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by w4tson 8y ago
On the JVM you have the luxury of a third way which is Gradle. Convention over configuration, standardized builds but with flexibility if needed.
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by w4tson 8y ago
Flyway. It’s super light weight. Works out of the box with Spring Boot and you barely have to change your process. Just write sql scripts in a folder with a convention for the file name and away you go. The Java migrations are fairly handy
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by w4tson 8y ago
London, Community Fibre. Very similar company and expanding all the time. I tried their 1Gb service. It’s very impressive. £50 a month. No affiliation
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by w4tson 8y ago
Kotlin for me too. It’s like the pinched the cool bits from other languages to boost java. Plus the power of java ecosystem. The tooling is amazing because obviously it’s Jetbrains’ baby. Gradle are on board as are the android team. Spring
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by w4tson 8y ago
Your examples meet the criteria perfectly. There is a stable fixed palette of colour a to choose from, a lot of practice on the part of the painter and immediate feedback when the paint hits the canvas. Re: your points about business and no
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by w4tson 8y ago
The second (and sometimes much harder) part of each days problem is only revealed when you complete the first part.
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by w4tson 8y ago
You make it sound so easy. Part 2 was the real gnarly bit. Anyway I’m sure I won’t ever encounter that spiral as long as I live but if I do, I have code prepped for it :D
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by w4tson 8y ago
Me too, good to know ;)
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by w4tson 8y ago
Depending on your skills it may stretch you a lot. I did 2016 in rust and it was a battle, I knew relatively little beforehand. 2017 I solved in kotlin and got all the way to the end. I remember closing my laptop on Christmas Day and feelin
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by w4tson 8y ago
For day 3 in 2017, the spiral. Were you just aware of this concept before hand?
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by w4tson 8y ago
Well I didn’t know. But now I do, so thanks.
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by w4tson 8y ago
I usually picture a JavaScript front end engineer who’s moved into backend NodeJS and picked up some DB knowledge along the way
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by w4tson 8y ago
Sure. UK crackpot David Irving has been denying the holocaust since the 80s. There’s a drama on Netflix about him called Denial
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by w4tson 8y ago
You might want to read up on your Aesop’s fables ;)
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by w4tson 8y ago
Good talk. I thought it was interesting what you said about student principle because I have a counterpoint to it. Which is that not carving out time day to day to tackle tech debt (via sand bagging) means the treacle gets thicker and harde
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by w4tson 8y ago
Pretty sure it is. But if it was any less ridiculous I could have been convinced otherwise
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by w4tson 8y ago
Just curious, why not?
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by w4tson 8y ago
You got me there. It’s behind a paywall. I couldn’t read it. My opinion that 4 day week is a good thing for the UK still stands :)
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by w4tson 8y ago
Maybe people struggle because there’s always more work to do. And maybe people aren’t good at taking a break. Also, the 2 day weekend is an arbitrary construct. Plus think of all the millions more people volunteering, looking after their el
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by w4tson 8y ago
That looks very cool. The demo says it’s 2-way collaboration. How does that work with the terminal? Or rather how do you stop your colleague from going rogue at your command line before you can hit stop
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by w4tson 8y ago
We tried both Mountebank and Wiremock and opted for Wiremock as it had more features we needed. We run thousands of tests every time a developer commits and we see no problems using the Java API. We did run into an issue a small when we par
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by w4tson 8y ago
80% Maintaining. There was an article on HN. A while back about the value of maintainers over innovators. Keeping stuff ticking along is just as important and under valued (was the gist).
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by w4tson 8y ago
My fave: http://amiga.lychesis.net/game/ShadowOfTheBeast2/ShadowOfThe... Loved the music too! That game was one of the first I ever played. It was dark, extremely difficult but with mind blowing graphics. Even tho
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by w4tson 8y ago
I second this. Going to conferences works. My mind is usually wired for months after with all the things I want to investigate, try out and build
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by w4tson 8y ago
36 I’m way more distracted than I thought I finished Cal Newport’s Deep Work and even though I thought I could focus when I really needed to I realized that I’m kidding myself and I go to my phone habitually. I’ve also stopped using slack&
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by w4tson 8y ago
What if people’s fears are generated or exaggerated by a unaccountable minority leveraging unregulated tools, mining illegal data mixed with psychology for profit, power or both?
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by w4tson 8y ago
Garbo is referenced in one of my favorite David Bowie songs “Quicksand”. “I'm the twisted name on Garbo's eyes Living proof of Churchill's lies, I'm destiny”
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by w4tson 8y ago
This makes sense to me. I wonder how much the secret sauce comes into play. For example blowing a good/great engineer is one thing. But worse if they can apply some of the seemingly unique techniques google used to do engineering. I’m
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by w4tson 8y ago
Damien Hirst has dozens of technicians and they crank out paintings for him.
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by w4tson 8y ago
Yes! But it’s worse again. Because some bright spark comes along and says “hey there’s some commonality between these n services. I’ll make a shared library that will remove that duplicated code. Then before you know it there are a dozen mo

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