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by closeparen 10mo ago
Here's a really simple way to get a cycle. Service A: publish a notification indicating that some new data is available. Service B: consume these notifications and call back to service A with queries for the changed data and perhaps su
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by closeparen 10mo ago
It’s too bad that there does not seem to be a comparable provider with datacenters in North America.
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by closeparen 10mo ago
There's a saying in live audio: I mix for free. I get paid to haul equipment. I code for free. I get paid to deal with JIRA, Zoom meetings, and the Bay Area.
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by closeparen 10mo ago
Working from the office was of a completely different nature in 2019 when your coworkers were also there. By scattering headcount around the world, tech executives have fully committed to distributed teams that communicate by video call. Th
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by closeparen 10mo ago
I doubt it. A company that is doing RTO is also a company that is aggressively offshoring and expecting you to spend your early mornings/late nights on IST friendly calls. It's just a general turn against US-based software enginee
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by closeparen 10mo ago
It's mystifying, but pretty much the entire tech leadership class has a deep conviction that taking Zoom calls on Airpods from your desk or a random corner of the office is the ideal way of working.
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by closeparen 11mo ago
Americans have the right to marry and thereby grant status to foreigners.
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by closeparen 11mo ago
You are demanding that their American spouse either divorce them or spend the rest of their life in another country. Of course it’s crazy and cruel.
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by closeparen 11mo ago
Driving on public roads carries a responsibility to respond reasonably in all kinds of stressful situations. People incapable of handling a traffic stop should not be licensed.
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by closeparen 11mo ago
Okay, and? As long as crime is below its peak level, there’s no need to apprehend criminals?
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by closeparen 11mo ago
Stealing cars (often at gunpoint) and driving them recklessly is an entertainment activity for young men with poor impulse control and little regard for human life. This kind of person makes decisions of comparable quality elsewhere in life
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by closeparen 11mo ago
These are trivial matters in that the penalties are minor, not that they are optional.
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by closeparen 11mo ago
International airports count.
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by closeparen 11mo ago
You could simply ban targeted advertising, since that's what everyone is actually upset about, and not create insane collateral damage for non-adtech operators who happen to have network services and databases.
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by closeparen 11mo ago
Modern internet company backends are very complex, even on a good day they're at the outer limits of their designers' and operators' understanding, & every day they're growing and changing (because of all the money a
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by closeparen 11mo ago
> TCP/IP-based one-way What would it mean to have one-way communication over TCP? Don't you need to send the acknowledgements back?
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by closeparen 11mo ago
If you work in the Bay Area, want to raise kids in a house you own, and don't own one yet, then "can report to a Bay Area office" isn't going to work as your competitive advantage for much longer anyway.
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by closeparen 11mo ago
I think people have been finding more compelling use cases for the fact that information systems can be multi-player now than for marginal FLOPS. Client-server is just a very effective way of organizing multi-player information systems.
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by closeparen 11mo ago
I do not think it is righteous or enlightened when the American government flexes control over the tech sector. I can see how Europeans might have thought this about the EU when it was just GDPR, but subsequent developments have recast all
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by closeparen 11mo ago
The same EU that's doing Chat Control?
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by closeparen 1y ago
I disagree. The point of code review (and indeed, software engineering) is to get at the difference between code that works for its intended purpose (as far its author knows) and code that it's reasonable for us to be responsible for c
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by closeparen 1y ago
VMWare was for sale in the first place because it is obviously not going to be the case in 10 years that every dentist’s office and car dealership needs 3-10 instances of Windows Server in the closet. It makes sense to sell to someone who c
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by closeparen 1y ago
Exactly. There should be no problem having tens of thousands of stateless, I/O bound database-transaction-wrapper endpoints in the same service. You're not going to run out of memory to hold the binary or something. If you want to
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by closeparen 1y ago
There is a point in commit throughput at which finding a working combination of reverts becomes unsustainable. I've seen it. Feature flagging can delay this point but probably not prevent it unless you’re isolating literally every chan
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by closeparen 1y ago
Unfortunately the thought pattern “modern software development is way too complex, we need something radically simpler… I know! I’ll use Scala!” is not a thing.
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by closeparen 1y ago
>Modules cannot call each other, except through specific interfaces (for our Python monolith, we put those in a file called some_module/api.py, so other modules can do from some_module.api import some_function, SomeClass and call th
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by closeparen 1y ago
Culturally, America wants manufacturing back in order to increase the prestige of non-college men. Some amount of spillover to engineers might be tolerated, but if the pay, benefits, and authority are seen to mostly accrue to high-SAT-scori
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by closeparen 1y ago
I give more of my attention than I'd like to admit to Twitter these days. But before that it was Hacker News, and before that it was Reddit, and before that it was Digg + Gawker-family blogs like Lifehacker. I think the impulse to scro
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by closeparen 1y ago
The most legible metric in the vicinity of responsible, high-quality software engineering practice is unit test coverage. It's practically guaranteed that VPs of Engineering are reporting on test coverage to the CTO, and not implausibl
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by closeparen 1y ago
>I think a more fundamental way to address the problem of team A being blocked by team B is to organize the teams so as to minimize cross-team dependencies. 1. Teams or organized so as to minimize cross-team dependencies. 2. We notice th

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