brianmcc

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by brianmcc 3y ago
I agree, I cannot recommend it highly enough. I first read it in my early 20s, then late 20s, and again in my 30s. And every single time I find something new in it. I am long overdue my first 40s re-read, which will now of course carry som
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by brianmcc 3y ago
Please just stop with the "extras". Focus on your core thing and make it cheaper. Literally all I want.
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by brianmcc 3y ago
Not universally true. Just find a manager who values successful delivery of project goals and is fine with "boring" i.e. tried-and-tested technology. I blame Career-Driven Development for a lot of "shiny toy" (i.e. fai
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by brianmcc 3y ago
Agree. Mocking is a slippery slope I think. We need to mock, for example, DownstreamAPI01 that our app POSTS to and GETs from, so we can put in accurate and realistic faked responses. We don't strictly need to mock other bits of our
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by brianmcc 3y ago
There are entirely separate communities IMO when it comes to automated tests. There are the pushing-the-edge-of-excellence folks, constantly refining methods and approaches, who tend to be passionate about the holistic benefits of testing.
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by brianmcc 3y ago
Sadly cannot disagree :-(
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by brianmcc 3y ago
Also, go right ahead and reject the feedback you Simply Do Not Want To Hear! (I just loved that use of capital letters!)
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by brianmcc 3y ago
Only because it's legally necessary. If it wasn't, companies would be nowhere near so well behaved. Not complaining of course, this form of better behaviour is hugely preferable! But I think it's fear/loss-aversion, not
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by brianmcc 3y ago
GBP! There before the USA never mind the dollar! ;-)
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by brianmcc 3y ago
Pretty sure it was the end of Ashley Madison a few years back? https://securityboulevard.com/2022/07/a-retrospective-on-the...
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by brianmcc 3y ago
>> Layoffs are what happens when a business unit is spending money like it's going out of style and needs to reign it in a bit. Not necessarily. There are a number of other reasons e.g. revenues and profits are great but CEO want
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by brianmcc 3y ago
Every Breath You Take by The Police is another great example. Song's about a stalker; gets played as a romantic wedding song :-)
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by brianmcc 3y ago
Also closer to absorbing the state. I'm not a tin foil hat person, but corporations growing larger than nation states just doesn't seem remotely far fetched. Which corporation will be first to sit at the UN table?
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by brianmcc 3y ago
It also seems another Brexit issue - treatment chemicals being that bit harder to bring in: https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/brexit-to-blame-for-u...
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by brianmcc 4y ago
We all know sugar and processed food is bad for us but obesity is rocketing. We have to get away from "personal education and responsibility is the answer", because while correct to actually a pretty decent extent it's plain
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by brianmcc 4y ago
I was literally about to write this same comment, more or less, so will just upvote you instead. I really truly want to objectively know whether the £X,000 I might commit to an "upgrade" is actually an upgrade, even if "obj
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by brianmcc 4y ago
It's amazing the feeling of "what the hell is going on with all this apparently credulous attention being paid to a total nonsense " that one feels watching this stuff happen in real time. It was always screamingly obviously
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by brianmcc 4y ago
I think a lot of people elsewhere in this thread are confusing a simple majority of the whole population, with a large minority which obviously does care enough about audio but is nevertheless a minority. 25% of US adults, say, spending
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by brianmcc 4y ago
I think the key to it is using the listening rooms that hi fi shops often offer, and being honest with oneself about whether the impact is really tangible or not. Be a while before I can justify even contemplating that sort of hifi spend an
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by brianmcc 4y ago
I OP means most people really just don't care
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by brianmcc 4y ago
You certainly aren't alone! I find 128kbps unlistenable but I A/B tested 320 vs lossless and - nope, couldn't tell the difference, even trying hard to do so. I consider myself an enthusiast/hobbyist, not an audiophile, a
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by brianmcc 4y ago
The good old days of SFTP-ing one's .war files up to Tomcat and just have the sys admin team sort out Apache and SSL. Happy times :-)
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by brianmcc 4y ago
A million application devs who used to write Java and SQL, but now do mostly Terraform, laugh and give a nostalgic sigh...
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by brianmcc 4y ago
Just to be clear for everyone: banks don't keep 100% deposits in a big vault, where a full-customer-withdrawal can and should be expected and permitted. Banks even at their simplest "Main Street local level", need to keep, sa
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by brianmcc 4y ago
This rings very true. I wonder if a quick nudge in the right direction could be a standing 1-to-1 agenda, to provide a low bar opportunity for such requests. E.g. - what's going well - what's not going so well - how would you rate
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by brianmcc 4y ago
This winds me up enormously. Especially when it's "please review this thing you bought 3 months ago". FFS.
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by brianmcc 4y ago
Really..?
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by brianmcc 4y ago
I'm thinking of cases such as colleagues selling as "ML" something they were then forced to admit as "we use SQL to pick out instances of this specific behaviour we knew was happening". Embarrassing all round. As fo
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by brianmcc 4y ago
While I love Java for backend, API, DB integration, and a bunch of other stuff, it's not a full stack technology. What's your web front end going to be? Do you have something in mind which can make clean calls to a Java backend?
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by brianmcc 4y ago
What winds me up is the mis-branding, sometimes deliberate sometimes not (which one is worse?!), of basic computer processing as "AI". It's not AI it's an IF statement for crying out loud :-( But this is the industry

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