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by blowski 3y ago
And yet, by shrinking the reach of posts, there must be far less content being generated. Isn't that the tightrope social networks have always been walking?
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by blowski 3y ago
Yes it's obvious, but it's so bizarre that I assumed the title had to be clickbait or poorly written. But no, it's absolutely correct.
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by blowski 3y ago
What about when I install a library or use a framework? When I use Spring Boot, it's calling my code. I install libraries which dispatch events to which I subscribe and that come with pre-defined objects I pass around. I use SDKs to ta
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by blowski 3y ago
> one article breathlessly predicting that in the future bespoke development would become bunk as folks would just buy e.g. an Aircraft object off the peg and plug it into their application Every time I consume a third-party’s REST API,
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by blowski 3y ago
> Heck, if MSFT had made VBScript available without license in browsers other than IE I think JavaScript would be an obscure footnote in history. And we’d be moaning about how bad VBScript is, and how we wish another language had won.
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by blowski 3y ago
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1381671922/3d-books-on-shelv... I’d guess it’s this. I think you can colour it yourself after you hang it.
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by blowski 3y ago
If I’m reading you right, if a business had a non-critical internal system (internal network behind a strong VPN) with the potential for a CSRF attack, you wouldn’t call that a risk?
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by blowski 3y ago
Do you think there’s a standard for “incredibly hard” that all applications need to follow? Or that it varies from one application to another depending on context?
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by blowski 3y ago
Seems like an argument about system-driven and component-driven risk analyses - they both have their place, and they're not mutually exclusive. Risk-based approaches aren't about either removing all risk or paying attention to onl
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by blowski 3y ago
This is effectively how Tailwind works. You end up with classes like `hover:text-black`.
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by blowski 3y ago
Thank you for the clarification, I hadn't realised that.
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by blowski 3y ago
I’m sure you know this, but for readers who don’t, it’s much more complex than “last defined wins with a few override options”. Based on “specificity”, rules based on the selector used. Some examples: 1. #mydiv overrides .mydiv - IDs are mo
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by blowski 3y ago
Yes, I agree. SOC2 is the closest we have to a “professional standard” in engineering right now, and it’s forcing a lot of changes.
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by blowski 3y ago
My 2p-worth on this topic, as an experienced EM. 1. Agree what jobs need to be done as a team, and who’s doing them. Think RACI matrix. If you disagree over roles, consider breaking down the responsibility into smaller parts until you can
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by blowski 3y ago
SOC2 is behind a lot of that. Companies need to be compliant to sell into enterprises. They don’t want to go through the compliance process for each individual team, so they try to standardise. Lots of locally optimised teams don’t necessar
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by blowski 3y ago
Without beating around the bush, what I’m trying to say is, in other words, unless I’m mistaken, it’s perhaps possible that maybe some writing just could be written in fewer words.
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by blowski 3y ago
I try to fix non-urgent bugs or make small DX improvements in the code. It forces me to understand pains in the CI/CD, the codebases in general, but I can drop it for an unplanned meeting without causing problems. I also run toy side-p
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by blowski 3y ago
This is the problem, there is no easy analogy. If I’ve learned how to code from an open source course, I don’t breach copyright every time I write code in my career. If I clone the course, just replacing some of the examples and using synon
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by blowski 3y ago
I agree in theory. But engineers with good tech skills and good people are already likely to be the most valuable and time-constrained resources in the business. So taking 2 of them out to have a 2 hour interview with, say, 100 candidates i
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by blowski 3y ago
How do you know which candidates are worth your senior engineers spending all that time with?
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by blowski 3y ago
> They can pay one their 300,000 employees less than one average support license to replace all the work he does for them indirectly I bet they can’t. He’s hardly some code monkey churning out generic lines of code.
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by blowski 3y ago
John Calvin would wholeheartedly agree with you.
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by blowski 3y ago
If I had a spectrum of purely imperative on one side and purely declarative on the other, these new AIs are much closer to the latter than anything that has come before them. SQL errors if you don’t write in very specific language. These ne
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by blowski 3y ago
Oh so I'm just overthinking it? Sorry. I thought ELO was some trendy new algorithm being used somewhere, and this was a jokey application of it.
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by blowski 3y ago
Why not? The quality is good enough that millions of people around the world are using it in their house right now, profitably for Ikea. I'd say that's a very good definition of quality to imitated.
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by blowski 3y ago
What’s the practical application of this? It makes sense in chess where you have two players using the same rules, so a comparison makes sense. But is Postgres a better database than Redis? Is The Godfather a better film than Lord of the Ri
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by blowski 3y ago
The case against AirPods was that they looked stupid, were easy to lose, hugely expensive, had poor quality audio, connected via unreliable Bluetooth, and relied on batteries which wouldn’t last long enough to be useful. I agreed wholeheart
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by blowski 3y ago
In the early 00s, I lived for a few months in a squat in Clapham (South London), run by an author and Polish cyclist. It was a huge house by London standards - better than many shared houses - and having looked after it very well since movi
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by blowski 3y ago
Absolutely. HN has an abysmal track record of predicting the success or failure of most innovations, because it tends to over-estimate the importance of the technology itself and under-estimate the power of marketing to overcoming challenge
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by blowski 3y ago
When the Airpods first came out, I was convinced they'd never take off, and lots of social media seemed to agree with me. There was even science - SCIENCE! - used to explain why they were a bad idea. While I don't see myself buyin

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