Hacker News: anton_gogolev

New comment by anton_gogolev in "Systematically removing code"

anton_gogolev — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 07:40:55 +0000

That’s not called “deleting old code”. This is now “breaking backwards compatibility”.

New comment by anton_gogolev in "Working from home? switch off Alexa, say lawyers"

anton_gogolev — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 18:16:29 +0000

So you're not welcoming guests with Android phones? Will you be placing their mobile phones in a Faraday cage?

Or will not not be visiting anyone who has a Homepod/Echo at home?

New comment by anton_gogolev in "A principled approach to system design and programming"

anton_gogolev — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 08:37:15 +0000

> The Law of Leaky Abstractions is a lie; abstract airtightly

This one... Our entire computing world is a pie of terrible abstractions held together by duct-tape and billions of man-hours spent working fixing those leaks.

New comment by anton_gogolev in "RFC: Adopt a modern JavaScript framework for use with MediaWiki"

anton_gogolev — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 09:36:35 +0000

> ...the better your code style, guidelines, linting, infrastructure, error reporting and tests

Doesn't TypeScript kind of solves (at least partially) those issues?

New comment by anton_gogolev in "Running Istio In Production"

anton_gogolev — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 07:00:09 +0000

Keeping track is one thing. Actually _running_ the Lernaean Hydra of an application in production is a whole another story. The amount of "housekeeping" you have to do to keep the thing afloat is astounding: cascading failures, distributing tracing, logging and diagnostics, metrics. Even operational side of things require a lot of attention. Presumably, each microservice would require at least a minimal level of admin-level tooling around it.

New comment by anton_gogolev in "Running Istio In Production"

anton_gogolev — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 06:56:06 +0000

You can experience the same, if not worse, levels of pain and suffering with a monolithic application designed by the same Enterprise Architects.

New comment by anton_gogolev in "Opnieuw: A simple and intuitive retrying library for Python"

anton_gogolev — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 13:06:52 +0000

This is some Java-level explicitness. Maybe, drop the `_seconds` suffix and replace it with something like `retry_window_after_first_call = '60s'`?

New comment by anton_gogolev in "Show HN: I wrote about book about rebasing in Git"

anton_gogolev — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 18:34:13 +0000

Not to undermine author’s efforts, but I feel we as an industry took a wrong turn somewhere. An entire book on what essentially is a single Git command is just insane.

New comment by anton_gogolev in "Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019)"

anton_gogolev — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 08:49:04 +0000

> ...weird design choices (e.g. branching is bad)

What bothers you in particular?

New comment by anton_gogolev in "Always Review Your Dependencies, AGPL Edition"

anton_gogolev — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 12:04:13 +0000

> There's nothing wrong with having zillions of them...

There's nothing wrong until something goes wrong an now you're royally screwed. With zillion dependencies you are at a mercy of zillion maintainers, and none of them has any obligation to you. They can break backwards compatibility in patch releases, introduce subtle behavior changes, steer the project in an unexpected direction or abandon it altogether.

New comment by anton_gogolev in "Making an Endpoint 50x Faster"

anton_gogolev — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 13:14:22 +0000

The whole "...we don’t want duplicated subscriber lists" is a very arbitrary requirement.

What's more, all this could have been avoided if a proper relational database structure (not even denormalized, GordonS) was there in the first place.

New comment by anton_gogolev in "Designing a package manager from the ground up"

anton_gogolev — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 11:53:26 +0000

I've been using HJSON lately and it's been a joy.

New comment by anton_gogolev in "Pijul: A Rust based distributed version control system"

anton_gogolev — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 07:03:34 +0000

The patented "Shlemiel the painter’s algorithm" [1].

1: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/12/11/back-to-basics/

Microsoft Azure (North Europe) has been down for 4 hours

anton_gogolev — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 22:28:27 +0000

Article URL: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17350799

Points: 11

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New comment by anton_gogolev in "GitHub's online schema migration for MySQL"

anton_gogolev — Thu, 03 May 2018 09:31:36 +0000

How could foreign keys ever be a "hassle"?

New comment by anton_gogolev in "Apple and NeXT announce merger (1996)"

anton_gogolev — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 06:44:46 +0000

The legalese is astonishing:

...in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, and intending to be legally bound hereby, Parent, Merger Sub and the Company hereby agree as follows...

New comment by anton_gogolev in "Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations"

anton_gogolev — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 15:38:07 +0000

If by "designed" you mean "picking a content-addressable DAG as an underlying data structure", then yes, it is really beautiful. If you mean "provide a sane level of abstraction over said data structure", then hell no!

New comment by anton_gogolev in "App with local notification will crash iOS Springboard on Dec. 2"

anton_gogolev — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 07:09:47 +0000

And nothing from Apple yet, right? Apparently, engineers are hard at work releasing a fix, so there should be known workarounds. Or at least it’s known to them what is actually causing the issue. Instead, we have hordes of people resetting their iPhones, adjusting dates and times, fiddling with notification settings and generally stumbling in the dark.

What would hurt them more, I wonder: publicly admitting that there is an issue (on a massive scale) and listing workarounds, or keeping total radio silence and then publishing a “whoopsies, we screwed up” after the fix is ready. All the while all their support centers are drowning in calls.

New comment by anton_gogolev in "Git hash function transition plan"

anton_gogolev — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 06:56:07 +0000

NewHash is a terrible name - on par with Xbox One [X] and iPad New. Googling stuff will be hard, and good luck explaining to less technical-savvy users what is this all about.

Plus, in 100 years, when SHA-256 is compromised, what would be the name of a new new format?

New comment by anton_gogolev in "Writing a C Compiler, Part 1"

anton_gogolev — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 06:47:34 +0000

Check out http://www.craftinginterpreters.com for something more in-depth.