. I’m leaning towards dropping REST and
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by bborud 1y ago
> The interviewer would fail you because this interviewer > wants to feel superior and more powerful Not necessarily. The interviewer may only be insecure, inexperienced or not terribly good at conducting interviews. Of course, to t
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by bborud 1y ago
Turn the argument on its head: why is it reasonable to ask someone who presumably knows better to waste time trying to solve a server problem on the client side? And why would it be unreasonable for a candidate to reject the premise and sug
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by bborud 1y ago
I've conducted a fair number of interviews. At least one of the problems I pose to candidates are to test if they will ask questions that clarifies what I am asking for. Because being able to articulate both what you want to accomplis
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by bborud 1y ago
If I were interviewed by someone presenting me with this task, I would spend a bit of time helping the interviewer clean up the problem and try to get to where they can explain what they want with just words. Clearly. I’m not sure we’d nece
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by bborud 1y ago
Real life Jian Yang?
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by bborud 1y ago
It would be interesting to see some research on exactly how much sustained productivity boost programmers can get by using LLMs. The reason this is a bit complicated is that the code would have to pass certain quality metrics. In particul
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by bborud 1y ago
What do you mean by modern and refined? I'm not trying to be funny, I am just curious what those terms mean to you.
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by bborud 1y ago
> Speaker Selection Driven by Influence: Many rosters feature the same familiar faces year after year. This isn't exactly unique to Go. I used to attend a big Java conference once per year and some of the main speakers would be ther
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by bborud 1y ago
Ralph Fiennes in Grand Budapest isn't just an exception. The performance, in my not so humble opinion, is quite possibly the most memorable and brilliant of any performance in a Wes Anderson movie. It is delightful. That being said,
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by bborud 1y ago
In previous positions I managed to get the company I worked for to set aside a budget each year for contributions to open source projects that were important to us. This was considerably more money than I could afford to contribute persona
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by bborud 1y ago
Then the press is not doing its job. It is the job of all of us to tell them that. Then again, everyone wants someone else to speak up because they think their voice can make no difference. When I cancelled my Washington Post subscription
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by bborud 1y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came
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by bborud 1y ago
Well, then they are one in four. The other three were quality, performance and correctness. Simply re-implementing something, or writing something that is poor software isn't sufficient. As for knowledge: yes, it is more valuable tha
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by bborud 1y ago
I haven't used the office tools on Linux for years, but since they are based on the same 30 year old idea of an office suite, would you expect them to be much better? I don't think it is productive to choose among equally antiqua
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by bborud 1y ago
Most of what Microsoft does is indeed bafflingly bad. With a few exceptions. The baseline for software from Microsoft appears to be slow, bad UX and very buggy. And it isn't like this is some image thing; Microsoft products are always
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by bborud 1y ago
The thing to ask is if these conveniences are more important than the presumable benefits of making the cell phone inaccessible during school hours. The thing is: these benefits manifest at different time-scales.
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by bborud 1y ago
I'm not so sure. I did an experiment last year. I was writing a prototype in a language I'm not well versed in, using unfamiliar tools and only somewhat familiar libraries. I made heavy use of ChatGPT and other tools to get the j
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by bborud 2y ago
I thought «well, that was almost painless». Most embedded code tends to be junk, so if it doesn’t work immediately it tends to become a bit of an odyssey.
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by bborud 2y ago
I wonder why nobody seems to have designed a front end framework by sitting down and asking themselves how to express things clearly. Every single front end framework seems to have been designed by people just riffing on all the nonsense co
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by bborud 2y ago
Agree. It was an unnecessary thing to do.
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by bborud 2y ago
It is more important to follow a common convention than agree on which looks better. If you are lucky you get used to common conventions and spend no time annoyed with them. If you are unlucky you will struggle to let it go. Struggling to
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by bborud 2y ago
> Planes that first flew over 30 years ago. That isn't necessarily a bad thing. Having a platform that has been iterated on and which works tends to be a plus when you want operational robustness. A good example of this is the F&#x
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by bborud 2y ago
ORMs tend to make things more complicated and usually slower. I'd recommend using SQLX. It is a nice half-way point. It eliminates most boilerplate, is going to be sufficiently performant for 99% of cases, and it reduces a lot of ca

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