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by borplk 3y ago
This is also known as a "kill switch" which is technically slightly different than feature flags that get used for release safety. You can bake kill switches into many features as a core part of the application for operational rea
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by borplk 3y ago
Found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFFlO7yBIBM (Interview with Wired, 13 March 1996)
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by borplk 3y ago
Maybe this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgm455M-N3Y
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by borplk 3y ago
Like a lot of things it depends a lot on the company. The label means nothing. If you work for a company with a poor Engineering culture where tech is not valued "DevOps" means "get the nerds in the basement to fix my laptop&
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by borplk 3y ago
My recommendation is to not leave your job until you have a concrete and validated idea. You will be tempted to do it earlier because of "all the extra time" but it's a trap. You will benefit from the pressure of keeping it a
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by borplk 3y ago
One of the big reasons that software estimation doesn't work well is because due to the virtual nature of software it is way too easy to move the goal post in subtle or not subtle ways. In "real world" projects such as civil
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by borplk 3y ago
The addition of 's' has made it an unfortunate name! "bs crypto" :))
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by borplk 3y ago
It can be detected even without looking at the user agent (as another user mentioned). They typically rely on the fact that the downloaded source code is being executed as it is being downloaded so you can leave things like "sleep 5&qu
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by borplk 3y ago
Can anyone comment on the experience with the feature of producing a single binary? Is it really a standalone binary with all the NPM libraries and everything without needing anything else from the host machine? For example can I ship a sel
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by borplk 3y ago
Bad idea because even if they don't lose the data you may lose your access to the account due to things like random account suspensions.
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by borplk 3y ago
I'm wondering how much of this is specifically about software engineering vs other similar "worker bee #57" office jobs? I think broadly speaking it's mostly the same thing in most places. You might get lucky here and th
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by borplk 3y ago
Pretend to be an engineer? :))
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by borplk 3y ago
In many scenarios a DB/SQL-backed queue is far superior to the fancy queue solutions such as RabbitMQ because it gives you instantaneous granular control over 'your queue' (since it is the result set of your query to reserve
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by borplk 4y ago
Nothing, and we like it that way. We're not children at a daycare. Celebrate with your friends and family.
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by borplk 4y ago
I'm not sure. Does it refer to the nature of the job for the person? Or the industry in which the company is in? Maybe it means "employee of tech company" as opposed to "employee doing tech-related work". I guess it
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by borplk 4y ago
Just like communism, the cult members define any and all failures of the thing as not truly being the thing.
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by borplk 4y ago
The generic law for that is: any methodology that intends to take power away from the managers will be thoroughly corrupted and inverted after adoption
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by borplk 4y ago
Like any other product, software has different levels of quality to it. Most people are not prepared to pay for that level of excellence. They want the cheapest thing as quickly as possible. The only way that this will improve is if the &qu
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by borplk 4y ago
Google used to have a "forums" search type option which brought up some great results from forums. The "reddit" trick seems similar to that.
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by borplk 4y ago
Disgusting comment. Steve Gibson is a true and independent professional with hundreds upon hundreds of hours of great and accurate video podcast content. Even when he makes a tiny mistake he comes back the next week and thoroughly corrects
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by borplk 4y ago
I'm guessing they released their data in a different format for download? Otherwise you'd have to scrape it which is not as easy as having it in a database.
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by borplk 4y ago
They want the free input data.
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by borplk 4y ago
It means that "I am taking full responsibility for this decision. I'm not blaming other execs in the company or the people that are being laid off."
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by borplk 4y ago
I think you meant that they are under-estimating
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by borplk 4y ago
I'm not an expert on this but I'd say in order to test if the product is viable you'd have to be able to sell it with extremely minimal 'extra' features. In other words, if you can't sell it without SSO, you ca
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by borplk 4y ago
I agree with you and let me make another argument for it. Consider the fact that a sensible longer variable name can not be THAT MUCH longer. This creates a problem where you have to manufacture a 10-20-30 character name that somewhat descr
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by borplk 4y ago
> LastPass will not survive the pending customer exodus and class action lawsuits. Literally nothing will happen. Mark my words. Don't know where you are getting this fantasy of the company not surviving, and class action lawsuits.
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by borplk 4y ago
Sounds cool and I'm not experienced in this area but I'd say watch out that it's not creating some kind of phobia or obsession with them thinking about scary invisible things in their mouth!
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by borplk 4y ago
I have been programming for more than 20 years and I think an old school traditional pen and paper system is the best. The introduction of digital systems and code will never increase trust and security, it will decrease it. The code being
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by borplk 4y ago
Hard to give advice without knowing more about the nature of the product. But in general you should try to avoid it. If you want to go ahead with it charge a huge huge premium for it. It can be good money to get a young SaaS going but as so

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