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by devjab 3y ago
The article you link ends by agreeing with what I said. So I’m not exactly sure what to take it as. If your service fails because it’s trying to create and send an email to an invalid email, then you have an issue. That is not to say that y
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by devjab 3y ago
> The trouble is context. Eg: "malformed email address" is indeed an error that prevents the email process from sending a message I’m sure you didn’t quite mean it as literal as I’m going to take it and I’m sorry for that. Any
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by devjab 3y ago
I think it’s down to the systems, and I think the people who favour abstraction often forget who needs to write it. Duplication isn’t just cheaper than the wrong abstraction, it’s cheaper than almost any abstraction. Not because it should b
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by devjab 3y ago
> 2. The EU has no honest respect over the people's privacy as they fully surveil their citizens What is your source for that? Because that would be illegal in most EU countries.
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by devjab 3y ago
I'm not sure why that would be too surprising to you. In the enterprise organization I've worked with over the past few decades IT strategy is always long term and always cost based. 10-15 years ago organizations moved from the ba
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by devjab 3y ago
> You make an excellent point about the EU surveillance laws. They clearly don’t give a shit about privacy. None of the folks disagreeing ITT seem to be willing to discuss that point. You can be for privacy and against survailance. Often
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by devjab 3y ago
How do you come to that conclusion? These laws apply to all EU based companies while non-EU companies have the clear option to opt out of them, which many do. If you want to do business within the EU, then you need to respect citizen privac
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by devjab 3y ago
This is going to be a bit unrelated to what you said, but I recommend looking into Mermaid diagrams in your MD files as a replacement for draw.io. It saved us a bunch of time and has given us documentation diagrams that developers actually
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by devjab 3y ago
Powershell for AD work. Java, C#, PHP for general purpose programming (it’s been 10 years since I used Java though). Python (I actually like that) for a lot of different things. C and C++ for embedded and high performance tasks for solar pl
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by devjab 3y ago
I always find these takes so radically different from my own experiences. We do use Typescript and maybe that’s the difference, but these days you’re either using JSDoc or Typescript if you’re working with JavaScript so it feels sort of dis
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by devjab 3y ago
I’m simply trying to say that I think XML sucks because the people who implement it suck, and not because of any technical reasons. Hell, I’m saying that I think XML sucks because it allows people to suck when they use it, myself included.
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by devjab 3y ago
You don’t, but I’m assuming that many companies which either sell or does water cooling may still use municipal treated water because doing it differently requires quite a lot of corporation. What we try to do here in Denmark, which is a sm
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by devjab 3y ago
Nobody deserves XML! In all seriousness I get the idea behind XML and I have used a couple of SOAP services which were absolutely brilliant, but as someone who has spent a decade “linking” data from various sources in non-tech enterprise… W
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by devjab 3y ago
I think that it's because it's boring which in terms of economics translates directly into savings and safety. Look at RedHat, it has some really nice tools and frankly always had, but if you made it the backbone of your platforms
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by devjab 3y ago
We mainly use high level languages like TypeScript or Python because they work well for us. We do use C/C++ from time to time though, both for high performance requiring bottlenecks and for embedded since we do work with solar plant te
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by devjab 3y ago
There can be a lot of reasons and I’m not sure you can find an answer unless they directly give you one. I would guess that it’s part decorum part attempt to minimise the administrative burden. Many European PE’s operate on a “there is enou
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by devjab 3y ago
I’ve never met any of these types in two decades of software engineering. Well, maybe the “negative Nancy” and the lone wolf, but even then not really. I’ve met a lot of the qualities/challenges that make up a lot of these types. Maybe
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by devjab 3y ago
JavaScript is famously backwards compatible. That’s exactly why it’s the mess you describe.
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by devjab 3y ago
Yes. That’s how we typically do it in our shop. Though we do test it during development. Then when we think it’s ready, we have the product owner (or whoever ordered it) “play around with it” on a test setup. Before we let select users “tes
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by devjab 3y ago
In my experience in non-SWE related enterprise this isn't really an issue. To put it as bluntly as possible, most EU organisations don't have enough work to staff an team for their IT operations. Maybe you could have one or two pe
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by devjab 3y ago
It would still be illegal to use it, but you're right that I shouldn't have been so conspiratorial.
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by devjab 3y ago
I loved how the writers of that Netflix movie about a hacker put it as “I have nothing I want to show you”.
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by devjab 3y ago
Microsoft owns enough of OpenAI that their endgame goal of putting GPT like features into Azure and Office365 for enterprise customers is what we’re likely to see happen. OpenAI will likely target private consumers while Microsoft focuses o
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by devjab 3y ago
Hetzner is quickly positioning itself to be the Azure/AWS replacement for a lot of shops here in the EU.
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by devjab 3y ago
> Not sure I agree. It seems far simpler to comply with most regulations if you store your data in a centralised data store with good management features. I don't think we disagree, it's just that we soon won't be allowed
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by devjab 3y ago
> This is an extremely narrow view. There are a zillion uses of databases that are not storing user data from web apps or whatever. Who said anything about "user" data? I work in the energy sector. The GDPR rules are tiny issue
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by devjab 3y ago
I think it’s the natural evolution of software development in an age where decoupled architectures make more and more sense. I’ve been around long enough to see a few pendulum swings, but I’m not sure we’re ever going back to a world where
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by devjab 3y ago
I’ve spent a decade in the public sector where you’ll find a little of both. In my experience the dedicated software departments produce better quality software over time. This isn’t to say you can’t do it with integrated teams spread out o
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by devjab 3y ago
I’ve worked quite a bit in enterprise software development, and later in teams that are transitioning from startups/mid-size to enterprise and in my very anecdotal experience it’s always down to the internal processes. Software develop
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by devjab 3y ago
I mean, wouldn't it be a privateer certificate if it gave you a license?

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