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by pytester 7y ago
I didn't really mean to use the term "political" pejoratively :\ I was more focused on saying "the furthest possible thing from a technical problem".
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"on the government". Regardless, hacking a celebrity's icloud account and releasing the images is still more journalism than it espionage.
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>First of all, one of the biggest reasons to do this (and not mentioned) is unit testing. This is one way in which unit testing can cripple code. It's especially bad when code that mainly has the job of integrating different systems
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>wouldn’t student debt forgiveness also hugely benefit (perhaps unfairly) people with that privilege? The last thing these people want is meritocracy, because it forces them into competition with poorer people for the most prestigious
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>The question about helping someone hack the laptop in question (even if not successful) was a clear crossing of a boundary that I would expect most journalists would not cross. It seems fairly analogous to the famous 1973 burglary of FB
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>How do you establish that a given act of hacking is or is not a public service? If you hack and then publish embarrassing material to the whole world it's a public service. If you hack non-embarrassing operationally sensitive mater
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by pytester 7y ago
This is why I always say that microservices are a technical fix for a political problem. Technically they're harder to manage and often come at a high technical cost that you should never attempt to pay if you don't have to, but i
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It's possible for some; not for others. This isn't about what's possible, though, it's about what's fair. It's treating the "right to untaxed unearned income entitlements" like interest, dividends and
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by pytester 7y ago
"Unrealistic" is how most popular, realistic ideas that every other industralized nation has managed to put in to practice are put down. Single payer healthcare is similar. I still remember Chilean right wing commentators declarin
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>Bernie essentially wants to forcibly take money from everyone who was financially responsible "Financially responsible" has become a euphemism for "rich and assumed to be responsible". I know a bunch of people who ar
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Their MO seems to be to improve the overall IT security of the nation such that it's less vulnerable to less sophisticated actors but still vulnerable to them. This is likely tacit recognition that UEFI is such a dumpster fire that it&
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by pytester 7y ago
>It is not a dichotomy. It is a dichotomy. You do not want the same thing being covered by two different types of test. Duplicated test coverage means duplicated maintenance. >There is a world of productivity difference between a 1 mi
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by pytester 7y ago
>If you focus on integration test technology like Cucumber or headless browser drivers, they will absolutely balloon your test suite runtime and it is partly because they are extremely inefficient Between unit tests (fast, unrealistic, t
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by pytester 7y ago
Apparently most americans are one paycheck away from the that: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/most-americans-are-one-pay...
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>The bottom 50% in America is likely the top 20% somewhere else (I'm making all of this up, of course). Then the bottom 50% of that 20% is likely the top 1% somewhere else. And on and on it goes. This is if you don't take into
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by pytester 7y ago
>Learning a programming language is usually not the hard part The syntax and semantics can indeed be picked up in a day or more. It's working within the ecosystem and circumventing all of the non-obvious pitfalls, knowing the shortc
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>Fix a real bug or implement a real feature. Beyond the obvious copyright issues if you don’t get an assignment from the candidate, Irrelevant if you've already fixed or implemented it and do not intend to use the candidate's c
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by pytester 7y ago
Cost https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/17/exelon-official-no-new-nucle...
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>Thus, self fulfilling prophecy: you don't need to know these things because the industry punted on the problems you'd need these things to solve, or deferred them to other departments. Web apps, for example, are often very ani
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by pytester 7y ago
Jeremy Corbyn presented this idea in the UK: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn... The media, of course, isn't owned by workers, and so rampant character assassination is par fo
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by pytester 7y ago
>That’s not entirely accurate, see Henry Ford suspending shareholder dividends, raising employee wages and lowering price of cars for consumers to fulfill vision of every American family owning a (Ford) car. It wasn't to fulfill any
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by pytester 7y ago
I've very rarely seen scripts like this make implicit dependencies beyond assuming what kind of package manager is installed. Moreover, everywhere I've worked the package manager was either under our control (in which case no prob
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by pytester 7y ago
>The difference is standardization. Postgres can be installed in subdirectories nicely, as you say -- if you know how. Or if you have, y'know, a really simple script. ...the kind which also runs inside most semi-complex Docker conta
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by pytester 7y ago
>Docker solves a simple problem that everyone has. Docker provides an (IMHO pretty buggy) isolation layer that lies between "keeping things that need to be kept separate in separate folders" and "keeping things that need t
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by pytester 7y ago
Yep, one of the catch 22's of tech is that you need good people to recognize good people. I think it's why tech tends to congregate in hubs in spite of the lack of any real intrinsic need to it to do so.
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>I tend to categorize cruft code in two different categories, and in most cases I have encounter both stem mostly from programmer inability rather than time constraints. This is only natural. Where the customer doesn't value softwar
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>The Idea that the US is 'losing' due to the trade deficit and that reducing trade with China will benefit America is utter tosh and even the administration's own trade advisers and negotiators are saying so (a bit more po
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by pytester 7y ago
I really don't like their series of blog posts of flaky tests. The first one literally used the phrase "fact of life" and implied that nothing could really be done about it (suggesting avoiding high level tests as a result, w
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by pytester 7y ago
In the past I've had the external dependencies included until it started to cause issues. Some dependencies in some projects (e.g. hard coded CDN links, time) haven't actually caused any problems. For very complex dependencies I w
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by pytester 7y ago
What I found to be the major reasons for flaky tests: * Non-determinism in the code - e.g. select without an order by, random number generators, hashmaps turned into lists, etc. - Fixed by turning non-deterministic code into deterministic c

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