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by rswail 3y ago
ASCII was used by teletypes, not typewriters. They were "cylinder" heads, as compared to IBM's golfball typewriters. The endless CR/LF/CRLF line ending problem would have been solved if the RS (Record Separator) ASC
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I've been a team leader and other "management" positions and most of the time, my job is to shield the team from external issues to allow them to do our needed work. It's also part of my job to show, by example, dedicati
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Verbs in a URL are an API "smell" for me. URLs refer to a resource that you can manipulate. What resource is /students/create referring to?
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In HTML, you could have a FORM with the URL of /lamp/switch that you PUT.
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If I use turning a lamp on and off, I'd do GET /lamp and in the response there should be an href with a rel of "on" that I can follow (in JSON land). In HTML, I might have a FORM that does a POST of the lamp's switc
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by rswail 3y ago
I use Nouns exclusively in APIs, not verbs. URLs define resources. Resources are (99% of the time) Nouns. So POST /students/{id}/enrollment Or POST /students is the act of enrolling a student, so the returned Location mi
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This is a US/NA focused comment. Ford makes sedans in EU and other markets. They also make sedans for the US market in China and other manufacturing locations. So it's true that Ford US manufacturing have exited sedan production
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From Apple's perspective, they used to need that pro "creative" image to build their own brand. Their advertising, their products, were all about getting that brand. But now, the Apple brand has its own status, independently
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I think it's more that they are not focusing on their previous niches in the laptop/desktop world. There are lots of those apps where they enhanced the generic user's ease of use, while maybe not maintaining features that wer
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There are still websites built on top of scraping the output of a virtualized IBM 3270 terminal connected to a virtualized IBM 3274 terminal controller connected to an I/O channel on a virtualized mainframe running CICS on an MVS virtu
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Sorry, what? Why would you be sending a bunch of poly people anywhere? They exist as part of our culture and civilization. Is this some form of "the natural order of humankind is monogamous nuclear families"?
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Now that's a phrase I haven't heard for a while. I wonder what the 2023 equivalent is.
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Well aren't you just the genius holding the internet together. Of course the underlying algos are similar, because they are table matching and they are also doing either min or max matching depending on the requirements. They're a
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Except that all those arguments don't apply if your bonds are not in your own currency (all of the US Treasuries are) and you don't control the money supply of your own currency (the US does) and your currency is not the default w
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Except the current US inflation rate is ~3-4%.
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The debt is money owed by the US to itself and foreign buyers of its bonds. The debt is payable in US dollars. The US has control over how much supply of US dollars there is. The more US dollars, the "cheaper" they are in a foreig
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Calling a route table "access control" is not useful. It's not access control, it's literally in the name, it is about navigation of the network via routes. As for your comment about the "pocket protector committee&
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Use MacPorts instead. I run: $ sudo bash # port selfupdate && port -u -c upgrade outdated && port reclaim once a week. When I upgraded to Ventura (from Big Sur), I followed the instructions for an OS upgrade and everything m
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AWS Lambda doesn't support IPv6 in VPCs. This means that everything else in your VPC has to be dual stack if the lambdas talk to them. AWS Lambdas don't actually run in your VPC, there is an ENI that is exposed to your VPC that be
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ISO20022 is going to kill all of these intermediaries. Systems like Australia's NPP and associated PayID/PayTo schemes, India's UPI, US FedNow etc replace all of the middle-men clipping the ticket with a close to direct accou
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Thanks for this. Been looking for a simple key-driven replacement for the Finder that I can keep open. Tweaked a few of the options for fonts and opening terminals and things and it's great (and fast as well).
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I've implemented a system that uses event sourcing at "scale" (YMMV at what is "scale"). 1. Data storage is not "10x bigger", it depends on how long you maintain the event stream in the past. Think about a
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> Humans are bad at estimating stuff. Software engineers doubly so. Where did you get that factor of 2 from? /s
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If you feed the confidence levels into a GANTT chart, then that shows up as slack when doing the critical path analysis. But no one does that sort of thing anymore.
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Sigh, this was the basis of "Iterative Development" that came along with the "Rational Unified Process" and was the precursor to the current fad of epics/stories/sprints/t-shirts/Fibonacci that has po
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Run an elevated train along I-5? There are no engineering solutions to earthquakes? Railways can be repaired. Land Acquisition is a government and regulatory issue, not engineering.
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It helped that China could throw essentially an unlimited budget and unlimited workforce at the job. It ended up incredibly over budget and the various state owned corporations have had to be bailed out. On the other hand, China now has a r
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It also leaves out the political machinations that a conservative government was elected after the project had begun under a centre-left government and they continually interfered in the development until the original architect left the pro
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> Tracking hours is a pain in the ass and we do it mostly in Jira tied to tasks but the data we get is invaluable. The important point here is to actually feed that information back to the people that originally did the estimates and als
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There are two accurate forms of software development effort estimation: 1. Guess, double it, and raise it to the next time unit. Example: a 1 day task will take 2 weeks 2. The management inspired "What's the earliest date you can&

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