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by gbro3n 4y ago
This is more of an integration test than a unit test. And if you're going to test for a pixel perfect image match, why not check for full equality with a pre-existing PDF file, byte for byte? And then what are you testing? That somethi
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Microservices: Think Hard Before You Jump In(journals.appsoftware.com)
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Dev to BaTest: A Prediction for the Evolution of the Dev Role Alongside AI(journals.appsoftware.com)
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GDPR Compliant Web Analytics Using Fathom(journals.appsoftware.com)
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by gbro3n 4y ago
On demand learning is more efficient. Sure we'd rather understand the whole field, but we can't know all of every field. Better to learn what you know and go deeper as and when it's clear that you'll need to. If I tried
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by gbro3n 4y ago
To add weight to the merits of on demand learning, on the Tim Ferris pod cast, Martine Rothblatt describes how she was able to learn enough to start her own pharmaceutical company to save her daughters life using what sounds like an on dema
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by gbro3n 4y ago
Ha, yeah does seem to be a lot of loose ends to tie up in a short space of time / book!
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by gbro3n 4y ago
Not a decision I've got wrong, but I'd suggest authentication services are a common regret. Yes authentication is important to get right, but it's not _that_ complex. SaaS tools for auth are incredibly expensive for the featu
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by gbro3n 4y ago
Am 90 pct through Project Hail Mary and agree this book is brilliant. If you're technically / sci-fi inclined you'll love this. The author ties together a great story with scientific knowledge which must have taken significan
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by gbro3n 4y ago
That's a great article. Thanks, it captures the problem well. It seems in my most recently experienced case the decision to re-write has some validity. The client is taking software built externally in house, to unify with modern infra
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by gbro3n 4y ago
Having experienced multiple 're-build' projects in my career, I know that it is hard to capture all of the requirements from the working software. Often because of the size of the code base and lack of documentation. To the client
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How do you estimate for a 're-build' in software?(pm.stackexchange.com)
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by gbro3n 4y ago
The problem of old technologies isn't specific to the shipping industry, this is true for many large, long running industries where working systems matter. You see old technologies in banking and you see it in transport for example. Sh
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by gbro3n 4y ago
"As AI improves and gains trust in a field, it can then replace the human. But this trust has to come from evidence of AI superiority over the long term"
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by gbro3n 4y ago
This is a good point. Where less than perfect AI is better than the alternative, it is useful.
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by gbro3n 4y ago
This is a good point. There is some work that just wont be done unless it can be automated, and in that case work with a higher rate of error is preferable to no work at all.
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by gbro3n 4y ago
The most sensible use for AI that I can see at this time is for supporting humans in their work, but only where the system is set up so that the human has to do the work first, with the AI system looking for possible errors. For example t
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by gbro3n 4y ago
Thank you, makes more sense and some for me to think about there. Some one once told me another version of your No. 3 - "A pocket full of thankyous is nice, but won't pay your bills". On No. 17, I think it's important to
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by gbro3n 4y ago
This is how I started out as a contractor / freelancer. I got a call via my website to help a local company rescue a project that was suffering some problems having been worked on by not-so-great offshore companies. You may be well sui
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by gbro3n 4y ago
Would be great to get some context / examples around some of these
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by gbro3n 4y ago
'Fail early' and 'throw exceptions in exceptional circumstances'. You need good top level error handling and logging of course. I still work with engineers that try catch exceptions and return some sort of more 'gra
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by gbro3n 4y ago
I also understand this theory, but why is my perception mine, and not that of some other physical being. Why do I experience it. I know what many will answer and I can look at other beings and understand why that being might develop met
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by gbro3n 4y ago
Obsidian and Logseq are very different methods of note taking. Obsidian is basically a markdown editor with wikilinks. Logseq is an outliner.
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by gbro3n 4y ago
Because they are so low friction when taking notes, while making easy to find information again. Plain text files are fine if you have specific search terms you can search on. Some times you just know that you might have noted something aro
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by gbro3n 4y ago
What I rarely see / hear articulated well enough, and am not even sure that I can, are questions around why _I_ have consciousness. I understand the reasons why a body might develop meta cognition, and how it's advantageous for a
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by gbro3n 4y ago
There is a middle way, just set your boundaries on which AWS services you want to use. 1 x EC2 server + 1 x application load balancer and a few S3 buckets works well for my hobby projects (ALB is just for multiple domain SSL and reverse pro
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by gbro3n 4y ago
Though not a social service, the recent shutdown of Stadia is likely indicative of how corporate shut downs will be handled.
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by gbro3n 4y ago
I've found Logseq and Previously Roam work well in that they are low friction in recording information, but I'm still able to find information when I need it (most of the time). The nested block system means it's pretty easy
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by gbro3n 4y ago
Agreed. The differences of opinion during estimating are another form of pressure. Programmers work differently. I might estimate a task longer than a colleague, but I might be the type of programmer who tidies up and refactors along the wa
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by gbro3n 4y ago
Kanban is the best middle ground IMO. I agree sprints are a distraction. The planning and ceremonies alone sap time. Sprints are really just a form of pressure. In my experience the stories estimating is not accurate enough to set up a pred

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