doctor_eval

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by doctor_eval 2y ago
While this document starts strong and has some good points, it strongly conflates “scrum” with “agile” and goes downhill pretty quickly. > wrong answer: what’s a sprint cycle? You don’t have to have sprints to be agile. What’s important
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
This is just rubbish. Safety arises from multiple dimensions - Kevlar-threaded armour is a single, last line of defence that helps only when everything else has failed. Actual safety comes from training, practice and operations - such as un
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
> The needs of security are opposed to the needs of a convenient user experience. Improving one typically hurts the other. I must be Dr Contrary tonight but this strikes me as bullshit. SSH is more convenient that telnet. Passkeys are mo
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
Safety is not a “luxury enabled by profit”. It’s one of many necessary dimensions for efficiently creating value over time. If you are a sole trader and you fall off a ladder and hurt yourself because you took some stupid shortcut, the cost
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
These are just assertions with little to back them up. As TFA says, you can make all the same claims for REST. And GraphQL works the same as REST. But instead of a complex mishmash if positional and named parameters, it has a super simple q
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
Unfortunately I’m on a bus to the airport for a couple of days so I’m a bit constrained. If you know Postgres, I would recommend taking a look at Postgraphile. It’s awesome, and comes with an explorer web UI that really helps (GraphIQL with
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
This is nonsense. GraphQL queries are simple HTTP requests, with no more complexity than REST. You POST a query string and some JSON and it’s done. If your client makes it harder than that, don’t use it. Here’s my workflow for creating an A
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
I’ve always felt that writing apps for Apple devices is more like creating phone accessories than building products. Apple cares about selling iPhones and other devices. If your idea can help them sell more, and they can do it better, they
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
I don’t disagree with you in principle, but this history is not quite right. IIRC the IE6 team was shut down. Basically only Mozilla and Apple were building browsers at scale until Chrome came along. I might be misremembering?
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
Not my partner, but I bet they knew each other, it was a great little community and she was there for the better part of 20 years. Great parties in the 00’s!
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
Curious where that was? My partner was a jeweller in the Nicholas Building in Melbs.
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
The US has the worst health outcomes in the OECD - in particular for life expectancy, infant mortality, healthcare access, and chronic disease. So if you care about health, “another example” is literally any other OECD country . And every
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
Allow me to introduce you to the Sackler family. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sackler_family
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
Why smart people continue to say this is beyond me. There were so many problems with the USSR - central planning, corruption, bureaucracy, secrecy, misaligned incentives - and it's just not true that everyone was equal. Very few ration
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
Isn’t the only real difference that the yield function is being passed into the iterator instead of being a reserved word? I don’t think it’s clunky, although it took a few minutes for me to get it.
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
What was the uptake like? Would be super handy to know how well it was tolerated or if there were any unexpected surprises. I’m pretty much decided on Capacitor for my new B2B SaaS, but I honestly had forgotten about the possibility of PWA
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
Hmm, I recently found my old official “Zilog Z80 CPU Programmer’s Reference Guide” from October 1982. I thought I’d lost it. It was very much loved by my teenage self!
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
> I found myself on the phone to Rackspace, leaning on a desk for support, listening to their engineer patiently explain that backups for this MySQL instance had been cancelled over 2 months ago. Ah. There is no part of this story that’s
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
Yeah - I understand why they do this but I reckon they could have made them renewable without having to replace the tokens themselves. Also granular PATs still don’t work everywhere.
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
Witness K and Bernard Collaery came to mind when I was writing it. They blew the whistle on illegal espionage used to pillage the resources of our tiny neighbour, and the government threw the book at them. Absolutely shameful.
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
I understand that Wikileaks is controversial but I don't think there is any dispute that he has acted in the role of whistleblower to some extent. But that's not really the point I'm trying to make, so I've removed the r
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
Are strong whistleblower protections what’s needed to balance this? As an Australian I am absolutely horrified that we continue to put people in jail who have blown the whistle on the government here, and it makes me think that large organi
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
It feels this way with PATs as well, with legacy PATs still necessary for most of the things I use them for, despite being pushed into the newer ones. And the documentation is terrible. I had the exact same thought, the PAT transition feels
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
> For a long time the X Window System had a reputation for being difficult to configure. Honestly I thought it was hard to configure because until I used Linux, my X terminals didn’t need to be configured at all! I may be misremembering
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
I first used Slackware Linux off floppies in the mid 90s, yet every time I see linux in the browser I am gobsmacked. I’ve said for a while that a browser is basically its own operating system. Now it can host operating systems!
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
There is a lot more to meeting a customer’s needs than blindly doing what they say. Sometimes, you need to write code to protect them from their own (sometimes-but-not-always rational) decisions - or to protect other customers and stakehold
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
Before. That’s why I bothered to look it up. And that’s when I discovered that the “savages” were actually employees of the Tongan government acting with the authority of the Pacific Forum. You’re not very good at this “good faith” business
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
For me the real kicker was that Boeing convinced the FAA that the aircraft did not need redundant Angle of Attack sensors, even though they knew that this meant that there was a single point of failure in a system which had control authorit
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
> The Foundation's next attempt to establish a libertarian state [after Minerva] was in 1973 on the island of Abaco in the Bahamas. In the period approaching Bahamian independence, a number of white residents objected to living unde
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
> Reminds me of Republic of Minerva, which was quickly attacked by Tongan savages at the behest of western powers. 100% agree that this is racist, even a cursory understanding of what happened makes it obvious that official Tongan troops

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