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by s188 7y ago
The JavaScript ones simply don't appear - which is nice. And yes, I believe they're in breach of GDPR if they use cookies and tracking pixels to track me without giving me the opportunity to deny consent. Please note I'm not
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by s188 7y ago
As in Mutually Assured Destruction? Or do I misunderstand? I'd love to know more...
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by s188 7y ago
UK: 30 minutes before work and 30 minutes at lunch
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by s188 7y ago
I've read Liars Poker - a real eye opener. I'd recommend Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg. It's a look at 'how not to build systems'.
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by s188 7y ago
I don't do TDD on the first version. For me, the first version is a throwaway version. If it turns out to be commercially viable, that's when I start with a brand new codebase incorporating all the lessons from the first version,
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by s188 7y ago
It's helpful to measure design quality and build quality - not just build quality. Software developers are mostly concerned about build quality. Software development should always proceed from complete and accurate specifications and t
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by s188 7y ago
If possible. That would be great. I definitely download it.
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by s188 7y ago
Could this be regarded as false advertising? It's not really free if you have to hand over PII. Problem is, no-one seems to know how much PII is worth.
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by s188 7y ago
Perhaps it's the fact that you tolerated the technical debt that got you to google scale. I've seen a few projects where developers aim for (as swatcoder so eloquently put it above) the intellectual purity of clean systems and the
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by s188 7y ago
Wow, that last paragraph is spot on. I found both your comments to not only be accurate and clear but also rather eloquent. I've always felt we've misunderstood technical debt. It seems to be regarded as a problem with a lot of ne
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Is This Deceptive?
2 points by s188 7y ago|1 comments
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by s188 7y ago
The hardware engineering world (oil and gas, aerospace, civil) is less about ego and more about well established processes, practices and rules. These are much more mature industries than the software industry. In my experience intellectual
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by s188 7y ago
Agreed. I think the professional/unprofessional distinction would have been much better. In this article the term 'amateur is used in a derogatory way, a sort of 'put down', such as one professional referring to another
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FAQ about experimental quantum Darwinism(blog.jessriedel.com)
1 points by s188 7y ago|0 comments
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by s188 7y ago
This is a good thing. And there's probably still some way to go with this. A step-by-step approach makes sense to me. Sure it's a nuisance for developers (although I'm certainly not complaining about the extra work) but it&#x
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by s188 7y ago
I agree. I've always felt that an individual may be more efficient (productive) than a team. Of course, that depends entirely on the individuals - their experience, motivation, domain knowledge, work environment etc. One efficient, mot
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by s188 7y ago
I agree with your point entirely but I wonder if more people outside of tech would care if only they understood what these companies were doing with their personal data.
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by s188 7y ago
This was a real eye-opener. As a software developer I've had my fair share of startup failures (and no successes - so far). Advertising and marketing have always been a closed book to me. This is the best explanation on ads I've e
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by s188 7y ago
Yep. That's my experience too. But ‘burn and churn’ thrives in the absence of decent human resource management. Is it possible to link 'problem complexity' to 'concentration demands'? And from that, derive a metric
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by s188 7y ago
Exhaustion leads to serious problems and, in the airline industry, that often leads to disasters ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgan_Air_Flight_3407 ). Hence the legislation for limiting the number of hours a pilot ca
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by s188 7y ago
Airline pilots have a legal limit to the number of hours they can work per month. I think this is mostly to avoid the consequences of mental exhaustion (rather than emotional exhaustion) such as in the Colgan Air Disaster: https:/&#x
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by s188 7y ago
I find it odd that the words 'consent' and 'permission' don't appear anywhere in this article. I realise it is a purely technical article but is it off topic to include consent in an article about collecting custome
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by s188 7y ago
These are two separate things - advertising and tracking. Advertising has been around for millennia. I'm sure an orange seller on the streets of ancient Bagdad used some form of advertising to sell his oranges. But when we discuss trac
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by s188 7y ago
Nice. That's a really useful way of looking it it. I'll definitely commit that to memory.
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by s188 7y ago
So much goodness comes from a well designed database as you point out, but I agree with barbecue_sauce too. Do the interface mock-up first (and get the customers agreement), then do the database design and then build everything in between.
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by s188 7y ago
Amen
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by s188 7y ago
I'm definitely going to give this a try over the next few weeks. I like that its live. I like that I can mouse over an end point and pull up and entire thread (an interesting use case). I reckon this could become my 'go to' H