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mightyRodri commented on Using a framework will harm the maintenance of your software   berk.es/2022/09/06/framew... · Posted by u/excerionsforte
iveqy · 3 years ago
I belong to the second type. I believe it's a great asset to have in business. Most often less code means shorter development time and cheaper maintenance.

People knowing a framework will often use it for everything. Instead looking at the problem and find the easiest solution to it offers great time to marked.

I've proudly deleted more code than I've written at work.

mightyRodri · 3 years ago
> Instead looking at the problem and find the easiest solution to it offers great time to marked.

The easiest solution you can imagine. These are 90% of the time cute tricks that narrow down the scope of the solution so far it makes the surrounding code unmaintainable after a year.

I learned to call those people "Ricks" they are best used in walled of projects that are not expected to change. Not useable in cooperation.

mightyRodri commented on Using a framework will harm the maintenance of your software   berk.es/2022/09/06/framew... · Posted by u/excerionsforte
throwaway284962 · 3 years ago
> If you find a bug with the adhoc framework you need to convince a busy person in another team to spend time to unblock you.

Which is not so difficult, because that busy person is in the same organisation as you, and therefor working towards the same goal.

Fixing that bug is much more difficult if that person is in an outside organisation, serving many other customers on the same code base (with possible conflicting needs), and/or is not actually in any way accountable for it (open source).

mightyRodri · 3 years ago
> Which is not so difficult, because that busy person is in the same organisation as you

Hopefully. But not necessarily. This argument is spinning in circles. In house projects can be abandoned just as oppen-source ones can. For me that was Powermock for example.

mightyRodri commented on Using a framework will harm the maintenance of your software   berk.es/2022/09/06/framew... · Posted by u/excerionsforte
throwaway284962 · 3 years ago
I started using a framework for a task at work, was immediately tripped up by an obvious stupid bug in the config files, reported it and it was closed because "too many people already depend on this behaviour". So now I've in-sourced other companies legacy and taken on a huge liability in depending on the evolution of undefined number of other organisations and their code bases.

And even worse when these frameworks are open source and don't even have any accountable people at all, and god knows how many people working professionally are suddenly held hostage by some dude who just felt like going backpacking in south america for 6 months without giving any notice to anyone.

mightyRodri · 3 years ago
Then your architect needs a fresh course in how to decide what open source project to use. When its a critical spot you first check how it is maintained. Its that easy.

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mightyRodri commented on The Ethereum merge is done   coindesk.com/tech/2022/09... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
lmarcos · 4 years ago
I thought the same at the beginning. Yet somehow I think I'm missing something a bit more complex (complicated?) than just "linked lists". I don't want to understand only the theory but also the "practice" (e.g., one could read all about distributed systems... But one really gets the gist of it until one has to deal with real world networks in the cloud or on prem, dealing with real systems)
mightyRodri · 4 years ago
Have you seen the "Line goes up" summary by Dan Olson? It puts the crypto sphere into context. From that many descisions and marketing practices start to make sense.
mightyRodri commented on The Ethereum merge is done   coindesk.com/tech/2022/09... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
lmarcos · 4 years ago
> The Merge is one of the largest technological events in the industry to date.

I feel kinda ashamed. I work in the IT industry and I claim to have knowledge about ("good") software engineering practices, distributed systems, compilers, algorithms, etc. Nevertheless, I didn't understand a word of what the article is saying. Could you recommend serious references (preferably books and not random blogs) I could read to catch up with what's going on with crypto these days? I'm not planning to "buy" crypto; I would like to understand the technicalities.

mightyRodri · 4 years ago
I wouldnt worry, the whole system up to this point has used "technobabble" as a means to confuse and impress outsiders. When reading up on it, there is no meaning to find besides "yep, its a linked list allright".
mightyRodri commented on The Ethereum merge is done   coindesk.com/tech/2022/09... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
mightyRodri · 4 years ago
(albeit with some compromises)
mightyRodri commented on Public Money, Public Code   publiccode.eu/... · Posted by u/modinfo
KarlKemp · 4 years ago
The German version is at https://github.com/corona-warn-app.

It was expensive (18 million Euros I believe, but may be wrong). But other than that, it was excellent from start to finish. First release a few weeks after the API was available. The source was divided into logical components of more or less perfect size, it was straightforward, well commented, responsive to PRs, worked, and had no security issues as far as I remember.

mightyRodri · 4 years ago
So much this. I am not one to be proud of the place i happened to be born but this effort gave me some hope for the gov software sector.
mightyRodri commented on Blockchain Is Dangerous Nonsense   eisfunke.com/article/bloc... · Posted by u/davebloggt
DrBazza · 4 years ago
I wish these authors would define exactly "which blockchain" they hate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain

"A blockchain is a growing list of records, called blocks, that are securely linked together using cryptography."

So, yeah, git and mercurial are "dangerous nonsense".

But of course they're really talking about cryptocurrencies and smart contracts, right?

So why not put that in the title?

mightyRodri · 4 years ago
Because only the crypto scams use blockchain for their marketing.

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