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by kerblang 3y ago
Once you have hooks into source control for commit-based callbacks into CI, everything else need only be shell. Like, if you build a triggers-shell-scripts-off-source-repo-hooks web service, does putting the results in a pretty web server r
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by kerblang 3y ago
I think you would look at 1. "Server level connection pooling" in the article (all clients share one pgbouncer instance) and 2. "Statement mode" if you can live without transactions (connection is re-pooled after every s
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by kerblang 3y ago
The author already acknowledged that there are other ways to do distributed transactions > The traditional solution is to use two-phase commit through a protocol like X/Open XA. However, while XA is supported by most big relational
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by kerblang 3y ago
The operative concept here is: Cult . A lot of people look at effective altruism et al and wonder, is it really so bad that some people want to be really good at helping other people? Overall, no, but it's a cult . Sam Bankman-Fried
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by kerblang 3y ago
The original article is apparently on linkedin (ugh but hey) https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7101572... Not extraordinarily insightful but an amusing take on occult ritualism as engineering.
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by kerblang 3y ago
Surprised to see that C# doesn't have an Option/Optional type/class yet. Even Java made it over that hump.
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by kerblang 3y ago
> Sounds like the articles objective is to peddle anger. Just my opinion, but Slate is heavily left-slanted, moreso than Vox. That's not a crime, of course, but I really don't think this kind of echo-chambering is a good fit
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by kerblang 3y ago
Yes, completeness is exactly right, but not just for computer science. It's true for learning a programming language, a protocol, a database, really anything. Learning just enough to push over the finish line by the seat of your pant
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by kerblang 3y ago
Not sure the descriptions are ideal here, but the 4 levels selected are completely adequate for most purposes in business information systems. If someone really wanted, you could cut it down to INFO & ERROR - I secretly think of DEBUG &
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by kerblang 3y ago
I tend to put it this way: If you are entrepreneurially/leadership- minded and can develop a talent for identifying talent, you can be 10x, even 100x more valuable than any engineer because you become a force multiplier who recognize
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by kerblang 3y ago
I think we're off on a tangent here, but I will at least agree that named parameters are a godsend in any programming language. Things are so much easier to read when the caller can clearly state their intentions for things like &quo
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by kerblang 3y ago
I think for vanilla GUI where you only need readily available vanilla components, Java is fine. But I suppose you would be in for quite an adventure if you intend to do a lot of highly customized user interfaces. The curse of JavaScript is
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by kerblang 3y ago
Rick Beato made several videos about perfect pitch, also featuring his kid who has PP and can identify entire chords. Apparently his opinion is that the key was listening to atonal music at an early age, like you say. Here's one of the
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by kerblang 3y ago
Just looking at the other RFC's, it turns out the "packet mood" RFC also allows one to flag the packet as evil: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5841 > It is hard for a TCP packet to disc
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by kerblang 3y ago
I'm not saying engineers can't do the job; many engineers certainly are capable of working as product owners, and in most cases startup founders are their own product owners, regardless of ability (for better/worse, but u
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by kerblang 3y ago
Product owner/manager often works out fine as an informal position, where certain people in leadership roles are making decisions because they have an excellent aptitude for doing such; they especially have the ability to understand an
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by kerblang 3y ago
https://www.vox.com/recode/22981115/duckduckgo-free-speech-p...
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by kerblang 3y ago
Worked at a company that combined the two, which eventually led to half the dev team working for... the marketing dept. It was a horrible mess.
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by kerblang 3y ago
I swear I haven't read an informative AI article in months, and in fact most of them could be written by drivel-driven AI's. But: > People speak derisively about middle managers because their outputs are hard to define and moni
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by kerblang 3y ago
Note the lack of supporting argument
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by kerblang 3y ago
I tend to insist that database tables are collections of global variables, and the worst kind of global variables because they're persistent (reboot won't fix them), they often affect multiple application instances at once, and ap
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by kerblang 3y ago
Had a woodpecker in the hood a few years ago that liked to bang on metal lightpoles, to no ill effect. The apparent spouse would usually come shoo them off the pole after awhile, unproductive as such work is. Made quite a noise though.
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by kerblang 3y ago
Nice idea. I think there's an error in the last diagram. The arrow pointing at User A should point at User B. (And look it's possible to say something other than blithering about AI controversy. The author doesn't like AI, ge
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by kerblang 3y ago
If my query started 1000 ms ago, and every 200ms a transaction completed, I'm perfectly fine with getting results of some/most/all of those 5 commits. I usually don't need the database to enforce a 1000-ms-old snapshot f
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by kerblang 3y ago
Question: Why would I need more than one extra version of the same row? I would think that with transactional locking everybody else is waiting on the first update to commit before getting their own changes in, unless the db is somehow tryi
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by kerblang 4y ago
Well, yes, but lack of support is the best-case scenario; the worst case is their tendency to abandon products entirely and on short warning.
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by kerblang 4y ago
Don't stew and get bitter over things that you can't control. Corollary: Don't assume it's ageism when you don't have proof and can't do anything about it anyhow. More often than not, companies are not serious
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by kerblang 4y ago
On a farm, kids are free labor, you already have land to build as big a house as you want, and you've got lots of extra food to feed 'em.
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Netflix will shut down its DVD rental business in September(engadget.com)
3 points by kerblang 4y ago|1 comments
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by kerblang 4y ago
Context: Ms. Hopper wrote the first (primitive) compiler the previous year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-0_System

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