michaelper22
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7 years ago
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on: The West Coast is beating the East Coast on transportation?
Though this probably counts as rarely, least some of the trunk line I've been on give the illusion of high-ish speeds. Examples:
- Queens Blvd express (Forest Hills to Roosevelt Ave, Roosevelt to 36 St)
- 7 Ave IRT express (from far downtown to 96th St)
- Lexington express (City Hall to 125th, save for going through the switches south of 42nd St)
michaelper22
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7 years ago
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on: After 60 Years, I-95 Is Complete
Many more crossings in the NY metro area are now open-tolled for both EZPass and toll-by-mail: Whitestone, Throgs Neck, Tappan Zee
michaelper22
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7 years ago
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on: Bank of America questions customer’s citizenship, freezes accounts
Make that 1.80% now :)
michaelper22
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7 years ago
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on: A Map of Wireless Passwords from Airports and Lounges
michaelper22
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7 years ago
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on: Bank of America questions customer’s citizenship, freezes accounts
Make that 1.75% for savings at Ally now.
michaelper22
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7 years ago
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on: A Life-Saving Checklist (2007)
michaelper22
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7 years ago
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on: App Maker, Google’s low-code tool for building business apps, comes out of beta
I did QA for a Pega BPM project at a regulated company, working with an off-site (though on-shore) Pega consulting firm. Aside from the usual big-co version of "agile", and that this was a legacy rewrite, the process was more or less the same as regular C#/Java development.
Funny thing with Pega is once you break out of the normal BPM-style flow, you'll write almost as much code as an all-code platform, just cookie-cuttered into form fields.
michaelper22
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7 years ago
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on: How 2 M.T.A. Decisions Pushed the Subway into Crisis
The L train already uses CBTC (i.e automatic train operation); fast speeds are issued by the computer.
michaelper22
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8 years ago
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on: Monthly Amazon Prime membership fees are about to increase
Trees were killed to make those boxes in the first place (do they have 100% recycled boxes yet?). Better to not order than to dump or even recycle the boxes.
michaelper22
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What are tools for writing test case documents?
michaelper22
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8 years ago
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on: Dev Bootcamp Shutting Down
Spring and JSF are to some extent mutually exclusive. I worked on a project that used JSF views with Spring EL that called Spring beans. However, the best practice, according to BalusC on StackOverflow, is to avoid mixing Spring components and JSF managed beans (
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18387993/spring-jsf-inte...).
michaelper22
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How much code do you write a day?
Some days, you can spend the whole day just
reading and tracing code and trying to make sense of what it does. After that, implementing a feature or bug fix might involve changing just 15-20 lines.
Hence, taking time to write more readable code may lead to writing code sooner and/or faster in the future.
michaelper22
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9 years ago
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on: The Evolution of Container Usage at Netflix
A previous workplace of mine does block Netflix, and consequently their tech blog.
michaelper22
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9 years ago
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on: Announcing Free and Automated SSL Certs
Free dynos with a ____.herokuapp.com domain have SSL enabled by default, at no cost (under their wildcard certificate?). Seems the only missing case is when using a custom domain with a free dyno.
michaelper22
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9 years ago
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on: Testing is a separate skill and that’s why it can be frustrating
I was a tester for a few years, and then moved into development. With tight deadlines on projects, I appreciate having a tester to send my work to for validation. Unfortunately, I am not doing TDD or any other automated testing, so having a second set of eyes is not something to take for granted. And usually, they don't laugh in my face when something is broken.
