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by pdimitar 5mo ago
And yet, all I ever see are attacks against these convenient bogeymen with artistic exaggerations like yours... but I never see the bogeymen themselves.
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
Same can be said back to you. Obviously mine and 50+ acquaintances experience is not the entire world but geographical clusters and/or work-area clusters do apply. Can you pick up the phone and be in the next job the next week?
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
I don't see how the market is humming along for anyone . Then again, I have zero network. Maybe you can just call someone on the phone and jump ship next week? I can't. Many other people cannot as well. My idea right now is to fi
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
My mind absolutely doesn't bend that way but I'd suppose clout and popularity?
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
> you will have to demonstrate that you understand why things are this way and why it's better before we even have this conversation I can fling that back to you: very often the team hates the conclusion I arrive at, which is &quo
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
This "you should leave" thing is a very boring and tired take and it should be said regularly that almost no engineer can afford it nowadays. Beautiful theory, but only that.
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
> So you thing someone telling you "look a little harder" is a "personal attack" ? After I took some time to give you a link you ask for ? If you are taking the time to find a link then understand that your effort c
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
Why not indeed? It would bring me a lot of hope. Some time ago I loved the idea of Fuchsia... but then I learned it's made by Google. Sigh.
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
Which part of the comment comes off as fanatic to you? I'd disagree with that poster that you can write 100% security bug free code just like that. > There is comment like this everywhere, if you don't see them it's just
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
> As a person who is bullied physically, verbally and emotionally for years, I'd not throw words bully/victim like wrapping paper like that. Moreover, I'd never bully anyone. I'm not that. I was bullied as well. Kno
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
Well, recursively trying to perfect lower layers is what I am advocating for us to not do. As a guy who prefers to stop and think before coding, to me a lot of the older UNIX / GNU primitives seem broken (like the env vars process inhe
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
Well, I don't see them in HN is what I am saying. Obviously not scanning 24/7 but every time I enter an HN thread where Rust is even loosely mentioned, I brace for the inevitable bullies imagining they are victims. And this thread
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
How dramatic. I'll ask you as well: any proof for those colorful pictures you're drawing? Or are the people advocating for Rust a convenient target to vent other, very likely completely unrelated, frustrations? I'm very happy
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
Then you're claiming falsehoods supporting your prejudices. Good to know. Though I wonder why.
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
I agree, absolutely. Hence my adjacent thought that maybe all this should just be thrown away and we should invent an FS with ACID semantics. I'm all for gradual improvements but at one point and on we should zoom even further out and
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
> People seem to think that rewriting in rust just magically fixes all issues Citations and links, please.
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
My read on those was basically that the classic filesystems are hopelessly broken and we need ACID guarantees in the next-gen filesystems, like 20 years ago. Not saying all of them were about FS TOCTOU bugs but once I got to these, that w
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
It is, but I am still quoting what I saw before, it was not a fantasy. I don't deny it's likely better nowadays, sure, but I remain moderately skeptical because JVM is still a runtime that needs to boot. Then again, Golang has one
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
I have not worked with Java in a long time but I seem to remember that most Java programs also accrue a good amount of dependencies and some of them have their own init routines. That adds up, fast. No idea how is it nowadays, admittedly. M
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
People never believe me when I say it but I start noticing scripts needing 75-100ms to start. Modern hardware is ultra fast ; I want my programs to make full use of it. I got no patience for tech or people who keep insisting "it'
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
Obviously it depends on a bunch of factors but -- not on my machines. They are all with Intel and AMD CPUs and I don't use M-series Macs. Never saw an instantly starting JVM in my life though.
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
And needs the JVM to start for 1.5s before you get any results. Sure. Golang or just shell scripts.
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
Absolutely. And in this same thread I am noticing people offering Java (lol). Yeah, we all need 1.5s startup time for one-off scripts, surely.
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
Golang. People trash it for being verbose on errors but it's an extremely readable language and it's almost like bash, only much stronger typed and with a very rich stdlib (so it's not likely you'll need a library for a
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
Stop with this "we" cliche already, please. I never agreed to it and I'm in the profession for 24 years. You don't speak for me. Executives will always prefer to transfer liability and responsibility to someplace else. W
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
> Now code is ceasing to become a bottleneck and the current software dev process starts to emerge as inadequate If you say so. It's a honeymoon period for executives and a lot of them already got a lot of cold showers. It's
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
They also expect you to do 4 roles in one while low-balling you because you are not in the USA. I wish the reality was more pleasant. It's not.
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
Indeed it depends of course. Though I don't find it fair for those requirements to be presented as table-stakes and required, as my original parent comment seems to have done.
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
> You honestly expect this trajectory to continue unabated? Knowing humanity's history, yes. Not sure we're ever going to see a second French Revolution. People are pacified and are not rioting. And they really should. Most o
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
Social logins, multi-tenant and organizations are very far from table-stakes for an MVP. Whether it's painful to put in later or not is sadly nothing that the managers and executives concern themselves with.

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