richardbarosky

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by richardbarosky 15d ago
Writing about these things in public and putting yourself out there is greatly appreciated. Hats off for that! However, as far as what's being pursued, it seems more like wantonly trying to ride a hype cycle without strongly questionin
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by richardbarosky 19d ago
The pendulum has swung too far in the direction of class, function, cyclomatic complexity (and similar here, CRAP), and other idiotic metrics. This reminds me of a talk Sandi Metz did called "All the Little Things" where she cover
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by richardbarosky 2mo ago
I'm seeing what looks like a date in the top-right corner of the header banner. Not sure if it was added in response to the note, so mentioning just in case!
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by richardbarosky 2mo ago
I'm personally not a FE expert, but I love to see this kind of writeup and the creative problem solving/thinking. Great post!
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by richardbarosky 2mo ago
Thank you for sharing, really appreciate Hillel's content!
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by richardbarosky 3mo ago
Interesting take! I feel like 2 of them are maybe overstated: > - extent to which correctness of solution be easily specified and checked I don't think most software is like solving a math problem or series of math problems. Algorit
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by richardbarosky 4mo ago
Don't have much to say on the topic but recalled this excerpt from the book Coders at Work in the chapter interviewing Douglas Crockford. ``` In my experience, the worst bugs are the real-time bugs, which have to do with interactions w
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by richardbarosky 4mo ago
> Coding the product is not the bottleneck or what grants you success. Agree, and I think that's the core of my point. Not that it's irrational or doesn't make sense to sell tokens for purposes of software dev, but that if
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by richardbarosky 4mo ago
To be sure, security is an amazing AI/LLM use case. A huge swath of the work is pattern matching known security issues against stuff that's very precise to analyze -- programming language text. Something that stands out is that fo
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Popular YouTuber says upcoming AI course expecting several million in revenue
3 points by richardbarosky 4mo ago|0 comments
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by richardbarosky 5mo ago
Yeah, it seems like the article should have qualified the issue more or been more precise. Instead of "You Need AI That Reduces Maintenance Costs", something like "Your Use of AI Should Reduce Maintenance Costs". Some of
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by richardbarosky 5mo ago
Insightful. Agree with this take. Unfortunately, maintainability is simply bucketed as a "non-functional" requirement. Maintainability (and similar NFRs) should actually be considered what preserves and enables the delivery of fu
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Unicorn social app IRL to shut down after admitting 95% of its users were fake(techcrunch.com)
58 points by richardbarosky 3y ago|18 comments
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Technofad Driven Development
2 points by richardbarosky 3y ago|0 comments
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by richardbarosky 3y ago
Curious, if you don't mind sharing, what site/app!?
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by richardbarosky 3y ago
Nice, love it
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by richardbarosky 3y ago
Can confirm. judyrecords is built on a near framework-less monolith in PHP + 2 search servers. Searches complete within 100 milliseconds and SRPs return in less than 15 milliseconds on average. Runs a trimmed down version of CodeIgniter 2 (
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by richardbarosky 3y ago
"Kagi shopping results have no affiliate links and feature the most helpful, unbiased reviews." This is a breath of fresh air. Ever since CNN Underscored started being a thing, I've grown to dislike more and more the swamp of
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by richardbarosky 4y ago
Well, there's this posted by Embarcadero just today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3nn3isshVg - When Delphi reaches the Cloud! Disclaimer: I'm not a Delphi programmer. This just popped up in my YouTube feed.
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by richardbarosky 4y ago
Haha, nice. Apparently that word is has quite the wide range of meanings. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/d%C3%A9conner "remove one's penis from a vagina"
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Funny insult for copy pasting code that made me chuckle
4 points by richardbarosky 4y ago|4 comments
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by richardbarosky 5y ago
I'd never heard of that acronym before myself. Insecure = no access control/authorization Direct Object reference = URL https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Insecure_Dire... "Direct Object Refe
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by richardbarosky 5y ago
Related links I've added to judyrecords.com/info https://www.law.com/therecorder/2022/03/10/bowing-to-pressur... https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/2022/02/fac-letter
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by richardbarosky 5y ago
It's the first reply.
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by richardbarosky 5y ago
Seems maybe we're both on the same wavelength about hardware and software being underdeveloped still compared to possible visions for its use. I was personally thinking at least, that we won't get to a point where people will want
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Ask HN: Will Facebook's metaverse idea have the same fate as Google glass?
2 points by richardbarosky 5y ago|3 comments
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Top of Hacker News vs. Top of Reddit – Peak Traffic Comparison
11 points by richardbarosky 5y ago|0 comments
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by richardbarosky 5y ago
Super interesting. Can you share screenshots or video of how this all comes together?
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by richardbarosky 5y ago
Stumbled on this: https://www.canlii.org/en/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/swy4ge/comment...
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by richardbarosky 5y ago
Can you explain your thought process? How is that related?

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