[-] lysdexic@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

i interpreted the “trend” correctly, “devops” was bastardized away from its original meaning to now mean “sysadmin”, at least in most cases.

I don't think I agree. The role of a sysadmin involved a lot of hand-holding and wrangling low-level details required to keep servers running. DevOps are something completely different. They handle specific infrastructure such as pipelines and deployment scripts, and are in the business of not getting in the way of developers.

[-] lysdexic@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Is there a simple way to do a http web server or socket?

What's your definition of http web server or socket? Most frameworks nowadays provide you with tools to get a fully working project up and running with just a couple of clicks.

For instance: https://start.spring.io/

[-] lysdexic@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

They used it because it was an established term

My graph theory is a bit fuzzy but I think that the definition of a branch in a directed graph corresponds to the path between two nodes/vertices. This means that by definition any path from the root node to any vertex is itself a branch.

I don't think Git invented this concept, nor did any other version control system.

I know that “branch” helps intuitively and visually when it’s actually an offshoot with one root and a dangling tip, like an actual tree branch…

I think that your personal definition of a branch doesn't correspond to what graph theory calls a branch. Anyone please correct me if I'm wrong.

[-] lysdexic@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

From the article:

By library, I mean any software that can be run by the user: shared objects, modules, servers, command line utilities, and others. By service, I mean any software which the user can't run on their own; anything which depends (usually through an API) on a service provider for its functionality.

It looks like the blogger took a page out of Humpty Dumpty's playbook and tried to repurpose familiar keywords that refer to widely established concepts by assigning them entirely different meanings that are used by no one except the author. I'd also go as far as stating these redefinitions make no sense at all.

Perhaps the blogger might even have a point to make, but stumbling upon these semantics screwups is a major turndown, and in my case led me to just stop reading the blog post on the spot.

[-] lysdexic@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Taking UK as an example, you can call yourself civil engineer all day long without having to worry any legal consequences because there simply is no such thing as a licensing system for engineers.

Britain's Engineering Council disagrees.

https://www.engc.org.uk/international-activity/access-to-practise-in-the-uk/

[-] lysdexic@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I’m not sold on user replaceable phone batteries, but USB-C was a long time coming.

As someone who had a perfectly fine Android smartphone die because its battery went dead, and had to replace it with an off-brand one to keep it ticking... I can assure you that the lack of support for user-replaceable phone batteries is forcing people to throw away perfectly good hardware.

[-] lysdexic@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

There are parallels to be drawn between licensed professionals (like doctors, CPAs, lawyers, civil engineers) that they all have time under a professional and the professional then signs off and bears some responsibility vouching for a trainee.

We need to keep in mind that the main value proposition of these licenses is to bar people from practicing. There is no other purpose.

In some activities this gatekeeping mechanismo is well justified: a doctor who kills people out of incompetence should be prevented from practicing, and so do accountants who embezzle and civil engineers who get people killed by designing and building subpar things.

Your average software developers doesn't handle stuff that gets people killed. Society gains nothing by preventing a software developer from implementing a button in a social network webapp.

[-] lysdexic@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

You can always find a new shitshow

Having to deal with different volumes and types of shit can be a very welcomed move. Perfect is the enemy of good.

[-] lysdexic@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

They force you think of o(n) and train you better than anything else on how to write your functions (but not how to organise them).

I agree. I think it's all about blind spots. A software engineer spends most of the time reading code, and the changesets they write most of the time are not algorithms or any fancy iteration beyond doing a vanilla for loop over a collection. leetcode-type exercises tend to invert that tendency, and present us with challenges which we would only rarely tackle. It's a good exercise in the sense that it forces a type of usecase we don't often use. Still, their practical usefulness beyond coding crossword puzzles is very limited.

[-] lysdexic@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I can also tell you without any shred of doubt, that there are many Amazon teams that absolutely hate Java

Irrelevant. What matters is what the company uses, not what some guy's personal taste.

Amazon standardizes on Java. There is no way around this fact.

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