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by externalreality 7y ago
There's a lot of fantasy in this article. Most programmers today do very little actually - we don't wield major influence. We basically glue together a bunch of Free Open Source offerings. The most critical skill is that ability t
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by externalreality 7y ago
How is concerns about net neutrality and the absence of net neutrality party politics. Aren't all politics party politics in the USA. As far as the topic concerns. It just goes to show how much power big business has. Clearly net neutr
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by externalreality 7y ago
> You can't refactor code without tests See this is where the conversation goes south. You will use the phrase "unit tests" when it suits you, and then, like a magician using indirection, generalize to the word "tests
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by externalreality 7y ago
Functional purists are the only one's who hate it. OOP by its very nature encourages developers to make bold abstractions prematurely (where prematurely is interchangeable with unnecessarily) and subjectively. Mean while the procedural
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by externalreality 7y ago
The author does a good job painting propaganda in its awesome and terrible social media incarnation. The analogy between ISIS with the NZ maniac is a bit troublesome however and I'll tell you why. When I served in Afghanistan, as a me
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by externalreality 7y ago
Programming is simple. Domains and interfaces are difficult. People over engineer stuff. People like to think they found the key to hidden wisdom. I believe I just summed up 90% of the difficulty with programming. Just for the record proced
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by externalreality 7y ago
> breaking something critical that you may have missed in your acceptance tests. So you can miss things in your acceptance tests but can't miss them in your unit tests? Why do you feel more confident with unit tests than with accept
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by externalreality 7y ago
I agree with this article. Good stuff. One minor gripe: > if you care about the code, you need to have unit tests for it. That's not really true. You can test at a differently granularity and still have the same confidence in your c
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by externalreality 7y ago
IBM replace 30% of HR with this algorithm. I mean I can't say I miss them. HR is worthless. They do nothing. If you want to retain employees find out the patterns that indicate that an employee is about to leave and find out the patter
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by externalreality 7y ago
You can read Chiba's thesis which explains exactly how they are able to detect the systems calls made by the ELF using static analysis and code flow execution analysis (the techniques all seems very simple and ingenious - you can even
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by externalreality 7y ago
> Why are containers any more dangerous/vulnerable/prone to leaks than deploying say... a standalone REST API not in a container? Its not about one service, its about n services running on the same resource partitioned hardware
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by externalreality 7y ago
So here is what I have learned over the years from working for, dealing with, starting my own, and studying consultancy companies. It really quite simple. Every successful consultancy company I know had several things in common. 1) The foun
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by externalreality 7y ago
What is being described here is very similar if not identical to what can be found in Agile software and lean software development books that gained popularity in the mid 2000's.
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by externalreality 7y ago
Agreed, agreed.
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by externalreality 7y ago
So there are problems. Its also the fastest way to the destroy the world. If you dot the world with these things we become one climate disaster or earth quake away from having written a check that our collective asses can't cash.
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by externalreality 7y ago
> only two things that matter: ease of use and memory consumption Those are seriously not the only two things that matter. Not by a long shot. Depending on what you are doing there are other serious concerns like security, OS Noise and o
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by externalreality 7y ago
I think there on the right track from a usability standpoint in making tools that will help build a minimal kernel by determining what system-calls need to be included based on the application. Pulling in the correct dynamic libraries is al
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HermiTux: A Binary-Compatible Unikernel(ssrg-vt.github.io)
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by externalreality 7y ago
> This kind of work needs to stop. There's no discernible purpose to this refactoring and no discernible improvement in the code following. It actually adds code! I hope this serves as a lesson for everyone. Saying "I'm So
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by externalreality 8y ago
First we need to stop acting like HR does anything. HR is paid by the same employer as the victim and will take the employer's side over the victim any time. The only thing HR will do is collect information from the victim and pass tha
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by externalreality 8y ago
This article has been written many times by many authors (even using the same cargo cult airplane image) and yet is no less true than the first time it was written. That said, clamoring toward things like React has yielded a net positive re
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by externalreality 8y ago
You could help to decrease the prevalence of the attitude whose extreme form was responsible for the passage of the law in the first place. Ever give that a thought? There is no totalitarianism here its Law & Order.
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by externalreality 8y ago
Yes, they are. Its not the dominate paradigm and you wouldn't want to program them that way, but that's my point.
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by externalreality 8y ago
Nah, don't remove your education. I did that once and people just kept on asking anyway or assuming I didn't have any at all. Not a good idea. Just like anything else if you want to code you don't need a degree. Just prove th
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by externalreality 8y ago
That was seriously cool. I had to scroll to see the last section. That was cool.
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by externalreality 8y ago
> Immediately closed the article You shouldn't have done that because a few sentences later the wiki describes how he was motivated by other mass shootings, which is precisely what the article is talking about. Was he a white attack
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by externalreality 8y ago
> Right now when things escalate What do you mean by "escalate"? I hope you are not using the word "escalate" to describe the murder of hundreds of innocent people by extremist terrorist. > to people who are alread
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by externalreality 8y ago
One reason these attacks will continue to grow is because authorities are not looking for these individuals because they are white. So when they start planning and collecting weapons the flags that would be raised, for say a dark skinned mu
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by externalreality 8y ago
> Hardly any work is being done towards personal "small-computing" That's not true.
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by externalreality 8y ago
> Well, maybe we’ll still have Linux... None of the major Linux companies — Canonical, Red Hat, SUSE — makes the desktop a priority anymore. The Linux desktop will continue on, but it will keep going in the same way it is now: a platform

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