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Comment · 4 years ago
This reads like it's in a vacume and assumes the business requirements were comunicated, they were clear, and and static. None of which is reality. Additionally things get updadated and need con rant maintenance. Gone are the days of writing code and letting it run untouched for years.

Tech debt usually occurs when the people implementing it aren't aligned with the with the stakeholders.

Comment · 4 years ago
There are two types of tech debt in my experience, things get out of date because they weren't maintained and it's harder to do now years later than absorbing some of that work a little at a time throughout the years. And the other kind is because of poorly written code which is often caused by poor business practices and changing requirements.
Comment · 4 years ago
Signal
Comment · 4 years ago
None of the current markets are sustainable
Comment · 4 years ago
I've never paid anywhere close to that. Virtually no parking expenses, and I've had 3 reliable vehicles all have been around 12-15k and I've gotten 5-8 years out of them with a couple major repairs. Also the grocery store is very far away and dangerous to bike towards, and I would have to rig my bike for storage. American stores are also geared for bulk larger purchases and you save a substantial amount of money, and even if you for simple things like toilet paper or paper towels.
Comment · 4 years ago
On prem Vms setup manually. I cloud provider Vms have their own primitives (aws asg), with something like terraform. Then a kube flavor for all the real orchestration.
Comment · 4 years ago
This is why I haven't swapped, but I didn't realize they've accounted for this at the client level. Makes sense, still makes me think about IoT devices though and things I don't have 'control' over like my chrome cast.
Comment · 4 years ago
While I don't disagree so you have specific things to read on this topic?
Comment · 4 years ago
Zfs is king imo. Brtfs is the more liberally licensed oss competitor and Refs is the m$ solution.
Comment · 4 years ago
This made a lot more sense imo when rights were less equal and the expectation was for the wife to stay at home. I think as thinks become more equal the more irrelevant an doutdated the current legal expectations are around marriage. Especially because the state will enforce child support regardless of martial status.

At some point the narrative has to change when things are more equal. I think there is a lot of data supporting that they have in many ways changed already. Women are more educated on average and more are completing higher education degrees than men and have been for the last few years.

Comment · 4 years ago
Where are these people? The benefits ended a couple of months ago.
Comment · 4 years ago
I wrote software for a company that sold software to Texas hhsc, they use this to look for hidden assets when assessing benefits. This is the only system I know of that contains salary info. We integrated with their apis for a number of products and their data is a mess and often not very accurate. Also their api has a decent error rate. 5 years ago anyway, their api would break with any non unicode characters in a name. There were some foreign companies that we couldn't get data from for example.
Comment · 4 years ago
Gf
Comment · 4 years ago
I hate this and find this just as academic and problematic as the whiteboard and quiz styles. Success in software development is about making the right trade offs to deliver while saving cost (ie your time). When you leave it so open an abstract, the dev looses the ability to discern this. "Production" standards are entirely based on context of the project and very specific requirements. Do you need structure logging, or rate limiting, or error handling, or notifications, or system status ect.. With do you already have systems in place to integrate these. Do you need a custom solution (like your own lambda engine) or do the off the shelve solutions (like aws lambda) meet the requirements.
Comment · 4 years ago
"Damned be your 10 yoe because we can't learn how to be dynamic and flexible in our interview process. "

This is akin to having candidates answer questions by calling a automated line and recording their responses in two minutes.

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