simplotek

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by simplotek 4y ago
> For Christ sake. There was never any need to memorize fizz buzz, Wrong. Fizzbuzz is the epitome of a hiring test that is gamed by rote learning and adds absolutely nothing in terms of decisive info on wether s candidate is competent or
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by simplotek 4y ago
> Fizzbuzz basically just tests you know how to use a conditional, do division/mod, and print to console. No, fizzbuzz test rote learning and it mainly serves to game the hiring system.
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> wing how a computer works. I legit have to ask FizzBuzz What leads you to believe that fizzbuzz is a relevant litmus test for competent software developers?
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by simplotek 4y ago
I'd wager that OP is one of those types who see hiring rounds as a chance to feel self important by grilling prospective recruits on useless trivia over inane details that have zero practical relevance, and leverages that to belittle c
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by simplotek 4y ago
> Good enough as in constant burden Are they, though? Or are you just trying to put up a strawman? Because I assure you plenty of highly reliable infrastructure is running 24-7 without the faintest concern over normalization.
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by simplotek 4y ago
> Formalising 3rd normal form and giving it a rigorous definition so that we can test if data is properly normalised is a big deal. It isn't. Half the world already relies on ORM frameworks that barely require any input from the dev
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by simplotek 4y ago
> First that forcing objects everywhere makes things really complicated compared to FP Pointless. They are OO courses, not FP courses. You have FP courses already covering that. > second that under the hood everything can be shoehorne
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by simplotek 4y ago
> And who identifies value? For starters, if you can't argue what is the value then none can fill in the void in your reasoning. Secondly, software developers have as part of their job description the task of finding solutions to pr
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by simplotek 4y ago
> I mean, Java 8 had the lambdas and FP which I would argue are pretty important in modern Java. What role do you believe lambdas and support for functional programming play in object-oriented programming courses?
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> Do you need to prohibit Java 20 to teach inheritance? Java20 did not introduced inheritance, nor did it introduced any OO concept. Java20 adds no value to those learning OO. If you're writing java code but are not using any Java20
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by simplotek 4y ago
> ...and this explains why database designs are what they are. You mean good enough?
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by simplotek 4y ago
> GPT4 can write clean and testable code. Software developers aren't paid to write code. They are paid to deliver value. Your code delivers no value whatsoever. Many masters and PhD thesis are boiled down to a shareable library or e
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by simplotek 4y ago
> it's funny to think that in the 90's they were considered a symbol of employees being treated like cattle. Cubicles are still a way to treat employees like cattle. Except that this free-range approach to cubicles mixes the wo
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> (...) a company which believes so much in virtual work that they renamed themselves after the "metaverse" is now thinking to require employees to return to the office. This is not ironic. It sounds like a disingenuous ploy to
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> even though it was EOL and Java 8 had been out for a while, What's wrong with that? You're supposed to cover the basics in intro to programming courses, and typically Java is not outright taught in college, and instead it&#x2
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by simplotek 4y ago
> It needs to be more like a trade school. The vast majority of jobs call for workers who can create and maintain programs that actually do things, not just theory. This bears repeating. It's important to learn how to deal with asyn
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by simplotek 4y ago
> Relational algebra is math. SQL is a practical application of relational bags. How many database programmers do you know who ever did anything involving relational algebra when creating or tuning up a database? This point is specially
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by simplotek 4y ago
And once a company exec feels the need to embellish results by cutting salary expenses, those workers need to be the first to present resignation to avoid the extra cost to the company in salary, meetings and in paperwork.
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by simplotek 4y ago
> You think amzn pays zero for inter-AZ transfer costs over fiber/whatever they don't own? Some of the traffic doesn't leave the server, let alone the server rack. I'd wager these costs have zero to do with operationa
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by simplotek 4y ago
> you're buying the systems engineering System engineering is not measured in dollars per byte transfered.
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by simplotek 4y ago
> That's exactly my point. In your own, exactly what point did you tried to make? Complaining that x and y technology users joined the "whoops" crowd when those technologies are in fact well established and proved to be ef
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by simplotek 4y ago
> With that premium you are also paying for the traffic between instances. No, you aren't. You're paying for the service following an arbitrary pricing model that bears no relationship with their business costs.
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by simplotek 4y ago
> Free ingress, expensive/hard egress. Let's call AWS's "Free ingress, expensive/hard egress" business model as the AWS roach trap pattern.
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by simplotek 4y ago
> That's likely a selling point to attract people to the competition. "Look, our bandwidth is free!" But bandwidth is free in intra-node traffic, isn't it? I mean, in some scenarios this traffic doesn't even leav
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by simplotek 4y ago
> I'm up for AWS bashing more often than not, but I don't get what this post is proposing. The discussion topic is about anticompetitive practices. AWS charges a premium on intra-region traffic, when other cloud providers do no
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by simplotek 4y ago
I don't appreciate your veiled attempt to conflate accusing a company of false advertising as being a kin to mysiginy and sexism. Namecheap advertises cheap domains when, as covered in this discussion, it jacks up prices. This is impos
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by simplotek 4y ago
> Fair? Sure. Interesting? Not even slightly. Anyone can opt to go off tangents playing semantics games. Meanwhile, if a company portrays itself as selling cheap products and services and then charges a hefty premium in exchange for noth
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> I’d really love to know what the marginal cost to AWS for this is though. I'd wager that AWS's marginal cost for intra-region traffic is zero. They own their infrastructure and other than maintenance and upgrades they have no
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by simplotek 4y ago
GoDaddy to me is synonym for actively sabotaging their customer's interests.
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by simplotek 4y ago
> It’s a boring complaint I disagree. If a company portrays itself explicitly or implicitly as offering low prices them it's more than fair when they jack up prices. Namecheap's own description is "Buy cheap domain names a

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