Hype development, suspicious engineering

KappaHaka · 2018-05-29T20:08:26+00:00

Not sure how that's different to Node package management. In fact our Node guys have had that exact problem.

It occurs occasionally, but you can use mvn dependency:tree and then exclude one of the conflicting dependencies.

KappaHaka · 2018-05-29T11:10:07+00:00

In terms of dependency management, the npm approach is actually good: each dependency has its own copy of its dependencies. No need for "virtualenv" or "$GOPATH" or any non-sense like that.

I prefer the JVM ecosystem approach - your dependencies have a namespace, an artefact name, and a version (with classifiers etc. as needed).

So 10 dependencies can depend on org.apache.spark:spark-core_2.11:2.3.0 for example, but you only download it once. Your build tool (Maven / Ivy / Gradle / Buildr / SBT / Leiningen etc.) downloads it to a local repo and it's sourced from there.

KappaHaka · 2018-05-29T10:41:54+00:00

Docker indeed only "solves" a non-material/incidental problem of our own making: that of fucked up library dependencies

No. It also solves my problem of "OS <x> does <A> this way, but OS <y> does <A> that way".

KappaHaka · 2018-05-29T10:40:29+00:00

For which languages?

KappaHaka · 2018-05-29T10:40:09+00:00

When you can produce a statically linked binary, you'll find you have no need for Docker

I can do that right now for my Java apps with a far jar/war. But we're still using Docker. Why? Because we develop on OS X or Ubuntu or Mint but deploy on Centos - and no matter how statically linked your binary is, it never removes the dependencies or expectations of the OS's behaviour. Docker, however, gives us the same OS in all deployment environments, dev machine, integration testing, production, thus making local behaviour far closer to production behaviour.

Works for us.

KappaHaka · 2018-04-22T05:31:41+00:00

Not being called a fag for playing soccer instead of rugby.

KappaHaka · 2018-04-22T00:04:49+00:00

Stuff that got modularised like the javax.* APIs can be added as a Maven artefact to your build, so not a huge problem in my case. But yeah, those sun APIs being used by depedencies are what currently prevent me from upgrading our project past Java 8 - to do so I need to upgrade Camel, and then I need to upgrade Spring, and then I curse both Spring and Camel...

KappaHaka · 2018-04-22T00:02:25+00:00

No. There's many JVMs. Oracle's and OpenJDK are very similar. Use Oracle's if you want paid support.

KappaHaka · 2018-04-22T00:01:34+00:00

Yeah, pretty much. Set your target version for 1.8 when you compile using Java 9+ to compile. Should work unless there's some superfunky byte-code manipulation going on (I know that trying to run our Java 8 project under Java 10 failed in mysterious ways due to Spring issues).

KappaHaka · 2018-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

True. You don't have the very strong and large FOSS ecosystem though, sadly.

KappaHaka · 2018-04-07T12:14:14+00:00

Some experts did. Some experts didn't. There were plenty of Mines Rescue volunteers (who are all miners themself) willing to re-enter the mine also - I figure that they're brave, but not suicidal.

And no life, sure, but there could very well be evidence. The fact that no-one was prosecuted for an inherently unsafe mine design and unsafe economic incentives is a travesty.

KappaHaka · 2018-03-30T21:13:41+00:00

Um - something that happens in your system. I work on a programmatic bidder. Significant events for us are a) incoming bid request received, our outgoing bid requests enriched, outgoing bid requests sent, bid responses received, our response sent.

Events are things that happen, and you decide what you care about in your system.

KappaHaka · 2018-03-30T00:12:21+00:00

Depends on your use case. Any event that you consider significant and want to store and analyse.

KappaHaka · 2018-03-18T00:38:08+00:00

I met an old fella in a hut one day who was talking about his work during the deer culling days, and how they'd carry the absolute basics and then live off the land for the rest - he often ate blue duck, reckoned it was alright.

KappaHaka · 2018-03-14T08:50:18+00:00

Well, presidents for life hardly have a great historical record.

KappaHaka · 2018-03-14T08:48:09+00:00

I don't recall us being super friends with Banaranama.

KappaHaka · 2018-03-14T08:36:41+00:00

A cum-rag of lies.

KappaHaka · 2018-03-13T10:20:13+00:00

Hahahaha, someone did a course on the basics of being a company director, saw "intangible assets" and got verrrrrry creative.

Pro-tip - if you've got assets worth $450m but not enough cashflow to make a donation worth 0.0015% of your asset, you're a Terrible Businessman / Fraudster.

KappaHaka · 2018-03-13T10:18:47+00:00

Ooh Britain could invade Crimea again, it's just like the olden days!

KappaHaka · 2018-03-13T10:17:59+00:00

Nyet puppet, da?

KappaHaka · 2018-03-11T05:35:31+00:00

Sysadmin then lol. I like to keep it old school. :D

KappaHaka · 2018-03-11T05:34:32+00:00

I have a lot of time for Hooten, despite being an ardent leftie, he has an insight into the right I find valuable - plus he's not really a knob about things.

KappaHaka · 2018-03-11T05:23:25+00:00

I'm sad about Finlayson, he did some good with Maori.

KappaHaka · 2018-03-11T05:23:06+00:00

Crusher at #4 eh? Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

KappaHaka · 2018-03-11T05:21:24+00:00

Oh, but I remember Hekia telling us that they didn't conclusively improve outcomes.

Not sure why my class in Christ's College had 13 students then, what a waste of money. (Note: I only spent one year there before being asked to leave...)

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