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by fzeindl 1y ago
What is needed is more evidence based software engineering. Statistical methods applied to datasets correlating issue trackers with code ASTs to show us exactly which ways of coding are correlated with longer issue times, frequent bugs etc.
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by fzeindl 1y ago
Yes but articles mentioning only meta, but not Facebook, will be found on google in the middle of unrelated articles.
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by fzeindl 1y ago
I wonder if the purpose of naming it „X“, just like naming „Facebook“ meta is to do the opposite of SEO: Make it harder to find news pertaining to the company and their scandals.
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by fzeindl 1y ago
I wonder what would happen if you give o3 before/after photographs of a crime scene and ask it what happened in between.
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Kotlin JSON Stream Serializer(github.com)
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Type-safe, multiplatform JSON serialization for Kotlin generated at compile-time(fabianzeindl.com)
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by fzeindl 2y ago
I noticed that turning off the soothing in-game music goes a long way in reducing my sons Minecraft craving.
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Ask HN: Does anyone use unattended security upgrades inside Kubernetes-Pods?
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by fzeindl 2y ago
This is an example for something I have always troubling arguing with in technical discussions: Sometimes a solution only works if you apply it partially, "in good measure". I can imagine the discussions on the issue above with th
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by fzeindl 2y ago
I have implemented something similar (updating projection from background and serving the projection automatically via REST) and wrote a high-Level article about it https://www.fabianzeindl.com/posts/the-api-database-ar
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by fzeindl 2y ago
At every enterprise job I have been in, there was always a quagmire around renewing or exchanging certificates. The corresponding tasks always required disproportionately many high-level meetings and discussions for their actual simplicity.
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by fzeindl 2y ago
I just wish they wouldn‘t so disproportionally often drift off into extreme sillyness (That, I can take.) or extreme brutality and gore (That, I find revolting. When did showing so much splatter on a regular basis start being considered goo
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by fzeindl 2y ago
> What makes you think that this is the case? If someone touches you from behind do you immediately fall over dead from sensory overload? My point was not that reactions/feelings etc are switched by a signal being 1 or 0, just that
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by fzeindl 2y ago
You can divide your approach to asking questions with people (and I do believe this is something people do): 1. You ask someone you can trust for facts and opinions on topics, but you keep in mind that the answer might only be right in 90%
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by fzeindl 2y ago
> sensory data is not digitally encoded - it is all continuous data That might be correct but as far as I know the brain has circuits that fire periodically with a certain frequency (what brain waves are about). If such frequencies stee
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by fzeindl 2y ago
Could the 10bits be some sort of instruction-set-address-width? Meaning that while you are solving the rubik‘s cube, your brain has the capacity of switching into one of 2^10=1024 possible next states, which might fire nerve impulses for th
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by fzeindl 2y ago
I do have the theory that the more untyped the language is, the larger the islands are: Fronterra (JavaScript), Cloudderra (YAML), AILandia (Python) are way bigger than Java, Swift, DotNet, etc. even though the prejudice saying goes that th
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by fzeindl 2y ago
I quote myself: > _for example_ by it's impact on bug resolution time
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by fzeindl 2y ago
> On the other hand, there is no way to measure the "effectiveness" of TDD as compared to not using it. There are definitely ways to measure, for example by it's impact on bug resolution time. The following study looks at
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by fzeindl 2y ago
> After awhile, I started realizing that these mistakes are present in almost all topics. A fun question I tried a couple of times is asking it to give me a list with famous talks about a topic. Or a list of famous software engineers and
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by fzeindl 2y ago
In my opinion the only real point of those frameworks is so that developers can focus on coding while the experts figure out how to do code splitting, search engine optimization and what to render where (browser, server) and when. Since htt
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by fzeindl 2y ago
A specialty in austria (in the middle of the map) is pumped-storage hydroelectricity. Since there are so many mountains and valleys, lakes are used as giant batteries. Water can be pumped up in times of excessive supply and released to prod
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by fzeindl 2y ago
> These people know how to read and write better than STEMs in general That is completely untrue. Efficient, creative writing is a skill that can be learned by anyone by following a handful of rules.
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by fzeindl 2y ago
Here are more arguments against async/await: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=449j7oKQVkc Ron Pressler always was an advocate for blocking code and even joined oracle to add virtual threads to the JVM, thus invalidating
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by fzeindl 2y ago
* transactional DDL * comprehensive transaction model using different modes * PostGIS and lots of other great extensions * supports most of the current SQL standard and is clear on interpretation of edge-cases in the documentation * support
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by fzeindl 2y ago
If you buy quality ink pens by pentel or faber Castell they will last years, depending on usage.
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by fzeindl 2y ago
I started doing ink drawings (0.1mm ink pens). I tried pencil at first but with ink I liked that I can’t erase and can’t shade by using pressure. So every mistake has to be transformed into something agreeable. It is very productive to thin
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by fzeindl 2y ago
What is less known is that the author of the waterfall model Winston W. Royce recommended doing the entire process TWICE: https://pragtob.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/why-waterfall-was-a... It is hard to foresee
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by fzeindl 2y ago
Could rolling dice with matching phrases generate novel research ideas? (ok the metaphor is slightly off, but not a lot)
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by fzeindl 2y ago
> Boeing has really struggled in making the cultural transition from old style cost-plus government contracting. How is this old style? At least in software development / IT-consulting in Europe cost plus is done all the time now, s

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