nevinera

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by nevinera 3y ago
Did you mean to reply to somebody else? I'm a huge believer in automated testing, and if I said something that can be interpreted otherwise I'd like to clarify it.
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by nevinera 3y ago
> Can you explain the salient distinction between a "technical" versus "architectural" solution? Candidly, I'm not convinced that there is one. Not concisely in the general case, but in this case the difference i
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by nevinera 3y ago
That's technical, and not architectural. I'm _all about_ technical solutions to lack of discipline, and in fact I think technical and process solutions are the only immediate way to create cultural solutions (which are the long-te
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by nevinera 3y ago
You're certainly misunderstanding me. Microservices are definitely justifiable in plenty of cases, and _services_ even more often. But they _need to be technically justified_ - that's the point I'm making. The majority of SOA
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by nevinera 3y ago
The right time to extract something into a separate service is when there's a problem that you can't tractably solve without doing so. Increasing architectural complexity to enforce boundaries is never a solution to a lack of orga
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by nevinera 4y ago
.. time to get a huge userbase and then bought out?
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by nevinera 4y ago
Oh yeah, that'll definitely do it. Our prior policy was to only adopt a version of rails when it's no longer the newest version of rails, and even that was enough to avoid most compatibility issues. We currently tend to adopt new
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by nevinera 4y ago
Perhaps you use a smaller set of dependencies, wait a while before upgrading, or got lucky? It was necessary for us during the ruby 3.0 and 3.1 upgrades, and during the rails 7.0 upgrade. In particular, the change during ruby 3.0 to the han
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by nevinera 4y ago
One of the standard solutions to "library we use isn't yet compatible with ___" is: 1. Monkey patch it to be compatible 2. Include in the monkey-patch initializer a version check, so the monkey-patch won't outlive the cu
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by nevinera 4y ago
Discipline, at its core, is the consistent application of executive power to create desired outcomes. It is a solution to many _many_ of life's problems, and I encourage everyone to cultivate it and exercise it. However.. for some peop
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by nevinera 4y ago
Individual experiences of ADHD remain varied - it sounds like you have some significant executive dysfunction (I do as well), and it responded well to your medication. I'm really happy for you! I get so tired of popular wisdom that ass
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by nevinera 4y ago
In my experience, people do not use "10x" as an actual output metric, but rather as a rough _replacement value_. You could give me 10 other engineers for a quarter or just that one , and I'll be on track for the release eith
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by nevinera 4y ago
I think the 10x concept is generally misrepresented - writing _code_ 10x as fast is possible, but not really important. It's people that _solve problems_ in a tenth the time that we're really talking about. And if you're not
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by nevinera 4y ago
> Updating the License: Wizards or its designated Agents may publish updated versions of this License. You may use any authorized version of this License to copy, modify and distribute any Open Game Content originally distributed under a
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by nevinera 4y ago
He is actually fairly normal, his experiences are similar to those described by thousands of other people in the same situation, and you're an ass.
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by nevinera 4y ago
Yeah, I was clarifying a sentiment, not starting a debate about a complex topic. This was actually a policy debate topic back when I was in school, it's very tired ground -.- I understand that you disagree, and you probably have though
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by nevinera 4y ago
Most of us don't have a problem with _private schools_, just with state money or charity being aimed at them. Private schools are fundamentally capitalistic - they serve their (generally wealthy) patrons, not society.
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by nevinera 4y ago
Most of the _plausible_ systems involve a one-way link, where an observer is running the engine and supplying information to the player through some system that is perceptible to the player and nobody else. Forcing the player to pass inform
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by nevinera 4y ago
I think "undisciplined" is more specifically accurate.
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by nevinera 4y ago
I think it mischaracterizes burnout entirely. Burnout is an internal process, and not one that can be defined in terms of external causes - you burn out when you are persisting against stress for long periods. There are certainly many stand
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by nevinera 4y ago
I usually just call this "bothering to think". The initial gut-level 'thinking' is really just pattern-matching.
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by nevinera 4y ago
You're calling it 'gatekeeping', but in my experience the latter position is mostly an expression of _frustration_. Dealing with the fallout from dozens of different decisions by engineers and directors to build "for sca
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by nevinera 4y ago
It's a little complex, but not really. It's depth-N secret-hiding; if you have a true secret that absolutely must be hidden, you hide a disk full of anime at the top level, a smaller disk of furry porn below that, and a hundred pa
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by nevinera 4y ago
> but as mosaics of neighborhoods in which almost all residents’ needs can be met within 15 minutes of their homes on foot, by bike, or on public transit. The goal they're describing is the one you're proposing.
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by nevinera 4y ago
I think engineers often say "we need more resources" but mean "we need to have hired more resources two years ago".
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by nevinera 4y ago
We've been trained to ignore enormous, prominent, clear and contrasting things by decades on the internet.
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by nevinera 4y ago
In rails shops, "dry" is _always_ overused. It was part of the red->green cycle in TDD culture, and got mentioned in every context, and as a result nearly all legacy rails apps are filled with weird abstractions introduced in a
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by nevinera 4y ago
Sure is! And he's pointing out that understanding what that _difference is_ is pretty important. "everything that COULD be radioactive or contaminated" is a worthless and meaningless phrase, and in fact represents a _worthles
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by nevinera 4y ago
A squad-based instanced dungeoneering game, halfway between World of Warcraft dungeonering and Heroes of the Storm, but with community-contributed dungeons and dungeon progressions. Specifically, I'd like people to be able to use somet
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by nevinera 4y ago
The answer is "yes it's on there", but more meaningfully - does it handle networking enough that we could have a massive bolo lan party?

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