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by fatnoah 2y ago
> Why wouldn't the "script" be all of the necedssary commands to create the entire database? That pre-dated me, so I have no idea. It's also why I simply jettisoned the schema migration script altogether, since the d
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by fatnoah 2y ago
>I wish there would be some tool w/ DDL that you can use to define schemas, functions and views which would automatically sync changes to staging environment and then properly these changes on production. A long time ago, I joined a
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by fatnoah 2y ago
There's a meta-question which is "if you did should you have been doing what you were doing?" Also a great question. As a manager, my first question would be to ask why a library wasn't used for algorithm X. In grad scho
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by fatnoah 2y ago
Agree. It's frustrating that my demonstrated experience scaling a system 100x while achieving > 99.995% uptime is somehow less meaningful than my ability to code random problems outside of an IDE for 45 minutes.
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by fatnoah 2y ago
- Whens the last time you used an algorithm (eg b-tree) and for what? I'd be curious to hear how many people like me would answer "for a coding interview" for this question. I haven't coded such an "algorithm"
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by fatnoah 2y ago
As the parent of a 16 year old, I find this discussion fascinating. My son used to love reading books, from when we started with the "Bob Books" in Kindergarten, through somewhere around 5th or 6th grade. He still loves reading, b
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by fatnoah 2y ago
It's definitely healthier for me because I just throw it out after.
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by fatnoah 2y ago
I'm not sure which is worse; the fact that this is plausible, or the fact that I opened this thread to say almost exactly the same thing.
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by fatnoah 2y ago
I'm a bit of a tap water connoisseur, and tap water in the US varies greatly. I grew up in the northeast US, in a town where the water comes from a mostly spring-fed lake. The water has zero chlorine taste or smell. I currently live
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by fatnoah 2y ago
I wish the "free year" stuff was cumulative. I'm still in the 10 year free period as a result of the OPM breach. During that time, I've received several additional free years from the other various data breaches I'
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by fatnoah 2y ago
This is why my wife and I started our son in swimming lessons somewhere around 1 year old. Yes, it was fun, but it's an important life and survival skill. Being a strong swimmer doesn't mean you're invincible, but being com
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by fatnoah 3y ago
This is very different than my experience at another FAANG. One of my reports was able to take a multi-week mental health leave and return without any negative impact on performance rating or career. Of course, mileage probably varies fro
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by fatnoah 3y ago
And, as happened to me recently, the customer states in the demo that it's useless to them and let's just all move on to the next release.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
It was actually my second gig working on that as well. The first was a college internship writing management software for a 14 slot switch w/75Gb backplane. The best feature of the software was the "suit" command, which res
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by fatnoah 3y ago
My very first full-time job was to adapt a COTS ATM protocol stack to run on embedded devices to power a truck & satellite network. The deadline was 1 year to get the stack running on the hardware, and would be the first of 4 annual mi
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I have a very large garden area near my patio with plants that flower from Spring through Fall. I bump into the full assortment of bees going for the flowers and wasps for my food, but the main harassers in my yard are male carpenter bees
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I rolled into my sophomore year of college with a P90, 16MB RAM, and a 19" CRT. All of that was great, but it was Windows 3.11 that made the difference, as that was the the version that made networking work reasonably well.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> When Larry and Sergey started Google, they began by just hiring all the smartest people they knew out of Stanford... I worked for a large tech company as an intern in the late 90's, which is where I learned smartest doesn't a
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> These posts come up so frequently, people keep falling for buzzwords they don't understand and then start blaming the tech. Distributed systems are all cool and fun but use them as a last option when you have exhausted all other c
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I was working off 128 in Waltham and the time I worked overlapped perfectly with a city-sponsored local bus route that took people from the train station to the business areas. There were about 15-20 regulars doing the train-to-bus the mor
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> You can get by without a car in Boston as I do as well, if you work and live in the city. FWIW, I lived in the city and worked in a suburb, and also was able to live car-free without issue. This was in the days before ride-hailing app
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> Killer one that has shafted us is tying everything into popular deployment and CI tooling. Your product should be buildable, deployable and tested on a standalone workstation at any time I've currently a VP Eng at a "growth s
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by fatnoah 3y ago
A long time ago, an F100 company acquired my messaging startup. We hosted client APIs and a web application for 2M monthly users sending 1B messages/month on a single AWS medium CPU server and a SQL Server DB. The rest of our infra was
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by fatnoah 3y ago
#1 (processing notes) got me through a big chunk of college. After classes, I'd go through and rewrite, organize, and otherwise reprocess the notes to make them more readable, understandable, studyable, etc.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Or that there's a difference between a bath in 37C water and a bath in 100C wather.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Good point, though the result of my clever maneuvering is having to deal with a loss carry forward for a long time due to the amount involved. I guess the bright side is that when I finally have some capital gains to report when I retire, I
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by fatnoah 3y ago
This article misses the main "gotcha" for me with RSUs. A vesting event counts as a purchase for purposes of determining whether it was a "wash sale" (selling and then re-buying) or not. Not knowing this added insult t
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> My wonder is when does it to go from a kid just being a kid to a child actually affected by ADHD That's the multi-billion dollar question. From grades K-3, my son got straight A's and was a typical "boy" in the cla
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Facebook stock grants vest every three months, so it's as good as salary, so a senior engineer will be getting >$50k in stock every three months from day 1. Google is the same, except it's monthly. Not exactly the same as cash
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Yeah, I think "awful" isn't the right word. Absurd, incongruous, or something else is probably more appropriate.

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