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by permille42 6y ago
I stand by my statements. Is this supposed to be his Github: https://github.com/ElonMusk Is this a joke? I don't see why anyone should respect his opinions as a software engineer.
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by permille42 6y ago
Alright. I have around 20 years of experience in the industry. As far as levels go I'm between L6 and L7 Google level. I consider anything less than $170k/yr these days to be insulting, regardless of whether they are FAANG or not.
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by permille42 6y ago
You don't need Facebook to communicate your ideas to others. You don't need AWS either. AWS is actually a backwards development of technology in my opinion because it is anti-open source. It is quite straightforward to lease your
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by permille42 6y ago
Why in the holy fuck do any of you give a single shit about Musk's opinions on software engineering? He isn't a software engineer. It's astounding to me that anyone considers Musk's opinion about software as having any v
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by permille42 6y ago
Just look at the salary ranges for the various levels within FAANG companies. See http://levels.fyi In both the Bay Area and Seattle if companies don't at least attempt to get close to these numbers they will not be able to
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by permille42 6y ago
Having a "home baked server" in no way means it is "janky". There are some pretty clear and correct ways to setup a secure server these days. Using an OS such a RHEL gives some guarantees about auditing for vulns being d
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by permille42 6y ago
I use "real" in quotes to indicate I am meaning something other than the general meaning of the word "real". What I mean by this is a specific type of DI that I view as effective and a type of meta-programming. Such a DI
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by permille42 6y ago
The main benefit of constructing objects and tying them together via DI is to allow polymorphic handling of responsibilities. It is more complex than simply "I just make an interface and make everyone agree on that interfere". Eve
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by permille42 6y ago
By DSL I mean something like how HTML is used to make websites. HTML was derived from SGML, and is related loosely to XML, but does not contain a lot of the complexities of XML. I do not mean JSON, as JSON is not a good generalized meta-pro
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by permille42 6y ago
The argument for and desire for DI is closely tied to the low code movement. It is tied to configuration as code. It is certainly a different mentality from straight out coding everything. I think it is important and will grow bigger in tim
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by permille42 6y ago
Agreed, but a common extension does not mean it is required, nor that it should be demanded that an example of making a REST service needs to show how to do it. The example is simply the beginning. It can be extended as needed depending on
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by permille42 6y ago
I opened the article to begin with to see if it contained some argument for why using the standard library instead of a framework makes sense. It contained no explanation or reasoning to that end. It is purely what it is titled as: An expla
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by permille42 6y ago
Could someone create a replacement for DNS entirely please? DNS does WAY more than what the typical user needs it for and services that present it are resultantly much more complex than what is needed for the 99% use case. The 99% use case:
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by permille42 6y ago
When I was a kid, I read somewhere that if you smile all the time it will make you feel happier. I decided to try it. I smiled all the time whether I was feeling happy or not. It worked. It made me feel better. Say what you want, but I enjo
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by permille42 6y ago
The article is interesting in that it discusses the distinction between "classical AI" ( rule based ) versus modern AI ( ML ). It gives example after example of how we repeatedly attempt to make classical AI work and it fails. The
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by permille42 6y ago
I agree that there is a difference between simply taking notes and simplifying the content and writing down your own take. I'd argue that a good note-taker will be doing the latter automatically. I also disagree with the claim that not
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by permille42 6y ago
The article and programs make an assumption that I disagree with: That there is only one appropriate way to output error messages. This is an absurdity. Both methods are valid. Different people want different things from the error messages.
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by permille42 6y ago
You are implying that "realistic" uses would be using multiple domains and have browser calls between them. Why would that be?
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by permille42 6y ago
The purpose of DI is to allow the use of a DSL to instantiate and connect objects, with configuration for those objects embedded into the DSL so that the setup and the way things work can be changed quickly without altering code. Mocking ob
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by permille42 6y ago
Nice. I own the actual book itself. It is seriously hardcore. It always weighs a ton. I had no idea it was rare and/or worth anything. Also own the related Zen of Graphics Programming book by Abrash.
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by permille42 6y ago
Former blackhats? Why not current blackhats. 0:)
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by permille42 6y ago
I've worked at some of the big companies, including multiple cloud providers. I wouldn't trust their shit ever. Perhaps it seems more secure than self built stuff but it really isn't. The same idiots you think won't buil
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by permille42 6y ago
Q: If you use a cloud provider (GCP/AWS/Azure/etc) A: I don't use a cloud provider Q: Describe how credentials are provisioned, managed, and stored. A: Credentials to what exactly? Since I don't use a cloud provider
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by permille42 6y ago
From FAQ: Q: Can I backup my messages? A: No. :( The killer feature set of a messaging system that will allow it to crush WhatsApp, Signal, Session, etc: * Fully open source ( app, nodes, everything ) * End-to-end encryption ( obviously ) *
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by permille42 6y ago
Good. Why exactly is this important Hacker News? Parler was banned rightly because they are allowing speech that encourages domestic terrorism. ( such is not free speech and is illegal under US law )
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by permille42 6y ago
They say now they are working on letting people sign up without having to use a phone number. I've hated this about Signal since first beginning to use it. Forcing everyone to use a phone number makes it so much harder to have a partia
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by permille42 6y ago
I hate Amazon. There is nothing that would make me more happy than to see them come to a quick and timely demise. That said, at least they are doing something to try to contribute to lessen the impact of their wrongs. "Won't fix a
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by permille42 6y ago
I disagree. The notion that "you have to accept the arrogance and obnoxious attitude of high level software engineers because it is inevitable that the type of people who excel at creating software are that way because they don't
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by permille42 6y ago
It is better to hire fewer employees that last. That is, more effort should be spent on retention and less on acquiring as many disposable employees as possible. Most of the big companies treat their employees like trash and lose them rapid
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by permille42 6y ago
Musk isn't great enough to deserve such a high title of lunatic. More like arrogant madman.

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