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by foobiekr 3y ago
I don’t think most of the coders who end up in glue code positions are actually trainable. Agree solidly on the gating aspect though. The problem is that quality hires continue to be rare and at some level you are doing area-under-the-curve
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by foobiekr 3y ago
This does not honestly seem true for the main sql databases. For everything else, yes, but if people were actually learning databases instead of hiding from them most of the uptake there wouldn’t exist anyway.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Yes, I don’t disagree, I just think in practice they do the job very poorly. I’ve tried many things over the years trying to make this work but honestly have found nothing that works at the high end. At the low end of engineering, yeah, cod
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Are there employers that insist on an always on camera in the working area? Who?
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by foobiekr 3y ago
In the real world. I’ve been working for large vendors for literal decades and I can tell you outright that you own us if you’re a big customer, even if we are the only vendor in sight, and no one gives a shit if you’re spreading out your b
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Whenever someone on the projects, I’m attached to tries to create a new service, first I asked them what data it works with, and then I ask them what the alternative to making this a service would be. Usually, by the time we start answering
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by foobiekr 3y ago
At 30 years of coding professionally in great engineering-focused organizations, and that on top of nearly a lifetime of having coded for myself, I’ve concluded code reviews barely work. I agree with everything you say here, but honestly it
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by foobiekr 3y ago
You’re not wrong here but usually this comes down to having one or a small number of version specific container processors (and I do not mean container in the docker sense) to host those functions. Not microservices. That said, almost alway
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by foobiekr 3y ago
I’m going to start having a seizure if I keep reading this thread because I agree so strongly. It is painful looking at modern software development. They don’t know the basics and the whole Agile/TDD thing I think was the start of the
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Not having replaced a bulb due to failure for ten years (and to be clear not having replaced an LED bulb ever) is not the same as not having bulbs that are under 10 years old. We have a variety of LED bulbs from 2013 and then others I’ve in
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Most large companies. There is a stark difference between the distinguished engineers and the tier below them in terms of asking people to stop doing things badly.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
I know of an engineer who built a work queue by having a chain from an app to kafka to a processor to Kafka to a database writer. Literally instead of a table. This stuff is everywhere. Microservices made it worse and half legitimized it.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
I see stuff like this every day. It is a natural consequence of people who only “develop” by gluing things together. God help them if they’d actually have to write some core function themselves.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
This doesn’t work in practice since your costs scale with vendor count and theirs don’t. In reality being a single big customer for one vendor is far more influential than being a small one with other options.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Qualcomm is the single worst company to work with. They try to negotiate % of revenue deals instead of cost-per-unit deals and they make Broadcom look like Stallman-level open source fanatics.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
If you are using Cloudflare DNS, that's why. This comes up frequently, CloudFlare always comes along and gives a vaguely dishonest answer as to why they won't fix it. Stop using 1.1.1.1; if you are using private relay (which impli
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Felt, GE, Philips. I have ~20 bulbs, including several on dimmers, in the house and have never had to replace a failed LED bulb in ten years. Are you sure your power isn't bad in some way?
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by foobiekr 3y ago
"all" is doing heavy lifting here in a way that distorts the observation the person you are replying to was making.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
ORMs basically exist because people doing coding refuse to learn the relational model and want to program with OO instead. Most of the time they are, at best, irrelevant but eventually become expensive, slow, complex and painful. Everyone
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by foobiekr 3y ago
There's also a ton of optimization savings in doing this. your DB already has to move from media to cache, so why not do the pipelined processing in place where it's cheapest? Instead, we haul that shit to the NIC, then across the
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by foobiekr 3y ago
I used to feel like you - the non-removable battery thing was annoying, the non-modular flash was a deal breaker, etc. None of them turned out to matter, at all. What does matter is a solid feel and solid construction and the flash and batt
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by foobiekr 3y ago
50+ includes half of GenX, many of which are more sophisticated technologically than their successors. 60+, yeah.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
I thought the lead was from beans left outdoors to ferment near machinery / vehicles / industrial sites with lead in the emissions.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
You are strongly misinterpreting both how real-world customers perceive vendor lock in and how DoD procurement works. Everything here is so far off from reality I don't even know where to begin.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
You don't build a new greenfield compute pod because you want to, you do it because it makes sense. Making sense is about cost and non-cost needs like data gravity and regulatory issues. The cost case only works for GPU heavy workloads
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Also future datacenter builds are going to be focusing on specific applications which means specific builds. I think Nvidia has a much better chance here with their superpod than Oxide. The target use case is pretty unclear. On-prem buyers
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Shoes does not attack symmetric ciphers like AES. Grover’s algorithm applies and will never be used against even AES 128.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
As a movement. People have to eat.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
It's not unfortunate at all. Every company I've worked for has been an unbelievable freeloader on open source projects. Tens of billions of dollars in revenue, almost nothing to the projects they rely on. I think the open source e
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Are you if the opinion that college graduates are less likely to become corrupt than, oh, the people who normally become cops? I worked at a university. The corruption was constant and funny because of the trivial numbers in financial gain

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