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glwtta commented on Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) v4.0 is out [pdf]   ieeecs-media.computer.org... · Posted by u/bsoles
tptacek · a year ago
SWEBOK 4 adds a dedicated section for security, but it's painfully 2012 (testing, for instance, centers on the old industry-driven "SAST" vs. "DAST" distinction). It also promotes stuff like Common Criteria and CVSS. The "domain-specific" security section could have been pulled out of the OWASP wiki from 2012 as well: "cloud", "IOT", "machine learning".
glwtta · a year ago
Apparently I am also stuck in 2012 - are we not doing cloud and machine learning anymore?
glwtta commented on The most confusing emojis in every US state in 2024   preply.com/en/blog/most-c... · Posted by u/jerlam
glwtta · 2 years ago
there are definitely a few missing from the "not used as intended" list

also, are they really counting "rebirth" as an incorrect interpretation of the phoenix emoji? what is even the purpose of a phoenix emoji outside of that context.

and those head-shaking ones are just objectively terribly designed

glwtta commented on US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent   twitter.com/senatecloakro... · Posted by u/enraged_camel
D13Fd · 4 years ago
I really don't like that they picked permanent DST.

Does no one realize that this means that we all have to get up one hour earlier year round? That kids will have to travel to school in the dark for the majority of the year, including in most cases standing around in the freezing cold at unlit bus stops?

It's still better than resetting the clocks. But I really they should have chosen standard time.

Also, this means nothing unless passed by congress as well.

glwtta · 4 years ago
I would've fucking rioted if they picked permanent "standard" time.

I don't care about kids or their bus stops. Also, just put some lights on them, then (the bus stops, or the kids, doesn't really matter).

glwtta commented on Is This Legal?    · Posted by u/larionv
smileysteve · 6 years ago
Interpretation might vary;

~2013 I responded on twitter about "a dev who has 15 years of experience with PHP" with, a response about why I would be concerned that that could mean the developer never learned the PHP 3 (much less 4) object model.

And if you tell me you have 15 years working with "any" Graph database, that seems like it would have some irrelevancy to the Graph Databases of today.

Of course, it's also possible to "forget" experience, at least on paper and an interview; and changing your resume to do so, may be advantageous as you get older.

glwtta · 6 years ago
The posting seems to be requiring 7-10 years of work experience, not specific to graph databases or any other technology.
glwtta commented on Al Lowe reveals his Sierra source code collection   arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/vatueil
CobrastanJorji · 7 years ago
Hrm....he says he hasn't tested it, but there was a remake of the game, and Lowe supposedly worked with them on it. You'd think they'd have jumped to at least examine the original source. Or maybe they explicitly decided not to check if the IP rights were owned by a different company than the one that owned the copyright for the code itself.
glwtta · 7 years ago
Why would they? Code from 1987 is of exactly zero interest to someone developing a game in 2013.
glwtta commented on Al Lowe reveals his Sierra source code collection   arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/vatueil
ru999gol · 7 years ago
if he were to actually care about digital preservation he would just put all of it on github even anonymously. But he doesn't so he doesn't. I know what Jason Scott would do.
glwtta · 7 years ago
Where does he claim to care about digital preservation? And I'm pretty sure GitHub would have to remove code posted without permission, anonymous or not.
glwtta commented on A lightweight, high-performance, language-independent job queue system   github.com/fireworq/firew... · Posted by u/y_uuki
glwtta · 8 years ago
Hm, I've been looking for a lightweight, language-neutral job queue. RDBMS-backed is my preference since I don't need massive scalability, but do want persistence that's easy to reason about (so not Redis), transparency (so not beanstalkd) and a long-lived history (so not most of the other ones).

But, RDMBS only makes sense if you can use your existing installation, so MySQL-only is a nonstarter.

glwtta commented on Julia Computing Raises $4.6M in Seed Funding   juliacomputing.com/press/... · Posted by u/sandGorgon
throwaway7645 · 9 years ago
In a pre 1.0 language there will always be some things that are still waiting to be optimized. I saw some performance spec for one of their HTTP libraries awhile back and it was a lot faster than Ruby. It might have been faster than Go.
glwtta · 9 years ago
It was faster than everything, and by a huge margin: https://github.com/costajob/app-servers#results

It does seem that immature languages tend to win a lot of benchmarks, likely because they're still cutting a lot of corners. Still, though.

I only wish they picked a more "Enterprise-friendly" name...

glwtta commented on Museum of Soviet arcade machines   15kop.ru/en/... · Posted by u/tosseraccount
glwtta · 10 years ago
Морской бой was the shit!
glwtta commented on Blockbuster Movies with Male Leads Earn More Than Those with Female Leads   minimaxir.com/2016/04/mov... · Posted by u/minimaxir
glwtta · 10 years ago
Is this analysis really looking at revenue, without considering the movie budget? That's just a round-about way of saying "most high-budget movies have male leads".

u/glwtta

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