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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
PCF is for those working at scale, and doesn't suit trivial deployments well.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
> Devops become your enemies You're doing devops wrong, which may explain why you're having a bad time with the platform. > I have to login to PCF to check environments or add services to bind to an app. You should automate
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
It's clearly the Forerunner portal to the Ark waking up.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
I'm not sure that two of the world's richest companies investing is great sign of confidence. If their investment comes to nought, it wouldn't make a dent in their balance sheet.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
I find it easier to live with if you consider it to mean "daemonless". So not about hardware, but what software you don't have in your project.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
There seem to be a lot of stories with a negative view of China on HN.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
The global log sounds like a lynchpin but I didn't see a good explanation in the article. It sounds like all synchronization is done at the level of this log? If so, isn't that a bit of a bottleneck?
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
I know GDS uses Cloud Foundry a lot (as do the US and Korean governments). How much of gov.uk is deployed on CF?
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Source?
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Folks who practice pairing and mobbing would probably disagree about constant collaboration.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Why are "open offices are bad" stories so popular on HN? I've only ever worked in open plan offices, and can't say I've ever had a problem concentrating. I'm not sure what alternatives are popular, but if an em
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
That hierarchy of importance is quite apt. If the game concept doesn't sell itself as an elevator pitch, then it doesn't matter how good the implementation is. I once met an indie dev who was surprised that their Space Invaders mo
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
I have some sympathy, having made an indie game that gave a return of about £0.07/hour. Sold a few thousand copies, learnt a lot, made a lot of friends and had a lot of fun, but it certainly wasn't a great financial decision. And
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
It's hard, because novel mechanics are easily stolen. That said, the sooner you get user testing done, the sooner you validate your idea.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Thanks!
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
The key, the whole key, and nothing but the key.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
The Secret Life Of Waves. It made me think differently about life, the universe and the nature of complex systems. I also found The Brain with David Eagleman a series that gave me revelations about all sorts of things.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
I recommend reading Judea Pearl's _The Book Of Why_, which details why historically science has been restricted to correlational observations, and how causal calculus can shed light on causality.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
"sew their chaos"? I'm curious - I would've expected this to be "sow" as in "sowing seeds". Is this an American spelling?
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
> f you highly your blackness, you risk disrupting your success at getting people to see you as a coder first. Really interested to hear more of your thoughts/experiences on this point.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Yep, we pair at least 80% of the time.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
We ask people to pair-program with an interviewer on a realistic task. No tricks, no brainteasers. We just get to see how people do the job we want them to do.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb has implications that I find impact very disparate areas. It's hard work in places though. The Quark and the Jaguar by Murray Gell-Mann is a wonderfully readable and accessible intro to complexity,
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
You can buy effective faraday pouches for car keys in many places. I have one, and can attest they work. They are no thicker than any other fabric. I've not tried it for my phone though.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
The top photo, immediately visible on my mobile browser without scrolling, is of their wheels on a wheelchair.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Thought-provoking. It seems a convenient decoy of massive tech companies to encourage as much personal freedom as possible, whilst being complicit in limiting the economic freedom of those outside of our Hacker News, coders' salary bub
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
If it's not a poem, it's not an ode.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Ex-fat person here. 14 stone at 14 years of age. I stopped eating so much and took up regular exercise. I am no longer fat.
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Improving Concourse Performance(engineerbetter.com)
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Maybe it's my age, and a youth of grunge, metal, hardcore and punk, but whatever happened to doing what you love and not giving a shit what naysayers think?

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