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by billhathaway 10y ago
At a high level, SQS is simple, but there are a lot of additions AWS has made over time such as dead letter queues, message attributes, delayed messages. Some of these settings are per-queue level, some are overridable on a per-message bas
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by billhathaway 10y ago
The "talking and coding" point mentioned above is key. The interviewers want to hear your thought process and approach. Gayle McDowell (author of CtCI) has some videos for purchase[0] that show mock interviews including whiteboa
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by billhathaway 10y ago
Google provides a service called takeout[1] which lets users export their data from other Google services including Drive and Blogger. [1] https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout Disclaimer: Alphabet employee, but
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by billhathaway 10y ago
I agree with the author on having servers using UTC. The most annoying pain point for me is trying to read a log file and having to perform lots of mental arithmetic to compare it to the local time when I know the local time for an event. I
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by billhathaway 11y ago
I tried out caddyserver about an hour ago, and the ease of use is awesome. Had it serving my domain with a letsencrypt auto-generated cert in 2 minutes from never having looked at the caddy docs before.
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by billhathaway 11y ago
Absolutely. I took a mindfulness class and the biggest takeaway for me was to take time between the event and the response whenever you feel an immediate emotional reaction.
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by billhathaway 11y ago
From a deployment standpoint, having a tool written in Go is a win for me since it is much simpler to get running than something in python or ruby which almost certainly has a larger dependency tree.
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by billhathaway 11y ago
Testing on Linux, if ran as root it does, but if you are running ps auxwwe as normal user, it is only showing env variables for that user.
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by billhathaway 11y ago
I've recently gotten into deploying postgres with replication and the support for async or mostly async with one "floating" synchronous replica on the current release is pretty solid. There are some parts I'd like to see
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by billhathaway 11y ago
Adafruit sells small eInk screens (1.3"-2.7")[1] that you can attach to microprocessors for $30-$40. They also have Arduino libraries and tutorials. [1] http://www.adafruit.com/category/150
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by billhathaway 11y ago
If you are purchasing a new car and don't love the negotiation game, check out Costco's auto program. I got a much lower price on a new car versus what truecar.com was offering. The downside was that not many dealers participate
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by billhathaway 12y ago
I am curious to see what people should expect as the output of the service. Does the interviewer return back a single "hire/no hire" bit or is there a more detailed assessment of the candidate's strengths/weaknesses
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by billhathaway 12y ago
Looks like the goncurses dependency requires some help to run on OSX: https://code.google.com/p/goncurses/wiki/KnownIssues