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by borplk 9y ago
I hope that we stop sharing an ASCII language with the compilers. It is the root of many of our difficulties in programming. If we create very good "program editor" (not text editors) and store our programs as a data object in a d
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by borplk 9y ago
What's "Dir Ops"?
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by borplk 9y ago
"P" is for partition tolerance.
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by borplk 9y ago
Yep. True MVPs only work if you are solving a problem with no other effective competitor. So it's either your MVP (to solve their problem) or nothing. That's extremely rare. If you are making "a better ___". Some basic u
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by borplk 9y ago
A better alternative is theoretically possible we just haven't devoted significant time and resources to it. It is possible to create an "editor" that edits the objects of the application but not as text. It can look almost i
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by borplk 9y ago
Use Postgres 9.6 JSONB. Trust me no one has ever looked back and said "I wish I had used MongoDB instead of PostgreSQL".
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by borplk 9y ago
I appreciate the explanation and I get it. My point still remains that from a practical standpoint you are statistically unlikely to be able to cause significant change as a low-level employee no matter how you go about it. A lot of these c
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by borplk 9y ago
This is a "feel good" answer that is statistically very unlikely to work out.
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by borplk 9y ago
You may find a long rant I wrote recently interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14285926
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by borplk 9y ago
I think it was a blog post so a regular submission fits. I guess you could also do an "Ask HN". Ask people what their pain points are with alert systems. Here I'll give you one, I want heartbeat alerts to be the default so if
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by borplk 9y ago
9-5 is not the exception, it's the rule. Let's keep it that way.
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by borplk 9y ago
It is a huge red flag.
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by borplk 9y ago
Also as an aside to my previous large comment I just want to add that I'm disappointed by the dismissive tone of some of the other comments and the "this is how our fathers have always done it" attitude. The "IDE" t
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by borplk 9y ago
Amen. I have been thinking about this a lot as well. In fact I was thinking of writing a blog post about it along the lines of "The plain-text tragedy". A program is so much more than a flat collection of lines of text stored on a
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by borplk 9y ago
Daily standup is a scam just like the "open office". Most of the time it turns into a beating stick for incompetent managers to feel good. They are both defended by people for various superficial theoretical reasons that never com
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by borplk 9y ago
I have used its JSON features for real-world stuff and loved it. I have stored procedures doing a bunch of stuff and returning a nicely formatted JSON object that makes the job of the application code a lot easier. One thing I dislike is th
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by borplk 9y ago
It's in a way a "compromise". Someone with as much experience as you has the luxury of being able to learn AND get paid for it too so I think you should utilise that. Also from a career perspective to other people and employe
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by borplk 9y ago
This may not be what you want to hear but I'd suggest that you don't take such a break. Get a job and learn stuff while getting paid for it. Or however you do it, don't go full-on student mode and stopping your income. Someon
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by borplk 9y ago
What a joke.
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by borplk 9y ago
Nice job. However I don't think this technically counts as "Show HN".
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by borplk 9y ago
As someone else said the platform itself is not sane. However on the scale of things that we have, React is pretty sane. I have never seen someone who spent significant time with React and thought it wasn't sane. There are some people
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by borplk 9y ago
Spot on. A variation of this happens about browsers as well. How hard is it to run some version of Chrome or Firefox that is within the last 5 major releases? I don't care how big your organisation is, it's not that hard. Yet they
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by borplk 9y ago
Sword fight with my co-worker!
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by borplk 10y ago
Software is full of introverts, come on.
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by borplk 10y ago
That's how the web works today as well. That's why you need CSRF protection.
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by borplk 10y ago
I'm 100% the opposite. Have been working alone from home and couldn't be happier. I don't want to chit chat or have anyone in front of me.
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by borplk 10y ago
Except no one says oh look there's nothing more left to do let's go home.
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by borplk 10y ago
The scope of such a project is way too large. You'd have to become everything to everyone.
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by borplk 10y ago
Only on internet forums like this I see people claiming about quitting facebook and so on. I don't see the signs in the real world. Having said that I too almost never used it from the beginning. I didn't need so many years to fig
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by borplk 10y ago
Nonsense. Steve has been on public record for at least the past 12 years weekly on Security Now explaining things clearly and carefully. I've learned a lot from him and am very thankful. If he even makes a tiny mistake on a podcast epi

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