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by rqtwteye 3y ago
"The ESB team I have to work with, for example, has a hard cap of 8,000 lines (of XML) in a single file due to their shit performance. Why? “Because recursive, immutable code is ‘easier to reason about’”" Bullshit like this really
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
One thing I have noticed that a lot of devs don't know what a profiler is and even less know how to use it. They also don't have log files that would allow analyzing where the code spends most of its time.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
That’s how it works with most donations people give. I don’t get a say how the local animal shelter uses my donations.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
Add churches and a lot of other non-profits to that list. I think all these institutions deserve a close look as to how the money is spent and whether they deserve tax breaks. When I lived in Northern VA I met quite a few non-profit higher
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
"Data point: Harvard's endowment has over 14,000 individual funds and the majority of them are restricted" Maybe they should stop allowing donors to put restrictions on how to use the money?
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
This plagues most enterprise software. Decisions are made by people who will most likely never actually use the software. So the decisions are made by cost and ease of dealing with the vendor. Usability is way down the list of priorities.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
I think they will just learn to code.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
The Rails monolith companies probably have a better chance at adapting than the 50 microservices maintained by 10 devs companies.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
I have rarely seen engineering management that's of any help making these decisions. Either they resist any change or they jump on technology because they have read a LinkedIn article or Gartner report. I have never seen good, fact bas
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
I am good with splitting off certain parts as services once there is a performance problem. But doing microservices from the start is just a ton of complexity for no benefit and most likely you'll get the service boundaries wrong to so
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
A lot of eating is habit. You can change those.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
Not celebrating overeating. Not having highly processed food that’s designed to make people eat too much. Not pouring tons of sugar or salt into everything. Serving normal portions in restaurants Not feeding kids candy bars that are four
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
Same here. Kagi and Fastmail are doing exactly what they are advertised as. With other platforms I feel constantly manipulated into something I don’t really understand but that’s pretty clearly against my interests. Maybe there will be a ba
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
I think AI will be way more able to understand convoluted process than humans.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
I have done some reading on carbon capture and so far I find it hard to believe any of these technologies can be scaled up to even remotely the level needed to make a difference. And if we scale up to that level we sit on enormous amounts o
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
Does IBM stand out there? A lot of well respected German companies worked with the Nazis, e.g. Porsche, Volkswagen, BMW, all the successors to IG Farben like BASF and Bayer.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
" Then, after I start I realize every company is operating on chaos, barely putting one foot in front of the other." So true. I have been involved in some projects where we had to figure out how certain processes. Every time it tu
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
I subscribe this to a certain degree but there are limits. Some tests are just too complex to be used as documentation. Sample code is better in such cases.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
Large corporations are basically run like planned economies in communist states. 5 year plans, leadership detached from reality on the ground, tons of internal propaganda, lots of pretending that things are great, empire building by the mid
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
I think Google has become so big and needs so much revenue that they can't afford to fight SEO spam anymore. Since ads are still their main income they have to do whatever it takes to make money. And looking at the numbers this strateg
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
I think the main trap of "productivity" is believing doing a lot of things is "productive". I see quite a few people who look "productive" at first look but it's mainly just a lot of volume that doesn&#x27
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
The people I know were applying for roles at universities. Engineering and teaching. You basically have to memorize your response and not deviate from it or you may get in trouble.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
"I find many times, the quality of the average person at a big company is lower than the average startup fresh grad." I wouldn't blame it on the people but on the environment. I have worked at both big companies and startups.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
Exactly. You are joining a company, not a cult. Basically they are filtering for people who can speak the same jargon correctly. I have heard a lot of stories about people failing DEI questions during an interview because they didn't k
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
Item 70 doesn't look right.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
Give them something to do that normally doesn't get done. I could think of them building trails and huts in national parks like the CCC did in the 30s. Or other charitable things. Them working for cheap for profitable corporations is
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
"People SAY that want well made, simple things. But people will generally not PAY FOR simple, well made things when much cheaper options are available. You and I might, and many others as well. But the vast majority of folks will not p
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
Totally. If they want me to check anything work related on my phone they have to give me one.
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
The cost and benefits need to be carried by the same people. Right now with a lot of pollution some people have to pay the price for the benefits of others. Or often the whole population has to suffer damage because some capitalists get ric
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by rqtwteye 3y ago
I think the index is one of the best features of git if you work with a git GUI.

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