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by borplk 10y ago
Yep. This is generally true in business about a lot of things and especially in software because of the virtual nature of things it creates an incentive for people to pretend things and inflate their claims so they get put in the same bucke
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by borplk 10y ago
why?
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by borplk 10y ago
Man my 2 cents is iterate in tiny tiny steps. Whatever you do get it up there in an embarrassing state and keep making it better. I wasted lots of time by wanting to do things right and so on.
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by borplk 10y ago
This is great well done. I have been thinking a lot about similar stuff. I would love to see a new IDE/language emerge that elevates us from "a program is a bunch of directories and files" to "a program is a data structu
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by borplk 10y ago
It sounds like you are talking about things similar to CloudFormation and Terraform. Have you used those?
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by borplk 10y ago
To people saying none. What about in a freelance/consulting context? If you are not already internet famous wouldn't you lose work to others who can brag about their list of certificates?
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by borplk 10y ago
Except fields in a database are not arbitrary. I'd much rather configure Apache by inserting fields in a database (and tooling can be developed to help) than editing ascii files in its custom configuration language. You could configure
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by borplk 10y ago
What do people think about a real solo nomadic life? I'm a huge introvert and used to being alone and lonely all the time yet I cannot quite imagine myself enjoying being a moving ghost from an exotic location to another alone and gett
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by borplk 10y ago
Similarly I'd love to see an operating system that operated like a database. Hate the arbitrary ascii-file nonsense. If the state of the operating system is in a proper ACID database it would be so nice. Tooling could make it just as e
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by borplk 10y ago
It's not possible. VPN encrypts traffic end-to-end in a tunnel from your PC to another computer (VPN provider/company) and from there onwards it goes out in its "raw" unencrypted form. It is not end-to-end from you to th
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by borplk 10y ago
I'd suggest listening to podcasts and watching video content like movies tv shows and stuff. Don't think of it as "learning" just find something you are interested in and get in the habit of listening. Podcasts helped me
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by borplk 10y ago
Yeah not to be an ass but that's pretty standard. And cool too I admit.
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by borplk 10y ago
Are we supposed to cry for the capitalists now? That's your free market. Enjoy the ride.
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by borplk 10y ago
Even if it is it will take a few decades for it to die.
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by borplk 10y ago
This is one of the things in the industry that has always bothered me so much. I could rant about it for hours. There's this attitude that a lot of programmers have that if something is hard humans are the problem because they are not
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by borplk 10y ago
Don't overthink it even with un-optimized code you can get far with a beefy server. In general the rule of thumb is that by the time you have scaling problems you will already be popular enough that it will no longer be a problem.
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by borplk 10y ago
Hell no. Unix philosophy is an empty naive dream. It was good for its time but right now it can only seduce a young inexperienced student with basic examples that fall apart quickly. Oh look we can read a file with "cat" then we p
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by borplk 10y ago
The definition of what "I" in "IaaS" is slowly changes over time.
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by borplk 10y ago
Another point to consider is that even if you are a genius expert a lot, if not the majority of the code that people deal with has business specific models that you interact with. It doesn't matter how well you know library X or the st
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by borplk 10y ago
I downvoted that post not because of length but because it genuinely looked like it's auto-generated by a spam/content summary bot.
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by borplk 10y ago
Well done.
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by borplk 10y ago
It's the same crap that Buffer pulled.
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by borplk 10y ago
Exactly. As a non-American tipping seems like such a crappy concept to me. Why should service providers be subject to arbitrary decisions of random customers? A service has a price. Either it is provided adequately and you are happy with it
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by borplk 10y ago
Maybe you are not too familiar with rsyslog. Those are modules that get compiled into rsyslog itself. If you attempted to create such a module system you will very soon see that doing a lot of the things that they have done is unavoidable (
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by borplk 10y ago
I'd say that's a bit naive. How would you go about writing something like rsyslog without doing the things they have done? How would you create rsyslog's flexible (I'm not saying it's "good") module system
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by borplk 10y ago
All sounds good in theory but in practice in a large enough project many of the suggestions are not practical. Recently I was looking at rsyslog's source code. Look at this "simple" file for example, https://github
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by borplk 10y ago
100% agreed. I used to think that I "understood" this. But as you said it's much harder to do in practice. To anyone else who thinks "oh yeah I know all about that" without having actually done it, don't get so
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by borplk 10y ago
Extremely large password sizes can lead to a DDOS attack on the server (due to computation complexity curve). A large size such as 4096 characters is perfect. Don't accept a password that is 10GBs in size. But don't limit to MAX 1
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by borplk 10y ago
Sorry but you are just naive.
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by borplk 10y ago
As someone else said the only way it can work is if the company is 100% fully remote.

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