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I don’t actually think predictability is a good thing in software engineering. Insert a "Well, technically..." blurb here while pushing up my glasses
aka "If the code you write could be automated, shouldn't it be?"
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Article wrote: I don’t actually think predictability is a good thing in software engineering.
If you don't need to do something totally new, predictability can be perfectly acceptable in many contexts. Overengineering something might be as much dangerous as many other things.
Why do you need to re-invent the wheel? Better invest your time in inventing a new motor to move it more efficiently
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As junk web pages written by AI proliferate, the models that rely on that data will suffer. So, like the regular AI then?
I'm glad someone actually went out and studied it, but isn't this kind of a big duh?
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how to get money to keep us "oficially busy" for a couple of years? Just get a Murphy's law or a standard corollary and make a study from it
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Microsoft warned that some Windows devices will boot into BitLocker recovery after installing the July 2024 Windows security updates. Someone needs to be shoved into a locker
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Quote: Oh, think twice
'cause another day
for you and me in paradise
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CrowdStrike is making improvements to error handling and software rollouts. "It's a poor craftsman that blames his tools"
Looks like it's another CrowdStrike-themed newsletter
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Why don't they just rename it ClownStrike and be done with it?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Overture Maps Foundation (Overture) was founded in 2022 by Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and TomTom to enable current and next-generation interoperable open map services and products. We are here
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Does they really need to join forces to beat Google Maps?  
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CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm that crashed millions of computers with a botched update all over the world last week, is offering its partners a $10 Uber Eats gift card as an apology, according to several people who say they received the gift card, as well as a source who also received one. Sorry you had to work all night to try to restart your business, have a coffee on us
Oh, sorry. You can't get a coffee as Starbuck's ordering system was affected by CrowdStrike.
And to add the pièce de résistance, it seems the card doesn't work: "On Wednesday, some of the people who posted about the gift card said that when they went to redeem the offer, they got an error message saying the voucher had been canceled."
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IMDEA Software researchers Facundo Molina, Juan Manuel Copia and Alessandra Gorla present FIXCHECK, a novel approach to improve patch fix analysis that combines static analysis, randomized testing and large language models. Why just get the AI to write the code when you can get it to write the tests to prove it works?
What could possibly go right?
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Heh. Haven't read just yet.
I'm aware of some folks who would definitely not see it this way, but I think auto-generation of tests is a pretty good idea. A big reason though (maybe irony?) is that we cannot get this bit wrong. When we mess up a test it's like we did worse than any other kind of mess up and we did it on code we don't even have to have.
What if when I clicked Post Message, I held down a magic key combo which caused a branching on the repo with a new commit that contained tests across all logic that click caused to run?
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Proprietary code goes unpublished – but no FOSS package ever dies If they ain't broke, rewrite them anyway?
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Quote: How to maintain code for a century: Just add Rust
Choose what you like more:
Does it mean that adding Rust will make you code needing maintenance for 100 years?
OR
pfff... my code doesn't need maintaining for so long.
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One of the biggest time sinks in software development is code review and approval. Unless you count the "should this be InitializeWorkflow or StartWorkflow?" discussions as finding bugs
BeginStartInitializeWorkflow, of course
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I always try my best to read every line of changed code in a review. I have found obvious bugs and requested changes. Sometimes you can even tell the developer didn't even bother to try and compile the code before submitting.
Looking at you M****s. (Someone I used to work with.)
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Hard to argue with the points even if the thesis put a cap in my knee.
"First, the yield on finding bugs in reviews was about 15% of code review comments defects despite it being the top motivation."
But I don't think that's the chief motivation. Rather, "meta" is. Was the approach a good one? Is there way better way? Are there fundamental oversights to the implementation? Are there code features that the reviewer learns from the review or that the reviewer can pass to the reviewed on account of the code in question being exhibition? Code style/staying within 'the lines'? Were the tests written? If they wrote tests, and you review those, there is a sort of comfort that the code doesn't have bugs. It's not 100% but...
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Well, bugs usually involve the complex interplay of code from various different source files.
I doubt that any code reviewer could spot that looking at one file at a time.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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At my last job, code reviews were very effective. They covered more than bugs; they helped sanity check code design.
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Code reviews aren't for testing code, that's what alpha and beta testing/UAT are for. Obvious bugs might be spotted, but that's not what the focus is on.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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The secret of a successful code review | CommitStrip[^] 
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We’re bringing over 350 additions to Uno Platform in this release, with the standout being official support for JetBrains Rider. Today I learned that there's more than just Visual Studio out there
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I could probably learn to really like Rider.
The problem with that is I don't know if future employers would like Rider.
I suppose that's somewhat non-issue. It can't be that much to license it for yourself. But then there's maybe some code stylization sorts of things which may differ from VS (like both may have 'cleanup code' but one does it slightly different).
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Article wrote: We’re bringing over 350 additions to Uno
I thought the biggest plus was the +4
Just in case: UNO[^]
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