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by dpeck 5y ago
It is challenging. I’ve been part of a project that took a product from idea to brick and mortar consumer retail in about 18 months and it was a lot. You’ve got to become an ad-hoc subject matter expert in many different areas, or be able t
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by dpeck 5y ago
There were several of those, but DwarfTherapist is probably what you’re thinking of. It’s basically required to run a fortress at scale.
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by dpeck 5y ago
Reminds me of Nobel Prize winning research on the cost of lighting that is covered by a BBC podcast here, https://www.bbc.com/news/business-38650976 , and the original paper here, https://lucept.files.wordpre
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Why the falling cost of light matters(bbc.com)
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by dpeck 5y ago
No, no one cares generally, but people who are involved or heavily invested in an ecosystem may be interested in new libraries/tools in that ecosystem.
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by dpeck 5y ago
| Flash was basically a blank canvas where you can do just about anything. Turns out that's not a very good model for a number of reasons I don’t think of this as a bad thing. There was exactly a lot of what you say happening around th
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by dpeck 5y ago
Outside of a relatively minuscule number of people who view politics/elections as sport no one cares and they’re treated the same on the national stage.
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by dpeck 5y ago
Generalizing, anytime someone is giving you a “gift” but is putting expectations on how you receive it (in this case the wallet destination) that should be a huge red flag. Whether that’s cryptocurrency or a sandwich.
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by dpeck 5y ago
There’s a trade off there though. I want the classes to be incredibly rigorous, and that means that there should be some amount of students who do not want to or cannot do it. And that’s ok, but we shouldn’t expect just because the admissio
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by dpeck 5y ago
No idea, but theorizing “out loud”. Your body could be producing a bunch of insulin in response to the sweet, which lowers your blood sugar level to below normal levels since there’s no actual sugar for it to move around. Low blood sugar (&
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by dpeck 5y ago
2000 years old and still speaking truth to our own lived experience makes it all the more authoritative.
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by dpeck 5y ago
It’d be nice to track the hard drive space it uses through the years too. Oof.
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by dpeck 5y ago
Most software engineers don’t know how much software engineers can make. And I’m not not just talking about at big tech companies. It’s a matter of finding the companies (and divisions within those companies) that have realized software is
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by dpeck 5y ago
This should come as a surprise to no one. Many white people like to identify as some amount of some racial or cultural group that isn’t white. Whether that’s talking about a grandmother that was “full blooded” $tribe/nation or leaning
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by dpeck 5y ago
Given a unique url to a server binary, clock started when I hit it the first time, assignment was to deliver a simple PoC exploit in 2 hours. IIRC (this was about 13 years ago so a little fuzzy) it was a simple SMTP server and the vulnerabi
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by dpeck 5y ago
Really challenging to do either these days. In the olden days when PMs were rare and relatively senior/experienced there was a clear path that developers could take to move towards a PM role. Something of a branch between the intermedi
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by dpeck 5y ago
Why the quasi qualifier there?
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by dpeck 5y ago
You have a very different view of “over a barrel” than most people. Hard truth: the chances of you getting any of the money you’re owed, and any more on top of that is incredibly small. So small that the probably might as well be 0%. Busine
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by dpeck 5y ago
Gone too soon. I hope that Joe’s influence continues to expand outside of the erlang community over time. His thoughts, writings, and presentations have a lot of value for almost anyone in computing. Much of it advocating for “human scale”
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by dpeck 5y ago
Quaint to think so, but no. If a system is using automated scanning and the document doesn’t scan correctly the recruiter is not going through the ones that didn’t work. I’d wager in many cases they aren’t even aware of an failure to proces
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by dpeck 5y ago
I appreciate the modesty, but talking about completing an Ironman and having the phrase “really wasn't all that fit” anywhere near it is comical. Getting through any one of the stages of an Ironman (or heck even a half of each stage) r
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by dpeck 5y ago
Right, so you don’t “source” people who aren’t actively looking. That’s a great approach, and by nature you’re prefiltering for those interested enough in the position to apply for it, but I don’t think it covers all the cases that people u
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by dpeck 5y ago
I understand the desire to not use LinkedIn, but for those of you not using who are either interested in being hire or in doing hiring, what’s the alternative? From what I’ve seen everything else is fairly similar, just smaller scale. I pre
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by dpeck 5y ago
Perhaps this is why there is all the anecdotal evidence of people being asses to one another, and especially to “low status” retail workers and clerks over the last 2 years. (economic/influence based status here, of course all people s
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by dpeck 5y ago
There seems to be a growing interest in pawpaws. Stories about them were featured on a lot of food podcasts this fall and seems like it’s the “it” uncommon food at the moment, or staged to be. It will be interesting if anyone is able to bri
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by dpeck 5y ago
Completely agree. As a general rule if a junior developer does something “wrong”, unless it purposefully malicious, it’s on the manager. OP, I’d say keep this situation in the back of your mind and reevaluate in a few months. If it happens
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by dpeck 5y ago
I’ll plug some to Jose Valim’s Advent of Code solutions that included NX approaches alongside “standard” Elixir ones for some of the days. It was good to see and get some ideas of what’s possible. https://github.com/josevali
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by dpeck 5y ago
this is what Reader was and has always made me even more confused as to why Google killed it off. They had the right start for a unique take on content focused/small group discussion based social networking and the tossed it for “circl
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by dpeck 5y ago
Fork put-downs are really the only way you’re going to get that sort of deficit.
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by dpeck 5y ago
I agree very much with this. It seems that between the walled gardens and also people being so reluctant to have “their” audience leave their site/page/etc the discoverability of the web has dropped dramatically.

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