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> Amateur software developers dislike

While the rest of the list is valid the author could have stopped at the first item Standards and still have made his point.

Perhaps the most perfect example of that is why JSON won versus XML for data serialization. Many people will claim that it's because XML is bloated. After all this was the primary argument of JSON's inventor Douglas Crockford. They aren't wrong, but its not why JSON won.

JSON won because it's specification is tiny. When all the boilerplate is scrapped off the latest version is about 5 tiny pages of text any high school student can understand: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8259

Compare that to XML:

* XML - https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/

* XML Schema - https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-1/

* XSL - https://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/

Those are HUGE and they are written to conformance precision for implementation engineers. No high school student will ever read any of that for pleasure. I remember reading those when I first entered software development and absolutely everybody thought I was out of my mind and promptly discarded everything I said if they didn't already know it. I remember that being particularly frustrating because ever recommendation or proposal had to read like a pitch deck to a VC, but if I wanted to do that instead of engineering or product development I would be brand evangelism or merchandising.

XML for a data conveyance medium is extremely powerful, but in practice this is completely irrelevant. XML is a world unto itself in all of its capabilities and potential, but that doesn't matter if nobody is using it.

Most Americans, regardless of their actual educational attainment read at a 9th grade level (high school freshman). That applies to entry level software developers as well. Computer scientists and inventors are not the average of software developers. On one hand this is great, because I truly believe anybody can be a software developer and write really bad code. On the other hand this is horrible, because many people are code monkeys that write either bad code only or are fundamentally limited to a small subset of solutions limited by a small subset of tools.
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I dislike these types of articles. They are apathy generators.

I wish they could at least add a link to a donation page, or a way to offer help or waited for something more conclusive.

The other issue is that adding noise at this point often has the reverse snowball effect. If it came out this was due to something class actionable the noise of it dies down before the shouting needs to start. Then we get a ten part docudrama ten years later.

That’s not to diminish the suffering these people are going through. Though if I can’t help in some small way or there hasn’t been some sort of outcome or it’s about to become a pandemic it just generates apathy among the masses.
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They will get involved as much as they have with every other breach — i.e. not at all. Even Equifax only got an extremely minor dog and pony show for the complete disaster they created.
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This is the main reason I’ve kept my Unifi stuff and cloud key despite the growing company issues.

Is there anything in this space that is good hardware with a decent UI? When I looked the options were consumer crap or very expensive enterprise hardware with no UI.
Vertically when you look at it on a map, where north is facing up.

But we both knew that.
At this scale, yes. If you pay me (say) $30,000 for advertising based on a commitment from me that your ads will be shown to enough people until you reach a certain number of click-throughs, but actually all of those are just my staff sitting there repeatedly clicking on them all day without ever buying your product, i'm pretty sure you'd be unhappy about that.

Whether it's actually illegal or not is another matter, and depends on circumstances and jurisdiction.
I switched for the money
Are you doing multi-tenancy at the same time?
I would say ideally wherever they hangout. Figuring that out is a big part of the job, next is to find out how to engage with them. Going through that process will lead to a lot of learning. Figuring out a distribution channel for whatever you are doing is essential for getting to market and finding early users will inform that process. Read the mom test if you haven't already so you have a framework for how to speak to potential users.
Ubiquiti works fine without the cloud, the cloud key/cloud management stuff seems to have a fair bit of user demand. Especially for consultants helping network trailer parks/motels/universities, etc.

I like ubiquiti because it's pretty flexible, powerful, I can keep config files in git, IPv6 support is good (I have a /64 per router port), and I can separate router and APs, and handle multiple APs well (without mesh/forwarding).
I would assume that side has, in fact, established that proof.
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I think the paragraph after it kinda undermines their thesis though. There's nothing meaningfully different about an email and a website. They're both documents that you render locally on your client. The delivery mechanism doesn't really matter.

