ickyforce

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   by ickyforce 5y ago

   > Remind me the difference between Slack and Discord at this point? Discord: you grant to us a perpetual, nonexclusive, transferable, royalty-free, sublicensable, and worldwide license to use, host, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, tr
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   by ickyforce 5y ago

   > If you are building an API, having a mechanism that provides detailed logs—including the POST bodies passed to the API—is invaluable. I'm not sure about this one. I explicitly avoid logging bodies because they can contain sensitiv
3. 33.▲
   by ickyforce 5y ago

   Don't use Kafka as a queue. (I haven't used Kafka for a while, if anything below is outdated let me know) The main issue I've experienced was balancing work across consumers - if one consumer is slower than others (e.g. runni
4. 34.▲
   by ickyforce 5y ago

   > the API is also described as an OpenAPI. The response formats are not described so not very useful.
5. 35.▲
   by ickyforce 6y ago

   > If you want to build reporting on top of text files The thing is - I don't want to build it (in this case a bunch of scripts that would parse and manage these logs). I want to use something that exists.
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   by ickyforce 6y ago

   I have a similar issue - my phone broke and I lost access to OTP. I don't have anything on AWS except S3 bucket which costs $0.5/month. My credit card expired so they aren't charging me, just sending "urgent action requi
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   What tools do you use to aggregate test results?

   1 points by ickyforce 6y ago|3 comments
8. 38.▲
   by ickyforce 6y ago

   What bothers me more is the lack of a way to ensure that the data is valid. Like always things look great in simple examples where it doesn't matter but fail when it gets tricky. The main benefit of dedicated, encapsulated types is tha
9. 39.▲
   by ickyforce 6y ago

   When I edit code it's broken most of the time. It wouldn't make sense to collaboratively break it in various parts for other people...
10. 40.▲
    by ickyforce 6y ago

    Yeah, but they don't travel sideways and they have pilots.
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    Lab automation software 'pro-bono' for teams fighting Covid-19(synthace.com)

    4 points by ickyforce 7y ago|0 comments
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    by ickyforce 7y ago

    E.g. https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/ - that was quite nice https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/ - haven't tried
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    by ickyforce 7y ago

    Releasing resources is not error handling... And in Java you don't even need finally for that, there try-with-resource.
14. 44.▲
    by ickyforce 7y ago

    Isn't https://www.jetbrains.com/toolbox-app/ doing that?
15. 45.▲
    by ickyforce 7y ago

    The funny thing is that if you want to create an immutable type in Java - no problem, just create a constructor and mark fields as final[1]. In Go - you can't do it like that. You need those getters, preferably an interface (because ex
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    by ickyforce 7y ago

    > Go seems to have much less boilerplate than Java Maybe if you compare to Java from 10y ago. Have you ever tried to print a map in an alphabetical order of its keys? The only thing more verbose in Java are getters/setters which hop
17. 47.▲
    by ickyforce 7y ago

    compiler/IDE would complain about "unused local variable"
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    by ickyforce 7y ago

    Java has a SecurityManager[1] which does exactly that. Is there anything similar in other mainstream languages? [1]: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Security...
19. 49.▲
    by ickyforce 7y ago

    I've noticed that I was interpreting the question incorrectly. In the past I thought it was "why did you chose this company over all others?". But if you think of it as "what aspects of our company do you find interestin