damagednoob

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by damagednoob 5y ago
Maybe I missed this in the link but I didn't see how one of the common problems in a distributed application is addressed: * A POST request is redirected to the primary data source, the resource is created and the id is returned * A GE
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by damagednoob 5y ago
Then it doesn't have the same quality as a UUID which is supposedly guaranteed to be unique across space _and_ time[1]. [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4122
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by damagednoob 5y ago
> The remaining of the UUID value comes from the MD5 of a random value and the current time at a precision of 1us. I might be misunderstanding something here but if your random seed is based on time, under high-concurrency, doesn't
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by damagednoob 5y ago
> I wouldn’t support support that argument by holding up Python and its HTTP situation as exemplary. I wasn't holding it up as exemplary. I was using it as an example to show how other language ecosystems have reasoned about what ge
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by damagednoob 5y ago
I will never understand why this has been included in the standard library instead of as a standalone library available for download. Now it's locked to the Go release cycle and have the potential to languish because of backward compat
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by damagednoob 5y ago
> The web page used an old .NET framework that serialized the application state, base64 encoded it, then dumped it in a hidden form field at the bottom. Wow. I was a C# developer for many years and I never realised that ViewState encrypt
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by damagednoob 5y ago
Would Ecmascript[1] be another example? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript#History
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by damagednoob 5y ago
The evolution of PHP has shown the difference that having engaged stewards of the language can make. Saw a list of quotes[1] from Rasmus Ledorf which I think explains it's stagnation. As someone who used to sneer at the language, moder
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by damagednoob 5y ago
And these are the evolutionary traits that won. It's incredible to me to imagine all the configurations of different traits nature threw at this problem and all the sentience that was lost in the process.
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by damagednoob 5y ago
SQL Server, Windows and Oracle DB are open source?
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by damagednoob 5y ago
> It's a bit of a shame because it would be nice to have more startup opportunities in .NET Even if you ignore the history of companies like MS and Oracle what it comes down to is vendor lockin. If there's a chance a vendor wil
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by damagednoob 5y ago
Yes and no and this post highlights a subtle issue with mentorship (which I think is important): Technology does not stand still. What was true in 2002, might not be true today. While adopting the naïve approach was detrimental back then, t
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by damagednoob 5y ago
(I'm a dev with 16 years experience) I joined a startup (20+ employees) and it was a great way to grow my career. In 4 years I went from Senior (in a team) to Lead (for a team) to Technical Lead (shaping technical decisions for all dev
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by damagednoob 5y ago
Not that many which is the point. It's weird to me that people see a successful company and then ascribe some of that merit to the potential candidate sitting front of them, ignoring the fact that they were one of thousands. I don&#x27
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by damagednoob 5y ago
> Never mind if they actually designed systems that are currently running in the Fortune 500. I see this kind of thinking often and it has certainly influenced my hiring decisions and my own career but there is a flaw. There is a differe
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by damagednoob 5y ago
Well, when your competition was IE 6-8, it's easy too look good. The process-per-tab architecture of Chrome was a revelation when it was released in 2008.
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by damagednoob 5y ago
Where are you and your friends getting your information from? If you're in the US or Europe, IMO the market for programmers has never been better. It may be a struggle to get the first job but if you persevere, it will get easier.
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by damagednoob 5y ago
I find the same thing for 'dog whistle'. When people tell you who they are, believe them except I can read their minds and this is their actual intent.
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by damagednoob 5y ago
It also tends to derail the conversation and you end up arguing about fallacy definitions instead of the actual point.
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by damagednoob 5y ago
If it was an honest mistake, how did it get to the point of having to settle for $3 million?
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by damagednoob 5y ago
> I'd say that's because developers tend to have different values from other people, often valuing stability a bit less and "the right solution" a bit more. You're hinting at what the original DevOps idea was try
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by damagednoob 5y ago
Are good ideas just destined to be corrupted? Some examples: Royce: "These are the flaws in the 'Waterfall model'" -> everybody looks at his diagram and uses it [1] Agile: "Individuals and interactions over proce
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by damagednoob 5y ago
You're assuming your child will take the same subjects that you did. How do you recall a subject you've never taken?
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by damagednoob 5y ago
> Essentially large part of education falls onto the shoulder of parents, which is natural. Have to disagree. A parent can't be simultaneously up to speed on Math, English, a 2nd language, Biology, Science, History or any of the oth
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by damagednoob 5y ago
> It was indeed peace, we almost had it, world peace - feeling utopian and all loving in the 90s. Think you might need to qualify that. The mid-90s saw the Bosnian and Rwandan genocides.
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by damagednoob 5y ago
"...court filings reveal that the arbitrator found Berry’s allegations more credible than Tesla’s denials, ..." So this was a he said/she said case?
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by damagednoob 5y ago
> What? Who wants to share their what now with whom? Why would they do that? Barclays will send banking data directly to FreeAgent[1] which allows you to categorize the transactions and upload receipts. FreeAgent uses this information to
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by damagednoob 5y ago
I too find the jq syntax arcane and I've found https://jqplay.org/ to be an invaluable help.
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by damagednoob 5y ago
I think it's more likely that in light of the #MeToo movement, it became untenable for them to defend an accused rapist, regardless of if he was innocent or not.

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