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by dkhenry 7y ago
Its not some kind of reverse psychology. Having one bad employee can ruin years of work by a team to build trust and goodwill. Having to rebuild trust after someone burns an career executive because they were disgruntled about pay or workin
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Yeah, there were two major factors. First its not cheap to run a professional data center, this isn't even a government thing almost all big companies are making this calculation and moving towards the big cloud providers. Second when
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I agree with you generally that this kind of question can be used to manipulate, however I also feel those of us in the Technology sector need to answer it. So many of us are spending our lives without thinking about what we are doing. We j
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The way they hire people you can only stay there for four year max. After that you are required by law to leave, so it very much is a temporary job. So to describe it they use that term as it pretty accurately describes what you are signing
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There was a project to convert a PDF to a website that enabled millions to get health care, so yeah maybe grunt work, but grunt work to give millions of people access to health care ( and not theoretical million, we kept metrics and had a s
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I did a tour of duty with the USDS and you are so far from the truth its painful. There are very few individuals there who made millions in social media, and the technical staff is so far beyond any other organization I have ever seen. Most
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Using Vitess to shard AWS Aurora past any transactional scaling limits(planetscale.com)
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Kubernetes is the new Java Application Server for people who didn't realize that Java Applicaiton Servers were a terrible idea. Despite a long track record of failure individuals are trying to introduce the complexity of J2EE onto kub
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by dkhenry 7y ago
PlanetScale | Backend Engineer, Frontend Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Customer Success Engineer, Marketing, Sales | Mountain View, Ca | Full-Time | https://planetscale.com/careers PlanetScale is an early stage start
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There already is a database operator that can do everything you have listed and a lot more ( I helped write it ), but it doesn't remove the need for DBA's. It just changes what they do on a day to day basis. I think this is what O
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Whenever I see anything about hiring I always think back to this article https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/08/on-secretly-terrible-engin...
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I think you would be surprised about the scaleability of Relational Databases. Most of the large scale applications you use rely on Relational Databases, even at the largest scale. Modern distributed SQL system such as TiDB or the open sour
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The article gives two reasons. The first starts in the paragraph that begins with The first underlying driver of U.S. infrastructure costs is that the U.S. has felt so rich as a country that, for decades, we spent freely on infrastructu
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Slack actually uses Vitess to scale out its databases.
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I know the Kubernetes Assessment was the one to make all the news, but the teams actually audited a bunch of CNCF projects. Here is the one for the Vitess project https://vitess.io/blog/2019-03-12-vitess-security-audit&
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Azure has a large presence in the government and they have a fairly robust offering that multiple agencies use. So its not as big a mono culture as you might think. I know this one contract makes lots of noise because its the DoD and people
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You should not do infrastructure as IDIQ, this is an infrastructure contract. The idea that all contracts issued by IT are for "IT Services" is part of the reason digital systems at the DOD and other government agencies are such a
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As a former Naval Surface Warfare Center engineer I can't really agree with your assessment. When I was there (2004 - 2010 ) there was a dedicated push to get more engineering talent in the doors. Most of the time it appeared the quali
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Email tracking is wrong, and personally I have gone through many steps to try and keep myself safe from it. That being said you are incorrect if you think this is limited to Marketing and Sales. Literally every E-mail in my inbox when I wro
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Fair point, the last thing I want to do is make people care less about privacy. I will say the one difference here is I think there are a lot of people who use this tracking for their day to day job, so its not just a random gray hat who is
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No one who is outraged by this didn't know this was going on with almost every email tool out there. I don't understand how this manufactured outrage gets hyped, when literally every email tool in existence does this as standard p
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I have an awesome demo I give running a complex stateful workload across cloud providers to show off the system that I work on. What I have learned from giving that presentation many times is that while it is nice to say you can run cross c
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Slack records everything you do in an immuteable audit log. It's used by lots of finance companies as well as government institutions ( who have just as strict if not stricter rules ). Also they have lots of features to help with e-dis
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I have found those who have bought the most into disinformation are those who have completely vilified the "others", while I would like to say most of those people are the one's who consume Fox News unquestionably most of the
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If you don't assume the model has predictive power, then why bother listing it as a source? The real issue is what you say in the second part of your comment, people don't want the city to change. So in an attempt to live in a wor
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by dkhenry 7y ago
It will and your links even say that > If the (first) model is correct, it would take a 53% increase in the housing supply (200,000 new units) ... to cut prices by two thirds There is no reason you couldn't build that many new units
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by dkhenry 7y ago
So what you just claimed here is that adding more supply attracts more demand. With that logic by removing supply we reduce demand. So Airbnb would be reducing demand, especially on infrastructure since part time residents don't use th
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There are a lot of people out there who argue that building more houses won't help solve the high cost of housing. I have also found a lot of those people complain Airbnb is driving up pricing. To not acknowledge the supply problem ( a
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Its only as high as the amount of demand for _both_ of those things. It may be that landlords convert some percentage of units into short term rental units, but even that has a limited return on investment. There are only so many people tha
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I can't speak to the nature of the Canadian market, but in the bay area where people also say banning AirBnB will help I always like to remind people that there are approximately 7,000 AirBnb units in SF[1], and there is was an estimat

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