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by jacques_chester 2y ago
Maintaining this capability isn't free, it is of dubious benefit and there are much better alternatives. On a cost benefit analysis this is a slam dunk.
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by jacques_chester 2y ago
9 months sounds like plenty, but don't be hasty. I've been unemployed for almost a year. I would not take a buyout in this engineering market. It is brutal.
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by jacques_chester 2y ago
I performed a similar analysis on RubyGems and found that of the top 10k most-downloaded gems, less than one percent had valid signatures. That plus the general hassle of managing key material means that this was a dead-end for large scale
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by jacques_chester 2y ago
1. SPC kit [0]. Once made it to the front page! [1] It's an SQL library for doing statistical process control (SPC) calculations. This has been a labour of love for about 2 years now. I work on it sporadically. Recently I got more disc
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by jacques_chester 2y ago
I remember seeing a VMware-internal presentation on the DDlog work which led to Feldera and being absolutely blown away. They took a stream processing problem that had grown to an hours-deep backlog and reduced it to sub second processing t
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by jacques_chester 2y ago
Also Gomponents, a similar project for Go: https://www.gomponents.com
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by jacques_chester 2y ago
> There were create/read/update/delete service functions that clients used instead. Oh! I haven't seen this pattern in a long time - not since I worked on Oracle Application Express apps. In a cousin comment I noted
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by jacques_chester 2y ago
You're correct, I overlooked triggers. Though that may be a bridge too far for some folks, triggers are only really comfortable for folks who are deep on RDBMSes. For lots of app developers the ORM is the limit of the world.
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by jacques_chester 2y ago
This description isn't too far from bitemporal tables, which are one of my favorite obscure technologies. I think though that one distinction is that immutability in this case requires cooperation from the client, a commitment not to m
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by jacques_chester 2y ago
Trademarks are namespaced by subject matter.
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by jacques_chester 2y ago
> It is a clean abstraction Ah, that must be why I see FooMethod and FooMethodAsync side-by-side in C# all the time.
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by jacques_chester 2y ago
> If you have the hardware resources, why not just scale up from the beginning on? For most workloads it's wasteful to have max capacity provisioned at all times if you can instead provision on-demand. This is true in general. For
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by jacques_chester 2y ago
Please no.
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by jacques_chester 2y ago
"Infrastructure", which includes z mainframes (called out by name) and I assume iSeries also (though not called out), is the smallest segment of IBM's revenue. See page 17: https://www.ibm.com/annualreport&#x2
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by jacques_chester 2y ago
The lawsuit hasn't been brought precisely because IBM fought tooth and nail to cut off access to the courts. Not the sort of thing you do for the hell of it.
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by jacques_chester 2y ago
I think the parent comment may be a reference to IBM being caught in the past deliberately firing older workers.
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by jacques_chester 3y ago
No need to hypothesize about how it would work. Australia uses pen and paper for elections. It works fine.
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by jacques_chester 3y ago
GitHub has the advantage of a low barrier to entry for their tools. A lot of their features are inferior to special-purpose tools, but they can expect high usage because a lot of users shrug and live with it.
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by jacques_chester 3y ago
His point was they'd only done a small set in Excel as a POC. It's plausible that with an O(2ⁿ) algorithm you'd be looking at this kind of thing.
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by jacques_chester 3y ago
Pivotal Tracker does something like this with release markers. You can set markers between any two stories and, optionally, set a date. Tracker does a very simple moving average projection and if the stories before the marker will take too
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by jacques_chester 3y ago
I find that economics is drenched in maths, depending on the school. Take Chicago's undergraduate program, for example[0]. It requires calculus classes before you even get to the starting line for the economics classes, and they encour
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by jacques_chester 3y ago
> the Don't Repeat Yourself principle I think this is meant mostly to apply to code. For data, redundancy is a very common strategy for assuring accuracy and durability. > If you say the same thing in two different places, one
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by jacques_chester 3y ago
Speaking of history, I learned that the word "control" comes from contra rotulus -- roughly "checking against the wheel", which was apparently from an early medieval device for keeping tallies. The second meaning of &q
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by jacques_chester 3y ago
Interestingly I sort of went in the other direction at one point -- converting what was obviously a graph (build pipelines) into a from-to / credit-debit representation. On reflection it's just an edge list. My main problem with a
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by jacques_chester 3y ago
> Several informants described great software engineers as hardworking: willing to work more than 8 hours days to deliver the product. This typically meant working longer days, during weekends, and/or during other free time in orde
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by jacques_chester 3y ago
I think you're thinking of the Builder pattern. That's a bit different, because you return the same type and same object on every chained call.
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by jacques_chester 3y ago
A possible match would be the Typestate aka Type State pattern. For some reason I only see Rustaceans talking about it, though it's perfectly applicable in any language with static typing.
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by jacques_chester 3y ago
I'm an atheist, for what it's worth. If it helps, substitute "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" instead.
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by jacques_chester 3y ago
It doesn't eliminate all toil, but it eliminates a lot. At least their customers think so.
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by jacques_chester 3y ago
He might have pinched it from Watts Humphrey, who pointed out that the earliest estimate is the most valuable, but the last estimate is the most accurate.

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