dottedmag

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by dottedmag 5mo ago
However if you asked your Danish roommate to write down what he said it would make perfect sense.
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by dottedmag 5mo ago
I've had one-line PR fixing real bugs sitting unreviewed for years. It didn't need any bumps or reviews.
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by dottedmag 7mo ago
So they won't have idle hands sitting around and itching to redesign something that works just fine. Alternatively, if they could reassign that 50% of their headcount to bring Mountain Lion or Mavericks to the working state (updating c
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by dottedmag 7mo ago
(Author here) I found that over time I spend more time striping someone's badly designed abstractions to get to the real functionality. LLMs are surprisingly good at figuring it out, plowing through the code and documentation and findi
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by dottedmag 7mo ago
(Author here) I meant "design" as in designing physical objects — and all our "programming" is "design" in this definition, because "manufacturing" is done by compilers and bundlers. And I wouldn&#x27
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by dottedmag 7mo ago
(Author here) That's why I spent a sinificant chunk of the article talking about what should and what should not be reinvented.
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by dottedmag 7mo ago
(Author here) I'm actually talking in the article why it hasn't happened.
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by dottedmag 7mo ago
24% real vs 17% expected. Yes, some patterns, but not much.
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Software design is now cheap(dottedmag.net)
50 points by dottedmag 7mo ago|77 comments
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by dottedmag 10mo ago
Better never stray from code. My faviourite configuration pattern for SaaS code: all the configuration for all targets, from local development setup, to unit tests, to CI throwaway deployments, to production is in a single Go package. The c
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by dottedmag 1y ago
I don't see it challenged before the MR. Linux caught Kent when he tried to sneak in non-bugfixes into a RC, and berated him. After that (not before, this is a critical distinction) Kent said "I don't want to abide by the rul
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by dottedmag 1y ago
I didn't make myself quite clear — the others were raising points on _other_ rules, and as a result we tuned the rules quite often, as we discovered what works better and what works worse. Except one person.
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by dottedmag 1y ago
It is, but directly, not as a subversion. I have had a similar experience with a team member who was quietly unhappy about a rule. Instead of raising a discussion about the rule (like the rest of the team members did) he tried to quietly ig
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by dottedmag 1y ago
Except that every month bits of that value get chipped off.
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by dottedmag 1y ago
PostgreSQL server is a single process that starts in under 100ms on a developer's laptop. In the company I work for we use real PostgreSQL in unit tests — it's cheap to start one at the beginning of a suite, load the schema and go
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by dottedmag 1y ago
Serial port Cray 1 was released 1975, teletypes were old tech at that time.
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by dottedmag 1y ago
Thank you, that's what I feel too. For me switching the career, after spending more than 20 years in this as well... is very hard. I spent all my career outside of high-pay places like SV telling myself "I have all the time in the
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by dottedmag 2y ago
Will it? The author goes to my «do not hire / hype-eater» list for sure.
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JSON+RPC specification (not JSON-RPC)(jsonplusrpc.org)
1 points by dottedmag 2y ago|0 comments
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by dottedmag 2y ago
Indeed, that's the only reasonable scenario that comes to mind.
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by dottedmag 2y ago
Have you really seen language chosen based on formatting?
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by dottedmag 3y ago
Should all companies expand to the whole globe? There are plenty of well-off places with mild climate where using a scooter all year around is feasible.
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by dottedmag 3y ago
Syscalls are easy. Drivers will be tough.
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by dottedmag 3y ago
Make managers personally responsible.
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by dottedmag 3y ago
Exactly: this "license" thing has to be changed to buying digital content.
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by dottedmag 3y ago
Open source is a technical detail. One can see a less drastical change that will have the same effect. 1. Update the laws so that the shenanigans of the companies are finally named as they are: - Retroactively removing a feature is stealing
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by dottedmag 3y ago
One can argue there are ~8bln of these robots already roaming the Earth.
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by dottedmag 3y ago
There are rocky deserts. 70% of Sahara is rocky, not sandy, for example.
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by dottedmag 3y ago
Bangladesh is also large.
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by dottedmag 3y ago
A seemingly endless list of descriptions of open positions, just to be disappointed by "remote within US" buried somewhere within each and every one.

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