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by yashap 5y ago
A good, fairly recent example from the city I live in, of hard drives being sold that were (accidentally) absolutely chock full of unencrypted customer PII: https://www.google.com/amp/s/globalnews.ca/news&#x2F
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100%. Sure, the billionaire is probably an asshole, but he’s also 97 and not an architect. The real problem here is the leadership at the university deciding to move forward with this monstrosity just to get a big donation.
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I haven’t used Next, can you explain this more? > the ability to add imperative server-side logic cohesive with each page (getServerSideProps) Our use case is an administrative web-app for managing a transportation network. i.e. you’ve g
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No, it’s never come up. This is touted as a selling point of GraphQL, but IMO is mostly solving a problem that few people have. Having worked a lot both consuming and producing external APIs, people seem happiest with idiomatic, well docume
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We edit the OAS with Stoplight Studio, and enforce it with server-side middleware, which validates that requests and responses conform to the OAS (400s if requests don’t conform, 500s if responses don’t conform). At a previous workplace I’v
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Agreed. Having worked extensively with GraphQL, I’ve come to see it as a MASSIVE source of unnecessary complexity in almost all cases. Haven’t worked with Next.js, but using an SSR framework, then not using SSR, seems like a tonne of unnece
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At my workplace, we have a node.js service that solves Vehicle Routing Problems, which are very computationally intensive. When we profiled it, it was spending ~30% of its time on moment.js - mostly constructing lots of moment objects just
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Thanks, Scalyr looks interesting too. For our ~40 GB logs/day, seems like they'd be ~$24K/year - a bit more than the other suggestion (Graylog), but a lot less than Sumo.
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Looks like a nice tool! Re: price, they don't advertise pricing, but based on https://www.reddit.com/r/graylog/comments/bd4jlt/question_re... We emit ~40 GB logs/day, so seems like it'd be
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I personally do like open floor plans IF everyone is in the office, nobody remote. Though I realize it’s definitely not for everyone, and it’s only a slight preference. However, in the new world of almost all companies being part remote, pa
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I dunno, I’ve conducted about 100 dev interviews over the years. Have tried various combinations of whiteboarding, architecture/design questions, take home problems, talking about past projects/experience, and sitting down togethe
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Yeah, I don’t mean just 5x the LOC or features. More a combination of all of more productive, helps others more effectively, creates fewer bugs, can tackle a wider range of problems, makes better architectural decisions, writes more materia
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There’s a tonne of variance between software engineers. Even at the same level (junior, intermediate, senior, etc.), it’s not uncommon for a strong hire to be ~5x better than a weak hire. By this I mean more productive, better at helping ot
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Digging a bit more, I don’t think so. The company that owns PornHub does about half a billion dollars per year in revenue: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindGeek That includes revenue from other brands too, but I bel
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I’m far, far from an expert, but it seems to me that the unforgiving “software is the law, nothing can be reversed” nature of crypto means that all sorts of vulnerabilities and/or mistakes can instantly lead to you losing all your mone
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I’d guess billions of dollars flow through pornhub, they’re the 10th most visited website in the world. They apparently have still had incredible difficulty getting anyone to process payments for them.
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Yeah, they’d have to be quite tentative numbers, not held to the same level of scrutiny as quarterly report numbers. I actually used to be a data engineer, working on internal BI stuff, and worked a tonne with our finance team automating al
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Generally speaking, if you significantly beat analyst expectations, stock price goes up, and the reverse if you’re significantly below expectations. If you knew the numbers about to be reported tomorrow were, say, well above analyst expecta
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IMO it’d be great if going public meant that you had to publish open, online, real(ish)-time dashboards of your company’s core metrics. Like if it’s a metric in every quarterly report, it goes in the public dashboard, and has to be no more
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On top of that, it’s only even maybe-obviously-theoretically-correct if the employee stays a long time. If they stay for 5-10 years, I’d think rapid improvement tends to beat current ability. If they only stay for 1-3 years, though, the qui
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by yashap 5y ago
Yeah, I don’t have experience with this lib, but the example code looks overly magic. But I’m also more of a backend dev, and find the useRef API to be inherently confusing, so that’s probably part of it.
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I feel terrible for all the Afghans who aren’t religious extremists, who are going to live a life of terror and suffering under the Taliban. Afghan women especially, who are going to go right back to the brutal oppression they faced pre-9&#
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Agreed. The bug report was one reporter and a maintainer discussing a bug for 2 months back in 2015, and at the end the maintainer says he believes he’d fixed it. Then no more messages. After 5 years of no complaints after a likely fix, clo
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Once generics ship, there could be progress in this direction. Until then, though, very high level data structure type libraries, along the lines of pandas, are always going to be terrible in Go.
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Yeah, I get the “I like to understand how everything works” angle, and I like implementing things from scratch in personal projects. When working with a team, I feel it really depends on the team and the business. I think if you’re extremel
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A touché, but regardless, I think tone and the way you make your argument matters a lot, vs. just the position you support. I personally see a tonne of people passionate about software quality on HN, and often their arguments are very well
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by yashap 5y ago
Re: > I have found that complaining about it doesn't actually do much good. My complaints tend to get downvoted into the Mantle, and I just get pissed off. IMO creating real change in an organization is almost never done through com
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Wow, thanks for sharing, I’d never seen this before: > "The entire infotainment system is a HTML 5 super computer," Milton said. "That's the standard language for computer programmers around the world, so using it let
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As another commenter noted, there’s no Rust code currently in the Linux kernel. There may be some soon, but not much - it’ll be a dominantly C codebase for a very, very long time, maybe forever. As for seL4, doesn’t that just support my poi

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