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Im currently deep in rewriting a c# monolith thats 10+ years old that has thousands of lines of extra code that i was able to throw away because most of it was written before there were optional arguments so they made overloads for every permutation of arguments for every framework function
Would be great to work in such a company as a Linux guru. There are so many entangled services and machines that you feel like an Indiana Jones. You ssh into a machine and feel century-old dust beneath your footsteps. And you never know what will you find. Maybe a service which holds the company together. Maybe a CPU eating hog which didn't do anything useful last 3 years. I don't enjoy writing new code much. But in…
When I started my recent job the team kept referring to a box running "weird linux". After getting on-boarded and accessing the box it turned out to be running a very old version of OpenBSD. To this day I'm curious who had the wherewithall to install OpenBSD in prod but was seemingly ignorant of the 1yr support cycle.
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Given the various accidental leaks dues to people not realising deletion still has a history with git when publishing (not to mention git has no equivalent to mercurial's "censor" operation), or people confusing public and private repos on their github accounts, or even the story just last week here on HN with counterintuitive behaviour of forking in terms of privacy ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41060102 ),…
> not to mention git has no equivalent to mercurial's "censor" operation Haven't followed that for a while, but it used to be the case that it was Mercurial who was principled/fanatic about never rewriting history, ever , while git happily let you mess up with hard deletes.
What censor is for is the case where something absolutely has to be removed from the repo, for legal or security. It allows you to do it in a clean standard way, even replacing it with, say, a key signed statement, without forcing regeneration of the whole repository or altering the tree in any way.
Just remove the contents while keeping the hash.
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> He got furious when he was unable to call some journalist, cursed at me in front of the entire team and sent me a termination notice. Honestly does not sound like a very healthy person to work for anyway.
Does this seem like a healthy person to you? https://www.instagram.com/durov/
Oh, those kinds of columns. I thought we were talking text columns, and I was about to relate. I work at a small business. Despite computer software being about the literal opposite of our business (plants), the founder built an entire suite of interconnected tools that runs off MS BASIC for Xenix, on a single HP machine running SCO OpenServer. The machine has so many customizations, self-scheduling cron/at jobs, odd…
Why a webpage instead of another TUI?
This made me think of my first job. I was the sole developer on a project because the old developer left. Nothing was documented and nobody knew why things were designed the way they were. We had no code reviews, no design docs, no tests, nothing. We made the changes the way we thought they were right and would git pull them onto the production server. After I struggled to get productive for the first four months, my…
> my manager went on a four-week Christmas vacation. Is that kind of stuff common? People checking out on Black Friday and coming back for New Year's?
When I started at my first company, they had a very complex VB application running on dozens of customers around the country, each having some particular needs of course. There was a LOT of global variables (seemingly random 4 uppercase letters) controlling everything. At some point, the application had some bugs which were not appearing when the application was run in debug mode in Visual Studio. The solution was ob…
This is amazing. I can so well imagine a bright young hire joining that team, helpfully offering to "setup this thing called git" only to be laughed out of the meeting by all the "senior" staff.
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This is amazing. I can so well imagine a bright young hire joining that team, helpfully offering to "setup this thing called git" only to be laughed out of the meeting by all the "senior" staff.
I had a visceral reaction to this comment! I once joined a company doing ETL with Apache camel and a half dozen underpowered pet machines. Ingesting their entire dataset and running a suite of NLP models took 3-6 months (estimated; it was so slow nobody ever reprocessed the data to fix bugs or release improvements). I drew up a simple architecture using Kafka, hbase, and MapReduce to implement a lambda architecture.…
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I know things have gotten somewhat better, but the amount of wasted time and latency of using RDP and Windows UI for development, testing and production maintenance is insane. Throw in some security requirements of RDP into host 1 to the RDP jump to host 2 and companies are just wasting money on latency. There is, often, not an appreciation of the administrative costs of the delivery. Not necessarily system admin cos…
Windows programming has a natural job security dependency that is often overlooked.
When I started at my first company, they had a very complex VB application running on dozens of customers around the country, each having some particular needs of course. There was a LOT of global variables (seemingly random 4 uppercase letters) controlling everything. At some point, the application had some bugs which were not appearing when the application was run in debug mode in Visual Studio. The solution was ob…
I was brought in when an old sheet cost them $10m on a bad trade because the yahoo finance end point it was hitting stopped responding and it just used the last value it had gotten - three months before.