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by deckard1 9y ago
> Only programmers do the latter but that is a shame. Part of me says this is job security for software developers. The other part of me saw non-programmers try to use Excel as a layout/desktop publishing/vector graphics tool.
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How many of these businesses are fly-by-night vendors offloading junk-tier goods at inflated prices? Most of the unbranded goods are straight from Alibaba, with a 40%+ markup. Just try buying batteries on Amazon. You'll wade through
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> C/C++/Objective-C/Java/Rust/Perl/Bash/Fortran compilers huh? What compiler supports C and Perl and Bash? WTF? Sure, most C compilers are also C++ compilers. I'm not sure why this would be surpris
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A miter saw with some janky robots sawing what looks to be a flimsy piece of pine... is going to threaten IKEA? OpenSCAD and parametric design is cool and all. But this is asinine. That's the most charitable way I could put any of this
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> First off, large companies have different priorities in pursuing these deals than small startups. The large company might be interested in the service offered because it will generate revenue or improve efficiency. On the other hand, t
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> A proper open-ecosystem solution Not sure what you mean by "open ecosystem solution." IRC is literally just a few RFCs, a variety of server software, and a variety of client software. It's as extendable as you need it, a
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> That is totally different than writing a line of script that only you have ever run and assuming that because it works on your laptop, it will run everywhere. huh?? No it's not. That's the whole discussion we are having now.
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> basically nothing outside of C/C++ uses it That's how it has always been, though. In the '90s you didn't need to run Perl or Tcl through it because you weren't compiling anything. The Venn diagram of "Plat
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I say, you JS guys doth protest a bit too much. If you look in your package.json, you'll surely see a dozen or so "scripts" lines that run through the same shell that make does and have all the problems you just mentioned. I&
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webpack. My dependency was webpack. It was a dependency of webpack that was broken (you can pick your bride, but you can't pick your bride's family). And the package owner, in a Github Issue said "not my problem, this package
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On github and the node/JS ecosystem, the way this will play out: 1. Spend hours digging through layers and layers of crufty JS. 2. Find the issue (and the package responsible for the issue). 3. Find out there is a Github
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> It is difficult to understand why so many junior programmers use a dozen boolean state variables instead of a state machine It's not just juniors. The only times I've encountered state machines in the wild are almost exclusiv
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As someone that loved QuickBASIC, it irks me when people confuse it with QBasic. QBasic was Microsoft's answer to "what should we do with GW-BASIC to make it feel fresh again?" Whereas QuickBASIC was a serious tool.
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How so? Two decades ago was... 1998. You pop in Visual Studio 6.0 click a few buttons and it's done. On Linux we had gcc/g++, which came preinstalled in every distro. Even if you factor in setting up Makefiles and autoconf and fri
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https://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/ Already happening. But everyone called RMS a kook. He looks funny. He talks funny. He's a socialist. He smells. And here we are. People are praisi
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by deckard1 9y ago
Read The Mythical Man-Month, internalize it, and realize nothing ever changes. Organizations took up "Agile" because they wanted to be "agile." But Agile is not agile. Not even slightly. In most organizations, it devol
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A few years back a person I worked with was tasked with implementing code coverage. Part of that task was they also had to get our code base up to 80% coverage or so. They wrote stupid test after stupid test after stupid test. Hundreds of t
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by deckard1 9y ago
> I'm old, I learned about sql injection and hash salts and coupling and testing by being awful at it for decades. You pick up a goddamn book, man! > How do I transfer that knowledge so that a 26 year old can be where I was at 32
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> Developers must have the capability of quickly testing the system without manual work Running unit tests is hardly quick. Especially if you have to compile them. End-to-end are even worse, in this regard. > They don't, they tes
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There are a few references to 2016. There is also a target/iphone8 folder. Don't see any reference to iPhone X though.
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Right now we have high prices. We're also in the boomer retirement period, of 2014-2023 or so. I wonder what it's going to take to cause boomers to get skittish and panic sell their portfolio. In 2008, they still had time. Now it&
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There is a fascinating series on Netflix right now called Animal Airport. It's about animal control that takes place at Heathrow. It's a glimpse of what goes on behind the scenes. At a few points, you'll see these "emoti
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Absolutely amazing. I skimmed through the entire book, and the level of detail is insane. Now if only I had a 2nd lifetime or immortality to play all of these games. I noticed World of Warcraft was missing, which seemed odd at first. But th
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Maybe it's just the service you use? My .io has masked whois.
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Yep. And you can see this in a lot of what Google does. Most people think Google's push for HTTPS, both in Chrome and SEO rankings, is somehow related to privacy. It's not. It's about net neutrality and it's about third
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The lisp that runs on an Atari is hardly modern. And considering the AI Winter, I'm not sure you're selling us what you think you're selling us, regarding AI or lisp.
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Github is already littered with the dead carcasses of software using shiny new obsolete tools like gulp, grunt, and browserify to name just a tiny few. You have to have a strong nose for bitrot and ruthlessly filter garbage out of the fireh
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by deckard1 9y ago
> Yeah, I went through 3 stages of hiring with $company. My BS radar goes off when I get asked for a 2nd interview, or any 4 hour group interview. Thanks, but no thanks. They did you a favor. These interviewers are crazy, and have zero p
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Microservices are never deleted. They are only abandoned and left to rot after the initial developers move on to their second system ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect ). Then you have apps that are stu
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I've been doing React professionally for 3 years now. I've messed with React Native out of curiosity and to see if it would fit my needs. React Native remains a hard sell for me. The idea behind it is that knowledge of React is wh

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