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by akitzmiller 3y ago
I came here to pretty much make the same comment. If you have a business that can get away with OTS software, more power to you. But complicated things are complicated and complex billing rules can be make-or-break for a company. Whether
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by akitzmiller 3y ago
Somebody mentioned this in a reply, but it deserves to be a top level comment. A good chunk of this year's unusual heat may be attributable to a reduction in SO2 emissions from shipping. Article cites other factors as well, but this
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by akitzmiller 3y ago
It's true that they are still there, but I think loyalty is really soft. Musk seems to make some antagonizing change at least once a month that results in defections, the whole Substack thing being the latest. I follow Rex Chapman wh
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by akitzmiller 4y ago
There is a bit of a forest / trees problem here. Python's simplicity is all about the barrier to computing. Because the barrier to use of Python is so much lower than for Rust, et al. you can get to a point where you've aut
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by akitzmiller 4y ago
About 20 years ago, I was at a pharmaceutical company and, to put together a web application, - we had to buy a prod and a dev database server - we had to buy a prod and a dev application server - we needed Oracle as a database - we neede
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by akitzmiller 5y ago
I think this is really the crux of the matter. More generally, STABLE management that drives software quality. Even if you're lucky enough to be part of a team that starts of with good management, reorgs, mergers, and turnover are ju
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by akitzmiller 5y ago
For something like this to be successful, I think it has to have some kind of domain focus. I've been working in bioinformatics-adjacent jobs for the last couple decades and I've seen things like this get used when there were a l
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by akitzmiller 5y ago
I think the whole value of the Unix tool ecosystem is that you don't need to build large pieces of software. If you look at all the GUI tools that Microsoft had to build for Windows administration in the earlier days and how they even
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by akitzmiller 5y ago
Thank you.
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by akitzmiller 5y ago
You're not totally wrong; I'm getting into that age range. It's not that I prefer those tools; they are really obtuse. It's just that I can't handle the moving target of JavaScript. I'm sure I can figure out
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by akitzmiller 5y ago
Indeed
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by akitzmiller 5y ago
I think CMake is a real pain and Autotools is an older pain. But I can figure them out and things I learned two blue moons ago are still basically true. The churn in JS makes it really hard for me to accumulate knowledge and solutions.
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by akitzmiller 5y ago
I know it's just piling on at this point, but I've been doing a lot of software builds and deployment over the last 20 years, mostly in a scientific computing context. Nothing I've dealt with is as bad as JavaScript. I'
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by akitzmiller 5y ago
A small internal software group like mine would almost certainly be a casualty of any real increase in software liability. On the other hand, the inevitable slowing of technology change and consolidation of libraries, languages, and framewo
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by akitzmiller 5y ago
Putting two kids through college on it.
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by akitzmiller 5y ago
>> Tech debt, unlike financial debt, is an asset to no one, it’s only a diminishment of value. A lot of the technical debt discussions I've read are very development team focused. What is often missing is the value to the user.
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by akitzmiller 6y ago
Please, people. If Google wanted to make a statement about imperialists and white overlordship, there are more impactful ways to do so than hiding Churchill's picture. This is just a glitch
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by akitzmiller 7y ago
Ooh. This is good. When I write my best selling Management Genetics(R) book filled with cellular jargon to describe The Business Double Helix(R), I am totally using this. With attribution, of course.
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by akitzmiller 7y ago
This is a wonderful comment. I think someone on this site said that coding is the process of understanding the solution. This is what that means.
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by akitzmiller 7y ago
Really well said. If you think of it as a --social-- capital enterprise, every part of the chain can benefit. Like other social entanglements, though, there is a need to break them up from time to time.
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by akitzmiller 7y ago
It changes the likelihood of the veracity of the document. If HN has done some sort of vetting, great. But there is no reason to take at face value anything that comes from Veritas. A discussion on censorship is a great thing to have. Ju
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by akitzmiller 7y ago
This "blacklist" comes from James O'Keefe's Project Veritas. They have a long history of staged "expose"s around the current Republican "bad guy of the day"; ACORN, voter fraud, etc. Regardless of w
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by akitzmiller 8y ago
Thank you all for giving this article the treatment it deserves.