greenleafjacob

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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
Check out papertrail.
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
Common tropes in software for this: * Switching from polling to push or vice versa * Merging two overlapping systems into one * Splitting one system into two * Rewriting from language X to Y * Moving from centralized to decentralized or vi
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
https://www.imgur.com/r/desirepath (I used to work at Imgur...)
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
+1 I am currently reading this. It’s dense but very clean.
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
This is a more or less solved problem in MySQL with pt-online-schema-change [1] which accomplishes “create a new table ...” with the “copying data over” done for you using triggers and “switch clients over” done using a table rename, all wi
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
Self improvement: reading and writing math, coding, and playing Starcraft.
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
Are you saying no downtime is impossible or merely expensive? Erlang/OTP with relups is an example of a system that provides zero downtime online upgrade and rollback with zero downtime.
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
As an employee that sometimes screens resumes, LaTeX is a plus.
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
Figuring out why can be avoided if you have proper change management. If you are root causing every issue then that will drastically increase TTM. Instead mitigate first and just revert the change.
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
Mitigate first. If you are confident in your change management system then rolling back is always safe.
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
Simply encrypt the data and upon “deleting it” instead delete the encryption key. This is similar to concerns about backups.
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
This is just a failure in change management. They detected the issue in 4 minutes but it took over an hour and a half to mitigate?
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
That certainly was/is my initial bias.
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
Article states that the board needed an incentive to keep the CEO on since he was going to retire at 65 otherwise. Wasn’t this an entirely foreseeable outcome? I mean what will be different next year for example? I looked for some market fo
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
Erlang stands out for me as having a state machine library in the standard library (gen_fsm).
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
Some is taught in school. I thought the MIT OCW lecture on performance [1] was extremely well done. [1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
What about Gemini?
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
For fun, this exercise can also be applied to the latest crypto currency exchanges.
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
Websockets are also bidirectional.
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
Do you think legal writing falls into this category?
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
Isn’t it misleading to say Reddit is backed by YC now? > reddit has had a long and complex history, starting as one of the first Y Combinator companies, then as a division of Conde Nast, and three years ago spun out as an independent ent
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
Maybe it is different in other circles but as a software engineer, bricked still means you unplugged it while flashing the ROM, literally unrecoverable.
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
It's not wrong, but think of it this way: if you short a stock, your downside exposure is unlimited because the price can go arbitrarily high, but your upside is finite because the stock can only go to zero. In the same way, you can on
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
Coinbase is a U.S. company. Perhaps a small claims suit (if applicable) or a lawsuit will get their attention.
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
They already do this but instead of a CAPTCHA they require a SMS. I don’t know if they had the option to enter a CAPTCHA instead?
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
Basho is in receivership, close to bankruptcy. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/31/end_of_the_road_for...
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
> You can always run your Elixir VM using something like supervisord if you need another watchdog. Sounds like heart: http://erlang.org/doc/man/heart.html
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
In 2016, 4.9 percent of U.S. households (6.1 million households) had very low food security, essentially unchanged from 5.0 percent in 2015. In this more severe range of food insecurity, the food intake of some household members was reduced
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
What if it’s a cash equivalent like Amazon gift cards?
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by greenleafjacob 9y ago
It’s the headquarters of the FCC.

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