void_mint

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by void_mint 5y ago
> Certain elements of successs are best deployed by actually showing up in person. Sure, but how does that relate to video calls? They are by definition not in person, camera or not.
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by void_mint 5y ago
> Generally, I would agree, but I've seen cases where it mattered, because the value of a feature would become 0 after a set date. For instance, we needed a specific feature to fulfill the requirements for a (massive) contract As I
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by void_mint 5y ago
This is just handwaved nonsense. You're telling me that prior to video calls, people didn't cultivate relationships on non-video phonecalls? Just total nonsense.
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by void_mint 5y ago
> Of course, the above happens when you're in a market that requires estimates as a part of BOMs, which is a lot like bidding on projects and is just a race to the bottom for the most part. Yeah this, to me, totally invalidated the
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by void_mint 5y ago
Hardware and life science projects usually have more time to research and prepare than the hour of weekly estimation provided by silly agile orgs. Also, how frequently do hardware and life science projects go far over budget and under scope
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by void_mint 5y ago
> Except for when potential clients ask your company: "How much would implementing a system to do X cost?" And what do estimates provide here, that sales just picking a number doesn't? Estimates are made up numbers. They&#
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by void_mint 5y ago
> When prioritizing, it's not always obvious which items are big vs small. Why does the size of the work that needs to get done matter? If you need it you need it. If you don't, you don't. If you want a fast fix, note it.
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by void_mint 5y ago
> The simple truth It's not simple at all. Sure, you cannot replace an in-person experience with an online experience with no other changes. But why would you? You can't replace a car ride with a motorcycle, but you can absolut
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by void_mint 5y ago
> We need to be able to see each other in the eye. This isn't what happens during webcam meetings. If you're looking at the camera (to try and provide eye contact), you're not able to see anyone looking back at you. > M
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by void_mint 5y ago
> I would be interested how you can get management to let go of regular estimations, They have to convince themselves.
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by void_mint 5y ago
Don't estimate. They don't matter and nobody cares about them anyway. If you're a sales driven/feature factory company, the estimates won't matter anyway as you'll demand to meet your obligations regardless of
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by void_mint 5y ago
I love Prolog and I love Postgres.
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by void_mint 5y ago
Because if you followed this logic there would be many lifetimes of things to pay attention to, most of which are just noise surrounding topics you find valuable.
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by void_mint 5y ago
> Yes, it's serious for _most devs_ who have code that could run on k8s: back-end devs What an impactful little nuance to leave out of all previous conversation :) > And _most_ devs who touch anything in FE, mobile apps, IoT, DB
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by void_mint 5y ago
> Most devs have to know the commands and configuration to do rolling deployments on the target infrastructure, fetch logs, how the readiness protocoll integrates with automatic restarts, ingress, etc. Is this serious? You think _most de
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by void_mint 5y ago
> Not sure I agree to be honest. I don't think most developers should know how to run K8s, but I think most developers should know how to run their code on K8s. This is silly. Most devs have too many other things they know they don&
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by void_mint 5y ago
> It was obvious to me from the beginning that GraphQL would add overhead and complexity on the backend; Did you read the article? Most of the issues weren't related to GraphQL, they were just Node issues/optimizations. > I
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by void_mint 5y ago
Most people involved in tech, including most devs, shouldn't need to know/care about Kubernetes. The reason anyone thinks otherwise is the massive amounts of marketing money vested parties have pumped into sales (read: DevRel&#x2F
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by void_mint 5y ago
> In short: Congress wants to bring crypto-currencies under full oversight and control. Good!
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by void_mint 5y ago
> The main problem I see over and over with E2E tests is that they keep people from getting good at unit tests. The E2E are a magical security blanket that covers over all of the mistakes you’ve made leading up to them. Either alone is i
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by void_mint 5y ago
Fly.io is doing amazing things. I'm really impressed with their work. If any of the Fly.io people read this, my hat's off to you.
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by void_mint 5y ago
> Then why do you start running forward instantly when you press “W” in counterstrike or quake? Why not just deploy servers closer to users? You do both? Game client handles movements and writes game state changes to a server, which shou
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by void_mint 5y ago
It's the treadmill of solving previously thought to be unsolvable problems. Each step is going to be more "See it's impossible", until it's not.
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by void_mint 5y ago
Putting sensitive information about children on the internet, in the hands of a major corporation (a gaming company, no less). What could go wrong?
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by void_mint 5y ago
You linked two pages with practically no data. I'll paste all relevant data from both to save others the trouble. > Scuttlebutt can be transformative for society, decentralizing and enabling local community development free of big c
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by void_mint 5y ago
Rebuilding in a different language is just trading one problem set for another. Better using the tools you've already taken on is a much better strategy if you don't have the money to hire a whole new set of devs or a year to burn
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by void_mint 5y ago
> I think also the process to get support is part of what causes the loss of patience. This exactly. In my city, Comcast's phone support is nothing more than "Did you restart your modem? We'll send out a tech", which
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by void_mint 5y ago
> It's almost like there's something cultural happening in America that's making everyone assume the worst when interacting with people they don't know... I would probably compare it moreso to just the abysmal state o
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by void_mint 5y ago
> Yes, but without the word "play" (because you can't play it without paying for it), You can play any F2P game without paying for it. > it becomes "free to", which doesn't make any sense, or if you DO pa
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by void_mint 5y ago
> Do you not see how the argument that vaccines are about "pillaging minorities" makes no sense? The argument is about government distrust. I'll skip the rest of your post.

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