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by strken 2y ago
> If you get a task to change the password creation rules, do you honestly expect people other than you to remember that code is in the createUser function and not the valid password function?? I don't expect anyone to remember wher
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by strken 2y ago
It is definitely not clearer to me. I have no idea what happens in the `validatePassword` function. Does it make a synchronous network call that will stop the world for half a second? Does it throw an exception, or return an error object?
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by strken 2y ago
What do you want out of your junior engineers? What is the actual skill, talent, or trait? I don't think GPA, take-home assignments plus an interview about them, personality tests, or on-location tests like leetcode or architecture int
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by strken 2y ago
In theory, yes; in practice, the native libraries and tools that most JS developers used to use were stable, widely used, and well tested. Think pg, hash functions, POSIX basics like cp if they didn't need to build on windows, V8 and n
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by strken 2y ago
Sorry, I think we might be talking across each other. I am saying from the perspective of someone who is already using a full Node.js environment , adding Rust must necessarily increase complexity. I am taking this perspective because in t
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by strken 2y ago
I really don't think the problem is JavaScript in all these cases. I've seen codebases using webpack where the JS was being run through babel twice in a row, because webpack is a complicated nuisance and nobody on the team had got
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by strken 2y ago
I've rewritten it for clarity: "While the skeptics stall in decision making, newcomers will not think twice about rewriting software on a smaller budget as an experiment. Then management will decide to choose the cheapest option a
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by strken 2y ago
It's definitely more of a pain to figure out rustup than to use the Node.js environment that's already installed. As noted in the article, you can quite literally go edit the source of your NPM packages without downloading or comp
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by strken 2y ago
One of my friends decided to change his job title from "technical project manager" to "solutions architect" for the sole purpose of sales. He and the boss agreed that it sounded more impressive to the clients we were goi
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by strken 2y ago
I find these articles go a bit too far in their rhetoric. This one alleges that the most important factor is that "senior engineers remain humble and curious". Really? Is that what you're looking for in a job interview? You&#
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by strken 2y ago
It would be interesting to try the opposed but similar strategy of finishing absolutely everything but half-arsing the stuff I don't care about. Might give more psychological closure, prevent me giving up, and could yield good results
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by strken 2y ago
In Australia you can get a 3x2m awning from Bunnings for $300[0] and install it yourself in a couple of hours. I'd be surprised if Lowe's in the US didn't have something for the same price, although they've apparently de
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by strken 2y ago
It sounds like it's a mixed bag. It'll be quite difficult to transition to renewables before storage projects like Snowy Hydro 2.0 are complete, and an increased service life really just means an increased service life before we
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by strken 2y ago
In general I agree with you, but in the specific case of loop variables, how much code do you need to search through? How big is your loop if you need to reach for rg to understand it?
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by strken 2y ago
I stopped drinking for a while and then started again. "Going sober" makes it sound like an ordeal involving Alcoholics Anonymous and significant lifestyle change, but I was originally drinking less than once a week anyway. Person
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by strken 2y ago
At some point, most of your engineering time is spent on trying to understand what the previous team did. There's probably some engineer at Zendesk banging his head on the table because his boss wouldn't let him fix the sequential
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by strken 2y ago
I don't know about Californian beaches, but I know in Australia there's been a significant attempt to replant native grasses in erosion zones and maintain the dunes. The article describes this. What do you mean by "solutions
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by strken 2y ago
For obvious reasons you probably can't put a patient under general anaesthetic before giving them either the placebo or the drug, but I wonder what would happen if you did. Does a patient have to be awake to see the antidepressant effe
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by strken 2y ago
In my experience, most people who struggle with WFH lack specific material things like space, a quiet home, a schedule anchored by the presence of loved ones who live nearby and a functioning community which they're a part of, good men
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by strken 2y ago
IC is usually meant in contrast to manager, meaning ICs are the engineers without anyone reporting to them. The difference between "not a manager" and "working on their own part of the code" is important when you're
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by strken 2y ago
I think a lot of people genuinely believe that transwomen are grooming and raping children en masse, or at least trying to get into women's sport so they can win medals. The fact that this is both wrong and stupid and has no real non-c
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by strken 2y ago
I'm likewise confused. It seems like you could machine something more effective in about an hour out of a hydraulic shop press and some steel, and it's not like drug users are averse to buying drugs in bags. Also, as far as I know
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by strken 2y ago
I think making a game engine is less like making your own knives and more like having a herb garden at a restaurant. There are some games that are just not possible using someone else's engine. Consider Factorio, non-Euclidean geometry
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by strken 2y ago
Why would that be true? You can do facial recognition on very low resolution photographs that wouldn't be easily recognisable to a human: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02628.
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by strken 2y ago
Yes, though there's no "just" about it in many cases. If you kick the client out at an early enough stage in processing that the shed requests are only 1% as costly, then 3x retries aren't going to be able to cause a sig
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by strken 2y ago
Yeah, sorry, I meant that I was confused by the brief mention where it was removed from consideration. I would have thought that if the team were planning to implement deadline propagation on the server anyway, they'd reach for load sh
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by strken 2y ago
I don't understand why load shedding wasn't considered here. My experience has been that it's so effective at making a system recover properly that everything else feels like it's handling an edge case.
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by strken 2y ago
If I say "it's good to go running a few times a week", do I need to provide alternate advice for people with no legs? Or if I say "a low-sodium diet is healthier", do I need to specify that if you're getting cr
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by strken 2y ago
I wish more people gave their books away slowly during their lives, instead of all at once upon their death. It's a much nicer way to inherit them and it lets you share the experience with the inheritors.
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by strken 2y ago
The problem here is not selling data transfer, it's that the pricing page says "15GB Bandwidth / mo" when it's selling data transfer.

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