joelcornett

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by joelcornett 8y ago
Maybe humans will no longer be responsible for maintaining software
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by joelcornett 8y ago
I’m probably in the minority here, but I prefer open offices. I prefer open spaces in general and try to work outdoors as often as possible when the weather permits. So to me, an open office is the ideal work environment with the minor conc
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by joelcornett 8y ago
What’s the difference?
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by joelcornett 8y ago
> The good thing is that it means now they care a lot about what we think of them. They didn't before. So at least, if they haven't changed, they are forced to act like they have. What’s the difference, really?
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by joelcornett 8y ago
I’ve never found a compelling reason to use this construct (or the analogous `while...else` construct). But then again, I rarely find myself using `else` with `if` either...
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by joelcornett 8y ago
Sweeping generalizations and thinly veiled racism is ok on HN?
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by joelcornett 8y ago
So, at my company, we have yearly reviews. Instead of looking at how productive people are from week to week, people are allowed to vary in their productivity throughout the year. Theoretically (although this never happens in practice becau
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by joelcornett 8y ago
Throughput limitations. This won’t (at least in current iterations) scale well.
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by joelcornett 8y ago
I love sweeping generalizations presented without evidence to back them up.
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by joelcornett 8y ago
I wrote this as one of my first HTML/JavaScript projects. It’s far from perfect, but it served me well for 4 years. It was not difficult to make and uses MediaWikis existing APIs. https://chrome.google.com/webstore&#x2F
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by joelcornett 8y ago
As an aside, education does not scale with the ever increasing number of ways that personal information can “get online”. Additionally, it assumes some degree of privilege as more and more of everyday life moves online. Not everyone can aff
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by joelcornett 8y ago
Personally, (I can’t speak for everyone, or even most), I find enormous value in breadth of knowledge. For example, purposefully using different programming languages and/or different paradigms actually gives me a deeper understanding
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by joelcornett 8y ago
TL;DR don't rely on humans to "do the right thing", even if they're supposed to know what they're doing (i.e. ops people). As part of a team (and an organization) that practices "devops" heavily, all of ou
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by joelcornett 8y ago
This seems like it fits the narrative. Still, WTF? A quick google tells me that PostgreSQL supports SSL cert-based authN. The prod environment (and possibly an Ops host) should be the only ones with the right certs to connect to the prod DB