herval

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by herval 5y ago
How do you manage to sustain 140-160 WPM? I consider myself a very fast typist, and I don’t think I ever broke 100 WPM (it’s the maximum I ever got in one of those typing tests)
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by herval 5y ago
For the record, could you share with us what “Marxism” is?
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by herval 5y ago
> the last thing programmers need is a person who has dedicated their career to creating more process not ALL developers crave this. I've been through companies where process is scoffed at (some developers burn out trying to manage
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by herval 5y ago
I know I'll will probably sound a bit Luddite by saying this, but just the examples already make me cringe: a welcoming video for a corporation saying "we're looking forward to have you here", narrated by a _bot_, is as
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by herval 5y ago
I feel changes a lot between locations (“scenes”). Back when I lived in Berlin, we had entire meetups dedicated to talk about _useless but cool projects_. Moved to the Bay Area, and I could never find anything remotely similar. Maybe they e
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by herval 5y ago
Well, it does exactly what op wrote: "your client retrieves a subset of the available instances via service discovery, establishes connections to every instance in the subset, and spreads requests between them"
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by herval 5y ago
I saw this same attitude on a Haskell shop - "we write UIs in Haskell to prevent hiring script kiddies". Turns out Haskell coders with 20y of experience on completely non-visual workloads are terrible at UI/UX, to the point o
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by herval 5y ago
Finagle calls this "aperture" ( https://twitter.github.io/finagle/guide/ApertureLoadBalancer... )
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by herval 5y ago
I had to re-key my keyboard recently and managed to get all keys right, EXCEPT for a swapped right alt/ctrl. I don’t think I ever typed on those two, so maybe it’s a blank in my muscle memory map :)
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by herval 5y ago
> Of course. It's the only logical and effective way to deal with the problem. ...where, if you can share?
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by herval 5y ago
Have you seen that work anywhere, at any scale? What you’re describing is pretty much every single chronic underperforming team I’ve ever watched. It leads to an organization where everyone is essentially “blocked”, and since work tends to
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by herval 5y ago
What works, in your experience?
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by herval 5y ago
I'm generally in your camp (having been through 3 monolith-to-microservices migrations), but to be fair, at least two of your examples are pretty massive outliers: * Instagram barely had any features when it was acquired - the entire A
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by herval 5y ago
I wanted to help out with your story here, and I had some OpenAI credits available, sooooo here's a high level chapter summary, straight from our AI Overlords. I'd give it 2/5, too much microphone. --- Plot: A bunch of kids f
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by herval 5y ago
A large portion of most professions is basically debugging and reverse engineering :) (including non-technical ones, like psychology or law)
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by herval 5y ago
I get the impression these are supposed to be mutually exclusive, since both are pretty heavy frameworks? Is that not the case? (I haven't touched frontend directly for a while, so maybe completely mistaken)
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by herval 5y ago
So.. they capitalized on the hype around the technology and crowdfunded? From the past comment, I was hoping there’s any benefit to DAO itself that’d make an enterprise this size easier to run - you could technically achieve the same with a
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by herval 5y ago
Is there anything provided by DAO that makes Uniswap runnable by fewer people? How many people would they need if they didn’t run like you say?
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by herval 6y ago
Honest question - does that really make you finish up prototyping faster than having SOME level of organization? Unless I’m coding something so quick that I’ll be done in the same couple of hours, I feel like at least having some sensible n
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by herval 6y ago
Why would you say something to defend the asshole? In your example, you interpreted the same - the guy was an asshole. Why give them a pass? In most cases I hear of people that claim they’re afraid of giving “candid feedback” to a minority,
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by herval 6y ago
First paragraph of that article is incredibly spot-on! The closing paragraph was also quite prescient, no matter what side of the political parties you root for: > There are some who gloomily expect a society run by a small elected elite
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by herval 6y ago
What do you want to achieve by “standing out”?
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Opinions after a decade of professional software engineering(blog.thea.codes)
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by herval 6y ago
> Collectives of people don't work, and it isn't for a lack of trying Countries, companies, armies, sports teams, FAMILIES are all collectives of people. Not all of these organizations are voluntary, and not all are “based on s
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by herval 6y ago
The only case I witnessed where the interface remained untouched, even as we went from an rdmbs backend to kvo and back again, was Twitter. You can argue the reason is the data model being simple, which makes sense. Everywhere else, it was
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by herval 6y ago
Varies from project to project of course, but it’s never “just because”. If you’re swapping dbs without reasonable expectations to improve SOMETHING, it is indeed a waste of time (one that I also fought against in my career many times - bee
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by herval 6y ago
I’ve been through plenty of cases where companies successfully swap out databases exactly as you described - a document storage for an Rdbms or vice-versa. The bird social network is an example where the db was so well abstracted, they mana
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by herval 6y ago
Wow that makes it even worse. I had no idea, apologies.
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by herval 6y ago
Reading these comments make me feel like a huge outlier. Practically every project I ever worked on included AT LEAST one database swap. That includes startups and big tech, for all sorts of different reasons.
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by herval 6y ago
How is “fits in my head” not dogmatic, though? And how does fitting around practices necessarily increase complexity? If you’re a jr engineer used to write a mess of code to solve a problem, and have to decompose it following a set of princ

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