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by wellpast 1y ago
sane*
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by wellpast 1y ago
Of course it will because same programmers don’t ack their customers until their (distributed, replicated) db says ack.
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by wellpast 1y ago
I knew I shouldn’t have said crypto, but it is why I said queued. I knew a pedant was going to nitpick. Probably subconsciously was inviting it. I think my point still stands.
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by wellpast 1y ago
Wouldn’t it depend on use case? If the app confirms to me my crypto transaction has been reliably queued, I probably don’t want to hear that it was unqueued because a node using SQLite in the cluster had died at an inconvenient specific tim
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by wellpast 1y ago
I’m just making the point that most software dev work is not novel. You’re either making a productivity app where CRUD and UX are pretty well known patterns. Or a scalable web system - also very well tried territory. Or analytics and data p
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by wellpast 1y ago
I had the same reaction. I’m eager to find someone who has managed to abstract expertise. I’m 25 years into repeatedly building large software systems. I was thinking, look here maybe someone’s managed to codify what I do. Nope. To your poi
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by wellpast 1y ago
The majority of people work in that world. Even the majority of startups, where you’d expect to find the novel pursuits, are building glorified spreadsheets.
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by wellpast 1y ago
Thank you!
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by wellpast 1y ago
This is great. I've been working on a social site where the content users post and scroll through are microgames (<500kb). My kids are my biggest users so far. My daughter loves this pill sorting game, for example: https:/&#x2
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by wellpast 1y ago
I’m working on a social site where users post (and “fork”) “micro games” (<500kb) instead of tweets https://xelly.games
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by wellpast 1y ago
I agree 100%. I've been around for a while, I've used many different build systems for JVM based builds (Java, Hybrid Java/Clojure, Scala) and Maven is by far the simplest most solid. The basic reason is it's commitment
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by wellpast 1y ago
Mobile notifications is a terrible solution to this Need ground alert sirens or something that would be taken seriously
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by wellpast 1y ago
The fact that the devs thought the AI saved them time is no surprise to me… at least at this point in my career. Developers (people?) in general for some reason just simply cannot see time. It’s why so many people don’t believe in estimatio
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by wellpast 1y ago
https://xelly.games Scrollable social network where the user generated content is microgames.
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by wellpast 2y ago
You can’t poll people to say what they want in an art piece. They’re not artists. You have to show them the options. Wow them with a masterpiece. See what they pay for, not what they describe they want. If determining what people wanted in
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by wellpast 2y ago
In streaming apps, the data is not only stored in memory, and failures are inevitable. A common streaming app will consume from a distributed log (Kafka, Kinesis) and only commit offsets if/when the data from the last offset to the nex
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by wellpast 2y ago
A typical delivery target is a data store or cache. Writing to such a delivery can be construed of as a “side effect”. But if you accept eventual consistency, achieving exactly once semantics is possible. Eg a streaming framework will let y
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by wellpast 2y ago
is there a real difference between delivery and processing? In a streaming app framework (like Flink or Beam, or Kafka Streams), I can get an experience of exactly once "processing" by reverting to checkpoints on failure and re-pr
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by wellpast 2y ago
What’s missing in his point and examples about “performance isn’t everything” (aria properties, forEach, …) is that these are cases where you could optimize later when and if needed. Using forEach is a fluid coding choice at the time but if
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by wellpast 3y ago
Presumably that's a first-party cookie you're persisting not a cross-site third-party cookie, so wholly different standards apply for your case.
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by wellpast 3y ago
> 'If we don't do it now, development efforts (and therefore also costs) will be up 15% in 4 months.' Yeah you won't get to a point where you'll have a valid-enough metric to make this point. I was at a startup o
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by wellpast 3y ago
> For a large change, I don’t want to do a “diff review”, I want to do a proper code review of a codebase at a particular instant in time, paying specific attention to the recently changed areas, but mostly just doing general review, as
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by wellpast 3y ago
https://www.chronos-desk.com/ Local-first personal task management with estimation.
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by wellpast 3y ago
To talk about “duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction” without invoking "dependencies" at all (and their costs) means the entire premise has been missed. Another tell: > Don’t try to make one thing act like two thin
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by wellpast 3y ago
And… near real-time with high uptime is relatively more costly to build / maintain / deploy / operate than batch — so save your org the cost!
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by wellpast 3y ago
What I've learned from decades of software development: ANY and every component or capability you build into your system, incidentally or explicitly, will immediately (ie tomorrow ) become "Accidentally Load Bearing". Depend
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by wellpast 3y ago
Well said — and yes. It’s definitely market dynamics, but I think something could change those market dynamics. Maybe a craftsmen’s guild that unionizes skilled software practitioners.
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by wellpast 3y ago
This is called software philistinism. There are many blog posts like this one that deny (often deride ) the value of software craftmanship, including the skillset of planning. They almost always have this same conclusiveness to them as wel
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by wellpast 3y ago
Because writing, like exercise, really is a boon. It would be strange to go on about its deleterious effects. It'd seem like looking for an indirect excuse to not engage in something that's challenging and good for you.
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by wellpast 3y ago
But the ambulance DOES break the rule. Clearly and unambiguously. But breaking rules like this in cases of emergency is the correct thing to do. This is where the moderation difficulty comes in.

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