motorest

41 ms·

691.
by motorest 1y ago
Courtesy of AI: > Social democracy and democratic socialism are related but distinct political ideologies. Social democracy, often associated with the Nordic model, focuses on regulating capitalism to create a strong welfare state and r
692.
by motorest 1y ago
> They always say they'll clean it up later but they never do. Are you sure there's anything needing cleaning up?
693.
by motorest 1y ago
> I work with someone who has a habit of code duplication like this. Are you sure it's code duplication? I mean, read your own description: the new function does not need to support edge cases. Having to handle edge cases is a huge
694.
by motorest 1y ago
> I deleted an entire micro service of task runners and replaced it with a library that uses setTimeout as the primitive driving tasks from our main server. Your example raises some serious red flags. Did it ever dawned upon you that the
695.
by motorest 1y ago
> The rewrite is about 80% feature parity, and is around 17k lines of code (not counting libraries like Vue/pinia/etc). This is exactly where these comparisons break down. Obviously you don't need as much code to get pass
696.
by motorest 1y ago
The most concerning part about the belief that bootstrappy self-taught hackers are able to tackle any type of problem just as well as experienced engineers with a solid academic background is how the ignore the fact that hacking together an
697.
by motorest 1y ago
> If you read more carefully, I am concerned by two things. A reduction to 0, and the lack of control over this. I think you need to drop back to reality to reassess your concerns. Barring a major disaster, there is no risk of extinction
698.
by motorest 1y ago
> We may have swung the pendulum a little too far towards deliberate, though. The birthrate right now is below replacement rate, meaning that if we keep going like this (even if the birthrate doesn't keep trending down and holds ste
699.
by motorest 1y ago
> Yeah it’s not difficult if you know all the specs. I don't think this is a valid point. Specs only cover a single responsibility: interoperability. This is not a critical requirement of auth services, unless you have a hard requir
700.
by motorest 1y ago
> I learnt to program (in a very basic way) before doing the whole paper qualification thing. This sort of take is disingenuous. No one needs to go to a university to learn the syntax of a programming language, or to build up from a &quo
701.
by motorest 1y ago
> Enterprise customers did the math on what a security breach lawsuit could cost and started demanding verifiably decent security, which meant some off-the-shelf off-premises solution. Not really. What happened is that some service provi
702.
by motorest 1y ago
> How would this ever work at scale? - ISP has terms of service preventing abuse, - ISP provides an email address to receive complains about abuse - once a ISP receives a complain, their check if a customer abused their terms of service
703.
by motorest 1y ago
> Have you ever uploaded 100's of Gbps over QUIC from your residential connection to a single IP? I upload files to a single location, and I expect to use the max bandwidth I can whenever I do it. What's your point?
704.
by motorest 1y ago
> This way you wont have to harm tech-illiterate people. What leads you to believe this is a tech illiteracy issue? Do you believe that only consumer IoT devices are unwitting participants in DDoS attacks?
705.
by motorest 1y ago
Please explain in your own words why I should be liable for a third party misappropriating a product I own.
706.
by motorest 1y ago
> Yeah, not kill, but participating in a DDoS against a heavily frequented commercial site that makes hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue a minute, that's still some substantial damage. It sounds like that hypothetical site
707.
by motorest 1y ago
> When your IP is found to have been part of a botnet, I think ISPs should just limit you to like 20Mbps for at least a year, so you think twice about buying that 10$ wifi baby monitor next time. You're talking as if people can&#x27
708.
by motorest 1y ago
> Is this a sign that Isn't the obvious point that this is Cloudflare advertising their anti-DDoS services?
709.
by motorest 1y ago
> 10 years too late. I'm never going back. These days I try to use my browser as vanilla as possible so I don't get my heart broken. Pray tell, which usable browser do you believe provides better assurances than Firefox? Certai
710.
by motorest 1y ago
> It feels like everyone in the region is inflicted with a terrible case of Asperger’s Syndrome (...) If you were in charge of a country, how would you react if another country started bombing your cities?
711.
by motorest 1y ago
Where Israel or Iran informed of the cease fire?
712.
by motorest 1y ago
> From reading your response it suggest me the riddridiculousness of the System Design interviews. Are folks are supposed to design a planetary scale system in <1 hours? No, they are expected to be presented with a set of requirements
713.
by motorest 1y ago
> Companies that use l33tcode are filtering out pools of talent, in exchange for monocultures of echo chambers. Please explain why do you believe that not moving forward with a candidate who fails basic coding challenges leads to "m
714.
by motorest 1y ago
> Is blindly copying the same diagrams (...) Do you see any evidence that candidates are blindly copying stuff around? Also, you fail to offer any explanation on why studying systems design topics is supposedly inferior to not studying a
715.
by motorest 1y ago
> I've failed system design interview where they repeatedly asked me to design "for scale" but all the volume and latency requirements I could get from them could be handled by a single HA pair running a monolithic server+
716.
by motorest 1y ago
> Thinking of it as pass or fail is really the problem. That leads to having some kind of criteria that ends up being gamed. Which is what happened to this style of interviewing. What do you think a technical interview is? Everyone steps
717.
by motorest 1y ago
> What the poster is insinuating is that system design interviews may devolve into a scripted / memorized hoop-jumping experience rather than being a creative technical problem solving discussion. I think you're trying to rario
718.
by motorest 1y ago
> Guarantee the OP used this for a week and never touched it again. Those without self control cannot be trusted if they hold the switch. It amazes me how much work one does to lift barriers to themselves, but so little to actually not g
719.
by motorest 1y ago
> In theory, this should be the easiest discussion to pass while interviewing if you've done some kind of related work or qualified. Instead it's just turning into another insane cargo culted game where you need to do things ac
720.
by motorest 1y ago
> (...) we aren’t seeing the 100s of other (mostly bad) ideas that same jerk also blocked that would have changed things in other ways (possibly for the worse). Perhaps you're not seeing because those never existed? I mean, even tho

More ›