TwistedWeasel

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by TwistedWeasel 6y ago
last 50 years of change includes modern nail guns, engineered lumber, hurricane anchors, plywood roof sheathing, vapor barriers, and countless other differences in how homes are built and the tools we use to do it. There is nothing special
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by TwistedWeasel 6y ago
yep, both are significantly different in many way, houses built 50 years ago have a lot of differences to modern houses. Software from 50 years ago, is also significantly different but the fundamentals of both are the same, foundations, wal
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by TwistedWeasel 6y ago
The whole point of my last comment was that the impact of bad software cannot be fully understood if we don't have ways to monitor and measure it. You are correct that many industries have high standards and many other industries have
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by TwistedWeasel 6y ago
if you look at it economically, maybe. It's a complex problem. The economy doesn't benefit from contractor licensing either, but the consistency reliability and quality of our infrastructure does.
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by TwistedWeasel 6y ago
Are you sure? Construction materials are evolving and changing every few years (engineered lumber, modern environmentally friendly methods, etc) whilst we still use base operating systems designed in the 60's for most of our services.
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by TwistedWeasel 6y ago
Left up to private enterprise they will set their standards to the lowest they can get away with to maximize profits and reduce the time to market.
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by TwistedWeasel 6y ago
At NASA, sure. You can't say that with any certainty for all the other systems in the world where software has a huge impact on daily life and human wellbeing. We can't know for sure because there is no regulation or independent m
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by TwistedWeasel 6y ago
How do you define mature? Is it about stability? There are newer and more modern methods of construction and engineering and the field is always evolving. Maturity in those fields is about consistency and agreements of best practices enforc
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by TwistedWeasel 6y ago
It's complicated so we should just not care?
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by TwistedWeasel 6y ago
web apps are a small fraction of the software development world. Software Engineers are responsible for code that runs in hospitals, aircraft, power switching stations, and many many other safety critical systems. In many cases code that wa
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by TwistedWeasel 6y ago
plumbers, electricians, civil engineers, architects, structural engineers, etc. All these occupations have licensing requirements. Why is software different?
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by TwistedWeasel 6y ago
I'm with you, we should approach problems with optimism not fear. However, teaching that approach to kids is a long term strategy, and helping them adapt to a new routine is a slow process, it's less about the difficulty and more
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by TwistedWeasel 11y ago
My results show 1.3s for HTTP/1.1 and 3.0 seconds for HTTP/2 using Chrome on OS X. So, this demo wasn't very impressive for me.
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by TwistedWeasel 12y ago
Same bug for Utah... In 2014 the Utah software industry gave jobs to 1 foreign software managers, Infinity times more than the year before. Most of them made between $NaN and $NaN per year. The best city for software managers was South Jord
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by TwistedWeasel 12y ago
Once you scale your worker pool up beyond a couple of machines you need some sort of config management with Celery. We use SaltStack to manage a large pool of celery workers and it does a pretty good job.
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by TwistedWeasel 12y ago
I used Redis for celery in production with great success for a year but then we started running some long running jobs that needed the ACKS_LATE setting and the Redis delivery timeout kept hurting us by resending the task to another worker.
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by TwistedWeasel 12y ago
Convincing people to make the long trip to Mars in the future will be much easier if they can be sure there will be coffee served on the trip.
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by TwistedWeasel 12y ago
Ok, but large corporations are supposed to be able to avoid human centric mistakes with good operations workflows that provide checks and balances in their pipeline. I would assume MS is not shipping products directly from the engineering l
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by TwistedWeasel 12y ago
I somewhat disagree, it depends on how QA fits into your organization and how you scope its role. UX needs Quality Assurance too, and sometimes things get past the UX team and into a product - at that point new issues come to light during t
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by TwistedWeasel 12y ago
Yes, me too. However i'd hope that for a product as big and important to MS as this then there would be more checks and balances in place to make sure that such things don't get overlooked. It's understandable for one enginee
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by TwistedWeasel 12y ago
A lot of QA departments these days put their effort behind automated testing, which is very valuable but will never replace actual human usage of a device. Automation should catch one class of problems but real world usage is necessary to c
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by TwistedWeasel 12y ago
It's admirable that MS is responding to criticism of their device and working for a solution. However, all the issues he experienced seem like they would be quite obvious to anyone testing the device usage for any kind of drawing appli
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by TwistedWeasel 12y ago
Free (with purchased subscription)
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by TwistedWeasel 12y ago
"... but this language, once released, will be fixed for a decade at least. Something with that lifespan should be great from day one." I'm not sure why the author believes that once the language ships it cannot change. Surel
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by TwistedWeasel 12y ago
You mean this one? Or are you talking about something else? http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
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by TwistedWeasel 12y ago
The hard part for me was that managing engineers takes a lot of time and energy, it's not possible to be a full time engineer and a full time manager. Over time your understanding of the technical details of the work your team is doing
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by TwistedWeasel 12y ago
Sad that the code syntax highlighting doesn't work on assembly
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by TwistedWeasel 12y ago
Fair point, it's just how I interpreted it, others may read that differently. I was just focused on the "missing" term, to me that implies something that was once there or is notable in it's absence. However, as with man
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by TwistedWeasel 12y ago
The App Store description calls this "Paw – The missing HTTP Client for OS X". Why do we keep describing apps as "missing" from an OS? Surely we're not implying that an OS should ship with all these different tools,
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by TwistedWeasel 12y ago
I believe they will be posted in a couple of weeks

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