MalcolmDiggs

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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
In a single database, I don't think I've ever exceeded 50 tables. If a project of mine grew beyond that amount of complexity, it would likely make sense to refactor it into several/many databases.
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
In my experience: C++ is a rarified language in much of the startup world. Mobile devs can't use it in an app (with a few notable exceptions), front-end web devs can't use it in the browser, and backend devs are rarely working on
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
I understand the manager's frustration. But, I think taking that kind of action sets a dangerous precedent. IMHO, no matter how hard criticism may be to hear, (especially when it is entitled and baseless), you still want to encourage a
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
Do you know any of the same people? Perhaps asking a mutual friend to reach out (and at least confirm that he's not handling a family emergency right now) might be in order.
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
It really depends on the kind of product you're building. In certain situations, non-technical co-founders will have more work on their plate than the engineers. In other situations, they'll have very little to do. It sounds like
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
Badass; that's how I wanna go.
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
This guy pretty much killed it: http://www.rleonardi.com/interactive-resume/
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
I try to log most errors and exceptions, and send them to a log-management tool. I use Loggly (they make it easy to run reports or get automated notifications based on error-type) but have heard good things about Splunk as well. To monitor
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
All 33 chapters of R Kelly's rap opera: "Trapped in the Closet". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapped_in_the_Closet
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
It sounds like you need data, and lots of it. Here's a good place to start: http://www.amazon.com/Lean-Analytics-Better-Startup-Faster/d...
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
The two authors that have helped me the most are Dave Ramsey and Suze Orman. They disagree about some things: Dave hates credit, doesn't think you need a credit score. Suze suggests ways to boost your credit score, and thinks that&#x27
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
Generally speaking: You need someone you trust, who is at (or above) the level you're hiring for, to screen candidates for you. Just put them in the same room together and let them have a conversation for an hour or two. A non-technic
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
I don't think you have to give it up entirely if you're concerned about the impact. Purchasing carbon-offsets are also a meaningful way to (arguably) help reduce your footprint if you find yourself flying a lot.
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
Life is important in your 20s. If you max-out the time you're working, you'll miss some of the best parts of life. You're only young once.
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
I believe you're describing what is typically referred to as an "append only" datastore. The biggest-name in the game is Google BigQuery. From their docs: "BigQuery tables are append-only. The query language does not cu
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
Strictly speaking, the closest thing to a "team lead" would be the ScrumMaster. In a scrum, all team-members are just "developers", there's no hierarchy or differentiation in status between them. The ScrumMaster is
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
Work less. Smile more. :) Seriously, this is one of the best times of your life...unless you take a job that squeezes every bit of energy and life out of you. Achieving work-life balance early in your career will make this profession sustai
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
Oh wow, I never realized that. Yes, I do believe you're right!
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
I think the RSA algorithm is fascinating, just because of the impact it has had on the industry. Imagine a world without public-key encryption. Crazy right? (Obviously there would be other ways to achieve public-key encryption if RSA had n
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
I use Lucidchart because they have a lot of AWS-specific icons built in, so mapping out the guts of a VPC is really easy.
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
13 years as a full-stack dev. If I went back and did it again, I would have enjoyed my twenties more. No 80 hour workweeks. No killing myself to meet arbitrary deadlines and please bosses who couldn't care less. I'd also make more
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
In my experience, the code monolith doesn't need to be utopian/pristine in order to refactor to microservices, but it does need one thing: each (potential) microsevice MUST own it's own datastore. If I have a widgets service,
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
Yes and no. Yes: A lot of web-development has already been automated for simple sites. Think of how many more web-development jobs would need to exist if Wordpress and Squarespace and other CMS systems weren't powering so many blogs an
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
If your changes are generally-useful to the userbase, your code is fully tested, and it doesn't break any existing features, I'd just submit a pull-request to get the conversation going. You never know, someone on the main team mi
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
As much as it pains me to say this: recruiters are probably willing to pay highest-dollar for access to that audience. So letting recruiters run ads on your product, or creating some sort of native-advertising platform for recruiters will l
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
With attitudes like that, no social, environmental or political change would ever take place. Sure, we all feel powerless and insignificant sometimes. But don't underestimate the power of the example you set to others. If you inspire o
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
According to the numbers, the largest impact I've had on greenhouse gas emissions was deciding to go vegan a few years ago. [1]. Second in line was selling my car 6 months ago (mostly because I moved to Manhattan, and really don'
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
I'd recommend breaking down the time lost due to the slower machine, and spelling out how that equates to dollars down the drain. Here's an example (with arbitrary numbers): "With a 16GB machine, it takes my test suite 5 minu
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by MalcolmDiggs 10y ago
Hahahaha, classic. Oh wait, you're serious?

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