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purple_ducks··on Three Kinds of Good Tech Debt
> With 50 developers you likely take more advantage of microservice architecture so each team can be decoupled and move faster.

Microservices aren't magic. There still has to be a contract between the services. Microservices are best when they are something which need to be scaled independently of the rest of the system.

purple_ducks··on Anxiety Looks Different in Men
A is not Amazon, it's Apple.

Amazon does not have the same technical hurdle as the others.

purple_ducks··on Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights
> The data has to be sourced from somewhere, which would be the airlines.

Such nonsense.

Pretty much all airlines don't own/run the source of truth for their flights and haven't for decades. They outsource that to GDS[1] such as Sabre and Amadeus. Their backends are not fragile.

You just have to pay for every query thus the caching.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_distribution_system

purple_ducks··on The arm’s-length flats of Tokyo [video]
Oh dear. Seems I've upset the Ayn Rand crowd.
purple_ducks··on The arm’s-length flats of Tokyo [video]
Disgraceful that these were allowed be built in the first place.

People defacto forced in to these out of necessity, not choice.

purple_ducks··on How I Got my $3500 Camera Kit Stolen on KitSplit
Seems like KitSplit's provided you with false information as they actually hadn't verified the user's identity.

Seems like a nice base for your claim.

purple_ducks··on No one should be a billionaire
> If Elon musk wasn't allowed to be a billionaire would we have Tesla

Have you read the history of Tesla? Elon Musk didn't start Tesla...

purple_ducks··on Show HN: Reading list of popular Hacker News users
very janky scrolling - chrome on windows
purple_ducks··on Switch from Chrome to Firefox
> It might just be the nature of computers

Computers are not conscious.

purple_ducks··on Choosing Ruby on Rails for web development project in 2019
That job posting is more than just a rails dev.

> lead the development of...Our Java, Swift, and React Native-based mobile apps

> - Experience with building application backends in Ruby

> - Experience with React and Redux

> - Interest in machine learning and other next-gen technologies.

That job posting doesn't know what it wants.

purple_ducks··on The High Cost of Low-level Crime in San Francisco
> I also struggle to remember ever seeing an SFPD officer patrolling this neighborhood (two blocks from a major police station) on foot.

Footbeats have been cut back from pretty much all police incl. in Europe.

Policing(even moreso with reduced personnel) is more reactive than preventative. Getting from A to B and dealing with issue in B is generally quicker and safer by vehicle than having somebody run to B and then dealing with issue. Limited energy stores etc.

purple_ducks··on US cosmetics are full of chemicals banned by Europe
Clearly not as the US has adopted that mindset for new chemicals. From the linked article...

"The US has similar rules for new chemicals entering the market but no such precautionary principles for the thousands of potential toxins already in use"

purple_ducks··on CQRS and Event Sourcing Intro for Developers
Does error handling exist in your application or did you guys take the "happy path" only exists?
purple_ducks··on Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)
Kind of like TechCrunch hijacking middle click to open the link in same page. Shoddy worksmanship.

[This has only recently been fixed to behave normally]

purple_ducks··on Senior Developers Are Getting Rejected for Jobs
> CS101 basics (appending to an array?)

Probably because most professionals are not fresh out of CS101 & most data structures aren't arrays or exposed as arrays.

List, Collections, Map, Trees, home-rolled data structures better suited to domain - how do you not get this?

Your opinion sounds like that of someone just out of a bootcamp. You're putting all the weight on irrelevant syntax issues. A lot of devs use multiple languages day to day amongst other things.

purple_ducks··on Senior Developers Are Getting Rejected for Jobs
Wow. So you base your hire decisions on pop quiz answers?

Have you worked in the industry for longer than 2 years?

> ask what the sleep command is in JavaScript.

> We don't really use arrays in Scala

These all seem like genuine things. In more complex companies, people may use more exotic data structures and/or have abstractions around data access.

Silly comment overall.

purple_ducks··on They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia
Google is not analogous to the NBA.

It's the IBM of the 2010's.

purple_ducks··on Death by gentrification: the killing that shamed San Francisco (2016)
> Police officers should especially be held to a higher standard

I would guess that people who thought about this longer and harder than you did came to the conclusion that... they are also just human.

purple_ducks··on Luxury Developers Use a Loophole to Build Soaring Towers for Ultrarich in NY
> Does my eating of an apple actively hurt people who are hungry in Africa?

Apples aren't sold at cost.

You, through consumption, have created a market for apples to sell at a price that would never be had in Africa.

purple_ducks··on Programming: Doing it more vs. doing it better
> Listen to the people who finish correct programs on time, or mostly working prototypes in hours or days.

Generally done by people who don't think through the requirements or know why they're doing what they're doing.

"I just copied pasted the example and hacked it until it did what i wanted. I'm still not sure why it works lol"

Completely fucking over the next person who has to work that code.

purple_ducks··on Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand
Google aren't inventing.They aren't even re-inventing.

They're just re-implementing.

purple_ducks··on How I Eat for Free in NYC Using Python, Automation, AI, and Instagram
> resharing Instagram pictures

He uses that fluffy language but "resharing" is not an Instagram feature. He wholesale steals images.

purple_ducks··on Base salaries offered to software engineers in SF, NYC, and Seattle
That sounds like HR in those companies had way too much power.
purple_ducks··on How not to hire a software engineer
If you're a complete novice with Windows, using a Mac for the first time will be similar.

If you have years of muscle memory and shortcuts and knowledge about Windows OS, switching to Mac OS will be painful. Not least the different Cmd/Ctrl keyboard placements and shortcuts.

Also, those universal text editing/navigation shortcuts on MacOS?: they're emacs shortcuts which don't exist on Windows OS.

purple_ducks··on Web pages can now detect when Chrome’s window is covered by another window
Seems like a good time for the various OSes to have a blacklist of programs who shouldn't be able to access this info - chrome being the first program to add to list.
purple_ducks··on Why big tech should fear Europe
> Shouldn't they be paying those taxes in China or the US?

Well for one, Apple contracts out the manufacturing of the products to multiple Chinese companies so I fail to see what taxes on profits they would be paying in China wrt manufacturing.

The EU(~508m ppl) is not the US. Apple have a massive presence in Ireland dealing with everything EU specific from before the products hits the shelves to after they're bought.

purple_ducks··on Yes, Python Is Slow, and I Don’t Care
Is Prolog known for it's performance?
purple_ducks··on Amsterdam's Plan: If You Buy a Newly Built House, You Can't Rent It Out
???

Developers (who hire builders) go to market for finance - they don't have the funds lying around.

Those financiers want a quickish (< 3/5 yrs) return, not a long term investment(20+ years).

purple_ducks··on Amsterdam's Plan: If You Buy a Newly Built House, You Can't Rent It Out
That just ended up jacking up every property by 20k to give more profit to developers who were complaining.

Completely short-sighted.

purple_ducks··on Kidfluencers' Rampant YouTube Marketing Creates Minefield for Google
Well, if YouTube did nothing when 2 (very big with kids) stars were promoting a shady gambling site to minors, I have little faith they'll do something until the EU hits them hard with a court appearance & yet another multi billion euro fine.

https://www.tubefilter.com/2019/01/02/jake-paul-ricegum-yout...

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