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by whstl 10mo ago
I've seen similar things from the inside in other companies. Even existential threats (like lack of Apple Silicon support for performance-critical software), getting heavily delayed because the feature treadmill won't stop and the
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by whstl 10mo ago
I think you're both right. I have also met a lot of completely unreasonable designers that would insist on the most minimal things (even to the detriment of usability), and would act like assholes towards developers. I have also had si
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by whstl 10mo ago
Strawman. If GP had said “full rewrite” sure. They said “huge chunks of your massive codebase” which is definitely true for unity.
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by whstl 10mo ago
Unity rewrote and discontinued lots of major systems several times in a row in the last 10 years. I’d be careful before telling people to “get a grip”.
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by whstl 10mo ago
Sweatshops love junior devs, as they never complain, never make suggestions and always take the blame for bugs. A senior joining when time is tight makes sense, they don’t want anyone to rock the boat, just to plug the holes.
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by whstl 10mo ago
The #1 reason the web experience universally sucks today is because companies add an absurd amount of third-party code on their pages for tracking, advertisement, spying on you or whatever non-essential purpose. That, plus an excessive&#x2F
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by whstl 10mo ago
Assuming that a PM should ask/answer everything before handing over to engineers is possibly the #1 reason engineers never progress beyond the junior level.
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by whstl 10mo ago
This "pause" would only happen for the first request after uploading fresh source code. This is not like Heroku or AWS Lambda. The compilation results were stored in a temporary folder, so you could restart the server and you woul
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by whstl 10mo ago
Agree. If one is unable to work alone but manages to join a new company with an inflated title, people will notice. They're gonna have to keep job-hopping until they find a place that doesn't notice the bad performance anymore. Th
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by whstl 10mo ago
That's an old ASP.NET Web Forms / ASPX thing that was IIS-based. IIS would just compile .cs files into a temporary folder when first running. So the first request takes like 5s or something. It's not the new .NET Core AOT fea
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by whstl 10mo ago
If you have PMs answering the how of issues such as "we need to improve performance" or "we should probably think about scaling", then the senior engineer on the team is the PM, not you. The list of example questions
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by whstl 10mo ago
The arbiter of what can be accessed should be the user, and always the user. The OS should be merely the enforcer. Currently OSs are a free-for-all, where the user must blindly trust third-party apps, or they enforce it clumsily like in mac
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by whstl 10mo ago
This just sounds like another security nightmare. We're not in 1980 anymore. Most people need zero, and even power users need at most one or two apps that need that full access to the disk. In macOS, for example, the sandbox and the fi
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by whstl 10mo ago
If the source and target are both lossless, then yes. ALAC was available in iTunes since 2004 AFAIK. Caveat: CDs were 44.1/16 so if the original files had more bit depth, they would require downsampling. Technically lossy, but not &quo
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by whstl 10mo ago
The "iTunes going DRM free" was a big deal around 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20070207234839/http://www.apple.... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/may
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by whstl 11mo ago
This video that was posted here yesterday shows some details: https://youtu.be/W420BOqga_s?t=93 Apparently there is scraping of public data + keyword matching + moderators filtering the matches. An example that he shows a b
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by whstl 11mo ago
When I worked in company that did content marketing and had a lot of writers, one of the coffee mugs they gave to us had Alt+0151 in it! Em-Dash was really popular with professional writers.
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by whstl 11mo ago
I recently had a terrible experience with a developer who only communicates this way, and it's terrible. Every single sentence is way too complicated, vague, deferring, or hand-wavy, and I can't know if they're being honest o
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by whstl 11mo ago
Apocryphal, but someone once told me history of male grooming is an example of this: When only rich people could afford to shave, the fashion among the noble was to have a clean-shaved face to signal status, and poor people had beards. Once
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by whstl 11mo ago
It's both of those, and more. It's "flowery" when you dislike it and "expressive" when you like it. It’s “overcomplicated” when you don’t get it and “nuanced” when you do. It’s “pretentious” when it annoys you
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by whstl 11mo ago
Well, depends on the permission model. For RBAC or capability-based permissions, the gateway can enrich the request or the it can be in (eg) a JWT. Then each service only has to know how to map roles/capabilities to permissions. For AB
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by whstl 11mo ago
That was my impression as well. There's pretty much no argument for why a DAG is worse than a polytree.
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by whstl 11mo ago
I just provided some information, use it as you want. I'm not really in this website to have an argument.
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by whstl 11mo ago
You asked how a company could sell (presumably third-party) apps without internet. I gave an example of it happening. Money-wise the model was very similar to Apple's AppStore. > How did the users view products, how did they purchas
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by whstl 11mo ago
Yep. And this has been the case for over a decade. They might do some sampling, but they're definitely not checking everything. The first app I published in 2012 had a backend, but the Apple team never logged in with the provided cre
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by whstl 11mo ago
Even back then, game console manufacturers had licensing agreements with developers, so those developers had to pay royalties, even though distribution was handled by physical stores. In some cases, some console manufacturers even handled t
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by whstl 11mo ago
That's how Game consoles operated, so there was definitely precedent. But it took until 93-94 for Windows to actually become dominant enough to have such leverage, some argue that this only really happened with Windows 95. Since it was
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by whstl 11mo ago
Nah. Fuck Apple but the only reason Microsoft isn't doing the same thing Apple does with iOS is because they don't have a mobile operating system anymore. Even on Windows, Microsoft has very similar notarization requirements as Ap
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by whstl 11mo ago
Clearly not the case here, since there's a link.
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by whstl 11mo ago
Yeah, a lot of cross-cutting concerns fall into this pattern: logging, authorization, metrics, audit trails, feature-flags, configuration distribution, etc The only way I can see to avoid this is to have all those cross-cutting concerns han

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