solatic

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by solatic 10y ago
Switching frameworks for any large system is non-trivial not so much for the technical effort necessary but for the political effort. For any large enough system (if it were small, you could make changes and nobody would care), you're
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by solatic 10y ago
OP's argument, boiled down, is the following: 1) Behavior needs to be automatically checked 2) To check behavior, you can either write tests or specify types 3) Tests are more flexible than the type systems of popular languages (e.g. t
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by solatic 10y ago
Chaos Monkey is sort of like Advanced Continuous Deployment. Most shops are still struggling with the basics. You cant even think of trying to sell this running to the C-level until you've proven that you can at least walk (automated
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by solatic 10y ago
There's an axiom of software engineering that any sufficiently large system (or, I suppose, algorithm) is incomprehensible by a single person. That's to say, a single person may be a high-level architect and understand how the hig
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by solatic 10y ago
> we use the GPU to render the image, compress it to a .png (about 100KB) and send it to the browser as a tile. This allows for lightning fast rendering and the perception by the user that all of this data is actually in their browser. W
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by solatic 10y ago
I worked for a boss once who essentially engineered this kind of problem to exist: he knew not having automated testing etc. was a problem, and instead of asking his (too junior) programmers to build up a test suite, he decided to let them
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by solatic 10y ago
Getting rid of street parking hurts people with handicapped permits. In Israel, if you are eligible for a handicapped permit then you can get a street parking space in front of your apartment building reserved for your car (with signage say
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by solatic 10y ago
But most of the Middle East and Africa aren't wired up well enough to begin with let alone have strong entrepreneurial cultures to push for local cloud adoption. Israel has a booming startup culture, they just all must use European clo
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by solatic 10y ago
There is STILL no AWS region in Israel. All Internet traffic in and out of Israel goes through three undersea cables connecting the country with Turkey, Greece, and Italy, and as such suffer from the kind of lag that happens when you'r
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by solatic 10y ago
You're missing the point where you have a flexible, schemaless design while you're specing out the service and seeing if it's even necessary, viable, and will be needed for a long time for a long-lived system. Properly encodi
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by solatic 10y ago
It's not really surprising that good programmers are often also good at legal drafting. When you're a programmer, you understand that the processor is dumb and has to be guided through absolutely everything. If you don't fact
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by solatic 10y ago
There are a number of instances where this kind of tax system becomes absolutely regressive: 1) You will force people out of their homes after a certain point. By delaying the payment on the taxes until sale, after some number of decades th
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by solatic 10y ago
Tight vs loose coupling is not a new concept. You can write a monolith with bounded-context components which are loosely coupled to each other with an eye towards possibly putting those bounded contexts in different containers in the future
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by solatic 10y ago
The market will show that all-in-one box solutions are the best solutions for new companies. When you're a new startup and you're trying to race to an MVP and being default-alive, what do you really want to do? Do you really want
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by solatic 10y ago
I can't believe I had to scroll this far down to find someone bringing this up. I work for a boss that went to a management school where they taught him a "retain/improve" method: first tell people which behavior they sh
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by solatic 10y ago
Agreed on the workflow problem. The pain of using a DSLR has less to do with the form factor (size and weight) and more to do with the fact that the post-shot work is stuck a decade in the past. And I think that's true even if you&#x27
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by solatic 10y ago
But VR costs way more than $500, because the true cost is not just the VR headset itself but a new high-end graphics card to drive it. After the headset, the graphics card(s), and a couple of the few VR games that are out, you're easil
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by solatic 10y ago
You all need to understand... in the age of the Internet, every governmental body which deals with computers under any veil of secrecy/classification inevitably uses that veil of secrecy or classification to break the law. Every. Singl
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by solatic 10y ago
Because shipping features is king. When a single vendor ships many products, those products are more likely to work well together than with products from other vendors because they were built under the same roof. Better integration = saving
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by solatic 10y ago
Automated serialization is the devil. Gson and Jackson require you to write EJB-style objects to get automatic serialization - default constructors, with getters and setters for each field - to achieve automatic serialization. The problem w