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by yarekt 2y ago
Curious. Got any recommendations for CI tooling that analyses todos? What sort of things that you’ve seen are possible
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by yarekt 2y ago
You’re completely right about entanglement: Id go further to say that simplicity in its purest form is almost always more useful than clever upfront design, but it’s funny because clever upfront design process can be tweaked to bias simplic
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by yarekt 2y ago
the 10 -> 100 bit is absolutely right. a cross functional team has to learn how to work together well, and spend a non trivial amount of time discussing the problem and tempering solutions until something is achieved where each of them a
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by yarekt 2y ago
Consider a case where every non trivial refactor ends up in several rabbit holes, requiring lengthy meetings with lots of people to discuss, and many disagreements about direction. And in light of that the trivial refactors start to feel li
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by yarekt 2y ago
Ouch, right in the feels. I’ve come to realise that there’s no valid business case for dealing with tech debt early, nor adding tests to an existing project (bar some special circumstances / legacy change, critical outage, etc) It’s li
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by yarekt 2y ago
I’ve literally never seen the latter: I think companies that do that just disappear. The former though is a great driver: Let your debt pile up sky high because it doesn’t matter as long as it lets you make more money in short term vs deali
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by yarekt 2y ago
Interesting, I think this is part of what the article is alluding to: what happens with tech debt is more to do with the team’s process rather than with the tech debt itself. Some teams are stuck in a process that makes them unable to tackl
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by yarekt 2y ago
That’s pretty cool, but I think you’re going to have to build out the other side too to fully remove the human from the equation
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by yarekt 2y ago
It’s both confirmation bias and appeal to authority, however, you can’t fully remove those biases anyway. the best you can do is just be aware of them and scrutinise projects despite their pedigree, or your previous experience. (It’s clear
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by yarekt 2y ago
article was interesting, but what an awful website. fonts disappeared twice while reading, weird formatting everywhere (viewed on chrome with modern iPhone). Is this the state of internet these days?
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by yarekt 3y ago
Idk, as a software developer, the process of looking for a library is basically if it’s not MIT, it’s just easier to do it yourself. not even worth spending time integrating to later rewrite. Imo I’d even release our own stuff as MIT just b
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by yarekt 3y ago
This, 1000%. I’ve never had any luck with figuring out a way to get management on board with tech debt, and this is a nimble startup with smart people… solution is elsewhere, not “write more quality software” near the symptoms.
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by yarekt 3y ago
/me raises hand. idealist here, and I do want everything rewritten. Please ensure you provide your idealists with all business goals and limitations rather than shield/protect them. You’ll find that then their suggestions take tho
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by yarekt 3y ago
Ah I see, quality can also mean ingenuity, but in my case as a software developer ingenious solutions don’t always present themselves. I’d settle for old boring plain solution that works well enough, but is of enough quality that it doesn’t
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by yarekt 3y ago
I like the sentiment, but you can have quality, well architected software that’s pleasure to work in, and it being completely useless/obsolete to customers. Value != quality. I think software quality (and all the symptoms discussed in
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by yarekt 3y ago
We already have a mess that is Dapper and Dapr. No thankyou
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by yarekt 3y ago
Sigh, we were warned
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by yarekt 3y ago
You are right about this. I think people outside of US have a hard time imagining a place where first response basically requires guns and violence
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by yarekt 3y ago
It sounds cool, and it’s nice that someone is disproving the myth. I use Qutebrowser daily, these projects are great, but not without their pain points: once you start using them in anger you’ll quickly realise lots of basic features are mi
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by yarekt 3y ago
knobs are more expensive :(
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by yarekt 3y ago
Impressive, but does anyone know where will the debris from the second stage re-enter?
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by yarekt 3y ago
This looks cool! i want to build a persistence of vision globe (sealed in partial vacuum under a bell jar) with live cloud cover, and was looking for a way to get cloud data. is the source code for the generation of these images available?
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by yarekt 3y ago
To me this happens naturally, Looking at the diff first, if I know the codebase well might be enough to get a sense of the changes, or at least understand their isolation. However, as soon as I start to feel that I don't fully understa
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by yarekt 3y ago
This is called Continuous Integration, and its a shame that the term got nicked to now mean "that thing that builds our PRs somewhere". The idea was that everyone pushes to main all the time, which basically reduces integration ti
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Show HN: (UK/London) dating without “swiping” formula(swan.date)
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by yarekt 3y ago
Why does this look suspiciously like grafana? Anyway, it would be nice to find something to replace Loki, but I don’t see how this is better
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by yarekt 3y ago
Tig is truly good, and I always install it, it helps me interactively browse a bunch of commits on trees when i want to wrap my head around what’s going on, however, it’s not good enough :( it’s features a little random, and I basically onl
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by yarekt 3y ago
Sounds like a nice story, but the first few paragraphs aren’t compelling me to register
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by yarekt 3y ago
The article definitely lacks some very important statistics. I don’t have enough knowledge to comment really, but my uneducated opinion is that in pharmaceuticals somewhat more regulation is better, also important during export/imports
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by yarekt 3y ago
Yea this is a good take, but it’s not as pessimistic as it sounds. “I told you so” never works, even if you explicitly reserve the right so use it, and even as a joke. What does work though is having a prepared refactoring plan ready to g

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