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There only 4 hard things in computer science. Caching, naming things and off by one errors.

I don't know, nothing lasts forever, and one might 'die' at the hand of the other. It could easily happen through acquisition as he says.

Jaron is very good at articulating his ideas. He is preaching to the choir with me though. I was somewhat addicted to Twitter, but snapped out of it 7 years ago, and find the idea …

so the spoofer distributing these devices is going to all this trouble/expense/risk in the hope there is a http downloaded exe it can corrupt, then hopes the hashing doesn't fail o…

it might redirect to a malicious web page, but https would still prevent a problem. perhaps read the article you posted.

I don't see how this 'man' in the middle could actually intercept passwords, except for http, but who runs auth over http anyway. For https, the 'man' would have to substitute its …

Analogies are good at explaining difficult to understand concepts but shouldn't be used to arrive at decisions or axioms. Each situation or argument should be evaluated on its own.…

Spidey sense didn't detect these problems then?

As always, it depends. Personally I have been working for a corporation where we use a microservice approach and it has been great for productivity, turn around times on projects, …

I call it TDD. Trend driven development.

I scratch around passing time on the internet, but then if I'm not doing that I'm passing time watching cable tv, passing time playing chess, passing time smoking pot, passing time…

I read this in a drug information pamphlet a long time ago; basically it said that cocaine and heroin both bind to a different set of receptors to the other, but alcohol binds to b…

Maybe it has had its day. It influenced the mindset of the masses and is now mainstream. There is no alt anymore. Even Microsoft ships software that leverages newtonsoft.json

Yes, its generally much faster to have a quick conversation rather than reply to an email.

The blurting has no bounds. I recently had someone tell me over slack that the company is contemplating a spin-off, blurting out a few lines describing the strategy, and asked if I…

That's a great title for a self-help book. I'll read it once I finish 'How to look out the window'. It never occurred to me that obsessive email checking could be a distraction or …

AV software is a great example of a cure being worse than the disease

Not a surprise to me, their HDDs are junk. I've had two burn out in work machines and one personal external burn out. I never buy their gear anymore

shouldn't he be saying i fucked up?

That blog post could pretty much apply the same arguments to itself. And who knows if Bob's experience is simply correlation not causation. Perhaps Bob is just a smart, meticulous …

the necks got off their sundecks it seems

Yes, although fortunately for me my wife has become friendly with a lot of my mates' wives / girlfriends, so we still catch up when they organize things.

And quite possibly the whole system was replaced within a few years and it turned out that management were correct in not letting your team waste the organization's money trying to…

I've always thought that 'debt' is a poor analogy. Systems get replaced / rewritten / superseded / thrown in the bin... all time, and that is where the debt analogy fails. Its obvi…

i don't agree that CLR vs .NET versions are confusing. .NET is the CLR plus a pile of libraries. The CLR moves slowly, the non-clr parts of .NET iterate faster. I rarely even think…