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by tcgv 6y ago
> For me it's not the exchange of information that causes system to become more sharp. It's poking that system with immensely huge stick built out of billions and billions tightly and sharply interacting particles that you have
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Sandboxing front-end apps from GitHub with Docker(thomasvilhena.com)
1 points by tcgv 6y ago|0 comments
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by tcgv 6y ago
About a year ago I started blogging, and wanted something really simple, flexible and that didn't require any sort of server/database maintenance. After some reasearch I decided to go with Jekyll + GitHub Pages, forked a theme tha
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by tcgv 6y ago
The concept of information hiding came a bit before that, almost 50 years ago, first being described in a paper by David L. Parnas entitled “On the Criteria to Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules”. I wrote a blog post earlier this y
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by tcgv 6y ago
You're in a delicate situation, since you'd be to blame for your co-workers potentially loosing their jobs. Nevertheless, doing nothing is also risky, since someone else from another department could show up and automate away your
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by tcgv 6y ago
Salaries are high because the supply of (skilled) software developers is low.
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by tcgv 6y ago
It's not that weird if you consider that a large chunk of software engineering is CRUD apps and digital plumbing, which doesn't require a lot of creativity. Nevertheless, I'm sure India, Ukraine and other countries have tons
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by tcgv 6y ago
My takeaway on Machiavelli's The Prince is that it is a diverse collection of ruling / governing practices he observed and recorded back in the 16th-century upon which he tries to extract lessons and learnings, similar to what we
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On the Architecture for Unit Testing(thomasvilhena.com)
1 points by tcgv 6y ago|0 comments
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by tcgv 7y ago
I tend to disagree, since I find SQL orders of magnitude more intuitive than regular expressions, having no problem picking it up once every couple of months without requiring to fallback on books or cheat sheets for implementing the majori
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by tcgv 7y ago
Great story. Thanks for sharing!
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by tcgv 7y ago
Any target really. Most of the comments so far are from professional/technical blogs, but if you're maintaining a consumer blog for a personal endeavour I'd be interested in knowing your experience as well.
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by tcgv 7y ago
Thanks for the availability! Took a look at your book's content table and it definitely resonates with my current position, transitioning from being hands on developer to leading a small, growing team of developers.
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by tcgv 7y ago
I have a simple theory on why it is hard to name classes ;) - https://thomasvilhena.com/2019/10/why-is-it-hard-to-name-cla...
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by tcgv 7y ago
> The scala job market is good and only getting better Do you think the market will still be favorable while the covid pandemic lasts? The OP said he has 10 months runway, and in normal times that would be more than sufficient to quit an
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Ask HN: In what unexpected ways has writing a blog affected your career?
50 points by tcgv 7y ago|22 comments
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by tcgv 7y ago
> the problem is not really that Google search was not understanding the meaning of the search term (...) Rather, it was a bit confused about what you are really searching for here. Maybe a comparison of shirts with and without stripes?
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by tcgv 7y ago
I'm a frequent user of SO, but I find leetcode [1] much better when I just want to practice coding / problem solving. Their free account is more than enough to have some fun ;) [1] https://leetcode.com/
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by tcgv 7y ago
> Because the "frontend" might be a native application that can't be updated on the fly and would break when the query changes out from under it. From my experience that would be an extremely naive decision to make: change
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by tcgv 7y ago
> As users accumulate plugins, it all becomes a giant, unmaintanable monolith that ends up unable to perform even the most basic tasks I agree that most of the time it's best to give users only one way of doing things, so that they
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by tcgv 7y ago
Great satire! haha There should be one of these videos for reactive programming as well. Misuse of observable pattern can quite quickly turn an app into a mess, making code navigation / minor change requests a nightmare.
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by tcgv 7y ago
Interesting, last year I wrote a blog post on this subject and it seems pretty in line with Slack's approach :) In regards to deployment monitoring, besides "error monitoring", I would also add "Health Monitoring" a
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by tcgv 7y ago
From the article it seems their deployment relies on moving application binaries to an installation directory within the VM instead of running container images.
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by tcgv 7y ago
Yes, until mass immunization happens, I think it'd be consistent with an increasing number of deaths. Social isolation/quarantine measures would also possibly take more time to take effect for reducing new confirmed cases/dea
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by tcgv 7y ago
You're right. The degree of uncertainty is still too high, we don't even have a figure on the percentage of asymptomatic cases. Lockdown/quarantine measures right now seem in line with the old saying "hope for the best,
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by tcgv 7y ago
Surprising info from that thread's article indeed, if confirmed: > A total of 130 of 166 new infections (78%) identified in the 24 hours to the afternoon of Wednesday 1 April were asymptomatic (...) > China is rigorously testing
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by tcgv 7y ago
The problem, I believe, is that until we have a vaccine there's always the risk of new infection waves popping up from asymptomatic cases in high density population centers. That's why I'm unsure about how slow this "re-
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Ask HN: Pandemic – What's gonna happen next?
4 points by tcgv 7y ago|8 comments
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by tcgv 7y ago
So, from a CS point of view, I guess instead of comparing DNA to procedurally executed machine code we should be comparing it to the source code of a set of classes, which once instantiated produces specific proteins that perform all sorts
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by tcgv 7y ago
> Is a virus a living thing? Maybe. I remember 20 year ago, at school, when the biology teacher was presenting this dilemma. Ever since, when I hear someone saying "doing this will kill the virus", it triggers my brain into thi

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