smaudet

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901.
by smaudet 5y ago
There is no such thing as "clean code", I think its a verb, not a noun. Same problem as being virtuous, there is no such state. But you can attempt to do things well, make moral choices, etc. Specifically, when we first bang out t
902.
by smaudet 5y ago
Why is it pretty wild? There are tons of scammers, crooks, etc., this stuff is common place, not abnormal. Humans tend towards greed and lining their own pockets, just look at any dysfunctional government that has ever existed. I would not
903.
by smaudet 5y ago
This is blatantly false - if you work second or third shift, you cannot hold these titles. Does that make any e.g. factory worker ineligible for titles? You might say to yourself 'but you don't want factory workers im office'
904.
by smaudet 5y ago
I mean, I guess - or you can just use a private tab. Same difference, except way less complex.
905.
by smaudet 5y ago
Two words: Audio Jack. Dumb-ass Mac people.
906.
by smaudet 5y ago
Yes absolutely, the concept you are missing is "culture" - the majority of knowledge a "citizen" or "consumer" is taught is either picked up through cultural context (parents, TV, books, online articles), or th
907.
by smaudet 5y ago
> Being able to say one thing a hundred different ways isn't good if the read has to search for a hundred different maybe-meanings a given string might have. This the absurd notion that there is some one "best" way to do t
908.
by smaudet 5y ago
> In fact, I would probably reject any changes in code review that used this kind of trick. Why not? Operator overloading (if used well) is invaluable to expressiveness, and at least IMO related to a strong type system. Abstract Algebra
909.
by smaudet 5y ago
As others have pointed out LTS exists elsewhere - the truth is LTS is minimum level of support necessary for most users. Everything else is essentially bleeding edge - too much work to maintain, constantly bugged, etc. The previous model wh
910.
by smaudet 5y ago
Chiming in to say you are dearly mistaken, you turkey-squid uncle buntler. I, on the other hand, am a fucking amazing shit OG bitch. But yeah this stuff is absolutely dangerous, opinions like these are destroying culture. It won't be l
911.
by smaudet 5y ago
I don't actually think passwords are broken at all - I mostly used to see this from people pushing biometrics or hardware tokens (people selling stuff). How we use them, is very much broken. What is the point of a password that a bit o
912.
by smaudet 5y ago
The problem with password managers was they were a commercial venture - not that commercial is inherently in the general case worse, but: 1. Closed source, so you cannot audit a critical peice of security infrastructure. 2. Perverse incenti
913.
by smaudet 5y ago
I think you have missed the point of fakes versus mocks (as this article puts it) based on what you said - fakes should be able to do everything mocks can, more, even. But I hear you complain "but that's so much work to maintain!!
914.
by smaudet 5y ago
Fakes also make integration testing easier too - if you want to focus on say, making sure your payments always make it into the database correctly, integration testing across the medley becomes (relatively) trivial, even automatable.
915.
by smaudet 5y ago
The proper metric is tests/feature - most test code bases are so bad you can't even pick out what feature is being tested, due to a blind adherence to 'code coverage' It is the equivalent of spot checking a road 100 time
916.
by smaudet 5y ago
I agree EOL is too often interpreted to mean 'Insecure' - in the case of closed solutions this is absolutely the case (presumably, it is often difficult to audit closed and obfuscated closed source solutions). In many cases it is
917.
by smaudet 5y ago
This is just an aside, but this might explain why their (online) shop sucks so hard (and no browser on what amounts to a phone without a SIM card?)... It's not just that the UX is a bit clunky, it's that it's a veritable mora
918.
by smaudet 5y ago
Death to the rodent! I hate mice, have had to deal with infestations a couple times now. Dirty, scumbags, causing me economic harm and trampling over my rights. Plus the comp. you are talking about has known links to a repressive dictatorsh
919.
by smaudet 5y ago
I don't think its disigenuous, though. I think these 'best practices' are really just the software equivalent of legalese speak. If you had to run an install wizard, use a key, and upload a photograph of yourself everytime yo
920.
by smaudet 5y ago
But isn't the great thing about using the JVM supposed to be not using Java? Or at least the perf advantages it brings. Java has nice stuff today maybe but one could argue that it is primarily defending market share that caused Oracle
921.
by smaudet 5y ago
Also Java doesn't run on android? Not 17 anyway... I guess you could try to argue mobile is bad or something, but you get Kotlin not JDK on mobile. Yes, Clojure is probably better, but on the flip side as a developer knowing Java 8 and
922.
by smaudet 5y ago
It's not heavy, it's the syndrome where wild success gets you associated with the good and the bad. Enterprise Java is extremely slow, over-engineered, complex, that's where the majority of hate comes from. Then they had thei
923.
by smaudet 5y ago
We tried private ambulances and that is an ongoing disaster, what you are describing is a personal army or guard, look at history to see the plethora of problems with those... Not that Police are perfect, far from it, but I'd rather a
924.
by smaudet 5y ago
It only solves one problem, proof of work (or now I guess proof of stake). It doesn't solve the political issue(s), for this reason most everything going on is harmful nonsense... It could have been a part of a larger puzzle, but it&#x
925.
by smaudet 5y ago
The issue with most TDD or even BDD I have seen is that it is usually worthless... You end up testing that numbers came out of a function or that some thing was called, but it doesn't actually solve the real issue which is to get your
926.
by smaudet 5y ago
Its really not odd at all...this is how compilers work...we have been doing it forever. Microservices were a half baked solution to a non-problem, partly driven by corporate stupidity and charlotan 'security' experts - I'm su
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by smaudet 5y ago
Tech geeks forgot that pointy nosed bosses exist, y'know, the bad ones that seems to invariably hired for "accounting" reasons. The google of old might have been OK, but at this point its as tedious to hear that they are &quo
928.
by smaudet 5y ago
I just see a purple background?
929.
by smaudet 5y ago
As others have mentioned 'calculus' can mean one of five or six classes (I, II, III, advanced, diffyQ, probably more), basic differentiation is not hard, most of calc is some tricks a computer can learn or do better. At least to m
930.
by smaudet 5y ago
That sounds too connected - I like the idea of some sort pulseaudio network services but with better latency. I'd like to see pulseaudio with a better cross platform UI and a set of decentralized services versus introducing a single po

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