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Re: Yagni, Cargo Cult and Overengineering - the Planes Won't Land Just Because You Built a Runway in Your Backyard

DomesticMouse — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 06:15:24 -0000

The reason micro-services work at large companies is that the micro-service forces the development team to own their code from requirements gathering to production support, along with monitoring usage metrics and making sure customers of the service are happy.

The follow on from this is that if the team in question is just a handful of people that own the whole codebase, end to end, then the correct number of micro-services for the team in question is probably 1. Once the team is large enough to split, turn it into a two micro-services app.

Re: My Next Adventure: Khan Academy CS

DomesticMouse — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 22:55:12 -0000

Congrats, I'm glad to see you chasing your dreams!

Re: http://photofortheday.tumblr.com/post/3441964151

DomesticMouse — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:53:44 -0000

I'm glad the water was there to remind me to stop walking... =)

Re: Reply to "Scala is Easier than PHP"

DomesticMouse — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 07:05:59 -0000

The one thing you can do in Scala or Erlang that you can't do in PHP is throw away the database, and write your own. Which can be a good thing if you can stack your data structures right, or it would be a terrible thing if you can't...

Re: Brett Morgan Disqus Test: Foo Bar

DomesticMouse — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:19:34 -0000

a comment

Re: 10 predictions for the world of January 1, 2020

DomesticMouse — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:39:04 -0000

One of the proposed uses for a thorium reactor would be to use the energy to upgrade biofuels to longer carbon chain fuels. This would allow a country with the right political environment plus decent thorium supply (India?) to become a refined petrol exporter.

Re: First Stab at Learning Clojure

DomesticMouse — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:30:30 -0000

Commas are whitespace in clojure. Use 'em if it makes you feel good, otherwise don't.

Re: What If Your Model Is Wrong?

DomesticMouse — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:38:56 -0000

I think the big thing with Keynesian style big money projects (roads, transport, et al) is that they worked in the 30s when building roads took thousands upon thousands of people to achieve the goal. These days building infrastructure consists of pulling out some big machines, pouring in concrete and steel, and voila, one road system. Number of actual people involved? Not that many, relatively speaking. And the flipside? Monetary controls have been overused to the point where no one believes the official numbers on inflation anymore.

What is the answer? I don't know, but I bet it has something to do with putting in fiber to the curb, stepping back and letting innovation happen.

Re: Getting A Piece Of My Action

DomesticMouse — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:28:29 -0000

So what is it going to take to create an online secondary market? The technical side appears reasonably easy, a website akin to Intrade where people can register an interest to buy or sell shares at set price points. The regulatory side of things, however, is completely opaque to me.

So, as a web technologist who likes designing and implementing web applications, what is required from a legal stand point to make a legal secondary market?

Re: Techies Vs. The Business

DomesticMouse — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:54:44 -0000

I understand your statement about working for a wage as slavery. If i remember correctly, it has quite a history.

The flip side is also interesting. A true manager is actually a slave to his or her organisation. Constantly figuring out which people are doing what, and how to continue gathering work for his or her flock.

Like wise for us techs, we are slaves to our creations, constantly watching over them, tending them, and figuring out how to grow them in a maintainable way.

Re: The Death Of The A-list

DomesticMouse — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:12:11 -0000

Stupid question of the day. You are claiming the A-list is dead because of twitter, friendfeed and co, yet all the stats I see on twitter usage show power laws. Which to me imply the continued existence of an A-list.

Whether the a-list still includes calcanis and scoble I have no idea. In fact, I unfollowed scoble because he made lots of twitter noise that i couldn't be bothered keeping up with. His breathless excitement was off putting.

Re: Don’t spend your termite poison money on insurance against Martian invasions.

DomesticMouse — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:45:57 -0000

The biggest problem in the markets is that the economic incentive for the lenders to "look the other way" was such that they did. In fact, most of the financial modelling assumes that markets follow random walks, when in fact they don't. The tails are too fat.

In short, the markets are under provisioned for risk. And thus they keep wiping out. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are going to be in serious trouble when the Alt-As start resetting...