I think the takeaway from. The article is that if this I'd the case then interviews should drop all the meaningless jargon and just ask a candidate to sketch out a solution to a problem where they would have to think about atomization of DB operations.
I have used a Roku Express, Roku Premiere+ and now have 2 4k TCL Roku TVs. I have never had an app crash and use Netflix, Disney+ and HBO Max regularly.
On my 4K TCL TV, I've had quite a few issues with the Roku Netflix and Hulu appa... occasionally in Netflix it will just show garbled data whenever you try and play something, or on Hulu it will just refuse to actually start a show (I've noticed this happens mostly with only very specific series...) Solution is usually to restart the TV. Never had any issues while it's actually in the middle of playing anything though.
My second Roku from many years ago (first angry birds one) will crash occasionally using Netflix, will crash hard and reboot itself. Probably a thermal issue. Pretty anemic performance too. I think the software now just stresses the old hardware to the max. But to their credit, it was still receiving updates and worked. Finally retired it and replaced with new version and haven’t had it crash yet.
Are you sure it’s a crash? I used to think my apps were crashing until my remote batteries ran out and I was too lazy to replace them using the phone app instead.
And I noticed the “crashes” disappeared. Turns out there’s a bug with my remote that seems to automatically send a home signal to the device. But it’s also strange because it affected different apps differently.
I rarely saw it with Netflix. But YT was almost guaranteed.
Thats why you go suburban. Low COL but high quality of services and infrastructure. It's amazing what you can accomplish if you don't care about the solvency of your community :D
If you follow that link which says "Read the Story Here" they have this json example which has a list of employees and then info about the pagination of that list. The caption is this
>If you look closely, this JSON document mixes the data employees with other non-data keys (headers) such as count, currentPage, and pageSize in the same response.
But they don't explain at all how Changing the data format fixes the underlying issue of mixed concerns in one data object.
Couldn't you be accused by a prosecutor based on video evidence?
I get that having some private company collect fines directly would be bad, but couldn't they solve that with a simple manual review process by law enforcement?
In most area's of the US these traffic camera's are owned, operated, and controlled by a private company who use a revenue share model with the local city.
They are not operated by the police dept, nor does anyone in law enforcement review them.
The issue I've seen in most of these cases is that they have a difficult time proving who was in control of the vehicle at the time. The ticket is issued to the registered owner of the vehicle instead of the driver. So even if the prosecutor is the accuser based off video, that video evidence often isn't enough to determine who was the offender.
Maybe we should stop worrying about it and just fine the car owner. If implied consent laws are legal surely agreeing to be responsible for your own vehicle on public roads would also be permissible under the constitution.
Also, the systems in place for toll road entrances seem to be doing a good enough job. Why can't the same thing be implemented for traffic cameras?
That presumes people agree with the system in place for Toll Roads... I do not that is for sure, so I certainly do not want to expand that to other areas
I am not sure what you are talking about when it comes to implied consent, but in the US At least one is only responsible for their own actions, it is a dangerous precedent to set that a 3rd party should be liable for the actions of others, were by the state can just fine or even arrest someone with out proving them personally committed the offense
No that is not something I want to have applied to anything not even tolls or traffic laws
This is obviously a silly case but I think traffic cameras are one of the few places surveillance could actually be called for.
I'm not sure what the perfect system looks like, but the current system in the US seems broken. Not only is traffic enforcement a huge time waste for police, but traffic stops create an unnecessary hazard while failing to discourage dangerous driving.
Cameras discourage dangerous driving even less, because automated systems tend to only look at superficial metrics (eg speed) rather than actual dangerous behavior such as rapidly darting between lanes or tailgating.
As far as traffic stops creating needless hazards, the solution there is simple - change the expectation for motorists to only pull over where there is enough room (so not just in the breakdown lane), and prohibit officers from carrying weapons on traffic stops. If a motorist escalates to violence, the correct answer is to retreat and form a new plan that reflects the changed circumstance and higher severity of crime, not to jump into playing Rambo.
You could pretty easily change that though. Having a cop drive around in a patrol car seems way less effective that if the same resources were used to pay someone to look at traffic cams and send out fines for dangerous driving.
I'm reminded of those arguments in favor of making supply chains ever leaner. In reality, cops sitting on the side of the road are on call and ready to go in case something else more important comes up. I'm certainly not defending cops sitting around playing Candy Crush while waiting for the radar's alarm to go off, but abstracting and outsourcing seems like the wrong way to go here.
