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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Ironic because Javascript's Date behavior was also modeled after the original java.Util.Date (which was immediately deprecated, whoops).
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Native-born Californians are a minority of San Francisco's residents. Most people who are leaving are more likely relatively recent migrants to the Bay Area following the tech boom; social connections for these people do not run partic
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
"Judas and the Black Messiah" was a wonderful, uncompromising view into the radical black politics of the 1960s. As I was watching it I couldn't help but compare it to the weak-sauce Sorkin film "The Trial of the Chicago
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
I understand why this would be valuable from a team-building perspective (and support it as such), but I'm not totally convinced this is valuable as a way to improve the product. Typical user testing is monitoring your users as they su
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Is there a term for this phenomena yet? "if another language is being discussed, Rust must be forced into the discussion, no matter how tenuous the connection"
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Why isn't there any investigative journalism looking into wtf is happening at AWS? What the point of all these tech journalists writing all those puff pieces for access if they're not going to use it to pierce the NDA shield at t
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
I enjoyed reading that too. It's great to see the amount of thought that the language maintainers put into design, especially for things like syntactic sugar (which can get overwhelming in other languages).
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
I'm thinking back to the first time I cracked open a Java 101 book, which was a truly impenetrable and frustrating experience. I didn't even get the tooling stable enough to print hello world. It took me a few years later to engag
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Rust evangelism is one of the cleaner examples of people absorbing a technology as an element of personal identity . You have all the hallmarks: - rhetoric taking on levels of hostile zealotry like the linked post - aggressive insertion of
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
The developer experience of Go is really one of its killer features. I was reminded of this when I was starting fresh on a new laptop; I just had to run one command in VScode to set up the entire Go tooling stack, which just installed and w
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
A previous workplace experimented with Rust for internal services and the feedback was almost uniformly negative. Commonly cited reasons were the long compile times, limited standard library, and generally unstable best practices. One inter
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
The only way I've seen Ruby work professionally is by using tooling that prevents developers from getting too clever with creating write-only code.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Congratulations folks! I'll say that Reddit has become one of my favorite sites to visit occasionally and I feel they've earned their success. I honestly feel it is a positive factor in my life, for the little I use it. There&#x27
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Hashing a URL in Java does a DNS lookup(twitter.com)
2 points by ferdowsi 5y ago|0 comments
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Most every company I've worked for, large and small, has paid for professional third party security audits that scrutinize the dependency chain. log4j still wasn't flagged as problematic.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
I really don't understand why you are defining this as a random, external project. Your software is dependent on this project! It's right in the term "dependency"!
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
This could have been solved by just making the unsafe behavior opt-in via a command-line flag. Right now it is opt-out.
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Mars Ingenuity Mission Is “Powered by Apache Log4j”(twitter.com)
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
This is the niche that made WAFs like Signal Sciences so successful.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
I clicked into the Go Github repo and found documentation pretty easily. The compiler code itself is well documented, and Go's code navigation tooling itself helps learning. https://github.com/golang/go/tree&#
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
No. The network protocol lost cultural rights to the name by its lack of success.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Were there any major disruptions during Black Friday? Seems like a pretty momentous weekend for reliability engineers.
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Facebook’s head of Messenger leaving company as executive exodus continues(cnbc.com)
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
It's beyond time to retire the FAANG acronym. At one point it signaled a group of companies that were dynamic players that were (to various extents) disrupting the existing business landscape. Now these companies are incumbent behemoth
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Absolutely, yes. A growing community needs healthy management in order to avoid reputational damage to the core language. There's no shortage of guidance to "stay away from X tech because the community is toxic and non-serious&quo
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
These organizational breakdowns in tech communities (recently Rust,.NET, Elm) make me much more appreciative of long-running, relatively healthy communities.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
The anemic standard library in Rust always seemed like a disaster waiting to happen. Javascript gets heaps of deserved criticism for its standard library, but at I can generate a SHA-256 without needing to pull in a third party library.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Seems like smart contracts aren't so smart if they don't support easy cancelation mechanisms.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
As the negative perception of Facebook engineering picks up it'll be interesting to see where this heads. There's been precious little conversation about the stewardship model of React.JS, in which Facebook has an outsized role. I
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
There's actual serious work being done by cryptographers to address the gravity of this problem. NFTs aren't it. https://c2pa.org/

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