ex_amazon_sde

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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
Obviously not.
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
Plus the additional huge attack surface of docker, docker hub and k8s
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
> GUIs aren't scriptable > If we can't script it, we can't automate it That's the point! In my team in Amazon, a candidate unfamiliar (or hostile to) CLI would be a strong no hire.
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
> Despite all protestations to the contrary, engineers get far more "impact" for creating new things than for fixing old ones. In general, yes, and that's a problem. Luckily in some teams it's much better. > but ni
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
> there's a whole bunch of NIH going on there too That's why I wrote "usually".
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
> Is software really so shallow? Does it wash away so quickly as fads change? In SV and in the NH bubble, yes. Ex Amazon here. In Amazon there's plenty of technology that HN would likely characterize as "extremely ancient"
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
https://decentraleyes.org/
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
Ex-Amazon SDE here. The same happens in FAANGS: tons of software is written and served internally. It's not NIH syndrome, usually. It's about having control over the whole software supply chain for security, reliability, licensing
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
Click lacks flexibility, requires almost the same amount of boilerplate than argparse, and add dependencies.
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
I know what problems it solves, what problems it creates and how very expensive it is to learn, operate, optimize and debug. Its features do not justify its complexity and the cost of operating it.
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
I did, it's called Amazon. It does not need k8s or containers at all.
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
Because dollars are not correlated with quality.
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
> But wouldn’t the point be that you don’t care about hardware level problems anymore? No. Read my post again: I did not wrote about hardware issues. Most work around optimization, reliability or security require digging through the whol
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
> Is it anymore complex than all the old ways? > Was Apache, Asterisk, or loading and hardening a Linux host on bare metal easier? Yes, and by far. Adding a layer on top of all the traditional Linux daemons, tools and libraries does n
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
github "stars" are a very poor measure of popularity and in no way a measure of quality.
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
Most of the time the framework is not in the top 10 bottlenecks of your application. Believe me (or not) when I say that Amazon, among all FAANGs, could be the most data-driven, at least in the teams I knew, almost to an excess.
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
Most of the time the framework is not in the top 10 bottlenecks of your application. Optimize your webapp before hunting for the fastest frameworks.
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
> And I can use that price to turn my stocks into real, hard cash you can - but if good fraction of the stockholders were to lose hope and start selling stock the market value would evaporate into thin air very quickly. OTOH if the v
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
Of course there are different things. But what is merit? Take the "aptitude and the willingness" in the other reply: we cannot decide to be naturally driven or passionate about something, or being quick learners and so on. We can
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
This is false dichotomy. When using PeerTube you are exposing your IP address and the contents you are fetching or sharing with the whole world INCLUDING google.
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
> What about criminal liability? You are pointing at a huge elephant in the room. When it comes to software, companies have incredible leeway. A company can develop some very popular software and earn billions while also inserting malwar
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
> Where does this end? ...it ends with democracy ending.
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
This would make it impossible to achieve the most basic level of security.
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
> Easy to say when you've never hired anyone. Funny how you can make that statement.
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
> Software engineering isn't medicine. It isn't that difficult to learn I would never hire someone that treats software engineering as something easier that medicine or other branches of engineering.
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
Can we please stop endlessly repeating this? Life is much more complex than that. A small laptop, a phone or a tablet can be stolen from you while powered on and unlocked by a simple thief that has no intention, nor ability, to capture and
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
I wrote "a number" and I was not referring to Amazon :)
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
A number of large companies are quietly moving towards reproducible build. Sorry if I cannot name the names. As a side note, reproducible builds implemented in Debian were also useful to spot various other problem: small differences in buil
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
"Extinguish" is often not the case in this decade. It's all about capturing market share aka creating user lock-in.
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by ex_amazon_sde 6y ago
No, it's a myth: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/02/10/384948585/ta... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5533136/ https://ww

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