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by stana 29d ago
Major scandal in Australia was PwC secretly passing government secrets (tax changes consulting work) to private corporations [1]. And another one was KPMG passing secret client information to win contracts [2] [1] - https://en.wi
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by stana 1mo ago
There are a lot of things to like about Django. Remember being blown away when I discovered Django Content Types[1]. Basically generic foreign keys to any model type. [1]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/6.0/ref&
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by stana 2mo ago
Writing programs in C has simplified developer experience over Assembly. Issue with JS frameworks is that many find them complex, i.e. complexity has not been abstracted away (which should be goal of abstractions). Maybe DOM manipulation ha
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by stana 6mo ago
I wonder if this could go down similar way some SaaS systems went to lower barrier to customisation so less technical users could do it. For example, having to interface with some ServiceNow instances I often find major flaws with db schema
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by stana 1y ago
Or API_KEY = os.environ.get("YOUTUBE_API_KEY") CHANNEL_ID = os.environ.get("YOUTUBE_CHANNEL_ID") assert(API_KEY, "Missing YOUTUBE_API_KEY") assert(CHANNEL_ID, "Missing CHANNEL_ID")
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by stana 1y ago
Would love to explore this in Python. But would it be correct to assume single process service would not be as performant due to GIL?
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by stana 1y ago
After some experience, starting to use a new programming language is not such a big challenge. Mastering the new language eco system is. AI might help you generate new code faster, but feel like crunching code has not been so much of an iss
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by stana 1y ago
Advertising is out of control. Doing mundane things like filling up fuel at a petrol stations, or catching a lift at work - there is a little screen targeting you with ads.
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by stana 2y ago
Got introduced to Rufus Sewell in 'The Man in The High Castle'. He played an SS commander. Most intimidating and frightening presence on the screen - without raising his voice and no (direct) acts of violence. Great actor.
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by stana 2y ago
Isn't that Svelte?
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by stana 2y ago
And not much mention of how you do releases and version control with low-code.
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by stana 2y ago
Stuff like MS Power Apps. More traditionally MS Access. Basically drag and drop App builder - UI form builder, connectors to connect to public API-s and even store data.
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by stana 2y ago
Point I was trying to make was that low-code is a lock-in IMO, and I would pick Ruby, Django, or whatever any day for no other reason than being able to modify/maintain/own code.
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by stana 2y ago
Code is cost. Low-code is getting a vendor to generate code for you (cost again) and putting into a black box you can't access. i.e. lock in.
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by stana 2y ago
Interesting what you say about having to face some existential questions if you remove some ego enforcing ideas about yourself. Ernest Becker's book 'Denial of Death' suggests that this 'narrative' we have about our
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by stana 2y ago
Interesting. Wonder sometimes how much of consulting business is motivated by accountability avoidance - "accountability sinks" for hire
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by stana 2y ago
Code generation was a thing for decades but there are still jobs writing CRUD based apps by hand.
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by stana 2y ago
This might help with building new software. But large part of the job is maintenance and changes. How long will next outage take to understand without people with deep understanding of the code.
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by stana 2y ago
We are all temporarily embarrassed millionaires. That big project idea just around the corner...
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by stana 2y ago
Rebranding project coming up at CrowdStrike?
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by stana 2y ago
Yes. We are heavily manipulated by the media to think that we need 20 brands of deodorant. I think this is the subject of Herman/Chomsky book "Manufacturing Consent" (from a more political angle but I think applies to adverti
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by stana 2y ago
Can we trust it though that is what Alan Kay would say?
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by stana 3y ago
Stuff that gets pulled in when you do 'npm install' is scary for a more traditional server-side developer. Python for example comes with a lot of built-in libs maintained by the core python team. These could get you pretty far bef
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by stana 3y ago
Interesting you mention 'intuition'. I feel it is a big part of software development as you gain experience and it flows through as you are doing the work and would be tough to plan for. Also remember one of my colleagues complain
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by stana 3y ago
Talk that introduced me to this idea of corporations as Paperclip Maximiser AI - "Dude you broke the Future" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmIgJ64z6Y4
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by stana 3y ago
Tough to judge without any experience. I am sure there were not bullshit jobs. Must be satisfying to see fruits of your labor end to end. Many of us in the cities would not know what that is like.
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by stana 3y ago
This should extend to dumb (boring) tech stack/architecture. Not sure what it is that makes people choose some crazy complex tech to implement systems used internally by a few hundred people. Scalability? Really!? UI that in no way nee
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by stana 3y ago
"menaces including the largest war and the stupidest peace known to history" Any context why 1918 peace would be considered 'stupid'?
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by stana 3y ago
"Poor man wanna be rich. Rich man wanna be king." Bruce Springsteen
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by stana 3y ago
"The man who led the armed uprising that caused the Costa Rican civil war won, abolished the army, voluntarily stepped down as dictator after 18 months, served two much later terms as president, and at 65 years old stood on the tarmac

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