brianmcc

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by brianmcc 2y ago
+1 I think "code is carefully designed AND has a bunch of decent tests" places a codebase ahead of many tbh, even now, regardless of how it's produced
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by brianmcc 2y ago
>> ... TDD is unlikely to help you solve problems that are beyond incremental changes. Thank you for expressing this niggling problem with TDD. Personally I just cannot use it for "new stuff", I need to explore and create di
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by brianmcc 2y ago
It's harmless, it's a 6 month window. Number plate: XX24 - registered between 1 Mar 2024 - 31 Aug 2024 XX74 - registered between 1 Sep 2024 - 28 Feb 2025 XX25 - registered between 1 Mar 2025 - 31 Aug 2025 etc The first two letters
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by brianmcc 2y ago
Totally. 5 years of - build and ship - then move around - repeat Is sorely lacking in vital important experience towards becoming a rounded senior.
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by brianmcc 2y ago
As is so often the case in these sorts of "countries that function quite well", the Scandinavians aren't doing too badly: https://www.democracymatrix.com/ranking USA is #36, a "deficient democracy".
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by brianmcc 2y ago
I'd describe a lot of my job and my team's job as "figuring out what to do". Lots of talking to people, debating options, weighing up trade-offs. Customer support, "pre sales" stuff too. Distilling complex situ
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by brianmcc 2y ago
Not my quote but: "The trillion dollar problem AI is trying to solve is wages. Your wages." Not wanting to come across all Luddite about it, but we really ought not to stumble blindly into all this. That said, I remain sceptical.
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by brianmcc 2y ago
all true; there is though a useful point to be made that more WFH-ing office folks does free up transport for those who need to travel, be it rail/bus or just car commutes
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by brianmcc 2y ago
Sorry but this is a hopelessly naive view of what is widely understood to be A Bit More Complicated Than That.
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by brianmcc 2y ago
Yeah like current sibling reply here, it's OK to be idealistic: "here's what I think perfect looks like", and accept that sure not everybody meets that definition. Doesn't mean it's a bad aspiration though. I
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by brianmcc 2y ago
But since when did techniques which obsessive systemizers like us use play out well with the general population..? We're not discussing what works well for a niche community of hackers, but what will work for the hundred million+ on a
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by brianmcc 2y ago
I don't disagree. As I've gotten older though I am just increasingly convinced that for the regular person going about their life, the fight against cheap and terrible and calorie-laden - but tasty! - processed foods is not an eve
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by brianmcc 2y ago
Yep. When 1 or 10 or 100 people do a thing, it's a "them" issue. When 100,000,000+ do a thing - it's a wider issue, and asking those 100,000,000 to do it differently just isn't a useful strategy.
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by brianmcc 2y ago
>> I scanned, weighed, and measured every single thing I put into my body Not being snarky, but is this truly "better" than a single weekly injection - 10 seconds and done for the week? I do think our wider society sees medi
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by brianmcc 2y ago
To be fair OP did say: >> And you know what it is? It's volume. I eat too much.
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by brianmcc 2y ago
Good luck maintaining a civilized society without the rule of law underpinning it, with enforcement.
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by brianmcc 2y ago
It's an unusual idiom to be sure. We talk about lots of fruits and foods every day without such qualifiers. Are we to assume OP meant possibly-stale bread because it wasn't explicit?
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by brianmcc 2y ago
This is a great question. I don't think mentoring features nearly enough in our line of work. Guiding early-career engineers is something I am sure many of us seniors have done (I'm 25+ years in to my own career), but for people l
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by brianmcc 2y ago
Plus workers in tech are absolutely not immune to this stuff and nobody should be complacent. "They can't monitor me because I spent my morning mentor Alan the Junior at his desk" - that may be so but it won't stop t
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by brianmcc 2y ago
if "don't aggressively spy on your employees" puts you out of business what on earth's your business model?
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by brianmcc 2y ago
You're not wrong.
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by brianmcc 2y ago
I think a lot of people miss the "Cockroaches survive everything " implication. It's meant to imply indestructability, not creepy yucky beastliness. Obviously that goes over the heads of many people initially but at least it
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by brianmcc 2y ago
I think Mongo is way worse tbh
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by brianmcc 3y ago
I think the term "theatre" implies "is meant to achieve X but fails to", rather than "achieves X in a slightly flamboyant manner". Like all the COVID-prevention theatre: sitting in restaurants and only masking
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by brianmcc 3y ago
Processes for safely and hygienically injecting vast quantities of sugar, salt and fat into "food" != good nutrition.
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by brianmcc 3y ago
"Teach yourself J2EE in 21 days, 2nd edition" remains marvellous for this :-D
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by brianmcc 3y ago
Watching a few episodes of recent TV show The Traitors should dispel any positive myths re the wisdom of small teams! :-D
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by brianmcc 3y ago
High on both sounds like Spolsky's "Smart and Gets Things Done", and not surprisingly your conclusions rather agree :-) https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/25/the-guerrilla-guid...
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by brianmcc 3y ago
Also applies in medicine/healthcare: "Silence, power and communication in the operating room" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3001035/
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by brianmcc 3y ago
+1 for data in the database, code as... well, code. And also learned this the hard way. Code you can build and run test suites against, extract logs from, place debug breakpoints in, is such a quality of like enhancer. edit: typo fix

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