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by urthor 5y ago
All that, and you never mentioned Log4J
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by urthor 5y ago
Both you and the author can simultaneously be right though. The answer is to reduce the cost of education. The price of education is far cheaper in so many other countries. America's just a shit hole.
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by urthor 5y ago
It's more of a case that bad science was made, rather than "this type of science is bad." Toyota and GM have had widespread vehicle recalls in recent types. I wouldn't put that down to "4 wheeled transportation dev
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by urthor 5y ago
Essentially. Limited horizontal replication is not the same as PAXOS.
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by urthor 5y ago
I disagree, insofar in that qualitative social science is ineffective. It's effective. Nobody listens. The fallacy of "general management" means that general managers, who have a background in finance and cost/benefit,
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by urthor 5y ago
It's also that, in the past, the capacity of our monoliths to scale was far lower. There's many apps that need say, a 100GB database in 2022. Those apps also needed 100GB database in 2007, when horizontal scaling was the hottest
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by urthor 5y ago
Strongly disagree about it being (successful) resume driven development mostly. Most developer's resumes would be vastly enhanced by delivering a lean, technically successful product to end users, or 5. A lot of developers think playin
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by urthor 5y ago
Dagster/Prefect are the alternatives. But yes, I'm confused. Triggering a dag and having it exit based on complex logic is a perfectly normal pattern.
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by urthor 5y ago
What you're missing is that for much of enterprise software before Airflow, everything was steaming rubbish . Airflow is... not amazing. But by the standards of horrible enterprise software we've all been subjected to, it'
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by urthor 5y ago
The criticism of OO is more Java and Gang of 4 related than anything. Two things get the enterprise devs of the mid 2000s going: Badmouthing Oracle. And complaining about refactoring someone's mess of an abstract factory. Especially I
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by urthor 5y ago
It's not so much that running a forum is difficult. But anyone who launches a forum today is competing with the large, metaforum platforms like Reddit and Facebook and Discord. It's just too difficult to assemble a userbase.
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by urthor 5y ago
One of the most interesting things about hardware vs software is the barrier to entry. Hardware intellectual property has an insane number of working parts and "factors" (electrical resistance, photo-lithography, metal layers, sil
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by urthor 5y ago
Keep in mind that you have a very America centric viewpoint. Judging by your mention of CVS Pharmacies at least. American police are hot, smelly garbage. Most other countries have much more intelligent and professional police forces. What
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by urthor 5y ago
Because communication is two track. Like how film has picture and sound synced, communication has the message & the mood. Text is mono. It has a lot of advantages. Text is an asynchronous, information dense, machine parsable, parallel
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by urthor 5y ago
Ah. The more you know I guess. I assumed they went in for platinum enterprise grade support contracts and the like, only. Or else they got contractors to make them software that they owned.
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by urthor 5y ago
Brazil is the beachhead in many ways. Huge market, easier to sort out all the employment stuff because it's a path that's much more well trodden. If you still want to get an edge these days, you have to be prepared to go to the g
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by urthor 5y ago
Oh well that's fine. My brain just operates very strictly as: Junior = apprentice, first job or similar. Mid = journeyman, "worked another job before". Independent, trusted to be delegated to for specific things, but doesn&#
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by urthor 5y ago
I think the assumption here is that this is a Hackernews thread about someone asking how to make their startup succeed. Therefore, I wrote the post with some sort of assumption that OP is the technical founder. Hence OP is supplying the s
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by urthor 5y ago
That's exactly what happened with Twitter. It was at a company named Odeo. But yes, I think you can have two high quality employees make good software? I mean they're employees, you're going to give them marching orders to
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by urthor 5y ago
Oh well yes I agree. There are problems that genuinely take more people. That said, Palo Alto Semiconductor was hardware, which has a far higher barrier to entry than software engineering does/can.
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by urthor 5y ago
I imagine the answer to that is, I've simply never heard of the US government buying from a software vendor with less than 500 employees. Surely it never happens?
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by urthor 5y ago
I'm sure you can be elastic with the mids depending on how much AWS there is to configure or some-such. 2 juniors in a startup is a bit, probably not the right thing. You'll run out of junior work surely? The "two good ones
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by urthor 5y ago
Oh, I could be wrong on the number. It's extremely low though, certainly in the teens. As a person they're very opinionated about not working for a "product company." And have worked at the same company their entire tec
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by urthor 5y ago
Well, I mean I don't want to judge all startups. In fact if you take any of this offhand advice as gospel, well I wouldn't. Maybe I should have scattered "probably" and "often" about the place. 1: -------------
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by urthor 5y ago
There's a reason all those consultants went general though isn't there? Historically speaking, building your practice as a specialist consultant is difficult. It works for certain niches only.
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by urthor 5y ago
It works. These days the secret is you have to hire the good South Americans. Exploit the fact corporate America hasn't caught on to routing contracts through Upwork et al. Then don't get greedy, keep the TCE delta below 20%, so
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by urthor 5y ago
They don't advertise to consumers. They have an enormous B2B sales team. Sales reps are for B2B, not B2C. Generally speaking, business to business customers expect a certain amount of investment from your company into integrating with
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by urthor 5y ago
I count myself as someone surprised at Julia's success. As a replacement for Python, I've never understood the appeal, and it's probably not going to fill that niche. Still, as a replacement for Matlab/Mathematica, it&#
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by urthor 5y ago
The compensation is not just financial is how I would put it. The compensation for working in those fields is often that you're working alongside other smart people, in a situation where your work is highly valued. The money is just a
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It's kind of the opposite. Highly intelligent people are most productive when they are tackling problems they enjoy. You cannot just order them around and tell them to go tackle climate change or whatever. As long as they enjoy tackli

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