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by clintonb 2y ago
My last company used Splunk and SignalFx. They were fine, but I wasn't necessarily in the weeds with configuration and usage. The Observability Team made it easy to use. My current company, a much small startup, primarily uses Datadog
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by clintonb 2y ago
That sounds like an issue between you and the merchant (Stripe's customer), not Stripe. The quickest path to resolution, if the merchant is unresponsive, is to ask your credit card issuer to block payment to that merchant. It's to
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by clintonb 3y ago
They provide Actions _runners_ because GitHub runners are quite expensive (per CPU and GB of memory) compared to the underlying cost of a Kubernetes node on most cloud providers or bare metal. Of course, that assumes you’ve already paid the
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by clintonb 3y ago
I understand, and what I am saying is that it is rare to have retail employees that _only_ do checkout. Nearly everyone performs multiple roles. Eliminating checkout will reduce the overall workload, but won't necessarily reduce headco
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by clintonb 3y ago
Retail employees do more than checkout. You’ll still need them to stock, do customer support, clean, and more.
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by clintonb 3y ago
> So why is it not applied everywhere? RFID tags are expensive compared to printing barcodes. The volume of products moved in a grocery store is far larger than that of a clothing store like Uniqlo.
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by clintonb 3y ago
I was just thinking about MOPy fish ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOPy_fish)...and how much it encouraged wasting paper!
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by clintonb 3y ago
I agree that Cloud Run greatly simplifies deployments. Unfortunately, it only auto-scales based on requests and, eventually, CPU. We are in the process of moving our Temporal workers from Cloud Run to GKE Autopilot, which is ~30% cheaper gi
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by clintonb 3y ago
I like these nerdy takes. After re-watching Jurassic Park for the first time in years, and with more software engineering experience, I’m curious to read a post-mortem of Jurassic Park.
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by clintonb 3y ago
Do they? Someone tried to solve a large problem with the package manager, and inadvertently created a larger problem. That simply indicates the folks at NPM didn't fully think through the edge cases of their problem/solution. I&#x
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by clintonb 3y ago
If you give me the option to more than double my money now versus get dividends over the next few years, I'm taking the money now. The goal of most businesses is to make money. Building with a focus on longevity is just one of many way
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by clintonb 3y ago
…and still struggles to sync one file from my laptop to my phone.
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by clintonb 3y ago
You can definitely export data from Fitbit. I built an app to export intraday data to Apple Health using Fitbit’s REST API.
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by clintonb 3y ago
What exactly is the problem?
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by clintonb 3y ago
> Modern EV’s easily least 25 years. Source, please?
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by clintonb 3y ago
> I feel like there is a correlation between fast-twitch programming muscles and technical debt. Being fast doesn't mean you do everything at maximum speed. Usain Bolt doesn't sprint everywhere he goes, but he can sprint quite
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by clintonb 3y ago
I don’t see it as a failure of the spec, but developers failing to read said spec. By the way, I’m a developer who does want a stable ID for users authenticating via third-parties. The fact is that email addresses and phone numbers can chan
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by clintonb 3y ago
The OIDC spec does provide a stable identifier, and Google implements it properly. My Google Workspace address will always be verified, so your solution doesn’t apply. Changing my email address at Google itself won’t unverify it. Also, you’
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by clintonb 3y ago
The email address is not guaranteed to be stable.
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by clintonb 3y ago
Related: More service providers need to stop using email as the primary identifier (as Google’s docs recommend). When I changed my username on Google Apps, I spent a lot of time dealing with issues at Slack, Datadog, GoLinks, and others.
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by clintonb 3y ago
> It would be trivial to implement and make things much more secure… If it were truly trivial, this would have been implemented long ago. This isn’t a pure engineering problem as much as it’s a “convincing people to do it” problem.
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by clintonb 3y ago
Why would a vendor pay someone else for an online-only expo when they can market directly via ads? Why would a customer pay to participate in an online-only expo when they can see videos for free online?
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by clintonb 3y ago
We used BuildJet cache for months. It’s possible it was always broken and I only noticed a few days ago. I tried both and neither actually cached data. I even tried forking, and upgrading, the BuildJet variant to no avail. I spent a solid c
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by clintonb 3y ago
I migrated from BuildJet this week because BuildJet’s caching is broken. Installing cached pnpm dependencies takes about 12s on GitHub and WarpBuild runners. It takes 2m on BuildJet, which is about half the runtime, effectively negating the
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by clintonb 3y ago
Their collector is used to send infrastructure logs to GCP (instead of Datadog). My guess is this is to save on costs. GCP logging is probably cheaper than Datadog, and infrastructure logs may not be needed as frequently as application logs
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by clintonb 3y ago
This is unfortunate, but expected. I used a Fitbit Charge for the past seven-plus years. I built an app, SyncFit, to sync to Apple Health. I switched to Apple Watch last year because it was clear Google had removed features in the latest Fi
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by clintonb 3y ago
Yes, context matters. If you discount every company that might be impacted by a third-party breach of employee data, you will be left with no vendors. At some point you have to decide what is acceptable, and have insurance/indemnity fo
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by clintonb 3y ago
> And while corruption in the so-called "military-industrial complex" exists, based on my 20 years in uniform, I'm not sure it's worse than in other sectors of the economy. Your response to the corruption is whatabout
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by clintonb 3y ago
> I understand the military-industrial complex, I just don't know if senior military officer job selection is really the thing to get upset over. Why not? The article provides a few cases of this situation leading to wasteful spendi
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by clintonb 3y ago
Schema migrations are a solved problem. You make backward-incompatible changes in multiple steps. https://engineering.edx.org/django-migration-donts-f4588fd11...

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