notimrelakatos

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by notimrelakatos 4y ago
> I suspect the one problem that will be difficult to solve is elegance and abstraction. The fact that this industry was able to sustain itself for so long and not actually get this is a miracle in itself. This is what ruined OOP when it
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by notimrelakatos 4y ago
> These people have no real knowledge of history That's a kinda naive take, the ones actually writing those theories know history pretty well. Marx rewrote all history fit his dialectic, the same is done by his children because it r
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by notimrelakatos 5y ago
> it makes the difficult things possible, and that's what we needed Indeed, the problem of just saying "you don't need k8s" is you may accidentally invent an even worse in-house version of k8s.
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by notimrelakatos 5y ago
> The argument that digital gold has no value outside of speculation usually comes from people in rich developed countries with a strong financial system Some developing countries even have shitcoins as their official currency, like the
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by notimrelakatos 5y ago
They are stupid, but rich people sometimes wear them for a reason, if they ever get stranded in a messy situation and their wealth is confiscated, they can still sell their watches and other miscellaneous items to bootstrap themselves outta
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by notimrelakatos 5y ago
Unstable (most often than not) is almost an exact copy of the latest branch, which means it has most of it's packages updated to latest version. Given the nature and abstractions of NixOS, unstable ends up being way more stable than mo
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by notimrelakatos 5y ago
Behind the pretty facade there's a hyper competitive environment inside the JS community, sometimes with very low stakes. What's the incentive to fix fundamental issues if the metrics for success are stars and forks? The best way
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by notimrelakatos 5y ago
Dear lord, this hits too close home, I've been having nightmares maintaining some Azure infra lately. I'm not a cloud-provider fanboy, they all suck at the end of day, but Azure is the one that deliberately makes my life worse eve
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by notimrelakatos 5y ago
Indeed, I've once met someone who migrated a COBOL project to Java, the biggest complain wasn't even the Language itself, but extracting business logic from a 40-year old spaghetti codebase. Sometimes bugs where part of the busine
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by notimrelakatos 5y ago
Seems to be that "what would happen if NixOS and Qubes had children" scenario. Glad to see Nix propagating itself, the fundamental ideas are right, maybe what we need is different people trying to implement more stuff atop it, so
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by notimrelakatos 5y ago
Formal methods seems to be perfect for verifying protocols, specially finding design flaws, here an example of an ongoing effort to verify TLS https://www.mitls.org/ https://github.com/project-everest/m
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by notimrelakatos 5y ago
You are always paying Microsoft, one way or the other.
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by notimrelakatos 5y ago
In the 2000's you had people getting paid 6-figure salaries to just "program" in HTML, that was, of course, before the dotcom bubble burst. This seems to be a modern response to the same kind of developer that's been pop
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by notimrelakatos 5y ago
> But it seems even after being a react god master you will still be x10 times less productive than an average rails developer for developing an everyday feature. This is a very enlightening point, maybe because the creators of React can
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by notimrelakatos 5y ago
Not paying taxes to a corrupt managerial elite is one of them
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by notimrelakatos 5y ago
Job hopping is the perfect strategy for mediocre developers in this "bull market", if done quickly you'll only tell stories of glory, never having to deal with your bad decisions long term. I'm not saying only bad develo
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by notimrelakatos 5y ago
I look forward to the bright future were I have to maintain messy code from AI Rockstars.
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by notimrelakatos 5y ago
> Is Google inconsistent, or has their policy on how to deal with these things changed over the past few years? Nope, they're being very consistent if you use the correct ideological goggles, change Bobb's color palette and fir