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by dpritchett 5y ago
Happened to us at a small agency. Allowed WFH days were standardized to specific days of the week so we could show a full house on days when we had client visits.
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by dpritchett 5y ago
Firming up your tests, logging, observability, and debugging practices really does help here. The only time I enter a desperate fugue state juggling too many disparate code modules in my head is when the system is a poorly factored enterpri
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by dpritchett 5y ago
That was kind of like hitting the lottery for us,” said Sacramento County Sheriff’s Detective Tom McCue, who led a multi-agency task force on the case. Glad they busted up a theft ring but this sounds like a moral hazard, assuming they’re
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by dpritchett 5y ago
Presumably the perfect fake often costs too much to reliably manufacture. Think of the randomness inherent in the microscopically unique features of the original and how you might emulate them reliably with a margin that still lets you comp
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by dpritchett 5y ago
Blacklisting sounds extreme. Wouldn’t we also need to blacklist a company that loses a programmer before the five year mark?
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by dpritchett 6y ago
This article suggests that he and JL were half of a self-funded YC that took 6% of each company they funded. The YC portfolio is estimated at $300 billion from a random article I just Googled. 3% of that would be nine billion, assuming all
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by dpritchett 6y ago
For a few decades I tried and failed to make hostfile blocks, guided access mode, browser focus-tracking extensions, day planners, public accountability, timers, and more work for me. What actually works as I count the weeks to my fortiet
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by dpritchett 6y ago
What stops you from unlocking the parental controls? If that’s not a recurring issue for you then you may not have an executive function disorder.
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by dpritchett 6y ago
Not supporting a browser, games, or a media player IS the killer feature for anyone with ADHD or other focus issues. There are lots of us out here. Some even people do their deep work on a separate airgapped computer just to preserve their
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by dpritchett 6y ago
Are you sure the second one isn’t just declaring not_found as a stand-in for 404 so the case statement two lines below can refer to business logic rather than a “magic” constant? I would NOT expect for the line “case not_found:” to reassign
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by dpritchett 6y ago
Most people in the US know their offsets from the other three US time zones as well.
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by dpritchett 6y ago
Urs Hölzle or Paul Buchheit, maybe?
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by dpritchett 6y ago
Here’s Swartz detailing how Reddit was rewritten in his own Python framework a scant six months after launch: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit
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by dpritchett 6y ago
The owner visibly cashed out recently. CSR could be under orders to tighten up some internal metrics under new management.
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by dpritchett 6y ago
What are you hoping to learn? Might be hard to get it all from a single coach.
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What about BozosLiveHere and TabTheTextOutForWimps? (2003)(devblogs.microsoft.com)
3 points by dpritchett 6y ago|0 comments
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The Siren Song of Backwards Compatibility (2014)(haacked.com)
3 points by dpritchett 6y ago|0 comments
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by dpritchett 6y ago
Yes! Today is a good day to reread Phil Haack’s 2014 essay on the lengths MS goes to for backwards compatibility: https://haacked.com/archive/2014/05/27/backwards-compatibili... Edit: Haack heavily cites
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by dpritchett 6y ago
I’d be surprised if bitbucket’s dev tooling budget was 1/10th of GitHub’s even before the MS acquisition. Working with BB APIs has not been fun at any point in the past 5 years or so :(
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by dpritchett 7y ago
Me! Been reading vgr for about a decade. It works better if you know what you’re getting into and are prepared for a long read with some personality.
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Gremlin Free – Run chaos experiments to prevent outages(gremlin.com)
164 points by dpritchett 8y ago|52 comments
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by dpritchett 8y ago
Gremlin infra engineer here. I'm happy to answer or route any questions on chaos engineering in general or application-layer failure techniques. It's really compelling for exploring and shoring up my own systems and I expect it to
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The Next Step: Application-Level Fault Injection(gremlin.com)
4 points by dpritchett 8y ago|1 comments
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by dpritchett 8y ago
OP has been in the API business for quite a few years at Heroku and Stripe. You can find him on Twitter sometimes if you have specific questions - not sure he'll read this.
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by dpritchett 9y ago
I've met him IRL and benefited from his tireless OSS leadership as a communicator and a code. Ryan is the real deal.
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by dpritchett 9y ago
First response to a coworker storming in to cuss you should be to stand up to your full height and look them straight in the eye. You're not the one who set this belligerent tone, they are.
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by dpritchett 9y ago
I failed a interview for a job I'd like to have gotten by trying to impress the reviewers with more handrolled stuff and nothing bloated. I asked and the folks who passed just used Rails. My submission was alternately perceived as unde
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by dpritchett 10y ago
Just FYI your calculator's cost of living adjustment makes it completely uncompetitive for the Memphis, TN market. Possibly you are already getting good leads from other countries, but I wanted to point that out all the same.
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by dpritchett 10y ago
"Leave it better than you found it" is one thing, but "perfect everything you touch or don't touch it at all" is another, vastly more expensive and high-friction thing.
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Deploy an SSL-Secured Go Microservice with a Free Certificate from Let's Encrypt(github.com)
2 points by dpritchett 10y ago|0 comments

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