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New comment by Notanothertoo in "We sound like idiots when we talk about technical debt"

Notanothertoo — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:59:44 +0000

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.

New comment by Notanothertoo in "We sound like idiots when we talk about technical debt"

Notanothertoo — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:55:37 +0000

There are two types of tech debt in my experience, things get out of date because they weren't maintained and it's harder to do now years later than absorbing some of that work a little at a time throughout the years.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.

New comment by Notanothertoo in "Swisscom to discontinue MMS service"

Notanothertoo — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:48:33 +0000

Signal

New comment by Notanothertoo in "Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes"

Notanothertoo — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 15:48:16 +0000

None of the current markets are sustainable

New comment by Notanothertoo in "Please make a dumb car"

Notanothertoo — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 16:47:17 +0000

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.

New comment by Notanothertoo in "Ask HN: Which VM orchestrator do you use?"

Notanothertoo — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 21:18:11 +0000

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.

New comment by Notanothertoo in "Reasons for servers to support IPv6"

Notanothertoo — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 21:06:32 +0000

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.

New comment by Notanothertoo in "Apple Reports First Quarter Results"

Notanothertoo — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 22:15:00 +0000

While I don't disagree so you have specific things to read on this topic?

New comment by Notanothertoo in "LTO Tape data storage for Linux nerds"

Notanothertoo — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 16:09:17 +0000

Zfs is king imo. Brtfs is the more liberally licensed oss competitor and Refs is the m$ solution.

New comment by Notanothertoo in "Divorce in the rich world is getting less nasty"

Notanothertoo — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 06:28:41 +0000

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.

New comment by Notanothertoo in "Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work"

Notanothertoo — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 19:26:02 +0000

Where are these people? The benefits ended a couple of months ago.

New comment by Notanothertoo in "Tell HN: Salary data is for sale"

Notanothertoo — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 10:29:35 +0000

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.

New comment by Notanothertoo in "Tell HN: Salary data is for sale"

Notanothertoo — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 10:25:31 +0000

New comment by Notanothertoo in "Ask HN: Would you pass an interview for your current position?"

Notanothertoo — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 04:37:50 +0000

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.

New comment by Notanothertoo in "We created a new programming language just for our interview process"

Notanothertoo — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 04:29:05 +0000

"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.

New comment by Notanothertoo in "What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922)"

Notanothertoo — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 04:16:59 +0000

I agree with much of this as I think some of this has contributed to people's economic agency. But I think we should analyze the impact of these and not just chalk them up as actual improvements in people's liberty.

For example does enabling a person's ability to vote actually increase one's liberty in a corrupt/narrow system.

New comment by Notanothertoo in "Ask HN: My boss doesn't think I'm doing good work, how to proceed?"

Notanothertoo — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 04:05:18 +0000

This.

The conversation had was entirely one sided with no grace or responsibility. Furthermore if they don't appreciate it that feeling isn't going to change. They are rolling their bullshit down to you because they lack the maturity for something else. Also juniors are expected to need hand holding to adjust academic expectations for real world and if they haven't done anything to correct or provide more direct technical feedback that is also on them.

New comment by Notanothertoo in "CDC reports increase in human rabies cases linked to bats in the U.S."

Notanothertoo — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 03:58:28 +0000

Prions are doubly terrifying because it's not a typical disease. From what I understand it's proteins folding in a different way that come into (the prions can be dead or alive) and the healthy proteins will take on the new form. It's scary because typical sterilization (high heat) for surgery does not work guarantee it and the heat required is not currently practical.

The shakes from that cannibals get are prions. I also though I saw a link to a subset of alzehimer cases but can't find it.

New comment by Notanothertoo in "American Workers Are Burned Out, and Bosses Are Struggling to Respond"

Notanothertoo — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 16:06:21 +0000

I think you extrapolated a lot on very little.

New comment by Notanothertoo in "American Workers Are Burned Out, and Bosses Are Struggling to Respond"

Notanothertoo — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 16:03:02 +0000

You get 1/2 weeks paid at chic fila as a cashier. Grocery stores ie stocking shelves full time is also the same at nearly every chain. Tradesman have it better.