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This is String - you’ve seen it before haven’t you, Gollum?
This is String - you’ve seen it before haven’t you, Gollum?
You can always bind the JSON to a hashmap implementation, as that’s all JSON is anyway. It’s not pretty but it works.
Yeah, I remember the time i had a project manager who’d come over from the construction industry, used construction industry metaphors, and thought everything would be the same.
Remove ads and AI garbage next please.
Oh, my sweet Summer child…
We do this to ourselves first thing every day even though it’s been shown in studies that the start of the day is when you’re at your most productive.
Used to drag the zip file into the network drive, unpack it into the www folder (IIS restart triggered by a chance to the web.config file), and then used Beyond Compare to sync the changes across to the other server.
Oracle has always been the Mafia Family of tech companies. Once you’re in, you’re in for life.
Whenever we say some work is going to be difficult and time consuming now, management reflexively ask if we can fix it with AI. It’s like an excitable little kid getting a bicycle for their birthday and wanting to do everything on their bicycle now, including eating, sleeping and homework.
Humans, conversely, are incredibly talented at deciphering nuance, except when they don’t want to.
What’s wrong with being racy?
It’d be super easy to replace Sam Altman with a bot that spits out keywords known to increase OpenAI shares.
Waitaminute… Sam alt-man?
Laughs in CORBA.
Even more often the monolith bits are pulled out but continue to share the same monolithic database. The horizontal scanning is void, because while you can make any number of stateless service instances their operations performance is mostly databound and the (relational) database cannot horizontally scale.
True, but the microservice concept was introduced to perform a kind of reverse-Conway Manoeuvre and make the architecture fit the team topology. Whether this has ever worked is still unclear to me, but I’ve seen it not work a few times now.
We only have ten logins a day, but what if UserBirthdayEmailer suddenly needs to go Web scale?
I wrote so many essays and exam answers in the late 90s on how IPv6 would come in and fix everything and I’m really feeling this.
Sometimes no.
Nope nope nope
Rick Beato’s video titles have got too hysterical compared to the actual content and he’s doing himself a disservice (e.g. when he listens to the top ten he usually likes at least some of it, but the titles are like “This is pop music now?”). I see titles like this and just lose interest.