johnmaguire2013

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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
https://twitter.com/Adbusters/status/1289363787879915522 Doesn't seem they were advocating for violence.
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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
> If you have a really big open discussion platform, maybe you get assholes saying that Texas should secede or making racist statements, but you probably also have some amount of normalization from regular right-leaning folks who disagre
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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
I believe Macaroons[1] attempt to solve this problem. [1] https://research.google/pubs/pub41892/
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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
There were very few riots - and part of the problem is that all BLM protests, whether resulting in riots or not, have been dubbed under this label.
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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
Didn't they confront the police who were the architects of their oppression? Also worth noting that there was no property damage or injuries in more than 97 to 98% of protests[1] [1]: https://today.uconn.edu/2020/1
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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
A few differences I see: - BLM was not trying to replace our government with a new one. (aka a protest is not a sedition) - Many BLM protesters were arrested. Some were charged with crimes. Similarly, any seditionists should be charged. Thi
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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
I don't think you're responsible for the content, nor have I stated you must agree with it deeply. In fact - I am arguing the opposite: The cited article does not make an argument for technical debt killing a product. As you state
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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
> It's certainly possible now if it wasn't then; people like Michael Feathers have done great work charting paths out of an accumulation of garbage code. But at the time of JWZ's resignation letter, Martin Fowler's bo
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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
That's kind of the definition of a service being up. :) I've experienced numerous "soft" outages which result in messages not sending and getting lost - and even more double sends, sometimes very distant from where the m
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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
The article cited makes a strong argument for why you should not write from scratch, even with immense technical debt - and offers alternatives. For example: > Even fairly major architectural changes can be done without throwing away the
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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
The article cited makes a strong argument for why you should not write from scratch, even with immense technical debt - and offers alternatives.
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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
I think you're missing the fundamental point made in your citation - whether you suffer from technical debt or not, you can solve the problem without rewriting from scratch. Again, quote from the article cited above: > There’s a sub
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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
IME, Slack is far more likely to lose my message than iMessage. I believe that's part of the point being made above.
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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
Well, I think it probably depends on where you work. At my work, people just took 2-3 weeks of time off. It takes a moment to get your head back in the game.
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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
Yes - I wondered if they took some servers down prior to the break as a cost saving measure, and forgot to reinstate them.
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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
Except the citation doesn't really argue that technical debt killed Netscape, but rather that it was killed by a rewrite from scratch - the article ends: > If you are writing code experimentally, you may want to rip up the function
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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
Apple is a private company, not a public entity. AFAIK, your "free speech" is not protected here.
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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
What if you watched the server sneeze on the food, but it tasted delicious? You can't separate the service part of the job from a company that offers services. Some review systems offer breakdowns to separate these two components.
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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
You're implying the review is about the product. If the review is about the company (e.g. a restaurant), then a 1-star review is warranted, if you feel that a company which games reviews is a 1-star company. I certainly do.
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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
In some circles, this is seen as a mark of stability.
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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
That's not actually true, at least via Ajax. Certainly you can just throw a POST at the website, and we hope that any web server is secured with CSRF protection. Additionally, the SameSite changes recently introduced by Chrome should f
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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
> Also it doesnt fully solve the correlation problem either, on the same computer, two clients could run under two different OS level accounts. Will it just send its authentication token to one of those clients? When the request is made
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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
One use case is to allow secure authentication. For example, some software, such as VPN clients, will now open the authentication page in a Chrome/Firefox web browser, rather than in an embedded browser - this is a security win! It aff
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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
I agree with you. But this is a tricky problem. The alarms go off because there is smoke - the issue is that the smoke is not dangerous. How do you solve for this? You could set a higher threshold for detection, but this also delays any res
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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
Is there a better alternative?
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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
The advantage here is that malware can't be shipped as part of the build process.
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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
If I have you produce 100 widgets at $0.10/widget, and then ship each widget for $0.20/widget, and then sell each widget for $1.00, but Amazon takes a 30% cut... - The shipping company received 2x what the producer received - Amaz
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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
Do we expect that this port will be complete before another chipmaker is able to achieve similar performance?
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by johnmaguire2013 6y ago
Barracuda Backup was also written in PHP - including code to backup VMware servers, receiving data from the Windows agent, and connecting to Linux servers via SSHFS/CIFS, etc. It worked surprisingly well, using similar multiprocessing

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