alex_lav

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by alex_lav 3y ago
> Been a long list of profiteering and generally dubious actions. For the unaware, what are they?
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Micro anything should be the direct result of build-measure-optimize after having exhausted all non-micro solutions. Micro front ends seem like an incredible (arrogant/low experienced) smell.
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> So it's not like I am making a wild guess. Until you acquire 10m users, you are indeed making a wild guess. Respectfully.
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> I am thinking of starting a very simple service that may have about 10 million users. Until it actually has 10 million users, it doesn't and almost certainly won't have 10 million users. Very very respectfully, if you're
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When you desperately want your hammer to be valid and worthwhile, everything becomes a nail.
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Source: trust me bro The key paragraph: > After optimizations, the Rust FaaS runtime ended up being >70% faster while using >90% less memory than our reference Node.js implementation. But the key is ‘after optimizations’, the initi
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> 1. That completely ignores my first point, that engaging backend demos are inherently more difficult. :shrug: I guess? I don't really agree but don't really see the validity in debating perceived difficulty. > 2. In nearly
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Sorry, I feel like there must be something I'm not understanding about the limitation you're trying to convey. WITH relevant_users AS ( SELECT id FROM users WHERE id IN (1) ) SELECT users.name, mra.title FROM users INNER JO
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> eg: implement a simple top-N query (fetch 10 users and the most recent 5 articles for each) in GraphQL with a resolver tree, or even data loader. A most_recent_articles view?
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A join is a SQL-ism. GraphQL allows you to express _relationships_, which the underlying database would fulfill via a join.
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As I said elsewhere, your complaint is with shitty orgs, not demos. Don’t work for shitty orgs.
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> Also I’ve been at countless places that insist graphs and charts aren’t demos, but still insist backend teams do demos. This usually ends up with hitting an API with curl while everyone’s eyes glaze over. Then your gripe is not with de
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You can create an engaging demo for technical units of work that do not feature visual/user-understandable concepts. It's not rocket science (unless it is). A demo is nothing more than explaining a problem and then displaying the
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Begging non web people to realize you can still demo non web work
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I guess to me if you’re attributing a nontrivial portion of the rise in medication use to things like diabetes and obesity, you are agreeing that it is indeed a negative root cause for our society.
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I think it's just kind of a lot to think about. Glass half full: medication improves quality of life. Glass half empty: Quality of life is dropping such that more prescription medication is necessary to maintain an average quality of l
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This feels like AI generated content, in that it mostly doesn't make sense and definitely does not support the claim made in the title.
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> No.. the world isn't ending tomorrow, within 5 years, or even in the next few decades. Ah yes, not ending “in the next few decades.” What a reassurance.
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When I was ~11ish I found my desktop was overheating quite regularly. The solution I came up with on my $0 dollar budget was to pop the side of the case off and point a box fan into it. Worked like a charm…for a while.
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Lol
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> "Tell me about a project you worked on." is not a specific question Exactly. That's the point. > "why did you choose to order the members of this struct in your C code the way you did" is one. Neat! I'
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> your answer makes it clear that you must not have built anything yourself of substantial size or complexity. lol > if you worked on something for 10-15 years chances are you cannot answer some random specific question Again, the &q
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Right, among other things and not “on the spot”. And I would argue that being unable to communicate about your experience is, to an interviewer, pretty similar to lying as they’re just a candidate making unverifiable claims. Many people lie
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> i’m always surprised the first thing people think is that other people are lying, and than if they cannot answer a question right on the spot they must be lying Where did anyone suggest this is what was happening?
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> Is my only choice to yeet Adderall and "memorize my lines"? I really cannot fathom why you jumped to this. Is "practice and get better" that unreasonable? You really only need a handful of things to talk about if th
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> Note: Following blog post more or less applies to any dynamically typed programming language, e.g. Ruby. I am only sharing my experience and frustrations with Python, cos that's the language I use. This post isn't about Pytho
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Don't read the rest of those github comments if you'd like to maintain respect for anyone involved.
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It's called Product Manager now
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> Yeah, I'll proudly "steal" from these bloodsuckers. As long as we're on the same page that you're advocating for stealing a service, you can internally justify it however you want.
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> Services like Netflix allow watching content in more than one screen. This isn't what password sharing is in reference to. I get it. You want to share your netflix password with 10 of your friends so your friends don't have t

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