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by borplk 10y ago
Junior people who are very good at CS often struggle with "real-world software". I had to explain to such a developer once why it was a bad idea to store multiple values into a single database column. It was a simple task of addin
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by borplk 10y ago
I'd imagine the first 100 "users" would rapidly turn into a here's 100 random emails that are interested in ANYTHING (but not really).
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by borplk 10y ago
You gotta say something more than just that.
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by borplk 10y ago
Not significant other but my family does not seem particularly supportive. The concept of taking risks and sacrifices today for potential future benefits is completely foreign to them. Pretty irritating. I don't have anyone cheering fo
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by borplk 10y ago
I get it. All the things that you mention can in theory be fixed over time. The stuff I'm talking about is not for the next 6 months. It's not very meaningful to compare it against the current tools and landscape. I can almost ima
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by borplk 10y ago
> All in all, it's just a big change you are proposing. Us UNIX people are incredibly change-averse. We keep getting burned :) Well that's exactly my point. I don't propose that we deploy it tomorrow but I want to see peop
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by borplk 10y ago
> How so? As I mentioned in another comment in my view the problem is that something like the configuration is shared both by the humans and the computers. Because of this we settle on something that is not optimal for either group. We e
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by borplk 10y ago
Sure, I do too. As I said exceptions exist. Existence of exceptions doesn't invalidate the broader pattern. Which group would you say is more likely to have more (current or one-day-to-be) programmers in it? A group of loud extroverted
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by borplk 10y ago
The general pattern is there as I stressed of course exceptions exist and will always exist. You will find more programmers in a random sample of "nerdy/thinking" personality types than "artsy" ones. And you will fi
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by borplk 10y ago
Yes of course and don't believe the politically-correct or politically-motivated nonsense of "everyone can program". If you have paid any attention to the society you can see the different classes of personalities. Some of th
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by borplk 10y ago
One suggestion I can make is to make objective facts your friend. Judge yourself against genuine accurately measured metrics. Hold yourself to some minimum/acceptable/excellent standards. Example: Problem: You are at increased ris
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by borplk 10y ago
It's only "specialized" because we haven't been doing it so it's considered special. At some point you have to admit that what's meant for the computer is not always byte by byte the same as what's meant f
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by borplk 10y ago
Plaintext is the lazy way out. It's not even remotely a standard because everyone does it differently. It's the shortest path from thinking "I need to persist this crap" to getting something working. Write the bytes to a
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by borplk 10y ago
To play devil's advocate, part of the reason things like The Rule of Silence are talked about is because of the messy unix philosophy of treating everything like plain text. If structured data was embraced we would have developed appro
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by borplk 10y ago
Being married is the norm in Japan? I thought they had a ton of singles.
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by borplk 10y ago
Sure why not? GraphQL is not specific to social products. Any application where a user might want/need bits and pieces of various objects pieced together would be appropriate and that's a lot of applications. For example if you ar
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by borplk 10y ago
If you feel like elaborating on the juice stuff you mentioned I'd like to know more (I'm hopeless with these things, trying to learn).
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by borplk 10y ago
For what it's worth there are some "long slot" toasters available (Google it you'll find some models).
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by borplk 10y ago
Not that I'm any expert but I would always try to stay away from a "friends/family" round regardless of other factors. I know it's not what you want to hear but statistically you are setting yourself for trouble. Wh
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by borplk 10y ago
Yeah imagine how that would turn out. "I'm just a code [automatically removed]."
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by borplk 10y ago
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by borplk 10y ago
Thanks, this will help me a lot. Are there any others around that I can access somewhere? Googling didn't help.
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by borplk 10y ago
FizzBuzz itself is not more important than actual experience. What happens is in some cases people take it too far. The point of FizzBuzz is a sanity check. It's like asking a dental surgeon "How many teeth do humans have?".
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by borplk 10y ago
Can you achieve competitive latency for web pages using API Gateway and Lambda?
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by borplk 10y ago
As someone who is deep into fancy Javascript stuff (React/Redux/Webpack you name it) at this point I would say PHP7!! There is something special about being able to create a helloworld.php and have it sit there up and running with
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by borplk 10y ago
As a developer I get some of my absolute best work done at a time that I look like I'm a moron and just wasting time. I'm talking about things like lying down on the bed, staring at the ceiling and just churning through stuff in m
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by borplk 10y ago
Come to think about it, wow you are right. As a huge introvert I noticed my mental health very visibly improved after I quit my regular office job to work from the comfort and peace of my home. I think I had a bit of a case of Stockholm Syn
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by borplk 10y ago
The amount of state that I need to keep in front of me requires 4 monitors. Working on a laptop is not an option for me.
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by borplk 10y ago
And by people who have their own offices. "It's a magnificent idea. FOR EVERYONE ELSE, NOT ME."
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by borplk 10y ago
As someone who wasted time and money with AWS I'd say start with something simple like DigitalOcean and worry about problems as you face them.

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