bobnamob

15 ms·

121.
by bobnamob 2y ago
The number of deaths attributable to misread treatment orders in hospitals is staggering. I'd be very careful about sticking another layer of interpretation between doctor and treating nurse. It's unfortunate med school doesn&#x27
122.
by bobnamob 2y ago
I’m building some slightly higher level primitives on top of FoundationDB while funemployed. My own take on a blob storage layer, event/work queue etc If you’re hiring in Manchester or remote in the UK hit me up.
123.
by bobnamob 2y ago
Yeah the new(ish) Melbourne region is missing too
124.
by bobnamob 2y ago
Yeah fair shout. I guess my perception of their frequency’s been beaten down by HN cynicism over the years
125.
by bobnamob 2y ago
If all marketing had actual consumer benefit we'd be much better off. I can understand the cynicism, but I think Apple's investment into accessibility and health (I'm talking heart attack detection, not gamified activity trac
126.
by bobnamob 2y ago
I'm definitely reading > But who needs SSO logs? with a heeeefty dose of /s
127.
by bobnamob 2y ago
One of the best resources to understand "why would I not ... ?" in a data intensive context is Kleppmann's Designing Data-Intensive Applications[1] (mentioned elsewhere in the comments). There's a lot of nuance to why ev
128.
by bobnamob 2y ago
Sometimes 0 hours a day for extended periods of time followed by 4ish hours a day of implementation/hacking. I'd say I spend probably 2-10x more time writing than I do "coding" - where writing is Hammock Driven Developme
129.
by bobnamob 2y ago
The adversarial child would be playing recordings into the timer within minutes no?
130.
by bobnamob 2y ago
To go full aws on this: - lambda vending s3 pre signed urls with put only permissions - a static page with 20 lines of js that requests one of those urls and does the put I’m not aware of any existing solutions, but your problem seems simpl
131.
by bobnamob 2y ago
Of course coming with the _major_ caveat that the interface and behaviour[1] of the dependency is absolutely stable for the entirety of the "major version". I'm an advocate for this style of library/dependency developmen
132.
GitGitGadget(gitgitgadget.github.io)
1 points by bobnamob 2y ago|0 comments
133.
by bobnamob 2y ago
Ian finished last week :( Pipelines, BT and Isengard are absolutely what I'll miss the most as well (I handed in my resignation notice last week, prior to all this RTO2.0 kerfuffle)
134.
by bobnamob 2y ago
Clojure (either native JVM or Babashka) Once you've got a repl up and running the JVM launch time isn't an issue and repl driven development lends itself well to data munging/exploration Clojure's data centricity (functi
135.
by bobnamob 2y ago
Not quite LiveView does serverside rendering and “streams” dom diffs afaik Whereas electric is doing full client side rendering and sending data/code diffs “only” Writing client side code seems lower friction in electric at the cost of
136.
Australia's proposed TrustExchange digital ID(abc.net.au)
4 points by bobnamob 2y ago|3 comments
137.
by bobnamob 2y ago
Shorten announced details yesterday of another attempt at an Australian digital id that actually seems informed by Optus and Medibank https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-13/trust-exchange-digita...
138.
by bobnamob 2y ago
This is advertising spam no?
139.
by bobnamob 2y ago
Doesn’t pragmatic just mean that you’ve knowingly made some tradeoffs that go against the ideal? Admitting that doesn’t read like hubris to me
140.
by bobnamob 2y ago
> I would joke that the canary tests were the biggest customer for a lot of services This is true for a surprising number of amzn/aws products
141.
by bobnamob 2y ago
Isn't that just a reformulation of Hanlon's Razor [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
142.
by bobnamob 2y ago
Anecdotal evidence: the global mega corp I unfortunately work for is definitely feeling this globally
143.
by bobnamob 2y ago
We’re just the only ones awake to feel it
144.
by bobnamob 2y ago
Much less effort to build a language (without megacorp backing) if you're building off a battle tested runtime. I'm absolutely not saying this to discredit the work that's gone into Clojure, Elixir et al, but it does lend cre
145.
by bobnamob 2y ago
See also the Australian Broadcasting Corp's long running TV series of derivative name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruen_(TV_series)
146.
by bobnamob 3y ago
The operative word is “internal” in OPs post. Incentives and adoption goals for internal tools are weird at large corps. Intentional suckage is just another tool to drive migration
147.
by bobnamob 3y ago
Contactless credit card payment limits in Australia (from my experience) are configurable. I bumped my contactless limit from $100 -> $500 years ago through my bank's app. Leaves friends confused every time I cover a group dinner ou
148.
by bobnamob 3y ago
This article (and admittedly most comments here) doesn't emphasize the value of a comprehensive e2e test suite enough. So much talk about change and large LoC deltas without capturing the expected behavior of the system first
149.
by bobnamob 3y ago
Sounds like a pyramid scheme when you put it that way
150.
by bobnamob 3y ago
And memoisation is a common technique to shift performance (processing -> memory) tradeoffs when doing anything trivially recursive. I don't agree with TFA's take of "Nor does it make any sense to have caching at the funct

More ›