fredrb

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by fredrb 5y ago
I recently switched jobs and got interviews in 5 big companies for mid/senior Software Engineering positions. All their processes were fairly similar: Two coding interviews, one system design interview and a conversation with the hirin
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by fredrb 5y ago
Do they avoid all dynamic typed languages or only Python in particular?
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Terraform CDK(github.com)
4 points by fredrb 6y ago|0 comments
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by fredrb 6y ago
Wouldn't a tracing app make more sense than having a rigorous border tests? It takes one miss-tested infected person to start a second wave in the country. So I would assume that the investment to make sure businesses provide the QR pa
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by fredrb 6y ago
> I would like to live in a society where temporary actions made in the name of compassion during an emergency can be overlooked. This could be read as: > the end justifies the means "Compassion" can be stretched to mean any
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Germany's Covid contact tracing app is Open Source(github.com)
199 points by fredrb 6y ago|62 comments
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by fredrb 6y ago
Do you deploy your app every time you write a blog post? I'm on Jekyll also. I wonder if you could hook the `_posts` folder to some sort of CMS and update the content without deploying.
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by fredrb 6y ago
So do you ssh into your server and pull the repo every time you write a new blog post?
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by fredrb 6y ago
Do you store the generated static pages on S3 or host the web server with Jekyll server?
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Ask HN: What is your blog stack?
18 points by fredrb 6y ago|31 comments
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REPL Driven Design(blog.cleancoder.com)
146 points by fredrb 6y ago|139 comments
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by fredrb 6y ago
> This isn't even remotely difficult Not technically but in practice it is difficult. - What happens if I opt out but you reply with an "offensive" word in the thread I'm in? - If two people are discussing and one use
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by fredrb 6y ago
Self-aware Machine Learning procreationist 1. relating to or advocating the theory that sex is the only biological sex, or as opposed to that other sex identified with reproduction "a procreationist approach to reproductive s
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by fredrb 6y ago
I had the exact same issue facing hard problems in my work. I noticed that my main issue was keeping focus. My solution was to introduce on distraction free 90 mins slot of work in the morning (my most productive time) to tackle the hardest
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by fredrb 6y ago
Packer + Ansible makes a lot of sense
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by fredrb 6y ago
Terraform as a Server Provisioning I can understand. What I don't understand is: why would you use an Ansible script for server configuration rather than have a Template Engine (e.g. Packer) with a readymade image?
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by fredrb 6y ago
Do you also use cf-engine to provision new nodes?
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Ask HN: Chef, Ansible, Puppet- When to Use Configuration Management?
41 points by fredrb 6y ago|24 comments
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Ask HN: How to manage hotfix branches in a project?
1 points by fredrb 7y ago|0 comments
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by fredrb 8y ago
I have been facing this a lot in my current project, and keeping long list of GitHub issues for "tracking" of technical debts hasn't really helped. As these never find its way to our Sprint Backlog. A couple things we started
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How to Stop/Help Progress(boxbase.org)
1 points by fredrb 8y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Node.js Version Manager (Nvm) Alternative(github.com)
1 points by fredrb 8y ago|0 comments
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by fredrb 8y ago
> don't care what your code looks like if you did not achieve a good end-product. I do care if your code is a mess if other engineers have to maintain it.
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Node Versioning – A lightweight version manager for Node(fredrb.com)
3 points by fredrb 8y ago|0 comments
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Sl: a mirror version of ls(gir.st)
165 points by fredrb 9y ago|121 comments
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by fredrb 9y ago
I like the idea of a library operating systems and the Unikernel architecture. But a good idea would be having a multi-thread operating system only as a hub for multiple virtualization boxes. Than we can leverage the idea of having an OS im
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by fredrb 9y ago
We'll make it use railroads then :-)
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by fredrb 9y ago
If the data doesn't take country into account, seasons are not really a relevant metric as they might differ depending on the hemisphere you're in.
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by fredrb 9y ago
> 180 degree culture shift of capitalism You can monetize from distributed systems; and I think this will happen more often with Blockchain, render farms and things like that. > who on earth is going to buy, run and maintain this infr
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by fredrb 9y ago
What you're looking for is an Unikernel. The other comments pointed out some. IncludeOS is the best option so far IMO.

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