paphillips

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by paphillips 5mo ago
This article does not make convincing arguments to match the strong criticism. Engineering decisions are difficult, especially in high-growth orgs, where one must balance many constraints and risks including opportunity cost. Handling payme
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by paphillips 1y ago
Ahh yes, nothing brings out the strong opinions like formatting. Let's do SQL next!
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by paphillips 2y ago
The main site was replaced with a mostly empty blank page earlier today. The bizarre thing was that the page source at that time had almost nothing except some odd javascript to build a "508 Daily Report" table of Jira tickets or
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by paphillips 2y ago
I didn't expect to see javascript about Jira tickets in the source!
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by paphillips 2y ago
The svg infographic on page 'Life Cycle of an Order' > 'Overview' is outstanding. Source indicates Adobe Illustrator as the generator. Oddly, the direct hyperlink to this page doesn't seem to work properly though
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by paphillips 3y ago
Taking this concept further one could model in RAML [0] to define both the types (flat or nested) and api definitions. It's based on YAML 1.2 with enough maturity to provide capabilities such as union types, extensions, includes, user-
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by paphillips 3y ago
I miss electronics retail, even with its issues. Radio Shack had the Forrest Mims engineer's notebooks for learning electronics, and it was great to be able to drive down to a Fry's to pick up a component that you needed in a hurr
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by paphillips 3y ago
Hey, you know what they say.
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by paphillips 3y ago
One of my favorite economics professors called the second one 'OBSCENE PROFITS!'. His vocal delivery of those two words in front of the class was always highly animated and packed full of energy. It is intuitive that, as soon as e
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by paphillips 3y ago
One initial reaction to the prompting style is how similar it is to a human-to-human interaction. For example, a team lead communicating requirements to a wider team composed of less experienced engineers may also follow this type of iterat
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by paphillips 3y ago
My understanding is that relocation assistance is not available for this position. I will double-check to be sure, and if it is now offered I will reply here.
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by paphillips 3y ago
Everyone's mileage varies - we found it to be the best among the major offerings, for our specific needs.
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by paphillips 3y ago
XL Construction | Mulesoft Integration Developer | Primarily ONSITE (Milpitas/San Jose, CA) XL Construction is an award-winning Northern California general contractor/builder, consistently voted as one of the best places to work i
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by paphillips 4y ago
When I moved to SV from the Portland area about 20 years ago, the first thing I sought out was a surplus store like Wacky Willy's (closed), the Tektronix country store (maybe still open?), or Surplus Gizmos [0]. My friends and I used t
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by paphillips 4y ago
There are a few things to parse here. 1. In terms of software efficiency, engineers may lament the perceived waste, inefficiency, and imperfection in the produced code, but from a business standpoint it is a rational cost/benefit decis
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by paphillips 4y ago
New technology taking my job is the least of my concerns here. In my opinion there is simply a bifurcation of software underway: traditional programming on one side, and training/learning-based technologies on the other. Traditional so
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by paphillips 4y ago
It was intended as both actually: a sloppy imitation Australian accent, as well as a nod to Mr. Noyce. There are very few occasions where the two intersect so nicely.
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by paphillips 4y ago
Noyce! This is 21st century if I ever saw it, and I tip my hat to thee.
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by paphillips 4y ago
I vividly remember when they took away the cereal at work. Working long hours, at times 3 weeks on, one day off - I couldn't understand how a cost/benefit analysis could arrive at that decision. The cereal may have returned later
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by paphillips 4y ago
Related to this, for anyone not fully up to date on recent C# features there is also the CallerArgumentExpression [1], [2] feature introduced in C# 10. While it is not a pretty printer for an expression, it does allow the full expression
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by paphillips 4y ago
I also disagree with the article - thin events don't always result in more coupling, and I'll add that thin events can remove temporal or state coupling as illustrated below. However, the caveat is: as with many things I think cho
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by paphillips 4y ago
Good point - the wording I chose should have qualified the scope in that first statement: how about something like "as the scope that is reproduced verbatim increases, the likelihood of infringement approaches 100%?" (excluding pr
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by paphillips 4y ago
In my opinion this is a key comment in this thread and everyone subject to United States law should read the Abstraction Filtration Comparison (AFC) legal test when refining their opinion. Also, I have no legal background, but as far as I k
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by paphillips 4y ago
UML is a tool like any other: one should understand the tradeoffs and make an objective decision as to whether it is useful and appropriate for a specific organization and scenario. Specification has a fundamental tension between clarity an
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by paphillips 4y ago
I should have clarified: the project required careful re-architecting of system interactions and flows to split the responsibilities. The commercial ERP system that I led the implementation of assumed only the responsibilities and functions
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by paphillips 4y ago
I led the project that replaced SAP at Tesla in 2012 (as an internal IT employee). Explaining that in detail warrants a full article, book, or movie, but in summary the project was successful, took 13 months start to finish, and took a few
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by paphillips 5y ago
I've used GraphViz a number of times and highly recommend it as a standard tool on your belt. Having a stand-alone executable that can export to SVG is great. The most complex thing I've done with it [1]: a tool (MIT-license) that
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by paphillips 5y ago
'Technical Debt' in contemporary terms has certainly become a container holding far more than originally intended by Cunningham. The fundamental debt metaphor was about the need for ongoing re-factoring of past code and systems to
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by paphillips 6y ago
GraphViz is great. I used it in a Cypress DSP processor development mini-IDE (C#) [1]. A diagram is generated for each step of the assembler code showing the data and addressing. Being able to visual the pipelining of instructions and data