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And you start on the journey when you first learn about hash maps or binary trees.

Expecting people to know what makes an app store safe is like expecting people to know how to change their spark plugs. It’s a niche skill. The only people who are going to know ar…

A good reliable system pretty much has error handling every step of the way, down to crash-first programming at the very end. It’s more possible to recover from errors higher in th…

Same. I shut down a ticket last week that would create an “final” error handling path that happened to re-invoke half the code paths that could error.

Insurance is not free money. Hypothetically say I was losing a car once per month… then my premiums would reflect that. The purpose of insurance in that hypothetical would be to in…

I own the Aranet4 sensor (highly recommend) and I’m in the US with not particularly great sealing and my sensor will read a 600ppm jump in a matter of 30 minutes. I basically have …

Google is good at making algorithms and tech but product development and long term vision have never been its strong points.

Instagram has like 2 billion users and I got spammed the shit out of to open a Threads account. That’s like saying it’s impressive I made a million dollar company after my dad gave…

Practically speaking, if you have to involve any libraries or tooling one day, if you stuck to standards or de-facto standards, you save yourself some pain because you got a lot in…

I would be more down if it wasn’t tied to the generation of phone. Also I’d love a keyboard with more buttons personally. I know I’m in a tiny minority here but I get ~70 WPM on an…

If anyone wants to build this by themselves, I recommend using an optimization solver library like OptaPlanner. It basically implements standard optimization algorithms you can rea…

There are people that can do this and you can also do this in the iPhone Photos app.

13 GB a lot? What year is it? 1995? If Apple or Google wanted to add 1 TB to their phones, it wouldn’t cost them anywhere near what they charge us to add 256 GB. A copy of GTA V ta…

Unsurprisingly, they already integrated OpenAI into Windows. You can ask it questions and pass it files.

I used to work at a medium-sized non-tech company ( We never stored CVVs or any of that insane nonsense though. Our systems only ever saw CC info in transit but they were never sto…

Google just spends millions of dollars building a product then dumps its own baby on the streets. Then goes and makes new babies.

Instead of idempotency you can return a 4xx error too. You use idempotency because it’s logistically less complicated for the client.

It gave me an intuitive understanding of state machines and idempotency is one solution to transitions. If you start with State A and a call changes it to State B, what does runnin…

The only reason I knew about idempotency is because growing up I was a little shit and I learned that you could break a LOT of electronics by getting it to do a second thing midway…

In 2006, Mark Klein working for AT&T leaked it. It was in the news. Snowden did his leak way later in 2013.

I don’t see how anything you said contradicts anything I said, which was just a more general summary. And there is a significant effort by a lot of people to split California into …

I mean digital signatures have really only been a thing for like 20 years, and barely because people only started caring about it more in the past 10. While the US has been around …

Well yeah those models would have the most, because people buy way more of them than a Corolla or Camry. It’s like using an overall statistic versus the per capita statistic. https…

Hmm I think you’re skipping some major parts of world history. Jewish immigration to Palestine was not particularly great. Jewish people were not really heavily trying to move to t…

Sedans actually kill more pedestrians than heavy vehicles overall despite there being 4 SUV/truck purchases for every 1 sedan purchased. Deaths by SUV seems to be on the rise thoug…