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  • erogenouswarzone@lemmy.mltoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 years ago

    No offense, but I know how to read a stack trace, and yes locate a familiar file - if you’re lucky enough to have one listed therein.

    My point is, there is no excuse for them being so terrible except that they’ve always been that way.

    The important information should be brief and at the top. This is design 101. The same ideas that have driven newspaper articles and websites for as long as the two have been a thing.

    You put the important stuff in big letters at the top, and the rest, if you need it, is beneath the fold.

    Edit: just to drive the point home: I’m sure it’s not the packages I’ve downloaded that are causing the error, I am positive it is my code, so show me where my code had a mistake first. Then you can show me the horrible “wall of text” that is the stack trace so I can understand it better later, but 99% of the time, just seeing the line that caused the error is enough to know what the problem is.






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    2 years ago

    Also the part where someone else wrote the code 20 years ago, and they haven’t worked for the co for 19 years. And now you have to find a bug that makes no sense, with no idea how he even compiled the code. You work on it for 3 months and every day someone’s riding your ass about it till they finally say well, let’s put it in the backburner.



  • erogenouswarzone@lemmy.mltoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldHow do you backup your data?
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    So tape doesn’t make sense for the typical person, unless you don’t have to buy the equipment and store i.

    But, if you’re even a small company it becomes cheaper to use tape.

    Companies don’t like deleting data. Ever. In fact some industries have laws that say they can’t delete data.

    For example, the company I work in is small, but old. Our accounting department alone requires complex automated processes to do things each day that require data to be backed up.

    From the beginning of time. I shit you not. There is no compression even.

    And at the drop of a hat, the IT dept needs to be able to implement a backup from any time in the past. Although this almost never happens outside of the current pay cycle, they need to have the option available.

    The best way they have to facilitate this (I hate it - like I said they’re old) is to simply write everything multiple times a night. And it’s everything since we started using digital storage. Yes, it’s overkill and makes no sense, but that’s the way it is for us. And that’s the way it is for a lot of companies.

    So, when we’re talking about that amount of data, and tape having a storage cost advantage of 4:1 over disk, it more than pays for all the overhead for enterprise level backups.