Cameras also have a serious due process problem in that if you get a notification even one week later, you're unable to collect evidence to defend yourself. If it's a daily commute, you might not even remember the weather conditions.
For those who aren't aware, bus lanes like this are often the only roads passing through city centres in the UK. The surrounding area is often a pedestrian area, with the only traffic being buses, registered taxis and emergency vehicles (delivery and utility vehicles are allowed in the early morning). The alternative route for regular traffic would be a few miles longer - which could mean 30 mins or more at rush hour.
Vast majority of bus lanes are a dedicated lane down a multi lane road for pushbikes, buses, motorbikes (and for some stupid reason taxis). It effectively allows a bus with 50 people on to jump the queue.
In this particular case it is a "bus" only lane over the river, the diversion for non buses is less than a mile, and far less for almost any actual car journey (given that if you just wanted to cross the bridge you'd walk.
The far more problematic issue in Bath is the continued closure of Cleveland Place due to the bridge falling to bits.
The UK also have average speed zone cameras where the average speed is calculated across a long stretch of road, in Denmark I've only seen fixed speed cameras.
What's different is that Amazon is also an extremely dominant platform for other stores.
It'd be like if Walmart came to your small town and signed a deal with the local government that stores had to carry their brands in addition to their own or pay higher taxes.
The problem isn't the mere existence of store brands, but the use of anticompetitive practices to promote those brands.
>It'd be like if Walmart came to your small town and signed a deal with the local government that stores had to carry their brands in addition to their own or pay higher taxes.
Not really? You can get around amazon's "extremely dominant platform" by setting up a shopify store. I'm not sure how that can be compared to the government forcing you to amazon.
And then you get far less traffic than you would if your product was listed on Amazon.
In the traditional brick and mortar situation you can open your own shop next to the Walmart or Target or whatever and have roughly the same visibility. In the online space though rolling your own shopify store is a massive handicap similar to if you weren't allowed to build within 5 miles of a large box store for fear of competition.
A huge number of people literally only shop on Amazon or at least look at Amazon before other locations because they believe it to be representative of the marketplace at large. Maybe that's their loss, but when you also consider Amazon's huge logistics network that nobody else is allowed to use.
How is setting up your own store "getting around" Amazon's dominant position? Obviously anybody can sell their own shit on their own website, but that doesn't change the fact that buying something online defaults to checking Amazon for a very large portion of the online public.
Might be too broad. Especially as the scale gets smaller I think that non-quantitative aspects can reasonably affect who you want to do business with. For example, if I'm annoying and rude to my local mechanic and he starts charging me extra to deal with my bullshit I don't really see a problem with that.
There does start to be a problem however if he's the only mechanic in town or if he charges more or less based on race or some other protected class.
I think it's a very hard in general to find the balance on problems like this one, and I don't expect you can come up with a one size fits all rule.
Doesn't that kind of imply that everyone's opinions are equally valid? If 95% of your profession is on the same page with a certain practice then I'd argue it's really not reasonable to go against the grain without a very good reason.
I think "best practices" strikes a good balance between things that are personal preferences and things that are laws.
Yeah it does. Software is basically a mental model and different people have different mental models of the world so we make up languages/practices/etc. that fit those models.
The point of the examples I gave (and a lot of browsing HackerNews) seems to suggest that 95% of the profession is not on board with our most basic practices around unit testing, version control, etc.
Maybe we just disagree about what constitutes best practices. I can't speak much about Java land, but I wouldn't describe rebasing in general as a best practice without further context. If you're working on a team that always rebases feature branches then your preference for not rebasing doesn't seem valid to me.
From what I've seen, every company has a different idea of what _best practices_ are.
And that's fine. "Best practices" don't necessarily need to be universal in scope. Read the Knowledge Management literature and you'll see plenty of discussion of the idea of scoping "best practices" to in terms of "site best practice", "company best practice", "industry best practice" and so on.
There's also a lot of discussion about using different language other than "best practice" exactly to acknowledge that "best practices" aren't always BEST practices, if you get what I mean. Calling them something like "recommended practices" or "proven practices" or similar lingo gives a way to denote things that are recommended at least locally, without having to claim that they are either universal in scope, or absolutely "best" in any sense.
