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by gregw2 7y ago
To keep code+schema in sync, try using liquibase or flyway or similar tools to manage all SQL DDL, end ensure your build+deploy process always runs your liquibase/flyway scripts.
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by gregw2 7y ago
With 4-5 concurrent processes reading from my (FIFO?) SQS queue, I have a hard time seeing the contents of the queue from the console. SQS really doesn't handle the concurrent readers well in my experience.
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by gregw2 7y ago
Amazon Timestream. Not generally available yet; you have to register for the Preview. https://aws.amazon.com/timestream/
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by gregw2 8y ago
Human teeth development changed sometime during the industrial revolution when women were expected to work outside the home and breastfeeding norms were shortened from 3-4 years to more like 1 year. Or that's at least one interesting h
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by gregw2 8y ago
So if Moore's Law is slowing down and expected to end in 2025 (per it's Wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law ), does this "bitter lesson" then need to be reversed?
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by gregw2 8y ago
My first job was 7 years at a startup. The grit and git-er-done you have from there is hard to find in the marketplace of employees; you'll be fine. How to prepare? I'd sit down and do a postmortem. What happened... what you learn
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by gregw2 8y ago
I liked Tolkein's original book cover: it highlights the dilemma of the rings of power: all rings lead to Sauron's eye, especially the one ring: http://i.imgur.com/hKUaH3i.jpg Kind of like using the internet: You
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by gregw2 8y ago
Typically it's not free money. You chose to forgo getting/negotiating a greater discount on the purchase price. There's no way the lender could do business otherwise.
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by gregw2 8y ago
For scripting database changes so they are deployed with app changes... or so they are automated and auto-tested upon deployment and in version control, I've had good success with open source Liquibase. Worth looking at Flyway also.
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by gregw2 8y ago
Speaking of liver toxicity, acetominophen/tylenol and alcohol can kill you. Not in the common case but if you are maxing out the acetaminophen for a prolonged period and drink and stop drinking, you should get educated on the dynamics
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by gregw2 8y ago
I hear you about the DIMMs and ROBOCOPY. Tip: I spend less time on that hardware minutia and backup reliability and restore operations now that I rent servers on AWS. You might want to try it. Focus your time where your value add is. Also
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by gregw2 8y ago
Trump has complained about it publicly and is working to withdraw us while the Democrats spin it as Trump trying to withdraw from a 200-year old treaty - we should fix it instead (but we also tried that once and failed in 2016). I haven&#x2
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The downside is that the public will spend 10s of billions only for some billionaire "startup" to hire away the physics expertise and the public ends up paying a monopolistic/oligopolistic premium. Now theres nothing new abo
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by gregw2 8y ago
How could cheap/free energy ever not lead to global warming, given the second law of thermodynamics?
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by gregw2 8y ago
Billionaires are investing. See TriAlpha. