jayar95

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by jayar95 4y ago
The products we're building are more complex than they used to be, but I don't know if its true that backend development has inherently become more complex than it was in the past. I've worked on everything from dinosaurs old
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by jayar95 5y ago
There's a lot of C out there homie
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by jayar95 5y ago
> even Stalin would tell you that you are making an error in politicizing technology. Thank you, I loved this haha.
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by jayar95 5y ago
Vendor lock-in can be a real issue as you scale. I work at a company going through a hypergrowth phase, and we're more or less locked into Azure, which has been objectively awful for us
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by jayar95 5y ago
It's been a year since I touched an AWS lambda, but I'd bet money that cold starts are still an issue. There is a common hack that half works: have your function run every minute (you can use eventbridge rules for this); in the fu
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by jayar95 5y ago
Cool
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by jayar95 6y ago
That doesnt surprise me. They will let highly problematic security issues persist for weeks
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by jayar95 7y ago
>signatures that are 3 lines long What hath God wrought
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by jayar95 7y ago
I came here to say this. Literally every company ever does this. In marketing it's called a value-first proposition. I don't see it as evil by any means
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by jayar95 7y ago
Any miscers checking in?
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by jayar95 7y ago
That's kind of a blanket statement don't you think?
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by jayar95 8y ago
Wow, imagine not having to charge your earbuds! Revolutionary
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by jayar95 8y ago
lol this needs more visibility
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by jayar95 8y ago
I do both and it's probably less effective (comparatively)
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by jayar95 8y ago
Yes but you originally said alcohol is far less harmful than THC
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by jayar95 8y ago
If you like the functional aspects of Java, check out kotlin. It's quickly become my favorite programming languages because you get all the benefits of java's strongly typed OOP system with a lot of elegant functional features, an
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by jayar95 8y ago
Yeah, most organizations don't deal in _just_ weed. A lot of them deal in people too
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by jayar95 8y ago
how does it update without javascript?
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by jayar95 8y ago
Honestly, autopilot software should have checks and balances already in place to prevent use if the system is compromised. Regardless if it was compromised by human hands or general use / wear & tear
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by jayar95 8y ago
I used to take a similar view on the war on drugs- now it's more nuanced given my immersion into the problem. It's hard to say wasting countless lives and millions of dollars to combat organizations illegaly smuggling harmless pro
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by jayar95 8y ago
You know it's always a concern, but context is everything. > small little one-off apps that might need _some_ backend functionality The security implications of serving a static website vs. a dynamic application that processes payme
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by jayar95 8y ago
If security is a concern, this is probably a bad choice; this doesn't seem to be advertised as a bulletproof security solution to anything, rather a utility for small little one-off apps that might need _some_ backend functionality. On
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by jayar95 8y ago
PHP is interpreted o.o
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by jayar95 8y ago
I think a lot of readablity issues with jsx are caused by the amount of logic react devs will put in their markup. It's painfully reminiscent of old-school PHP templating
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by jayar95 8y ago
To be fair, I see junior devs struggle with all build tools.
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by jayar95 8y ago
I found the political angle he took to be daft as well. I became a full stack developer for the same reasons as you, I like assuming the responsibility of every aspect of a product's development- plus, working in different aspects keep
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by jayar95 8y ago
Take a look at symfony