drewbug01

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by drewbug01 9y ago
[citation needed]
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by drewbug01 9y ago
> From Pham's first email, it seems like there is some question whether that was the case, because the engineer repeatedly acked the pages without resolving any issue: As an employee who has been on-call for production systems for m
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by drewbug01 9y ago
> Note that, for all their flaws, heterosexual single-sex workplaces do cleanly avoid the problem of mixing sex with work. Practically impossible, unless you've developed actual gaydar[1]. Joking aside, you can't actually guara
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by drewbug01 9y ago
It's linked in the sidebar on the NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/us/politics/james-comey-f... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/09&#x2F
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by drewbug01 9y ago
HAProxy is much more flexible than nginx when it comes to proxying and load-balancing non-http protocols. And, frankly - HAProxy is pretty darn flexible around HTTP too. It's not really an apples-to-apples comparison.
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by drewbug01 9y ago
> Is it because HAProxy's internals weren't designed to do that and that it would too big of a rewrite? Bingo. The internals will eventually be rewritten to support things like this (and I think that's what Willy was hinti
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by drewbug01 9y ago
> would you do tomorrow to prevent this in the future if you were the CEO of Uber? Resign, and recommend someone in my stead who is capable of managing a more compassionate organization into existence. Those exist - and conversely, the a
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by drewbug01 9y ago
That's a gross mischaracterization of what hotlines are for, and what they do. Their purpose is to talk you down, and direct you to the resources that can further help you (like seeing a medical practitioner).
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by drewbug01 10y ago
> If it's just a needle insertion, why is this such a big deal? The article talks about how there's a bit of evidence to suggest that it may be a big deal, but that we really don't understand these animals so we're no
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by drewbug01 10y ago
> Scheduling your life around the 2 or 3 weeks that US employers give is madness. When you do take the vacation, you're expected to be reachable by email. And, heaven forbid you want to do something like take 2 of those 3 weeks with
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by drewbug01 10y ago
> Also, religious people have been mocked, enslaved, imprisoned, tortured and killed en masse for what? 6000 years now? Frequently (though of course, not always) by other religious people. I don't think that argument holds a lot of
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by drewbug01 10y ago
Yes, actually. Crashes, for example, can't be predicted via Waze and periodically f * up your commute in an epic way. And they happen very quickly and the effects ripple through the system equally quickly.
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by drewbug01 10y ago
Postgres and Redshift should not be considered equivalent. It's true that Redshift originated as a fork of Postgres 8, but Postgres has come a _long_ way since then and is quite different. On top of that, Redshift is columnar database,
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by drewbug01 10y ago
It's taken me a long time to get to this point - but I regret going into this industry (I'm an SRE/backend engineer person). I've found other passions on my journey so far, and I wish I could pursue them full-time. I&#x2
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by drewbug01 10y ago
Came here to say this. At minimum, an SRE is worth at least as much as a developer - and frankly, are probably worth more.
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by drewbug01 10y ago
Varnish is much more flexible than nginx. If you need to do complicated things around caching (and many people do), then it may ultimately be easier to cache with Varnish than nginx. Of course, many people don't, and hence nginx's
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by drewbug01 10y ago
> this was back in the 80s BTW I'll see your 30-year old anecdote and raise you my own 10-15 year old anecdote: that didn't go on in my school at all. As an adult, involved in the local schools, I see something different. I&#x2
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by drewbug01 10y ago
> teaching in most schools is babysitting. [Citation Needed] ...but seriously, if you think most teaching is babysitting, you have a woefully narrow view of what goes on in classrooms.
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by drewbug01 10y ago
Volume of signing isn't totally unrelated - even if you presume 4 hours of signing time per day, most people don't speak/sign for that long an amount of time. It's more than a typical deaf person, any way you slice it. B
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by drewbug01 10y ago
If you're getting RSI from sign language you're either an interpreter or over-producing. In the case of the former, you're using the language differently than a typical user. Most people don't produce language in the sam
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by drewbug01 10y ago
> especially when self-driving cars decrease traffic by a significant amount in the near future. This is a fallacy - self-driving cars may reduce car ownership and may reduce traffic fatalities, but they could only reduce traffic if spee
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by drewbug01 11y ago
Depending on what you care about, either everything or nothing. Some interesting things I find useful: * Multiple load-balancing schemes (round robin, least conn, first, balance-on-src-ip, balance-on-uri, balance-on-uri-param, balance-on-he
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by drewbug01 11y ago
HAProxy: http://www.haproxy.org/ The configuration language leaves much to be desired ... but it's otherwise a fantastic piece of software. It's the most configurable, full-featured, stable, and fast proxy server