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by shoo 4y ago
I completely agree that linking to additional supporting docs that explain requirements, design, etc is very helpful. Especially for the crew of poor bloody maintenance contractors trying to reverse engineer the system requirements and cons
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by shoo 4y ago
This topic is covered on this weeks episode of the Economist's Checks and Balance podcast, which covers US politics. https://www.economist.com/checkspod It's a great podcast, strongly recommended.
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C++ isn't necessary in many business contexts, and can result a worse business overall outcome than alternatives. If it's a harder tool for people to use, and the use of the hard tool isn't necessary, why would you use it? Wh
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by "keyring" we probably informally mean some service offered by an operating system / desktop environment to securely store credentials (passwords, keys, etc). e.g. for macOS this is "keychain access" ( https:&#x2F
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by shoo 4y ago
Looking for a new job is a great idea. Good on you for talking to recruiters. It is often easier to negotiate with a new potential employer who wants to bring you on board to help them fix some problem (e.g. filling headcount to deliver pro
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by shoo 4y ago
see also https://goomics.net/62/
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> could be used as an emergency support line for brides & grooms getting cold feet on their wedding day might be a challenging business: doesn't solve a recurring problem. difficult to believe that an existing customer is going
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by shoo 4y ago
> old thin clients yes! i ran a small personal app (postgres, background processes, tiny web app) on a wyse thin client for years. low power consumption, dead quiet. there's a great site here re: repurposing cheap old thin clients
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> polar opposite of portable For some reason, this makes me think of pipe organs. If there's a ten point portability scale, maybe a pipe organ could be 1, a piano might be 2. A pencil could be 10. A sausage dog might be an 8 or 9. S
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Do you have anything specific in mind in terms of business models when you wrote "software project"? e.g. suppose a small business owner brings me on as a contractor to add a booking form to their website, and i write or copy a sm
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by shoo 4y ago
repeatedly being mugged is still a poor analogy that understates how grim the situation is. muggers have competitors who might offer the victim a better deal. in this case there are no competitors. the victims return to be mugged again and
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Is anyone aware of efforts to change laws or regulations that have a non-negligible chance of succeeding, and could restrict the opportunity for this kind of corporate misbehavior in future? (we can imagine many wildly non-incremental chang
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> HR will probably won't like this question ... which greeting would HR like least? "Comrade, how are you? Let's switch to private comms, so we can speak freely, my public key is <blahblah>." free and lively dis
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we can form a committee from both departments, and after enough iteration, they may agree to a compromise that annoys everyone equally: replacing recursion with recursion.
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Learn how to use a decent profiler. if you're running linux, that's probably perf: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/perf.1.html https://www.brendangregg.com/perf.html Here&#x27
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> Almost any code, when micro-optimized, can gain about 10x performance. well, it depends on where you start from. the speedups can become arbitrarily impressive sounding when the starting point is arbitrarily inefficient. e.g. if you&#x
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i hope their compliance department goes by "karma police" internally
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reduce the signal to noise ratio of your cache reads with this one weird trick! data-oriented game engine developers hate him! more seriously, resources explaining why and how not to do this: CppCon 2014 Mike Acton Data Oriented Design and
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people may be able offer better advice if you are willing to share a little more information and data points -- what kinds of jobs have you been applying for? which specific areas do you offer skill and experience in? (technical skills &#x2
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i worked in a megacorp on a 1000 person initiative - with hundreds of developers - that had standardised on giving everyone macbooks, and many teams were using docker for mac to develop and run containerised integration tests locally. when
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If Go is a feasible option [1], each service could be structured as its own module, with all of its private data and types placed in packages inside the module's special internal/ package, which has special support from the compil
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> What programming language would you choose if you wanted to make a modular monolithic architecture? i'm sort of cheating, but: if you add more context, the decision will likely be easier. what's the architecture for? what a
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> functools python i'd argue that python is not one of the best languages at supporting modularity, because is is dynamically typed and duck typed, and by default there's no requirement for functions to say what type of thing t
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Boris Johnson offers a case study of why one might wish to renounce US citizenship: https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2022/07/10/boris-joh...
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I spent a few years interviewing people while working for a megacorp -- candidates applying for software engineering roles were subjected to a variation of this question fairly regularly. Warning signals in responses could be someone claimi
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you might choose it to avoid the honor of doing a job you'd prefer not to do.
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The "The Obvious Answer to Homelessness" by Jerusalem Demsas, published by The Atlantic (linked in another comment by thamer) argues that this hypothesis is falsified, and can cite research: > Few Republican-dominated states ha
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> I decided to look for open Developer positions, to work with a team of experienced developers so I can learn even faster. Good idea -- working in a team that has a few experienced developers provides a great way to rapidly learn - both
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... because it causes impaired function. if it caused enhanced function, maybe that'd be helpful.

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