ymerej | 1 month ago | on: AI’s impact on engineering jobs may be different than expected
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ymerej | 2 years ago | on: "Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster."
Doesn't it all boil down to economics in the end? When I worked at AOL, QA was very important/valued because our SW was shipped on CDs (I know, I know), and every bug/update cost us users because we had to download an update at modem speed. Now that I work on a web development team, bugs are easily fixed by an update. So who cares if there's a bug? We can just update the site. There are other costs, of course -- if we tolerate lots of bugs and tech debt, making development slower, we will evenually have our lunch eaten -- that's economics too.
Users/customers accept a certain level of quality, and it doesn't make short-term economic sense to provide more.
ymerej | 2 years ago | on: Ternary circuits: R=3 is not the Optimal Radix for Computation (2019)
Best mic drop.
ymerej | 2 years ago | on: Zeiss's "Holocam" turns glass windows into cameras
I'm going to tell your mother you said that.
ymerej | 6 years ago | on: Filesystem devs should aim to make “badly written” app code “just work” (2009)
I think the message is that we should make the basic stuff "just work" before we start adding the complexity of more bells and whistles.
ymerej | 6 years ago | on: An oral history of the AIM away message
Speaking of ICQ, I remember when AOL bought out ICQ and had a huge engineering success when they pulled the switch and all of sudden, ICQ users were seamlessly on the AIM infrastructure. When you think of the sizes of those networks it was really amazing.
ymerej | 7 years ago | on: HAKMEM (1972) [pdf]
I liked the reference to the "String Handling Interpretive Translator".
ymerej | 8 years ago | on: Amazon's policies promote counterfeiting
I went through what must be five cycles of returning counterfeit Samsung batteries (easy to detect counterfeit -- the NFC didn't work) to get replacements which were counterfeit. Chatting with customer service was an exercise in futility.
ymerej | 8 years ago | on: Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
I would guess they've already done this calculation. Similarly, due to externalities, the cost (to banks) of credit card and similar fraud is small compared to the expense of preventing it.
ymerej | 8 years ago | on: Cybersecurity Incident Involving Consumer Information
Time to fire your bank.
ymerej | 9 years ago | on: Amazon's Tepid Response to Counterfeiters Frustrates Sellers
Four or five times in a row, I bought what were supposed to be genuine Samsung batteries for my SGS4, and every single one was a counterfeit. Each time I had a chat conversation with Amazon, explaining the situation and each time I was told "an investigation" would be done. Ex: https://www.amazon.com/review/R1OV6G6YE4TXFZ/ref=cm_cr_rdp_p...
ymerej | 9 years ago | on: String Theory’s Strange Second Life
. MNM.
ymerej | 9 years ago | on: Atlassian Acquires StatusPage
For you, there is Github issues. Have fun, cowboy.
ymerej | 12 years ago | on: Nasdaq says human error to blame for index data outage
Is there any other kind of error?
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I've seen the kind of mistakes that entry level employees make. Trust me, they will, and they will be bigger, worse mistakes.