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by gav 8y ago
For some reason Delta prints GAVINJ as my first name on all tickets even though the J is the first letter of my middle name. When I book flights this isn’t the case, either directly or through a 3rd-party; I assume they have some master rec
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by gav 8y ago
Couldn’t agree more. A long time ago somebody recommended Nick Corcodilos‘ book, “Ask The Headhunter“, and it changed the way I thought about job hunting. There’s a lot of great resouces on his site: https://www.asktheheadhunter.
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by gav 8y ago
I live about three miles west of Western between Hollywood and Sunset, a couple of blocks from where Hugh Grant was arrested in 1995. We still have these signs up here, I can’t turn onto my street after 11pm. What I find interesting is that
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by gav 8y ago
Even if they aren’t chatty, microservices are worse because you’ve turned a local procedure call into a remote one and now will run into all the issues faced by distributed systems including unreliable communication and network overhead. No
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by gav 8y ago
The advantage of microservices is the ability to scale, both in terms of system performance and feature velocity. They are worse at basically everything else. Any system architecture needs to consider the specific case, there’s no best patt
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by gav 8y ago
Almost no flights are held back for connections. There's probably the odd flight that is held back if there's a large number of passengers that will miss it due to a late connection--and there's no later flights with seats av
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by gav 8y ago
I have a feeling if more people read Alexander's books on design and patterns the quality of systems as a whole would increase. He is largely unknown in the tech circles I've been in.
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by gav 8y ago
What's worse about the IRS than most is any instructions given to you by them are not part of tax-law, so you can't rely on them. I had firsthand experience of this when I called to try to resolve some issues from a prior year. I
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by gav 8y ago
I worked with somebody who at 23 was bitten by a cat and it got infected. She didn't want to seek medical treatment even though her hand swelled up like crazy--"I don't have insurance, I will get better". I basically for
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by gav 8y ago
Exactly, it seems way too complex. I don't know why my insurance company can't give me a 9-digit number that is HASH(SSN + member_id) and tell me to use that instead of my SSN.
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by gav 8y ago
Duplicating data isn't a bad thing. Having a process that copies data into a reporting system solves the problem that otherwise it would be brittle (changes to either system might break things) and performance (any reporting queries af
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by gav 8y ago
AGPL would do nothing to stop cloud providers having hosted versions. What it would do is mean that a lot less people would be able to use the software as it's a license that is not allowed at most companies. You can argue that this is
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by gav 8y ago
> The issue is that large companies can free-load off open source projects and make millions while contributing nothing back to the developers. This is far from true in the case of Redis. Salvatore worked for VMware from 2010-2013 and Pi
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by gav 8y ago
At a cost of at least $1000 for a charging station and installation, I can’t see many people wanting to pay for this if they are renting.
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by gav 8y ago
The only time I ordered something with Alexa is when Amazon offered a $10 credit to do so. It's a terrible interface for one, but the biggest hurdle is that I really don't trust Amazon's pricing. Between add-on items, pantry,
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by gav 8y ago
Everyone involved in bars and restaurants here is Los Angeles that I’ve talked to loves Uber; it’s had a transformative affect, tax revenue on booze up 9% while DUIs are down 24% over the last five years.
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by gav 8y ago
But somehow there's all these people that want to use Slack over Irssi.
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by gav 8y ago
> 45-second video of Slack opening (surely the worst offender among modern apps I hate to defend Slack as it's far from snappy, but comparing it to a console app seems hardly fair. I wonder how much of it's slowness is due to n
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by gav 8y ago
I struggle to think of an example where I'd ever let somebody go off and work on something for months. I can't think of how they would be successful, let alone take on the risk that they quit or get hit by a bus and nobody can con
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by gav 8y ago
> there have been many times where I've worked on a task or a set or related tasks for weeks or months, simply because the tasks required a lot of forethought and careful planning. The idea of standups and breaking down work into ch
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by gav 8y ago
> Does anyone take the different approach displayed above? I do. I find getting people to reason about code is a great method of finding who can program. Given we read a lot more code that we write, it's a critical skill. Often peo
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by gav 8y ago
I’ll second this for a different set of reasons. Firstly, if you talk to your reference about the position you are applying for they will be in a better position to give meaningful feedback. I’ve been able to take somebody from a “maybe” to
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by gav 8y ago
> I only remember anticipating needs and delivering results. Feedback is a gift. Without people around you to give honest, brutal feedback, you have no idea if you are really doing a good job or not. There's a great podcast episode
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by gav 8y ago
I would suggest that you want to get that marketing number as close to 100% as possible. Spending time on anything technology related at the start is really a distraction from the important goal of understanding products, pricing, and custo
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by gav 9y ago
> This is a nice PR bit, but I wonder if it really matters? Over the last year I've seen a huge push to move away from AWS from retail clients. Azure is a lot more appealing because Microsoft doesn't compete with them.
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by gav 9y ago
Spring Boot, but that includes Spring Security (was Acegi) and Spring MVC. Spring Data (JPA) has taken over from Hibernate.
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by gav 9y ago
It wasn't just SF, in LA it was miserable unless you were staying at a hotel that had waiting taxis... and then you were screwed for the return trip. You had to call and wait 20-40 minutes and it was far from guaranteed that they'
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by gav 9y ago
Just to clarify, the intended customer base was made up of various types of customers over different axes: big companies, small business, people that work in purchasing, people that recommend products, and so on. It's useful, to me at
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by gav 9y ago
One of my favorite examples of where personas really helped was driving both strategy and design for a wholesaler. Through research, one of the personas that fell out was "man with a van", that is a sole proprietor who did most of
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by gav 9y ago
> It's literally not a complete game unless you buy all of them I like this model as it removes the risk of you not liking the game and being out $49. If you get bored after the first few levels you're not out the full amount–I

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