wandernotlost

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by wandernotlost 10y ago
It sounds like they didn't design for the cloud and are now experiencing the consequences. The cloud has different tradeoffs and performance characteristics from a datacenter. If you plan for that, it's great. Your software will b
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by wandernotlost 10y ago
Thank you for the substantive summary. These click-bait headlines make me want to tune out entirely.
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by wandernotlost 10y ago
This is a bit overly simplistic. There are lots of bad ways to develop software, and a few good ways. Placing yourself in a vacuum with "good people" who insist on starting from scratch without learning from the failures and succe
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by wandernotlost 10y ago
Thanks for your comments! > I don't see how "promiscuous pairing" helps with most of them. Maybe you should try it! The "promiscuous" part transfers context and knowledge around more quickly, and gives more oppor
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by wandernotlost 10y ago
I do consulting, so I work with a lot of different teams of various sizes and configurations. The best teams tend to pair close to 100% of the time and generally have 4-10 developers. Fewer than that makes it difficult to swap around, mix p
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by wandernotlost 10y ago
While I value many of the same things as the author, I've found code reviews to be far inferior in every respect to pairing (especially promiscuous pairing (google it)), and to have negative effects in several important ways: * The
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by wandernotlost 11y ago
This obsession with "clean" history seems to me nothing short of insanity. Source control has one job: to record the history of code in order to be aid in figuring out what happened when things go wrong. If everything always went
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by wandernotlost 11y ago
Seems pretty reasonable that a phone with contents protected by a fingerprint sensor would have measures to prevent tampering with the fingerprint sensor.
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Should I Optimize? (EC2 vs. Programmer Time)(shouldioptimize.com)
4 points by wandernotlost 11y ago|0 comments
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by wandernotlost 11y ago
This is an amusingly familiar argument. As a consultant, I see so many companies–small startups and big companies alike–wasting weeks and months of time on wasteful work because of this strong bias against "wasting time" to coordi
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by wandernotlost 12y ago
I'm surprised by the ridiculously broad conclusion (headline) based on the narrow conditions of the experiment and how little emphasis was placed on the factors that lead to success. It's no surprise that work that's extremel
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FedEx Tech Manager(fedex.com)
3 points by wandernotlost 12y ago|0 comments
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by wandernotlost 13y ago
So basically, Amazon is making new businesses so efficient, they're putting old businesses out of business. So if you're an old business, you should avoid using Amazon's tech to be more like a new business, because...Amazon m
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by wandernotlost 13y ago
As someone who has been living in NYC and is currently considering what state in which to register an LLC, I feel like the sub-$1000 difference filing in NYC would make to my registration is barely a factor. If you're trying to do busi
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by wandernotlost 13y ago
Please devote all this mathematical brilliance to measuring the folks like me who NEVER RETURN TO YOUR SITE because proposing a relationship on my first anonymous visit means you're creepy and I will never invite you back into my life.
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by wandernotlost 13y ago
Because I'm not solely motivated by money.
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by wandernotlost 14y ago
Please point to the part of my comment where I said I got nothing in return. I'm not sure what makes you think that customers can't demand things of those they do business with. There's always a potential new competitor, and I can always
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by wandernotlost 14y ago
All the mentioned companies form at least part of their business on data collected from their users. Not products or sevices formed of raw material. Even Netflix depends on its users' data heavily in order to run its recommendation system
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by wandernotlost 15y ago
Ironically, the SIM card is exactly the technology that enables the scenario the author describes, and it exists today (maybe not so much in the US). "Select from this list to send your payment information to an unknown carrier" is not exac
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by wandernotlost 15y ago
This is basic security, folks: never drive your application from stuff that comes over the wire (or any untrusted channel). Passing a params array directly to update_attributes is a fundamentally flawed approach for this reason. Instead,
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by wandernotlost 15y ago
Let's stop for a moment and consider how the web actually works. Your browser sends an HTTP GET request for a page. The response for this page contains HTML and JavaScript. The browser then executes the JavaScript, often making other requ