drchopchop

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by drchopchop 6y ago
Right, which is why "enterprise blockchain" generally means a bunch of people fumbling around with Ethereum/Solidity, failing to build anything more secure than a read-only SQL database, and inheriting all the bad characteris
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Right, it's not so much a reflection of age-ism as it is just not having the skills in the job description. It doesn't matter if you're 25 or 45 - if they need X years of language Y, it's for a reason and 20 years of gen
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Well, I spent years doing C, then Java, and now I'm a CTO at a tech company that's a React/Typescript/Ruby shop. However, I needed to sit down and spend the time to actually learn those technologies. What you don'
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Hmm, I'd debate your last point a bit. Being a good C++ developer involves a significantly different programming mindset than dealing with Go, or Erlang, or the React/ES6+ space. Doesn't necessarily mean that you can't
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by drchopchop 6y ago
100% agree, it's not the physical age so much as it's the perception of age (and all the framing/baggage that comes with it). Note: this also applies to personality - if you give off a "grumpy old person" vibe, or
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by drchopchop 6y ago
40+ here. There is definitely unconscious age-ism going on, and if you want to beat it: * If you have 20 years of experience in the software industry, let's be real, you kinda need to be at a senior/lead level (whether IC or manag
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by drchopchop 6y ago
No. Why should the only desirable metric be user engagement? Is the goal of FB engagement/virality/time-on-site/revenue above all else? What does society have to gain, long term, by ranking a news feed by items most likely to
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Good points, and I certainly understand why the Ruby community is so passionate. The language is expressive, mutable, and has some nice syntax. My personal problems are: - Rails is the monolith that gives you all of that auth/database&
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Yes, but you can easily get in a situation where say Github says "gem X is vulnerable, upgrade it", but can't generate it needs to update version of dependent gem Y, and that would break gem Z which is version locked because
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by drchopchop 6y ago
> Compared to which other language? Java, for one, but obviously it's subjective
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by drchopchop 6y ago
I've had to deal with Ruby for the last 2 years, and one of the main problem is the gem ecosystem. The language and standard libraries are pretty narrow, unless you add Rails (which adds a new variety of breaking upgrade headaches). Th
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by drchopchop 6y ago
I've spent a fair amount of time at the Sofitel in Redwood Shores, and I'd often chat with Oracle "sales engineers" at the bar. A simple "so, what do you work on" question would inevitably generate an hour&#x27
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Not everyone has laptops, and the school may not have the resources to provide devices. Zoom is one thing, but doing any serious learning on a phone is difficult - and that's assume the parent is OK with letting the child use theirs fo
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by drchopchop 6y ago
100% agree, we migrated from Redis Labs -> Elasticache and it was cheaper, more performant, and closer to the rest of our infrastructure. We lost "support", but the service is so brain-dead simple that I can't imagine what
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by drchopchop 7y ago
It's a mess, we have 10+ employees and are trying to get ~250K via Chase. We got in early, but the whole process is opaque, and now they're run out of money before our application was approved. Can probably survive another 4-6 wee
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by drchopchop 7y ago
Provisioning a single Wordpress box is very straightforward using AWS Lightsail and a Bitnami Wordpress image. You can push it up to the equivalent of an m5.2xlarge instance. Unless you really need auto-scaling, this seems like overkill?
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by drchopchop 7y ago
It's also more problematic right now because of the lack of childcare/school. If that resumes, then the child distraction problem goes away (but leaves other issues like: lack of social interaction, sub-par home office situation,
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by drchopchop 7y ago
So, it's not even that the SQL state is distributed, it's that every change to the SQL state has to be "validated" and appended to a blockchain? At a 1M DAU traffic level? How often are blocks/writes written? Who
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by drchopchop 7y ago
Dynamo is sort of in-between Redis and SQL: - Less maintenance around schema/migrations - Data types and validation - You still get queries (though not to the level of SQL complexity) - You still get indexes - You get row-level TTL&#x2
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by drchopchop 7y ago
git checkout -b new_feature_branch is an onerous workflow?
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by drchopchop 7y ago
Exactly, I worked at a Fortune 500 tech company and family coverage for COBRA was close to $2000/month. Many employers pay 80%+ of the share, and suddenly taking that all on yourself can be extremely onerous.
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by drchopchop 7y ago
Perhaps, but the real question is whether the productivity increases of the younger/single workers will balance out the losses from the ones with families. I am personally at 50% of my normal capacity (possibly even less) given that I&
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by drchopchop 7y ago
"Detrimental to society" isn't very defensible, he should have gone with "dysfunctional, practically useless technology" instead: * "Anonymous" transactions which are actually on a public, immutable ledger