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by bpicolo 5y ago
Don't you do that in rust too? You'd be working with Option<T> instead of T.
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by bpicolo 5y ago
I think there's room for both. Tracing is usually sampled, or much more time limited, and aggregation tooling isn't nearly as good compared to logs with most providers. Much better for deep dives into a narrow context. For a singl
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by bpicolo 5y ago
The introduction of the mongoose to hawaii was a big problem for bird biodiversity
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by bpicolo 5y ago
> Maybe more experienced workers should consult, teach, mentor others to help everyone to become more autonomous That's a significant part of the role for effective managers.
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by bpicolo 5y ago
Ruby (MRI) also has a GIL
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by bpicolo 5y ago
Can do that with Graal these days: https://github.com/BrunoBonacci/graalvm-clojure/blob/master/...
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by bpicolo 5y ago
Have you tried ECCO? Bit pricier but I've found their stuff to be great.
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by bpicolo 5y ago
I like them for the most part, but their soles early on were dangerously slippery on any marginally wet surfaces, big turn off. I've heard this is better but not great now?
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by bpicolo 5y ago
Side business? $64 billion in revenue in 2020. That's like a quarter of their overall revenue?
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by bpicolo 5y ago
Serious question - what makes the database serialization not vulnerable to timing attacks in the same vein? I wouldn't expect those to be purely constant time implementations.
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by bpicolo 5y ago
Not relevant in this case, but for low margin physical goods the math can be much worse. You're out the cost of the good, the taxes and fees associated, the margin, and the chargeback fee. For food delivery middlemen, for example, it&#
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by bpicolo 5y ago
Chargebacks and fraud are a massive issue for every ecommerce business
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by bpicolo 5y ago
Could be wrong, but I think it's less puritanical, and more that transactions with these types of vendors are overwhelmingly fraudulent and charged-back. It's a big liability for the processors.
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by bpicolo 5y ago
I haven't gotten spam phone calls in 6-12 months. Today, I got 15.
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by bpicolo 5y ago
Not sure on IAM, but Google put out a paper on Zanzibar. https://research.google/pubs/pub48190/
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by bpicolo 5y ago
Platform teams have become my bread and butter. They come with an interesting set of challenges. One of the biggest of those, and the reason it can be a challenging position to be in, is that the person managing the team, coming up with the
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by bpicolo 5y ago
Yes. You can scale ES to fairly massive data volumes. Postgres is a very different system with different design constraints. There are plenty of peta-scale ES clusters in the wild
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by bpicolo 5y ago
Love libphonenumber. Have taken advantage of it for every company I’ve worked at across half a dozen languages. The APIs are designed such that you need to dig into the subtlety of phone numbers a bit, which is really great.
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by bpicolo 5y ago
You need senior engineers in order to scale training people, so it's a catch-22.
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by bpicolo 5y ago
Relationships within a reporting chain are a classic example of bad business ethics, because there's obvious opportunity for favoritism and bias, and most corporate policies disallow it (in favor of moving folk to other teams or simila
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by bpicolo 5y ago
It takes the guesswork out of library migrations. API migrations still need forwards/backwards compat hygiene, unless you blue/green your entire infrastructure to compatible versions, which is possible but not necessarily practica
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by bpicolo 5y ago
I'd recommend a trigger comment word other than `notc`. It's hard to remember - not obvious why it would be `notc` in the first place. But also it would be pronounced like "nazi"? Not exactly the association you might be
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by bpicolo 5y ago
The original Paypal folk were always big fans of this. Levchin did similar. https://www.forbes.com/sites/deborahljacobs/2012/03/20/how-f...
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by bpicolo 5y ago
Bit rot, "it works on my machine"-style issues, cache misses on dependency installation (which can really bloat deploy times in deploy pipelines by busting Docker caches across machines, too). Can be a security issue if a vulnerab
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by bpicolo 5y ago
Pip is fine, it depends on your goals. I've found requirements.txt less enjoyable to maintain for several reasons – you need to separate dev, test dependencies on your own time, there's no notion of a lockfile for transitive depe
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by bpicolo 5y ago
For the case of this header, you're interacting with third parties that don't speak your application domain. That "unique id" you mention is exactly the use case for the idempotency key this RFC proposes. You can model y
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by bpicolo 5y ago
I've found that working with outsourced technical teams usually makes me feel even more confident in job security in the industry, rather than less
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by bpicolo 5y ago
Poetry is a great way to manage library dependencies in containerized apps
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by bpicolo 5y ago
They've invested a ton into Python support in VSCode in recent years. It's really good. The language server Microsoft built for type checking and completion ( https://github.com/microsoft/pyright ) is excellent
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by bpicolo 5y ago
Because the use case isn't necessarily modifying a resource. Charging somebody for a product, for example, doesn't have natural idempotency. They could buy the same item twice

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