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by taylodl 2y ago
Those are all logical fallacies. I've been developing software for 40 years, yet there are still times when people who've only been developing software for 5 years or less have better ideas. One secret to surviving in this field f
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by taylodl 2y ago
Let's leave aside whether this statement is true or not. The US Constitution provides mechanisms for dealing with a rogue president, such as impeachment and the 25th Amendment. It is Congress's responsibility to act on these provi
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by taylodl 2y ago
Bob Martin was the first to use the terms covariant/contravariant in the context of software development, as far as I'm aware. Using this precise language borrowed from mathematics at once clarifies both the problem and the soluti
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by taylodl 2y ago
A big issue with TDD is people don't know how to write tests. People tend to write covariant tests where if details of the implementation changes, then the tests fail, even if the code is working correctly. These tests are easy to writ
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by taylodl 2y ago
> liberal arts academia Which is where one studies physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, amongst many other such studies. Here's how STEM tends to break down at universities: S - College of Liberal Arts T - College of
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by taylodl 2y ago
I'm not suggesting anything - I'm learning! Thanks!
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by taylodl 2y ago
This is a false dichotomy. It's neither brilliant nor terrible. I could imagine their descendants 50, 100 or more years in the future being interested in what their thoughts were on recent events, what they thought of family, and stuff
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by taylodl 2y ago
This administration has adopted a blitzkrieg approach, fully aware that our system of checks and balances requires time to respond. Their apparent goal is to inflict as much damage as possible before legal challenges can be mounted. Notably
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by taylodl 2y ago
This is the info I was looking for! Thanks!
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by taylodl 2y ago
Curious - how do you launch your products? How are you handling marketing? What's your source of revenue?
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by taylodl 2y ago
Americans are emigrating in record numbers due to the perceived chaos and instability under the leadership of Trump and Musk. The lack of effective intervention from Congress has left many feeling hopeless about the immediate future. With t
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by taylodl 2y ago
> His father is a software engineering manager at Google already Maybe everybody who's been denied employment at Google, and met all of Google's hiring requirements, should sue Google for nepotism, eh?
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by taylodl 2y ago
Why would you expect coherent answers from someone incapable of coherent thought? How would that even be possible?
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by taylodl 2y ago
I remember people talking about the impending death of COBOL 43 years ago. Are we going to talk about the impending death of C for the next 40+ years, too?
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by taylodl 2y ago
Whether it's foolish or not, it's not my decision. There are three groups in an organization that'll have a significant impact to your solution approach: - Legal - Cybersecurity - Enterprise Architecture You can influence the
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by taylodl 2y ago
While 'Move fast and break things' might work for startups, it's not a suitable approach for national governance. It seems some people missed the real lesson of the Humpty Dumpty story: once something is broken, it can be ver
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by taylodl 2y ago
Our corporate lawyers say otherwise. The laws applying to data at rest is determined by the jurisdiction where the data is physically stored. That's why we couldn't use GCP for years. Google would never guarantee your data would o
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by taylodl 2y ago
You're welcome to come to ours, since you're so enamored with this corruption. Mark my words, this is all about corruption and nothing about savings.
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by taylodl 2y ago
I clicked thru to read what is it about FreeBSD that makes it better for embedded systems programming. What I got was a rant against the GPL. That tells me nothing to why I should use FreeBSD for my next project. The BSD vs. GPL "war&q
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by taylodl 2y ago
> The lack of any response from Europe or the US beyond some angry words led him to draw an entirely rational conclusion: that the Western alliance would not pose a serious threat to his military conquests. That's one way to say i
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by taylodl 2y ago
DOGE is not comprised of individuals having accounting experience, certainly not at the level needed to investigate federal spending. They have absolutely no idea what they're doing and so it's not surprising they've resorted
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by taylodl 2y ago
The ends don't justify the means in a Constitutional Republic
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by taylodl 2y ago
What large entities do Musk and his crew have experience with auditing? None? Musk and his crew have no clue what they're doing, and they have no experience doing it. Only a fool would believe anything they say on the matter.
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by taylodl 2y ago
It just got unflagged? I didn't know an article could get unflagged.
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by taylodl 2y ago
It's only been 18 minutes. Usually takes 30 minutes to get flagged.
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by taylodl 2y ago
Many people I know aren't buying squat that they don't need. If they know they're going to need something over the next six months, then the time to buy is now. Everyone knows prices are rising, everyone knows Trump'
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by taylodl 2y ago
There's a huge difference between spending $10 at Chick-fil-A and spending $50K on a Tesla. Automobiles are the second most expensive item people purchase. They think a little more about that purchase than they do a chicken sandwich. I
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by taylodl 2y ago
You will say what the bully demands you to say or face the consequences. But no, this isn't a dictatorship. Not at all.
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Didn't you hear the news? No laws or regulations apply to the executive branch any longer. Anything they do is, by their estimation, legal. </s>
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They probably caught wind of a bad jobs report upcoming and so they're trying to cover it up with mass federal layoffs and say that's the reason it's bad. That would be par for the course for these people, wouldn't it?

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