professorTuring

How good is AI refactoring the code? Haven’t tried it yet, but… as someone who has need to work on tons of legacy in the past… looks interesting!

Have you thought why isn’t sustainable for you?

The main problem I faced was giving in “just this time”. Fat and sugar are addictive and when you fall, it makes it easier to fall again.

About healthy food, I had overweight and I mostly ate “healthy food”. I needed to go to a nutritionist and ask him why.

This is what O was eating a year and a half ago:

Breakfast: two bread slices with avocado.

Meal: mostly salads with lettuce, tomato, tuna, avocado, carrots, salt, vinegar and extra virgin olive oil. (I really wanted to lose weight).

Dinner: chicken, sushi, eggs… normally I would add a handful of seeds/nuts.

This is what my nutriotionist told me: you have been eating quite healthy, the problem are the fats: too many healthy fats (extra virgin oil, avocado, nuts… nuts have a lot of fats).

Only add protein shakes when you are trying to gain muscle and you are not able to add normal proteins. I started on protein shakes once I was slim and not able to eat that much food to gain muscle.

A year later I am fully conscious of what I eat. I can have eventually a burger, but I am fully aware that it is really unhealthy.

My proteins today are mainly chicken and salmon, carbs: quinoa, rice, lentils… and almost no fat (I’m trying to get my fat % to 12… it’s quite difficult)

Also read all packaged ingredients you will find nasty surprises in form of fats and sugar in diet / “high protein” meals.

Also no juices!

What worked for me: - quit sugar - quit processed foods - avoid fried food - little fat (even the healthy ones) - no nuts/seeds - lifting weights - little cardio

I have completely changed my life in one year.

It has been a very tough path, mostly socially, going out and not having a beer, burger… social pressure… but when you believe in eating healthy everything goes smooth. Also measure the results, once you get 12-15% of body fat, you may be gaining muscle weight.

The goal should be changing your lifestyle to one that is healthy and sustainable.

I believe it’s a good thing this shift towards apprenticeships, we don’t really need so many university graduates (I’m talking from an Spanish point of view).

More and more the university is degrading its own nature, focusing on preparing “workers” instead of cultivating the arts of knowledge: research, philosophy, history…

It is good that people from university goes to the private sectors, but we are doing it the wrong way, we do not need CS to go develop for Funny Startup, we need developers (technical apprentships) and probably some software architects (CS) that focus on how it should be done.

Private sector is pushing universities toward work training and we are falling back in advances and knowledge. The fine art of learn to learn, the place where people that love the field go instead than the people that searches for a job and money.

Not anymore, we used to do that and maybe a bunch of customers still have that device to log in, but we have been replacing them (the “hard token”) with a “soft token”, kind of a Google Authenticator linked to your mobile.

It is interesting how “yubi”things have moved in the opposite direction (back to the physical device) and it has its value, after all, leaving your home with all your savings in your pocket is a risk we need to address.

I lead Security in a quite large bank. I love this article, I’ve been advocating for this line of thoughts for more time that I can remember.

I have spoken to regulators hundreds of times, over this and a bunch other security topics that are definitely obsolete. Security policies that just don’t make sense…

The most important thing for this kind of things to advance is to have the correct people in the correct places, and usually in this positions you have dinosaurs…

We will end up using good old banks to hold those assets… at least the regulations make them solvent.

We need to read history and see what happened when the banks weren’t regulated enough and we are letting the crypto zoo run free and bankrupt many people.

Such a bliss the “we don’t need traditional ecosystem to thrive”.

I know how this is going to end, we will replicate the finance ecosystem into the cryptosystem.

I still remember the “don’t be evil” slogan in google, let’s give random people the power to store all our crypto investment and let’s see what happens…

I loved the “5 monkeys” comparison and I agree that everything depends on the real case scenario.

My point here is that what the article propose it is no “security through obscurity” it’s just good configuration practices. Change username, port…

Security through obscurity goes along in the line: “I have this algorithm in the js that obfuscate the password in the front end, and nobody is gonna guess it because it’s super complex”.

I can understand your statement, but by doing that you will find that A LOT of people will check the insecure options because “that a not going to happen to me”.

Remember you have the “rescue keys” from google to avoid these kind of problems.

The bigger problem is how you teach those people how to use the services in their situation.

It is not new, it’s been ages since some developers try to show off by bringing “cool” one liners to solve problems. Stretching operators, bringing up imaginative uses for lambda expressions or kind of abusing parts of the language to make some other teammate or reviewer, What did you make there?

I believe, definitely, that they are quite intelligent people that know a lot about the language or maths, but definitely they are not usually making the smartest choice, because you should use “languages” in order for the people to understand you.

So you can call those: “50 cent expressions”

They help no one but their ego…

There was a Saint that said: “I meditate one hour everyday, well everyday except when I have a lot of work, that day, I meditate two hours.”

That proverb is superb, when something is wrong and the team seems stressed I usually use it and we call a meeting to try to re-evaluate the situation.

Definitely you end up prioritizing and cutting in order to keep things on track.

Usually delays come from two sources: 1. Bells, whistles and nice to have functionality that are already working and keeps refining. 2. Engineers Ego: refactoring when they find that a nicer approach is possible. Just stop that and keep in mind that business comes first and you will eventually have time to rethink (if everything goes smooth).

Good luck!