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by lpapez 11mo ago
Slowly but surely turning into 4chan /pol/, now with country flags too!
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by lpapez 11mo ago
Less headcount usually means faster pace - less lines of comminication, less red tape etc. Or at least that's what many C-level people believe to be true. "We need to move like a startup" is a common mantra repeated by execut
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by lpapez 1y ago
Don't share your code publicly then?
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by lpapez 1y ago
> I think politically, everyone would want airlines to have working IT-systems and they would probably want to pay $100 (rationally, closer to $1000) amortized over 50 years to pay for that, but apparently humanity is just too stupid to
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by lpapez 1y ago
> Are there really people out there who still reach for Meta-scale by default? Who start with microservices? Anecdotally, the last three greenfield projects I was a part of, the Architects (distinct people in every case) began the projec
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by lpapez 1y ago
This article goes completely against my experience so far. I teach at an internship program and the main problem with interns since 2023 has been their over reliance on AI tools. I feel like I have to teach them to stop using AI for everyth
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by lpapez 1y ago
IMO the author of the article should lawyer up. They should not have done any of this in the first place, let alone disclose it publicly in this manner. I too did similar things when I was younger, riding high on that feeling of power, and
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by lpapez 1y ago
What is the overall severity distribution, including human code? Based on the churn I have fixing security vulnerabilities reported by Snyk and Trivy, I have a feeling that issues have a tendency to be labeled mostly as HIGH or CRITICAL whe
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by lpapez 1y ago
This same argument you laid out here also works if you replace "Chinese" with "US". For much of the globe, the US is the bad guy/bully, and not the "world policeman" - epecially in countries they bombed (l
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by lpapez 1y ago
Why not test the OLAP reports? Surely there is a way to run a raw query in Rails/ActiveRecord and use it in a smoke test?
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by lpapez 1y ago
You can have parts of the web app rendered on the client, and still keep the rest of the app the same. Rewrite the diffs and previews, keep the rest as-is. There is no excuse for possibly the most used feature of Github to suck so badly.
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by lpapez 1y ago
Being concerned about page sizes is 100% wasted effort. Calculate how much electricity you personally consume in total browsing the Internet for a year. Multiply that by 10 to be safe. Then compare that number to how much energy it takes to
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by lpapez 1y ago
At my first job, the senior guy on my team used to say: "Software is just like lasagna. It has many layers, and it tastes best after you let it sit for a while". I still follow this principle years down the line and avoid introduc
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by lpapez 1y ago
Using such tricks might seem like a cute way for malware to make analysis difficult, but often times calling these obscure system APIs can be detected statically, and you bet that it will flagged as suspicious by AV software. If the malware
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by lpapez 1y ago
That sounds even worse honestly. One of the criticisms of microservices is that factoring a system correctly is already a hard problem, and introducing a network call between them makes it even harder. Enforcing service LoC limits is equiva
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by lpapez 1y ago
You don't even need to ask AI to get an answer to the first question, the first hit on both Google and Bing will tell you how to do it - it takes 2 seconds!
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by lpapez 1y ago
This is true in the same way that Dropbox is just a wrapper around rsync.
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by lpapez 1y ago
Cash is not really relevant to this particular discussion. When the power is out one cannot pay with cash either - because the cash register is offline.
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by lpapez 1y ago
Counterpoint: show me a human who can reliably produce 100% accurate notes. Seriously, I wish to hire this person.
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by lpapez 2y ago
Soon to be announced "Quake PAK files identified carrying malware, critical 10/10 vulnerability"
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by lpapez 2y ago
I had hoped that this kind of "Trump is actually playing 4d chess, you just don't understand" argument would be dismissed after seeing him through the first term, but apparently not.
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by lpapez 2y ago
I was once contracted to work on a project where the monthly GCP bill for Postgres was $60k per month - this was basically my YEARLY rate at that time, just for managed Postgres. After some time I was quite familiar with their stack and had
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by lpapez 2y ago
I've come to the similar conclusion - just write the damn logic inline, and only decouple the parts which would make the whole thing difficult to test. Test decoupled parts thoroughly but in isolation.
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by lpapez 2y ago
Bonus architecture points if those functions behind an interface are never mocked in tests.
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by lpapez 2y ago
"The useful addition might become deprecated in a few years" is a poor excuse considering that all the time niche language features are being added which either take forever to implement, or end up getting banned in real codebases
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by lpapez 2y ago
Sure, I get that. But my point is that niche (in my opinion) features seem to be getting into the standard much more often than things that are broadly useful (in my opinion).
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by lpapez 2y ago
Thankfully I no longer work with C++, but such proposals were my main problem with the language. I had the impression that the vast majority of us regular users just wanted quality of life improvements: better error messages, networking lib
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by lpapez 2y ago
You come across as pretty opinionated and eager to comment for someone who states they don't care. I work with spaghetti PHP every day. It pays the bills. There are far worse jobs out there. The expert wishes to fix the tedious tasks.
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by lpapez 2y ago
In my experience, most CVEs are reports about ice cream trucks lacking nuclear-proof bank vault doors.
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by lpapez 2y ago
This looks lovely, it's so readable!

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