flowardnut

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by flowardnut 8y ago
It'd be a great/easy to use docker image. I'd go that route before I'd worry about npm/php/golang on my system.
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by flowardnut 8y ago
idempotent requests, stateless services, etc are all parts of a fault tolerant system. your service has a few ways to deal with a dependency going down -- maybe it's a retry, maybe it's opening a circuit breaker and returning a de
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by flowardnut 8y ago
quite a few SaaS products I've used -- they set out to make application A, ran into a problem building application A (like "wow looking at these logs is difficult, let's build a quick tool that solves this problem") and
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by flowardnut 8y ago
This is one reason I like cucumber -- capture features in plain english, and also write tests to verify your plain english features actually work. It's an odd feeling, having the best of both worlds.
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by flowardnut 8y ago
I've tried it, and wasn't pleased with search results. I'd consistently try vague searches, not find it on DDG, but it'd be the top result on Google. I'll give it another swing, we need some viable alternatives.
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by flowardnut 8y ago
I rather enjoyed The Talos Principle, and bought The Witness hoping to love it. I couldn't get into it. When I ran into a memorization "puzzle" I knew it wasn't the game for me :(
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by flowardnut 8y ago
Humans also respond to dietary cholesterol differently. I'd leave this up to the doctors.
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by flowardnut 8y ago
Learning "how many calories are in this handful of snacks" is what helped me. I suggest people weigh everything with a kitchen scale (for a few weeks) until the get the feeling of what a serving of cheese is. Once you get a handle
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by flowardnut 8y ago
thirty minutes of stretching targeting at people who sit would do wonders as well. I do two small sessions a day (targeting hamstrings and groin). any basic yoga video would walk you through warming up and hitting these.
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by flowardnut 9y ago
I'm a bit late to the party, I just wanted to say how much more appealing this type of donation request is vs wikipedia's extreme guilt trip of "if 1% of people who viewed this page in the next 5 minutes donated a dollar, [..
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by flowardnut 9y ago
>Just give me an endpoint where I can respond to HTTP requests and parse the URL path/parematers myself, thank you. This would be "lambda proxy"with api gateway. Happy to post code samples or whatever. You can also specify
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by flowardnut 9y ago
learned RESTful apps in Ruby, Sinatra, and sequel. built an api wrapper in Python serverless for our ecom website. trying to smooth out the api for the new react frontend we built. imagine a 10 year old java api where every endpoint is extr
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by flowardnut 9y ago
we use Sinatra and sequel for a few apps and it's great (and puma to run it all) we have switched to python for our FaaS but only because of lack of Ruby support from AWS lambda.
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by flowardnut 9y ago
practicing safe version control is better than abstinence
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by flowardnut 9y ago
Complexity-wise: it's another reason to lean towards Infrastructure as Code. There's so much glue bits these days to get a project to work. As long as it's in one spot, and can be consistently built (and probably other things
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by flowardnut 9y ago
And there's a handful of projects already that meet various needs. serverless, zappa, chalice, AWS SAM, etc. All with pros and cons
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by flowardnut 9y ago
>#7 The Never-ending crisis: yeah ditto. My company has tons of these shitty crufty systems that need a lot of work whenever we go in to do anything -- because they were thrown together under unrealistic timelines. Now here we are doing
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by flowardnut 10y ago
I moved from a medium sized city that had ~5 dev shops to work at. They all sucked. I had friends from college at each one, and we all basically spent our days plugging fixes into 8 year old java or .net apps and trying to keep our brains e
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by flowardnut 10y ago
1. Work less 2. Reestablish your passion. Read some interesting books (and take a break from coding). Pick up a different language. Work on a tetris clone in javascript. I found that getting away from Java was a nice break from work (back w