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by smaudet 4y ago
You are probably too young to remember the php Cpanel hosts then. Linode was one of the big names in being cheap and having an actual vps where you could do whatever. Short of actually buying a rack and the accompanying hardware/networ
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by smaudet 4y ago
Yeah except I don't want 'cloud services' I want a VPS, people who want a VPS are never going to look at Akamai branded that way.
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by smaudet 4y ago
"Unlike Google, Microsoft’s Bing demo was more polished and free of blemishes." Um, not a fan of either system, but pretty sure this has been shown to be patently false... There was a c-acm post on here just the other day about th
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by smaudet 4y ago
> 3. It leads to high test coverage which inhibits refactoring (despite zealots telling you otherwise). The major flaw with TDD is if you get your test wrong, you get the wrong code. The intent is to inhibit refactoring, because the assu
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by smaudet 4y ago
Bugs are features which were not expected.
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by smaudet 4y ago
Once the scrum "masters" start becoming unspoken management, then you know the process has got off the rails and is no longer agile. Sometimes it makes sense, corps don't actually have any need to churn out new features, at t
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by smaudet 4y ago
Step 1 is wrong, it should read: 1. Write a feature 2. Test it When your feature is your whole app "I want to build a TODO list app", your test is "I can write a TODO list app". When you inevitably can't do that (be
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by smaudet 4y ago
Or, if you just want get practice (internet) arguing, its always a good idea. OFC, the other people need to be interested in arguing. Random debate is a valuable skill, and I don't know that I 100% agree that "consent" is imp
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by smaudet 4y ago
If you have something to do the job is worthwhile. If its busywork, at least you get paid. If you don't have either of those things, the boss/work is not worth anyone's time, you're better of taking training and quitting
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by smaudet 4y ago
I think its the curse of doing development professionally - except the rare case where open source monetization has worked well enough to support a long career, closed source software is designed to be disposable. You build something fast b
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by smaudet 4y ago
> 2. It's the humans quitting, not the machinery. Is not as true as you think, the common reasons for software to "die": 1. The platform is not made anymore - we use different processors, hard-drives. A hard drive fails an
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by smaudet 4y ago
> "so you have service that does X. it do it very well. you can put two people to support it and have rest of people focus on next innovation. instead, you take team of 9 people including 2-3 managers and engineers do some marginal
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by smaudet 4y ago
I think this tool has merit where gh doesn't, in that it can/could integrate with other hosts. Github is a cancer on the git community - I know we tend to like "easy, fast, convenient" so mega-providers like GH or Gitlab
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by smaudet 4y ago
Immutability is nice when you have it, however the languages and paradigms you speak of I imagine the OP would also complain are "clever code". Otherwise it's not a "paradigm", simply having mutable state means you
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by smaudet 4y ago
And I suggest you look into the concept of contextual terminology
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by smaudet 4y ago
I disagree - reaction time is commonly referring to the reaction time of the vehicle in these events, the propensity of software devs to treat everything like a video game non-withstanding.
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by smaudet 4y ago
I did not interpret their comment that way. That would be unreasonable, however their comment included mention of physical break distance, so I'm pretty certain they didn't mean actual human response time and instead how long it t
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by smaudet 4y ago
It's absolutely not nonsense, I suggest taking some basic high-school physics. Reaction time is the time for the vehicle to come to a stop, not for the driver to first notice an issue. At 60 mph it will take many meters and seconds to
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by smaudet 4y ago
There is a balance too between simply being older and being young and feisty, though. This smacks a bit of old arguments to 'just use assembly' or the like. It is true there is an overproliferation of reinvention of syntax, but I
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by smaudet 4y ago
Indeed - the (security/social/economical) issues these systems will pose are nearly boundless, something as ill considered and will in hindsight be as obviously shortsighted and the early naivete of the first internet users, who s
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by smaudet 4y ago
Can't agree, if an assassin illegaly enters a country and commits a crime, the blame falls on the miscreant for their behavior not the country for failing to notice the deceptive miscreant. You would have to demonstrate the Swiss govt
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by smaudet 4y ago
Also sounds like a case of not throwing enough adversarial data at the system - you can't just code coverage your code, you can't even establish KPIs, you have to establish its performance under system failure (does it freeze or g
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by smaudet 4y ago
As others have said, you are ridiculously oversimplifying the process. If you are running a little video game that plots flight charts, sure perhaps you could write such a script. You cannot, however, script a bunch of logisitics support to
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by smaudet 4y ago
Until the advent of the new screen manager, you could always reliably get to a VT terminal. Full io access and unlimited kill power, far better than ctrl alt delete... Any regressions in this area I blame on systemd, which I think runs on c
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by smaudet 4y ago
Maybe you should be running in what those git remotes are running in (hint, something Unix probably in a container).
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by smaudet 4y ago
It doesn't feel like one either. It feels like a shitty web page, and it costs 500$ to run. I can run apps in python and they don't feel the same way, never mind native.
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by smaudet 4y ago
Teams holds the crown as far as terrible electron apps. I actually can't run it locally (absurd tech policies), and I am so glad to never run it at all ever. Just easier to load it into an isolated browser tab when I need it, Zoom is s
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by smaudet 4y ago
Great point. I think the OP would be amazed if you showed them how a car works...
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by smaudet 4y ago
Meh it's a second rate copycat in a shifty runtime. There is nothing they've done with it that is notable or new, typical micro$oft nonsense.
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by smaudet 4y ago
I will probably write a character set checker for ascii tomorrow, I agree unicode is pretty much a security vulnerability anywhere but the frontend (for non copied display). Heck, it might even be a reasonable idea to bake anti-unicode into

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