sverhagen

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by sverhagen 2y ago
It's a bit of a non-issue in this context. If you don't have a mono-repo, you should maintain reasonable consistency within each repository (and hope they're consistent between each other, but that's probably less impo
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by sverhagen 2y ago
There are plenty of Spring Boot starter dependencies that you can pull in to do some of the things you're mentioning. Can you say "install spring"? Yeah, I think so, there's the Initializer that comes in different modali
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by sverhagen 2y ago
You're embarrassing yourself as much as the article I was responding to by speaking in these absolutes. I have no doubt you worked on a ("huge") team that made all the wrong choices around Spring, or something like that, and
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by sverhagen 2y ago
The rise of a MacOS sort of monoculture certainly affected those developers that were still on Windows. It drove me off of Windows, a system that I otherwise appreciated just fine. I never cared much for MacOS, though, so I went to Linux, b
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by sverhagen 2y ago
I've had to do some maintenance on Rails apps in the past, coming from my Java background, and it was painful as hell. It's just what you're familiar with. I can take my Java and Spring Boot, both of which I'm very famil
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by sverhagen 2y ago
I worked at a place with great culture, where everyone on a team would have a say on decisions or could start and drive new initiatives that would get an ear from the team, TO A FAULT, and still people would turn around and ask for the prom
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by sverhagen 2y ago
Didn't Jon Oliver do a bit on those review boards, pointing out how friendly to fellow doctors they generally are? I think when someone says that we need "a (federal) review board", I think they mean one that works, one with
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by sverhagen 2y ago
Yeah, I could be wrong, but wasn't there one called just "Banner"? It would leverage the matrix printer's chained paper, and print the multi-page banners all the way through. I've never had such an experience anymor
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by sverhagen 2y ago
Yes, everything is downhill from the convenience. It's the most basics of things, if there's friction or obstacles, people will go around. And, boy, do companies put up some obstacles: Does your Intranet site not work with my pass
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by sverhagen 2y ago
It is stunning, indeed. Now, I was there a few days after this new area opened, to pick up some family, so I didn't go through the security check, but from a distance that part still looked like the same unwieldy bottleneck with the me
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by sverhagen 2y ago
Wouldn't Microsoft be scared to suffer the same faith, if this were to really happen?
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by sverhagen 2y ago
>bought Infowars and hired him back to keep doing his show So, if any, where's the value? In InfoWars, or with Jones? I.e., can't he just go into a new venture, or go onto someone's payroll?
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by sverhagen 2y ago
I've worked in highly autonomous and empowered teams that still root cause-analyzed every incident to death. The rationale being that if you'd get PagerDuty-ied in the middle of the night, it better be worth losing your sleep over
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by sverhagen 2y ago
I think that a lot of folks have never heard anything else but the testing pyramid, repeated over and over. I find them often very open to other ideas, in my case I've previously heard about the "testing trophy", and found wi
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by sverhagen 2y ago
This model ("mnemonic") feels like a good tool to reason about your testing strategy. I ran across the "testing trophy" in the past, which really changed my thinking already, having been indoctrinated with the testing py
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by sverhagen 2y ago
And yet, people focus endlessly on unit tests, pyramid in hand, saying things like: they're the best kind of test, or at least better than integration tests. It needs some maturity to articulate the nuances. And while I've tried,
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by sverhagen 2y ago
It's reportedly hard to get funding for ideas. Investors want to see a team that is strong enough to iterate through some ideas and pivots. It's not one perfect idea that becomes the product or the company. People actually are too
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by sverhagen 2y ago
It would be nice to understand what "can't" means in this context. Are they not technically able to achieve it (which may be overcome by bringing in other technical experts), is it a DNS issue (ha-ha), or is there a licensing
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by sverhagen 2y ago
This may not be legal, per the FAA.
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by sverhagen 2y ago
Probably the product people would argue that these stakeholders need to be better product-managed, while you seem to be thinking it needs more engineers... and now we're off to the races...
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by sverhagen 2y ago
Did you also try to oust the CEO of a multi-billion dollar juggernaut?
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by sverhagen 2y ago
I don't live my life entirely on the command line either, but GUIs for Docker are just an interesting niche to me, for which I just don't understand what the ven diagram is between people that want Docker containers running locall
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by sverhagen 2y ago
These emails are automated, so they can send them to many users, and only need a few to come back to make it profitable to do so. Also, the team that is responsible for these emails and for retention (or winning back defectors) may be its o
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by sverhagen 2y ago
"Best" and "quality product" by a certain metric, ka-ching. I assume that the leaked PDF lays out what the metrics are that matter to them, but the article kinda skipped over how it's a choice what to consider &quot
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by sverhagen 2y ago
Hence I said "I personally" and "already have familiar tools". Also, if you're fair... not all those AWS acronyms you're listing would be displaced by the single k8s cluster. (Maybe you weren't arguing to
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by sverhagen 2y ago
Yes, use boring technology, I'm all for that. But an application built in the high pressure environment of a startup also has the risk of becoming unmanageable, one or two years in. And to the extent you already have familiar tools to
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by sverhagen 2y ago
>We don't have access to any part of the planet below a depth of 2.5 miles Given how many miles I can travel over land or through the air, 2.5 miles _into_ the earth is amazingly shallow in similar ways to how the article already an
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by sverhagen 2y ago
This was my problem too. If there was a scoring system, it might make sense to buy letters against your score, to help you forward once you're stuck. I got stuck. What the heck goes between Volatile and Vole?
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by sverhagen 2y ago
Grading on a curve...
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by sverhagen 2y ago
I know nothing here, but isn't that also the difference: Meta is just trying out things, and can find that killer application later. Google meanwhile existentially feels that search must be the killer application, and tries to shoehorn

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