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by bcbrown 8y ago
I'd love to hear more about "A serverless Apache Spark environment". How is that set up? How long do those jobs tend to run for? Are those written in Java/Scala or Python? What are the pros and cons for choosing to go se
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by bcbrown 8y ago
I've worked with a S3 + SQL system. It was used for serving data for a reporting dashboard where the stored data was in the 0.1-10 TB range. As the use case was only semi-interactive (users didn't mind waiting 1-10 seconds for a r
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by bcbrown 8y ago
Look at the books published by the Harvard Negotiation Project: Getting to Yes in 1981. Getting It DONE: How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge was published in 1998, Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most in 1999, and Bey
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by bcbrown 8y ago
I've experienced this phenomenon. While competing at powerlifting, my field of vision shrunk to just the platform I was on. I couldn't hear the crowd or my family cheering. It was an incredible, transcendent experience that I woul
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by bcbrown 8y ago
You can use regex ranges to match every line between two regexes: https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Ranges.ht... Another option might be to use multi-line records ( https://www
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by bcbrown 8y ago
I actually wrote a sed utility to collapse arbitrary whitespace before piping into cut before I learned about Awk. I never knew about -w before, but looks like neither of the systems I'm currently using for work support it.
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by bcbrown 8y ago
Ask people to give you demos of what they're building. Schedule 30 minute 1:1s with as many people as possible, 1-2 a day. Write down what people tell you as much as possible; even if you don't go back and read it, the act of writ
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by bcbrown 8y ago
I found it just to be a good reminder that chasing "GitHub streaks" is ephemeral meaninglessness, although it was counterintuitive behavior.
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by bcbrown 8y ago
However, it gets removed when you're removed from that private repo, I believe. A prior employer used Github, and my worked showed up on that activity graph thing, but when I left, it all disappeared.
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by bcbrown 8y ago
> the Swallows and Amazons series Wait, that was a series? I vividly remember reading that book growing up, but I never knew there were more. I know what I'm going to be reading this summer!
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by bcbrown 8y ago
Wittgenstein, Gerry Weinberg, Korzybsky, and The Systems Bible by John Gant. Gregory Bateson.
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by bcbrown 9y ago
One approach I sometimes take is to make the refactoring in one commit and the change in another. They can go into the same PR (within reason), but they're clearly separated out.
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by bcbrown 9y ago
> it is nightmarish to toil through some tightly coupled mess and try to rewrite it in a manner that is more maintainable. I'm doing that right now, and it's great. There's several responsibilities that are all tightly cou
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by bcbrown 9y ago
One mentor of mine taught me the "rule of three". The first time you have to do something, you write it in-place. The second time, same thing. The third time is when you refactor into a common module all three components can use.
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by bcbrown 9y ago
> A philosopher is not necessarily made by a fork dispenser, but it is initialized by a fork dispenser. That made me laugh. When a fork dispenser dispenses philosophers, your data modeling took a wrong turn somewhere.
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by bcbrown 9y ago
Here's a neat bit of Python abuse I stumbled across recently... you can define a method to return itself: >>> def recurse(): ... return recurse ... >>> recurse <function recurse at 0x1083b5f
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by bcbrown 9y ago
Along the same lines, decide what the bar will be for promotion, tell them where they're lacking, and when they reach that bar, promote them .
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by bcbrown 9y ago
> It makes me wonder how we communicate at all when no two people ever quite speak the same language. You should read about Wiio's Laws: http://jkorpela.fi/wiio.html
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by bcbrown 9y ago
Read https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Perennial-... . Turns out it's actually mostly about finding meaning in life.
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by bcbrown 9y ago
You might find this book interesting: https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Systems-Unlocking-Mysteries-Or... . It's a great view into the differing perspectives of executives, middle managers, and ICs.
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by bcbrown 9y ago
Ask for examples of good reviews to emulate. Look at the PR without comments first, and give your own review. Then compare with the original review, and see what areas you emphasized more, and emphasized less than the original review. Talk
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by bcbrown 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15994571
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by bcbrown 9y ago
By definition, any car that makes an update to a map has experienced an out of date map.
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by bcbrown 9y ago
I'm reading the Aeneid right now, the Fitzgerald translation, right now. It's good but the poetry isn't as enthralling as I found the Iliad and the Odyssey. One aspect I found really interesting was how Virgil was claiming Tr
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by bcbrown 9y ago
I greatly enjoyed The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Reading it caused me to buy collections of folk tales from several different cultures.
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I really like this method: https://github.com/raxod502/TerrariaClone/blob/fd1ff8b8b0e78...
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by bcbrown 9y ago
> Anything that can be reversed, I reverse roughly 50% of the time For me, it's any arbitrary, binary, convention. Left and right. Clockwise and counterclockwise. \ and /. Whether time zone offsets are added or subtracted from
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by bcbrown 9y ago
pavlov's account was created 3130 days ago; that's 8.5 years. BartSam's account was created 37 days ago. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by bcbrown 9y ago
The sci-fi book The Dark Forest (sequel to the Three Body Problem) discusses this problem. I don't want to give away any spoilers, but I found a lot to agree with in the book.
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by bcbrown 9y ago
> > Call your shot. Before you run code, predict out loud exactly what will happen. > M, okay, but what exactly do you mean by that? I frequently do a variant of this, although not always out loud. One way to debug a problem is to

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