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by prerok 3y ago
I actually find "bug" to be the most apt name for it. Their intent was to enable a feature, therefore writing it this way was not an error: it, however, did not take into account all the side-effects. They did err on the side of c
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by prerok 3y ago
Yeah, "XXXXX and YYYYY have also abused our trust. Terribly sorry for the inconvenience." Snark aside, I fully agree, the company should be held accountable. I just don't know how much if they just "sent an email".
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by prerok 3y ago
I also do that most of the time but the title was so off I just had to take a look. I was pleasantly surprised, very thoughtful and fully recommend reading it in its entirety.
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by prerok 3y ago
I suppose this is a question of what is art. There have been numerous attempts at defining it and there are a few schools of thought. Many of those focus on the artist and what part of the artist, what part of their being, was put into the
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by prerok 3y ago
In my view, the path to mastery is to first learn the rules, follow them and then learn when to break them and then transcend all of that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuhari TBH, I don't know if I will ever r
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by prerok 3y ago
Now it makes sense, thanks!
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by prerok 3y ago
Maybe I don't understand something but where is Renault? It's not even mentioned AFAICT. Also, VW data does not encompass Golf, which seems to me to be by far the most sold VW car in Europe (based on what I see on the streets, not
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by prerok 3y ago
Well, I agree with all of that and I think maybe my comment was misunderstood. I was responding to the parent comment, saying "why do people like this". Its minimalism is ok-ish for small programs where you don't feel the pai
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by prerok 3y ago
Well, shell scripts are small helper programs, where you don't have to implement all sorts of business rules and complex object interactions. I am pretty sure most developers (I definitely) would be horrified at the prospect of having
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by prerok 3y ago
Not that I am any sort of expert on the subject, but the way I understand it is: 1. If you have a fossil you can carbon date it based on the amount of C14, which is an isotope of carbon, and is present in relatively stable amounts in living
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by prerok 3y ago
Because the bigger connector, if it's attached at its corners or throughout the length, can phisically better withstand the shearing physical forces applied to it.
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by prerok 3y ago
Indeed, but there seems to be no incentive to do it. In government jobs nobody cares. In large companies nobody cares either, these are just operating costs. That is, until money is short, but then they either cut whole departments or sites
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by prerok 3y ago
I have a few colleagues that told me they have a job like that. Not done in 15 minutes but 2 hours, then they goof off for the next 6 hours. There are two reasons: 1. They have a specific job with a specific set of duties (think sysadmins,
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by prerok 3y ago
Would Godot count?
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by prerok 3y ago
But you are kind of spot on regarding counting in bases with real numbers. I have not thought it through properly but it was meant as a joke anyway.
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by prerok 3y ago
Nope. Is 10 actually 1 in base 10? Redacted: see below.
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by prerok 3y ago
In base pi, the pi number is 1. Similarly, if we would take any base, which is a factor of pi, we could have any number be the last digit. All the above is a joke, of course, as it does not really tackle the problem :)
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by prerok 3y ago
I disagree. Unit tests, when done right, are heaps of ROI in my experience. Most of the integration tests are for happy paths, i.e. ones where you can catch the obvious regressions. Testing corner cases is much more troublesome, because you
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by prerok 3y ago
I have not seen it but, to me, it kind of makes sense if you put an average overall. I think companies making a lot of money are in a world of trouble: sweet trouble, to be sure, but still trouble. Sustaining the same percentage growth is i
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by prerok 3y ago
Hardly a contrived problem, since I know of at least one occurrence where I had issues in production because of it. It was not error handling that was the problem, which is exposed here. The problem was that I had a variable of an interface
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by prerok 3y ago
delays -> devalues, dilutes?
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by prerok 3y ago
Well, maybe not exactly unmaintainable but I think most of us have learned that floating point operations are not to be trusted, especially if it needs to run on different processors. Furthermore, calling such math operations is an overkill
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by prerok 3y ago
Except when they let go a few key personnel and mandate culture change from above. It's not as enduring, unfortunately, even if most of us would like it so.
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by prerok 3y ago
The thing is, I think no amount of research would have pointed to this possibility. At least it would not a couple of years back. The mere fact that this group in OP exists/existed would have pointed to their trustworthiness.
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by prerok 3y ago
Now, that is a different take. You have been able to convince them. It's not like they realized this themselves, or that they deduced something from the numbers. Again, only my experience at past employers, but in a lot of cases the de
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by prerok 3y ago
That is true, but IME only if it incurs costs. In this case, however, a pop-up on your own site costs nothing. In fact, removing it incurs costs in development time, even if it's a simple line delete. So, I am 100% sure no marketer wou
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by prerok 3y ago
I was learning Latin at the time I watched that movie. Fell off the sofa, laughing, during that scene :)
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by prerok 3y ago
The only 10x coder I knew was the one that managed to deliver stuff (almost) on time but also took the time to explain things to other (junior, me at the time) programmers. Such Tims are sadly rare and I think I should start working towards
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by prerok 3y ago
I would posit that any food can be made following a recipe. I know, because I am dabbling at it ;) The food will still taste good :) The craft here is to make it taste special, even for simple recipes like an omelette. That is why the chefs
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by prerok 3y ago
> routinely treated with scorn for my approach Seriously? I feel for you. In my experience many companies do recognize tech debt now, and the value in fixing it or implementing it the right way, although that was not so much the case in

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