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by mlhpdx 4y ago
Indeed. The hardest thing for a technology person to do is nothing. It’s seemly irresistible to “solve” problems fast and consider the consequences slowly. My term for the consequences of early structure is “calcification” - the loose aggre
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by mlhpdx 4y ago
I have been both. While it may seem weird, my response to “is this software person an engineer?” might be “did they take an engineering economics class?” I did, as well as other courses on non-obvious adjacent topics. Not everyone knows the
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by mlhpdx 4y ago
First, “companies” don’t decide to layoff staff - people do (for now). So think about the people involved if you’re legitimately interested in how/why it happens. Imagine for a moment you are the CEO and someone who may ultimately deci
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by mlhpdx 4y ago
No matter what ends up said about the reasons, blaming vendors is a bad sign. AWS pricing is formulaic, and being “shocked” by it is an admission of being asleep at the wheel.
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by mlhpdx 4y ago
Anyone with CI/CD is testing each deployment in production, right?
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by mlhpdx 4y ago
Unfortunately the answer is a lot of companies. Not big names, not ones that extol their own virtues, not the loudest voices. So, yeah, difficult to find but numerous. Generally I’ve found them to be smallish companies with a track record
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by mlhpdx 4y ago
When I read the title I was curious what definition of “engineering” would be in play. I wouldn’t call the process around programming and problem solving “engineering”. I’d just call that “process”, or “overhead”, or (when feeling like spea
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by mlhpdx 4y ago
Yep, just put people in bins so you can keep them organized. It’s always worked, so why stop now, right? It’s not as easy as A and B and C people (or any other labels). I’ve professionally led a team doing physical labor, and currently a te
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by mlhpdx 4y ago
More. Look at the track records around the world. Similarly run programs get similar results, “differently” run programs less so.
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by mlhpdx 4y ago
> Microservice architectures can't have big global variables typing things together, structurally. Oh sure they can, just call it “the DB”. Shared state between services/components is the most debilitating mistake I’ve had to d
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by mlhpdx 4y ago
It pains me to see websites and VMs still being conflated in this day and age.
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by mlhpdx 4y ago
What is the definition of “a posting” under Colorado law? Versus a link to a posting with a description?
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by mlhpdx 4y ago
Coming to “agreement” over a fiction isn’t okay. No amount of rationalization makes it “business”. More to the point, it is unnecessary. I hold there is harm here. A different skillset is needed to negotiate from truth (“we need to confer w
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by mlhpdx 4y ago
Down the road, when substantial language content is made up of the output of such models, what will the models learn from? Seriously.
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by mlhpdx 4y ago
> … it should be possible to bring it into widespread usage by integrating it with RPC frameworks. That’s a powerful word, “should”. Many software in the datacenter are almost as old as TCP itself, in whole or part. Difficult but working
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by mlhpdx 4y ago
Bonuses (and the like) seem very different than piece work, which the author conflates. I worked for a few years doing piecework and the direct correlation between my productivity and my income was perfect as far as I’m concerned. I became
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by mlhpdx 4y ago
Having also taught coding to new programmers: Yes, “like learning to speak a new language” is a bad metaphor if it’s delivered the way it’s presented in the text. However the same metaphor delivered with the added details that the language
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2 points by mlhpdx 4y ago|4 comments
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by mlhpdx 4y ago
Maybe I’m missing the point, but this (essentially random example) is multithreaded (asynchronous) and gracefully handles ctrl-c. Yes, it’s a high level language that makes it easy, I guess. https://github.com/mlhpdx/Si
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by mlhpdx 4y ago
Likewise, I read this story at an early age and have never forgotten it. It was moving and terrifying to feel that progression and regression against the backdrop of education and grades and fitting in. Regarding the comments using the word