brainwipe

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   by brainwipe 6y ago

   I think you've pretty much hit the nail squarely on the head.
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   Engineer reports data leak to nonprofit, hears from the police(bleepingcomputer.com)

   61 points by brainwipe 6y ago|14 comments
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   by brainwipe 6y ago

   UK Computer Misuse Act is woefully out of date. I do wish the engineer all the best.
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   by brainwipe 6y ago

   +1 for DDD in any strong-type-first language like Java or C#. Even if you land in a system that was designed horizontal-layer "at speed", you can retrofit good language, aggregate boundaries and migrate to a world away from spaghe
5. 125.▲
   by brainwipe 6y ago

   .NET Core can certainly run in well under 100MB, handle requests under 50ms and get running quickly under load. You also have async/await and type safety, scales horizontally. It's not JS/TS, so the skills are different and t
6. 126.▲
   by brainwipe 6y ago

   As a counter point, a friend sent me Doom on 896 cores. https://twitter.com/AnonOpsSE/status/1284210365082079232
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   Playing Tetris in Task Manager on 420 CPU VM(twitter.com)

   42 points by brainwipe 6y ago|9 comments
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   by brainwipe 6y ago

   "Mega Godzilla Beast VM" is a great product name!
9. 129.▲
   by brainwipe 6y ago

   Thank you, I found that much easier to read than the article posted.
10. 130.▲
    by brainwipe 6y ago

    1. Seeing a company do agile right by keeping the customer so close their almost in-house. All the other stuff is meaningless. 2. Realising I didn't have to code for faceless corporates shifting cash around, I could work for a small co
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    by brainwipe 6y ago

    Acorn Archimedes was where I learnt to code properly. Our teacher (Bruce Dickson, legend) said that we weren't allowed to play games on the Archimedes machines unless we coded them. I completely transparent ploy, we knew we were played
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    by brainwipe 6y ago

    These kinds of systems are all well and good if you have a person in your business with an analytical mind enough to pick it up and all your needs will fit the limits of the framework. If your business domain has a feature that doesn't
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    by brainwipe 6y ago

    Another vote for OU; I haven't attended but from an employer perpective, OU grads have had excellent depth of knowledge.
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    by brainwipe 7y ago

    Correct. Availability is 99.99. https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/
15. 135.▲
    by brainwipe 7y ago

    "Roll off the production line" triggered me a number of times in the article. Perhaps "glide off" would be a better phrase?
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    by brainwipe 8y ago

    Regarding underpromising - there might be a little management of expectations but to paraphrase a friend in "the biz": facing away from the Earth means that the stuff you need to be reliable jumps up in complexity and with that co
17. 137.▲
    by brainwipe 9y ago

    Fair play, I tip my hat to you.
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    by brainwipe 9y ago

    I've worked with 4 different ones now (in Bangalore and New Delhi). You want fixed price, fixed DETAILED spec, fixed timelines and assume that you don't want to maintain the product afterwards. That's worked well when we&#x27
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    by brainwipe 9y ago

    Have you ever been asked to switch down into Assembler mid-function in C to solve timing issues in the hardware? I have... but that was 20 years ago!