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canis minor posted:DHL does that (as, uses masks for types) with their shipping API, although they've forgotten to escape ., so you can crash it for some field types.
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You mean Sunnyvale?
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Unit tests should test behaviors that your code relies upon being consistent. While unit tests != regression tests, the way that unit tests are oftentimes implemented overlaps heavily with the needs of regression tests. If your test structures and validity depend unintentionally upon changes in implementation of a code path this doesn't invalidate your tests. If your code guarantees that you will only call a function within an integer range and the function you depend upon supports a lot more, you don't need to cover more than you're using.... until you decide to increase the integer range support. That wouldn't be a regression in behavior as much as catching inputs (or sometimes states) that cause unanticipated behavior. In my experience I see bigger problems with confusing integration and unit tests. If your tests depend upon a database existing and it's supposed to run constantly, it probably shouldn't belong in a unit test.
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I can understand the need for some hacks but hacks that actively interfere with debugging need to be quarantined or perhaps put into a concentration camp.
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I think I saw that kind of algorithm in a list of solutions conducted by a study on non-programmers for sorting a list of numbers. It was interesting to read through solutions because you could clearly see those that could have gotten a good answer if they had the right concepts shown to them (the fact that computers can only represent numbers so big or small, for example) from those that don't really think mathematically or logically in the first place.
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Man, and I thought I had it bad porting Matlab code to Perl. Why would anyone hire developers to port to Matlab? I've normally seen academics prototype in Matlab or R and then get productionized for performance and such porting to something actually meant to run beyond someone's workstation for a demo to get a research grant.
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All this talk of file paths make me want to try writing programs exclusively with inodes for everything on my local filesystems and simply hash user-provided filenames into UUIDs after canonicalizing them.
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I've learned that spending a large part of one's career working with ignorant and/or stupid users and coworkers holds you back in your career and that besides going to better places with better hiring standards (and an ecosystem of companies that meet such criteria where you live) the only way to progress is to get out of doing anything technical like... management because your own skills will atrophy. The number of times I've had to help people ssh into machines, configuring someone's Maven or Ivy settings, and cleaning out full disks is eye-watering. After all, you can spend 30 hours / week actually doing something where you learn and grow, or you can spend 5 hours / week and have to make it up with 25 hours OUTSIDE work. The person with the better job that only works 40 hours / week will beat you in the long run.
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Jun 7, 2017 21:14
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Someone really, really wanted job security I see.
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It's amazing how much consulting work for fixing bad webapps comes down to just two things: fixing bad database queries / caching and fixing database indexes (or lack thereof). Modern computers are just so stinkin' fast now and every other person is on a broadband connection even on mobile that what would have been unusable 10+ years ago is pretty standard now basically. Every other enterprise LOB application I've seen doesn't even have a cache server / daemon so everything is stateful to death and makes deployments extremely disruptive because user sessions will become invalidated by going through another frontend. Meanwhile, users will report pages taking 30s+ to load all the time while some poor SQL server is doing table scans for absolutely no good reason whenever someone logs in.
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I fear most the programmer that does not think what they wrote is a mistake.
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It doesn’t guess based upon depressed language usage or upon consistently overlapping searches by other users with similar keyword searches in any way? DuckDuckGo doesn’t seem to do this
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