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by bdavisx 6y ago
It would also give every person convicted using their software an incentive to open an appeal.
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by bdavisx 6y ago
I have to say though that I prefer a functional approach w/ Either/Result<T,E> over Exceptions now that I've done both. With both you can choose to ignore an exception and have it "pass" up to a higher level,
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by bdavisx 6y ago
I agree with you on "detection tests" (not sure what a Dr would call them) - but checking for vitamin deficiencies would be more of a preventative type test, and everyone should have those probably once a year or every X years, bu
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by bdavisx 6y ago
I fucking hate Trump, probably more than you can imagine - but this article brings up one of the few things I thought he tried to do right - get us out of wars that we were mired in. Of course, he did a shitty job because he's an overa
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by bdavisx 6y ago
Experienced candidates shouldn't have to spend any time preparing for the technical portion of an interview - if they have to study something new to "pass" the interview, how does that reflect on their past or current abili
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by bdavisx 6y ago
OR we could look at it as if the pandemic has already cost us 4.5T based on your figures, and that's enough. We come together and defeat the virus without anyone profiting - we all lose, we've all lost already, ffs, let's let
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by bdavisx 6y ago
I completely agree with your premise on the 10x developer in concept (although what 10x means is up for debate). I agree with the fact that a team of "good" developers will outperform a team of <good developers, by a huge amoun
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by bdavisx 6y ago
If you're looking for help fixing the mess you are dealing with, find the book Working Effectively with Legacy Code - https://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Fe... . You might also want to read Refacto
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by bdavisx 6y ago
If the original author is reading this: I'm curious, did you do any vert.x benchmarking at all or did you abandon that "branch" before the actual benchmarking took place. Also, could you expand a bit on what the team didn&#x2
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by bdavisx 6y ago
The US isn't the only country with insane housing prices - and they are only insane in portions of the country. Look @ buying a house in London or Amsterdam for example. Although US healthcare is f d though (@ work, not sure if the fu
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by bdavisx 6y ago
In the U.S., it's much more likely that the custodians/janitors are getting underpaid.
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by bdavisx 6y ago
The problem with safe is the problem with every other "agile" methodology wrt the article - too many people expect a commitment to all items in the 8-12 week plan, so quality starts to get sacrificed somewhere around the 7-8 or ea
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by bdavisx 6y ago
The author is a well known government hands-off libertarian, so keep the bias in mind.
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by bdavisx 7y ago
>people think much more critically in the West. From what I've seen, the majority of the people anywhere don't think very critically.
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by bdavisx 7y ago
I would agree that having wealthy parents generates a lot more opportunities to be lucky.
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by bdavisx 7y ago
>If it’s actually widely used class stigma dissipates rapidly I think the same is true for Chicago - both buses and rail are used extensively. There's still plenty of people in cars, but the stigma is a lot lower.
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by bdavisx 7y ago
IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate - https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/editions_comparison_...
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by bdavisx 7y ago
Very often the way to make money with the least effort involves some kind of scamming/fraud - and at the very least it's not usually good for consumers, so it's not good for your company in the long run.
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by bdavisx 7y ago
That's generally done to get more medicine, not to find one to help you quit using it.
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by bdavisx 7y ago
It's still totally possible to achieve this (at least in the US, and likely the world), but as a society we've decided it's more important that the top x% get a larger share of the pie than they did in those "couple of d
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by bdavisx 7y ago
Would you be willing to share your speccing process?
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by bdavisx 7y ago
More likely anyone official who found out was added to the bribes lists - actual bribes, political contributions, etc.
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by bdavisx 7y ago
And you're working ~50% more hours, do the math.
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by bdavisx 7y ago
>Exceedingly few trucks sold today will ever be asked to do something that requires a truck Kind of like all of the "never been off-road" "off-road vehicles"?
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by bdavisx 7y ago
What's the difference between that and working 7-8 hours with fewer breaks? Answer: The 7-8 hour person will create better products with fewer bugs (all else being equal).
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by bdavisx 8y ago
I think the US ideals of freedom of speech/thought/religion are great, but unfortunately the US "ideal" of greed seems to be what the US is better at exporting.
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by bdavisx 8y ago
Decades of non-management experience in the same field qualifies you to run a 30,000 employee agency? I've got decades of non-management software dev experience, perhaps I should be in charge of Microsoft?
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by bdavisx 8y ago
You don't have to install a JVM, you can bundle it with a distribution as well.
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by bdavisx 8y ago
What has it become?
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by bdavisx 8y ago
I hope you have left a Glassdoor review for them.

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