ubersoldat2k7's comments

Last week I was at Munich, with +40 other Europeans: French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Swedes and of course Irish and British. As I was sipping my beer at a biergarten I realized we were all speaking English, in Germany, surrounded by people whose native language wasn't English, right when Brexit is about to happen, just when any British could say: we won. But no, as you said, they just fumbled the ball, again.

There are dependency problems in ALL languages. I think the point of the article is that with Java/Go/Rust/Node you can create a single file and deploy it on 100s of VMs without having to worry about dependencies during deployment. The same has been done for years with WARs and EARs.

But, he misses the main point of Docker (or LXS for that matter) which is to scale/downscale & maintain a massive amount of VMs.

I worked at the time where we had 16 or 64 servers (not VMs), running several instance of Weblogic/Jboss. Each deployment took hours and we didn't have any elasticity on the number of servers/instances (each server could run X instances of Jboss) to scale up/down. If we hit the max, management bought another server and that's it. Oh, and every deployment meant downtime, because we couldn't do the crazy stuff Docker allows.

Makes me wonder how caching and other stuff are handled by browsers, or the impact of it on load times. Anyway, cool concept.

Two things I see here:

Apple didn't copy their app, they copied Android's.

Second, the VPN thing is shaddy AF. I understand this is a workaround but shit, they could be doing some nasty stuff with MITM attacks. No wonder Apple took it down once it was clear how it worked.

[Samsung] laughs in Tizen.

[Microsoft] cries in Windows Mobile.

[Palm] invites HP & LG to the group.

[BB] has left

This thing is dead before even leaving China. Who on the west would want to buy a phone they can't use to watch Netflix, Hulu, HBO? Because if Huawei lost licenses to Android, what makes them think DRM technology providers will, which mostly are US based. And they sure can build their own DRM stack, but good luck on selling it to Disney or Comcast.

Also, apps compatible with Android. Please, don't make me laugh. You're so naive. Android works because you can monetize apps. If you can't monetize them, you don't build them. Free apps are monetized with ads, which are completely embedded into Google systems (yes, you could use others, good luck with that). Paid apps are monetized by Google Wallet, so another thing Huawei has to build. And believe me, I sure as hell won't trust the Chinese government (AKA Huawei) to handle my money.

I have had such hard times with this. I find it very hard to think about the problem and to think what to say to this person without fucking up the interview.

I mean, you don't want to say: "I'm going to trial & error this shit while the fucking compiler builds and the stupid tests say it works" which is how must programming is done anyway.

Exactly, we're engineers and craftsmans, all which rely on their tools. If you don't use the tools at your disposal, you're not a good professional.

The question you should be asking is: what's so important that we need to rush on a Friday? Can it wait to Monday?

Now, I agree with the premise of "trust your process" but if you've been into this field for a while, you know things will break.

Once a QA guy I worked with, came back from his weekend with a new test case/scenario that resulted in a critical issue right before we were ready to deploy. Not even CI/CD can help you with that.

That, and money. If those women got their business hurt, it was because the "knitting community" was buying their stuff somewhere else.

A F2P BR set on WoW, that might do the trick ;-)

Who is this guy & why should Mozilla (or anyone as a matter of fact) listen to him? Like being a "Microsoft Dev" puts you on an ivory tower. Remember, a "Microsoft Dev" gave us clippy and Access.

Jeez... Why don't we cut the crap and convert this to every single CS school curricula.

It's normal interrogation techniques. They ask normal stuff to see if you lie or you get nervous. Just watch any of those airport security shows on TV to see how many people who end up smuggling stuff fail to answer those simple questions or change their story several times during the interrogation process.

Yeah, and "everything IT" is a cloud, so you might as well attend any of the Azure or AWS events.

Using a scheduling tool like the one used for conference rooms might be the solution.

The funny/sad thing about PWA and how broken it's on iOS right now, is that the first iPhone was supposed to work with PWA. I'm not sure if it was Jobs' vision or they didn't have something good to offer for native devs. Safari has been a joke for long time now.

I tried with a React Native project, so I only used the VM for the builds; yes it's shit. I mean, the whole iOS build process is painful enough. And I never got the VM to work on more than 1024x768.

What I find interesting is that, on one end, there's a "developers" shortage, but on the other, all companies are funneling potentially good engineers through processes designed for the "interview" experts. Also, that AMZ or Google do open public positions is weird. I'm pretty sure they could have the best referring programs.

Or maybe it's not as bad, just that now that they're very big, lot of SJW get through the doors and cry their ways to promotions.