You would probably find it really weird that a NYT article archive HTML page you have on your machine still tracks you because you client runs the JS if it wasn't already the norm. But then why does downloading that same document on-demand change your expectation of being tracked? Or if we were in a alternate universe where web pages were hyperlinked PDFs I bet you would find it odd that opening one in Acrobat sends all your interactions to some server somewhere.

It's fine that by convention we have some places where it's not kosher to track people but we at least have to admit that the distinction is arbitrary and that being upset about email tracking but not website tracking is inherently inconsistent. Because sure you can name differences between emails and websites but nothing really fundamental.
They do. So the big splash image which is the same for everyone gets cached and served from google. The tracking pixel has a unique url per recipient (that’s the point) so can’t be cached.
> Maybe this fits for some types of businesses, but I suspect it's probably better just to build the thing.

9 out of 10 wantepreneurs that approach me with their SaaS/app idea can validate the offering by building a web site. Instead, everyone wants me to spend months on building a prototype. Which isn't even a prototype, they want full-blown product. "How am I going to sell it when there's no product?!". Dude, here's a landing page with ALL the features YOU THINK people want listed on it. And here's a "Buy now!" button. If you can't get a decent conversion with that, I'm not going to build your app ever. And guess what? Most of the time nobody clicks on the button, because nobody wants that product.
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I love when others have this feature turned on, and I'll never turn it on for myself :)
I routinely recruit highly targeted people for 1-on-1 interviews via services like userinterviews.com to help validate concepts. These services take care of incentives and scheduling, making this process fairly painless.
"Intention to buy" isn't specific enough. If it can be defined as obtaining money by deception, which seems like a pretty applicable description, the case for fraud seems strong.
> if only you could easily run it at home without their cloud.

Am I missing something with all these comments talking about “needing” a cloud account? I have two of their APs and a USG, and I don’t do anything in the cloud. I have a Cloud Key on my network, but that was just for convenience. I could’ve run their management software locally.
> What happened is once I cracked the codebase open I found ...

Sounds like giving the time estimate before cracking open the code base may have played a role in this. You (and your project manager) should factor in research time before giving your estimate.

If you are expected to give accurate estimates without research, something might be very wrong with the expectations being put on you.
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Disabling the 3G network doesn't mean they are going to disable the older 2G networks that are widely used to make calls even if connected through LTE. Here (Czech Republic) the 3G network was disabled today and the phone part of my phone works even though VoLTE is not being used.
> What makes these illegal?

It’s fraud.
If you have to convince VCs about market size for early stage investment (seed, A), you likely are talking to the wrong people.

VCs who will fund you already agree there's a potential market and are willing to make a speculative bet based on patterns like data + open source that have worked in other investments. Market numbers tend to be more or less imaginary at this point.
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> Well there is a difference in artists that produce a few good songs and then fill the rest of the album with other tracks, and artists that make an entire album be a journey of audio.

We don't disagree. My point is most artists are incapable of making a good full length album let alone a "journey of audio". This isn't necessarily a knock to those artists, just statistics.

My issue, such as it is, is the whole concept of an "album" comes more from record studios than musicians. A majority of albums are just a few singles wrapped in filler which is sometimes not even performed by the artists.

Even if all physical sales stopped tomorrow artists that can make full length albums would continue to do so. Much like a concept album and radio play, such albums might not do well with streaming services. Aficionado "DJs" would still include the more stream/radio friendly tracks on their stations and playlists. They will continue to exist though.

For the "journey of audio" type albums I think Internet distribution ends up a superior channel to physical distribution. For one it's much easier to make a multimedia experience. Even if it's just visual stills to go with the audio. It's also much easier to provide alternate experiential mixes, say for instance a full binaural mix for listening on headphones or surround sound and a more tailored stereo downmix. Artists can also make two-way transactions like providing stems to let fans produce remixes like Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails have done in the past.
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I was told that a CS degree is a hard requirement for software engineer applicants. If that's still the case, it would be helpful if you added it to the job listings.
I placed an order for their previous model, they assured me that I should get it 4 - 8 weeks. After I didn't get anything for 6 months I messaged them that I want to withdraw my order (the phone had already old hardware during release, and it was a year old when I ordered it, but at the same time it cost as much as a high end phone). I got no response from them. I then contacted my credit card company and they charged back.

