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by Aqueous 5y ago
I come to that conclusion as well. Literally millions of people died of this thing you called ‘minor.’ But those deaths don’t register because they happened out of view, in an overwhelmed hospital or out in the street or at home when capaci
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by Aqueous 5y ago
Please tell me the way in which a virus that swept the globe and killed nearly 6 million people (and those are just the deaths we counted) in 2 years is ‘minor in the scheme of things.’
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by Aqueous 5y ago
Um….not sure if you were joking but even compared to Amazon, in no way, shape or form can Walmart be considered a small retailer.
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by Aqueous 5y ago
Ah interesting - I vaguely remember hearing about this, but since I hadn't heard about it in so long I assumed it died. I don't know what the uptake on this product is, but this specific product might be a case of "Solving a
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by Aqueous 5y ago
It's a platform for managing a kind of appointment, but it doesn't have an appointments table. The appointments data is combined with a different table, and there was no way to disentangle them easily because the entire system was
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by Aqueous 5y ago
I think the correct thing to do would have been to pivot away from user data and ad targeting as business model and start offering premium, paid services. For instance Facebook could have very easily been Slack for businesses, as well as an
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by Aqueous 5y ago
As someone who is currently over a year into rewriting a massive system with a fundamental design error by the original designer I can assure you that failing to plan your data model up front can have huge costs not just for you but for any
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by Aqueous 5y ago
often poor code is a symptom of poor data structure design. having the wrong data structure can make your code heinously complex. conversely designing the data structure correctly can make your code simple and clear, because it’s obvious ho
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by Aqueous 5y ago
The vaccine results are clear. You are much, much less likely to have a severe health outcome if you are vaccinated, even with omicron. The vast majority of the people hospitalized with omicron and overwhelming hospitals right now are unvac
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by Aqueous 5y ago
Sorry to break it to you, but you are a selfish person who won't even do the bare minimum to prevent spreading the illness to other at-risk people.
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by Aqueous 5y ago
Yes. My biggest irritation with the show is that literally the entire point of the books, and the reason to read them at all, is the central, intriguing idea of psychohistory and the Seldon plan. These ideas are front and center in the book
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by Aqueous 5y ago
I would say it indicates junior tech skills as well. If the value of the linter isn’t self evident to him he is a junior.
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by Aqueous 5y ago
Alternate title: I recklessly ignored health guidelines around a pandemic that has killed 5.3 million people in 2 years.
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by Aqueous 5y ago
ever tried to scale monolithic development beyond 3 teams? the point of micro services is simple: to make technical infrastructure resemble the human organization it is designed to support. that’s it.
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by Aqueous 5y ago
Can someone remind me what the purpose of conventional finance is again?
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by Aqueous 5y ago
no, no, no, no. if you deliver the product only by taking shortcuts that impede other engineers you do not get credit for ‘delivering’ the product. having been the next engineer to come along, this attitude drives me up a wall.
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by Aqueous 5y ago
There is a time and a place for a denormalized schema. If you are trying to search a large data-set a denormalized schema in a single table with some good indexing is much preferable to joining across 30 tables. Whether you choose normalize
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by Aqueous 5y ago
I thought this was partially explained because the AI aliens were advanced but extremely limited in number i.e. there were only a few hundred left. so they need humans and human resources to make up for their limitations in numbers.
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by Aqueous 5y ago
‘Managing Data Is a Nightmare Keeping data in-sync across microservices can be challenging.’ Leaving aside the debate over whether micro services vs monolith is appropriate for your org, this shows me you are thinking about the problem wro
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by Aqueous 5y ago
Congratulations. How long ago did you start looking? Did it take all 18 months to find a new position or did you find some as soon as you started looking?
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by Aqueous 5y ago
Though this can also backfire. I observed a huge architecture error in the central data structure / schema of our system. Everyone agreed that it was a huge problem so I got put in charge of fixing it. Of course when you build an entir
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by Aqueous 5y ago
Like on every other major OS the publisher of those applications. And I mean they should be distributing the applications as well. Not the OS publishers.
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by Aqueous 5y ago
No, I’m suggesting that the authors of the applications are responsible for patching and distributing their own application like on every other major OS.
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by Aqueous 5y ago
But should distributing and ensuring the security of software that users install on their own systems even be the responsibility of operating system maintainers?
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by Aqueous 5y ago
Have to say this because I've seen this attitude become pathological: You don't have to be "killing it" all the time. There's no rush. Time isn't running out. Finish school. Slow down. Think about what you want
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by Aqueous 5y ago
$21 / user / month - so if you have 100 engineers that's $2100 a month or $25k a year. Still should be doable for most businesses that size but licensing costs can blow up when you start to have a lot of seats. An annoying t
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by Aqueous 5y ago
The excuses Coinbase uses are ludicrous. As far as I can tell, deposits on Coinbase are not directly on-chain. And transfers out aren’t blockchain-only transactions either - they are mediated by Coinbase. So the wallet you see on Coinbase i
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by Aqueous 5y ago
I will say, in this case it is not what happened. The previous system launched successfully with an incorrect schema. The platform grew and when it came time to add more features, some of them were either impossible to do because of the inc
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by Aqueous 5y ago
Precisely. If I were to have neglected to point out the issue, or refused to lead the fix, I would probably have been promoted by now. Instead I chose the hard path and got punished for it. However, the team will benefit far into the future
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by Aqueous 5y ago
Haha, yep. I just think it's fundamentally unjust for the developers doing the (easiest) green field development to get promoted while making significant architecture mistakes, then punishing later developers for pointing out those mis

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