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by steven777400 11y ago
This is a pretty neat idea. It seems like it would be a lot harder to reason about than REST endpoints. I'm particularly thinking about validation (beyond the type-level, like when other data could conflict with a change) and security
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by steven777400 11y ago
The arguments the article lays out in favor of testing early autonomous vehicles as campus shuttles are compelling, and the reasons against not nearly so. We expect a driver to provide certain services only because they happen to be there;
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by steven777400 11y ago
I had the same thought, combined with a mental visualization of the hands in that position. I think it might be something in the wording of the sentence...
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by steven777400 11y ago
I shouldn't have said always and never. .. how about "most of the time"?
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by steven777400 11y ago
Great devs never apply for any job using the traditional job application (except maybe as an after-the-fact HR formality); they are always recommended and hand picked by their network. As a intermediate (after so many years, should I just r
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by steven777400 11y ago
Many airlines have policies against hand-flying the airplane. Like the discussion with self-driving cars; the computer is much safer overall to fly than a human pilot. However, the failure modes of the computer don't resemble the fai
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by steven777400 11y ago
It was the last interview of the day, and I was tired and had already decided I was almost certainly going to decline any offer, if given. So, honestly, I probably said it with a little bit of an edge and that was inappropriate on me. Neve
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by steven777400 11y ago
I'm a developer for a large organization and every year or two I snag a laptop on the way out of the bottom of the replacement cycle. When I have it out people sometimes come by and are shocked, "You're a developer, what are
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by steven777400 11y ago
As a candidate, I feel that it is fair to stand up for this as well. If the interviewer wants psuedocode, I'm happy to whiteboard it. But I've been whiteboarding before and had the interviewer say, "that code wouldn't
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by steven777400 11y ago
Not OP but I did my MS so I could teach at the college level. Along the way, I did learn a lot that continues to benefit me now, 10 years later. I'd recommend an MS to anyone in the field who wants to learn more about the underpinning
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by steven777400 11y ago
Thanks. We have a lot of that issue of "hire contractors to build, then use FTEs to maintain". I try to push back where I can because contractors that know up-front that they won't have to support the system are often not in
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by steven777400 11y ago
I work for the government (and perhaps more significantly, have never worked as a developer outside of government), so it's difficult for me to understand the ideas and concerns promoted here. Just as in private industry (according to
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by steven777400 11y ago
I actually enjoy going to interviews (and performing them). I'm less likely to switch jobs because of a perceived increased risk. I'm at a place with a good manager, good workload, and lots of stability. If I make a change (say
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by steven777400 11y ago
Yes absolutely. I don't say "no functional constructs" nor does anyone else here that I know of. However, composite LINQ statements, especially involving aggregation can and do become confusing. Obviously it's a judgm
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by steven777400 11y ago
That's the management decision in the article. And I make the same decision. We're not an organization that attracts nor hires rockstars (or, as you say, 10x coders). We have a couple really sharp folks but are predominately st
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by steven777400 11y ago
GitHub has to have revenue to continue to operate. I'd rather GitHub go down the road of enterprise and other paid contracts, rather than going down the road of becoming SourceForge and all the ickiness that that entailed.
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by steven777400 11y ago
I wouldn't be so sure. I run Google apps on Android, and although I'm not sure the situation has gotten worse, it definitely hasn't gotten better. I can concur that navigation will crash without warning mid-route, maps will
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by steven777400 11y ago
I respectfully disagree with your claim that replacing ' with '' will complete the security. Reason: there are non-string cases, so there exists concatenations like: "WHERE SomeNumber = " + inputValue + " ...
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by steven777400 11y ago
No. I'm disclaiming that although I've never worked on anything where lives are on the line, in my experience, having management ignore, yet understanding, warnings is commonplace. I then cited two anecdotes where warnings had b
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by steven777400 11y ago
To be fair, it would be a lot of work to fix the backend. The SQL is dynamically generated for every request, and the code that does so is thousands of lines long, with nested subroutines that construct sub-portions of the query, so there
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by steven777400 11y ago
Nothing I've worked on has been nearly to this scale, but having management understand and ignore warnings is commonplace. Just today, I pointed out that a backend web service system for an important (HR) function was so insecure that
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by steven777400 11y ago
Platforms such as Java or .NET make up a lot of the developer community, just not the visible (startup/tech) community. I'm classified as a "senior developer" at my day job ($90K/year) and I also do contracting ($6
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by steven777400 11y ago
The other question is where and how you're doing your recruitment. There are a lot of "under the radar" developers who work primarily for non-tech companies in a tech role. These folks are not rockstars, but many are compet
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by steven777400 11y ago
Even having the drives may not mitigate issues of that kind. A variety of articles [0] describe unexpectedly (well, to consumers at least) short lifespans on CD-Rs. Lots of CD drives are still around, but you might be unpleasently surpris
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by steven777400 11y ago
I agree that banks and other high value targets still assume that attackers somehow "play by the rules". I got a call not too long (maybe a year ago) from someone claiming to be with my bank. Their first line was, "To verif
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by steven777400 11y ago
I wouldn't claim to know anything specific about your situation, but I'll say that I'm in the same boat (albeit by intention). In order to break six figures, you'll probably need to work for a tech company (Amazon, Micr
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by steven777400 11y ago
"Self driving" cars which require a human to be ready to take over are totally plausible in that time frame... But are you suggesting that in 5 years a person can summon an autonomous taxi in the Bay area? By autonomous car I mea
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by steven777400 11y ago
This kind of capability will be very beneficial in making web apps behave more like a first-class native application. For example, I frequently "send" an SMS when I have no service knowing it will be processed later when the netw
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by steven777400 11y ago
The net benefit and multiple direction things are what makes it particularly frustrating. I wouldn't mind as much a new technology/technique/framework/etc if it were a clear, direct, step and meaningfully better than wh
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by steven777400 11y ago
Employee morale must be terrible. Even worse is the idea that a significant improvement will come from "eliminating employee perks like free food and company iPhones", which are a tiny fraction of the total cost of an employee, b

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