It sucks, because, I would really love phone with a hardware keyboard. I would place an order, but am afraid of the same thing happening again.
Everybody says this, but it is just so unintuitive for me to get into.
They haven't been churning out amphibious ships that you would expect them to if they thought invasion was imminent.
When done properly (as the article describes), it's a courtesy feature under the control of the recipient.
Now I feel ancient. If you ran our highschool ID cards through a magstripe reader it would display your SSN.

There was a huge problem a few friends and I caused our first year there when we got bored in the computer lab. Every student account on a school computer had a folder named PUBLIC. Out of curiosity we dug down a few folders and found the txt file that was referenced by the simple visual basic program the IT guy wrote for class scheduling. That program used your name and SSN as login credentials. So there was a txt file that was simply a list of everyone's name and SSN for it to reference.

We being the idiots we are copied the file because it was a public folder anyone could access. The only reason we didn't get expelled was because one of the kids had a lawyer father who threatened to go public about them being that irresponsible with our data.
Yep, totally agree. Writing quality code is always on my mind but when something needs to be delivered yesterday what are you going to do? Options are: delay the release or release it with the crap we wrote
"Your office is professionally designed and cost many millions of dollars. You are given high quality equipment to make you comfortable. Your office has amenities that make being there easier. "

My house is nice, and is custom-tailored to me. The amenities are exactly the amenities I want and use. The equipment is exactly what I want, not equipment that a distant person contracted out to a firm to mass produce for a general office.

I understand that not every person is in a situation like this, but if you're working at a FAANG you should be making enough money to set up your living situation nicely.

People should have the -option- to come into an office. Working at home gets lonely. But there is no reason that a FAANG is necessarily better or even good at providing an optimal work environment.
eventual goal maybe, Not for the month of March. 15M out of planned 20M ? . The scale out for any process starts small to try avoid this kind of issues.

Yes fuck ups happen at plant and in planning, and yes we are not experts in the field to comment in detail on what is best approach. However if you are looking at it as an admin, clearly risk was not well managed.
I hear you on that, you stated:

> ""and isn't held accountable""

But, isn't RMS currently in the process of being "cancelled" (as the awake kids say). Isn't that some accountability (even if it's not the specific type one would like to see)?
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After working a python shop for few years one thing I always liked was it was rare that you could tell who wrote what bits of code. Not sure why that was... it might have been how the language itself forced certain idioms. But typing this out I also think it could be the shop’s practice of face to face code reviews. Before you’d merge anything into master you’d always snag somebody to sit next to you and look over your code.

So it could have been the language, but it could have been the culture too.
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But that's the point of having two-party consent. If either of you turns them off then neither of you see them.
The direct cost is near zero.

Staying on the good side of spam blockers is a much bigger deal.
Scientists aren't deified because people assume they're all knowing?

As for scientism, there's a lot of people in this thread who essentially said "We could have known it wouldn't work by basic application of conservation of momentum". Or some other principal held to the standard of absolute truth.

Our knowledge of the world is faulty and incomplete. All scientific knowledge is subject to tweaking or replacement based on experimental evidence. Not the other way around.

We have models and guesses of how the world works, we don't have its source code.
WhatsApp also has that option.
But they are different to email. I actually enable seen notifications for people because it's very frustrating for real-time communication. Email is not meant to be that.
This is why Simplenetes is built with Space.sh [1], a tool to build shell script applications.

About the tests, can't disagree with you, they will come.

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Isn't that just a half-assed mandatory Hungarian-notation system? :-/

I mean, sure, in Perl the language "casts" the value into an appropriate type for you, but only in a few select cases..
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