adamconroy

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by adamconroy 8y ago
There only 4 hard things in computer science. Caching, naming things and off by one errors.
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by adamconroy 8y ago
I don't know, nothing lasts forever, and one might 'die' at the hand of the other. It could easily happen through acquisition as he says.
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by adamconroy 8y ago
Jaron is very good at articulating his ideas. He is preaching to the choir with me though. I was somewhat addicted to Twitter, but snapped out of it 7 years ago, and find the idea of using one of those networks tiresome.
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by adamconroy 8y ago
so the spoofer distributing these devices is going to all this trouble/expense/risk in the hope there is a http downloaded exe it can corrupt, then hopes the hashing doesn't fail on that corrupt exe, and hopes the user ignore
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by adamconroy 8y ago
it might redirect to a malicious web page, but https would still prevent a problem. perhaps read the article you posted.
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by adamconroy 8y ago
I don't see how this 'man' in the middle could actually intercept passwords, except for http, but who runs auth over http anyway. For https, the 'man' would have to substitute its own certificate and then the brows
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by adamconroy 8y ago
Analogies are good at explaining difficult to understand concepts but shouldn't be used to arrive at decisions or axioms. Each situation or argument should be evaluated on its own. In other words, whilst the jazz festival and faceboo
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by adamconroy 9y ago
Spidey sense didn't detect these problems then?
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by adamconroy 9y ago
As always, it depends. Personally I have been working for a corporation where we use a microservice approach and it has been great for productivity, turn around times on projects, and the systems/services are quite easy to understand.
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by adamconroy 9y ago
I call it TDD. Trend driven development.
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by adamconroy 9y ago
I scratch around passing time on the internet, but then if I'm not doing that I'm passing time watching cable tv, passing time playing chess, passing time smoking pot, passing time reading novels, passing time playing golf, passin
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by adamconroy 9y ago
I read this in a drug information pamphlet a long time ago; basically it said that cocaine and heroin both bind to a different set of receptors to the other, but alcohol binds to both. Which is what makes it uniquely addictive. Its obvio
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by adamconroy 10y ago
Maybe it has had its day. It influenced the mindset of the masses and is now mainstream. There is no alt anymore. Even Microsoft ships software that leverages newtonsoft.json
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by adamconroy 10y ago
Yes, its generally much faster to have a quick conversation rather than reply to an email.
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by adamconroy 10y ago
The blurting has no bounds. I recently had someone tell me over slack that the company is contemplating a spin-off, blurting out a few lines describing the strategy, and asked if I could get back to them on possible system implementations
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by adamconroy 10y ago
That's a great title for a self-help book. I'll read it once I finish 'How to look out the window'. It never occurred to me that obsessive email checking could be a distraction or a negative thing, but now someone has
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by adamconroy 10y ago
AV software is a great example of a cure being worse than the disease
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by adamconroy 10y ago
Not a surprise to me, their HDDs are junk. I've had two burn out in work machines and one personal external burn out. I never buy their gear anymore
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by adamconroy 10y ago
shouldn't he be saying i fucked up?
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by adamconroy 10y ago
That blog post could pretty much apply the same arguments to itself. And who knows if Bob's experience is simply correlation not causation. Perhaps Bob is just a smart, meticulous engineer, and it wouldn't matter how he went abo
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by adamconroy 10y ago
the necks got off their sundecks it seems
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by adamconroy 10y ago
Yes, although fortunately for me my wife has become friendly with a lot of my mates' wives / girlfriends, so we still catch up when they organize things.
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by adamconroy 10y ago
And quite possibly the whole system was replaced within a few years and it turned out that management were correct in not letting your team waste the organization's money trying to be purists, and probably over-engineering at the same
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by adamconroy 10y ago
I've always thought that 'debt' is a poor analogy. Systems get replaced / rewritten / superseded / thrown in the bin... all time, and that is where the debt analogy fails. Its obviously semantics, and I'm
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by adamconroy 10y ago
i don't agree that CLR vs .NET versions are confusing. .NET is the CLR plus a pile of libraries. The CLR moves slowly, the non-clr parts of .NET iterate faster. I rarely even think about the CLR version at all. It was a minor consi
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by adamconroy 10y ago
Hey, ingve. stop trolling us. you wasted 5 minutes of my life by posting this.
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by adamconroy 10y ago
that's a good thread.
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by adamconroy 10y ago
Excuse me, no jokes please.
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by adamconroy 10y ago
When people (such as this author) talk about mocks, are they talking about mocking and testing behavior or just simply fakes / doubles? My understanding of mocking by example is: you have a class you want to test, and that class has a
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by adamconroy 10y ago
that sounds like the plot of the final episode of a reasonably successful sitcom.

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