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Ha! This whole thread made me recall that story, but I couldn’t recall the title, and figured I’d never find it by the synopsis alone which I remembered. But here you’ve posted it - thanks

Requirement: when someone opens your front door, closing the contacts of a magnetic reed switch, send a (hard-coded) http message to a serverless function.

I think answering the initial question might benefit from a lot of context.

I've worked on quite a few teams who built atop dotnet core (cross-platform) and also have access to auto-horizontal-scaling PAAS solutions (such as Azure App Services) and who tend to reach for Docker well before they need it.

Now we all have to manage port mappings, env var mappings, file path mappings etc., the better part of a full OS-worth of abstractions when all the abstraction that we need is provided by the technologies I mentioned prior to adding Docker.

I just hauled 220 lbs up and down 3,000 feet in elevation over 10 horizontal miles and could not perceive the least bit of fat reduction. :-)

Every UI technology is unbearably cumbersome after starting my career in WinForms.

Am not surprised that zero G severely disorients them, already knowing how a much a simple piece of tape disorients them. :-)

https://youtu.be/mdBegLNE6OU

Anecdote, but I met a random cat on a neighborhood sidewalk in a random town and stopped to love on him for a moment.

When I would walk away, several times he would anticipate my path and run in front of me and lay down to block my path, apparently to receive some more affection.

I’ve had some super affectionate and at least not-dumb cats, but I was still really surprised by this guy’s apparent intentionality. And all for affection - it’s not like I’d had any cat treats on me to give him.

If the government gives some company the right the haul your car off, then the government has the responsibility to carefully control for fraud in the process.

vcls?

Would Bandcamp the business model + Bandcamp the website necessarily be difficult to reproduce, particularly in an environment in which the Bandcamp niche just became no longer fulfilled due to changing practices on the part of Original Bandcamp?

“Labels like that are probably the biggest external clue. If a statement is false, that's the worst thing you can say about it. You don't need to say that it's heretical. And if it isn't false, it shouldn't be suppressed. So when you see statements being attacked as x-ist or y-ic (substitute your current values of x and y), whether in 1630 or 2030, that's a sure sign that something is wrong. When you hear such labels being used, ask why.”

Paul Graham - What You Can’t Say

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

And every other song with the least hint of cowbell, as well.

I would like to sue for the mortgage interest rate increase a fraudulent bank account cost us when buying our house.

This sounds like an issue of syntax vs semantics, both of which would be relevant to building any sort of fair (as possible) data format.

"Do you agree to allow your data to be shared with 3rd parties as necessary to provide you with the best service possible?"

[races off to something much worse than you imagined with your data]

My report contains PER PAY PERIOD line items from ~50% of my previous employers.

I can even see where I changed my 401K withholding at one point in time.

Oh wow, this is a total outrage. Details have been shared for about 80% of my previous employment, and many of those employers listed details on a per-pay period basis.

They even include my net pay after voluntary deductions, such as 401k!

Some healthcare systems post incomplete pricing data or nothing at all, with no penalties yet from the Biden administration.

Make the like names invisible across Twitter.

When writing C# after learning F#, I’m constantly thinking to myself that I could make this or that data relationship explicit and verified by the compiler if this were F#, but it’s C# so instead I have to leave the relationship implicit and hope that future maintainers are able to piece the relationship together.

I don’t think I could ever get enough of this type of writing and observation. The good, the bad, and going to and from possibly every combination of societies.

People are often too polite to be as purely candid as I might personally prefer.

This take on the U.S. from an Armenian perspective was also very enjoyable https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22777745

This is a really useful overview from which I gained some new insights. I appreciate you taking the time.

Is it possible to elaborate in a comment? Honestly I probably wouldn’t take the time to read a lengthy article, but if there’s some elevator pitch then I’m all ears.

I personally believe that we need far better consumer protection laws in the U.S., in general.

I'm certain that laws attempting to curb specific abuses such as with these printers will be like playing whack-a-mole, but perhaps after enough moles get whacked hard enough, the culture might start to change course. One can wish anyway.

The Internet is a deluge of information and training material on this subject, so the teams that want to teach themselves this skill have already done so, leaving the teams that don’t want to do so.

I didn’t go into detail in my initial description, but this team misrepresented their process maturity to the extent that I had no qualms about bouncing out just as quickly as I got it to take a candid look around.

I’ve beaten my head against the wall for years on teams that didn’t give shit, so made testing and process maturity my primary focus during my job hunt, and made that clear to this team during the interview.

High coverage does not necessarily imply test suite effectiveness, nor does it even guarantee that your test suite provides positive value.

But 0% coverage does tell you a lot about your test suite effectiveness.

Also, beware the person too eager to proclaim that high test coverage is not necessarily good!

Last time someone told me this was discussing process maturity during a job interview. I let the team slide with this answer. Found out their coverage was effectively 0 and their process maturity was "break everything until right before each quarterly release" and I was out of there before my first week on the job.

I particularly hate it when the airport officials seize all of my cryptocurrency. :-)

Didn't Clapper go on to reply, "Not wittingly?"

You know, just like in every other criminal trial where the defendant is the one who gets to make the determination as to their own intent.

"If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn’t open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming."

Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

Mark Twain - “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”