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by hibikir 4y ago
I suspect that the issue that the GP is discussing is not that they are hard to unit test, but that they are hard to mock: If you don't want to call the static method, either some relatively unfortunate thing has to be done to your moc
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by hibikir 4y ago
I'd much prefer that high density world myself, but this is a complicated problem. Rezoning as to make denser building possible, and even preferable by most people, would be great. But limiting ourselves for that solution isn't go
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by hibikir 4y ago
For most purposes, a foreign tech worker is a lot like having an extra tourist on any given week. They are giving money to your local businesses, but aren't competing with locals on anything but housing. The locals are going to see an
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by hibikir 4y ago
Even without the vulnerability in the OP, card testing is a real problem, and will remain a real problem for anyone relying on credit card payments without some form of one time passcode verification: It's just way too profitable, but
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by hibikir 4y ago
Oh, but he isn't wrong. It's quite likely that your 8000 inhabitants (which are a lot more than 100 families) live close enough together, just because of lack of giant lawns, so that your typical store owner is getting more than 1
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by hibikir 4y ago
A variety of other non-software jobs also rely on H-1Bs: See, for instance, lab technicians. A change to highest salaries, while probably way better for the software industry, and applicants in general, would wipe out other sectors. The sys
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by hibikir 4y ago
It was in no way the easiest: For that you have to go back to 2001-2003, where there were 195k available visas every year, instead of the current 85k. Visas would still run out, but the big race to submit on the first day, which eventually
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by hibikir 4y ago
I don't believe that what Mudge is saying there is all that well quoted or explained. The argument I've heard him make, in other settings, is that companies that are interesting enough will get job applicants that are really moles
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by hibikir 4y ago
The problem with this is that states are very poor boundaries for almost any economic and demographic indicator: A US state is a mostly arbitrary collection of rural, urban and suburban people, which happened to be put together a few hundre
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by hibikir 4y ago
It really depends on the company we are talking about. If you look at where Will has worked, it's easy to see why he thinks this way: His executives really were pretty good in general, and some downright great. It's just that his
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by hibikir 4y ago
It Kotlin it makes a lot more sense to use Java libraries, because for most purposes, the interfaces you'd write in Kotlin and the ones in Java are not all that different, other than coroutines. From Scala or Clojure, the differences i
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by hibikir 4y ago
It doesn't have to be like this though: Other countries pay attention to crashes, especially with fatalities. One of my uncles was a civil engineer working in Spain's government, now retired. All crashes reported to the police wou
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by hibikir 4y ago
Having no knowledge of their financials between then and now, we either expect that the valuation is done wrong, or that really, their growth and fees last year are really that much better than Square's and PayPal, in relative terms. F
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by hibikir 4y ago
This kind of happens in America today. I've worked for a Fortune 500 company that had a lot of trouble hiring good engineers on a full time basis, as the powers that be had decided that they shouldn't compare developer salaries to
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by hibikir 4y ago
I used it a few times for great effect, many years ago, when dealing with very data heavy Swing applications. We dealt with millions of rows of data, and some keys were strings with very low cardinality. Interning some of those columns lead
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by hibikir 4y ago
Patents are a very broad instrument, and their practical length can be either quite short or crushingly large depending on which industry we are talking about. when your time to market from patent to actual use in the field can be measured
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by hibikir 4y ago
It's especially interesting that the author has open source experience, and decides to put a company that went through a ransomware attack as a way of discussing liability. Imagine for a second that the ransomware attack comes via an a
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by hibikir 4y ago
I agree with you in many cases, but note that different institutions, in different countries, teach differently, and grade differently. While cheating in a core class that builds important knowledge in your major seems like a horrible idea,
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by hibikir 4y ago
The tools that were used to make Lemmings were shown in a 2019 GDQ talk, called Classic Game Postmortem: Lemmings [1]. The editor, and how fast the loop was between tweaking a level a little bit and being able to try it again, are pretty im
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by hibikir 4y ago
Their growth is being bulldozed, and they are losing/have lost more than a few big enterprise customers. This doesn't mean that their revenue will drop to zero, but it drastically changed the fortunes of the company: Without teams
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by hibikir 4y ago
That happens sometimes. But other times, HR has a lot of control over FTE salaries, and little over contractors, and they compare their salary structure to other energy companies, and therefore every FTE is drastically underpaid, and gets l
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by hibikir 4y ago
This is a pretty strange week to say that: The president nominates supreme court judges, and the rulings of those judges can make a big difference in your life: For instance, whether there's a right to abortion in the US or not. Whethe
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by hibikir 4y ago
When your system is critical enough, those kind of prices are cheap for what you get. I can't tell you about Okta, but there used to be a (now apparently gone) article by Nelson Elhague about their test parallelization infrastructure.
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by hibikir 4y ago
This might have been true in the early 00s, but not now: Based on satellite imagery analysis I've seen, large parts of the midwest are doing crop rotation with corn and soybeans in the main season, which more differences in the winder
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by hibikir 4y ago
Sometimes really it is the tool underneath you that is broken: I've been fortunate enough to not hit a CPU bug, but I sure have hit OS bugs, and definitely database bugs, and runtime environment bugs. In those cases, however, the bugs
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by hibikir 4y ago
You can find maintenance experts too. When someone tells me that they have this important, dangerous, buggy system wthat has trouble handling its ever growing load, and they need someone to come in and fix it, I cannot be any happier. But I
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by hibikir 5y ago
Except this isn't a current employee, but a former employee, who has basic knowledge of the Twitter public API. It lists former nicknames for your account, even if you now regret them, and they make it easier to do sleuthing on you. Si
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by hibikir 5y ago
There's no good answer here to a question with so little context. What you should be doing, in a company we don't know anything about, could vary wildly. I've been writing software professional for over 20 years, in all kinds
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by hibikir 5y ago
I think that most YIMBYs are arguing the opposite: That if I buy a piece of land, and I want to build a duplex in it, all the way to the property line, I should be able to do it. As it is, zoning and the approval processes make all kinds of
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by hibikir 5y ago
They do, but beware fun fees: I've spent hours of my life disputing a psych evaluation charge (under 5 minutes of a pediatrician asking a kid how they are feeling, without any paternal prompting), which the insurance company claimed it

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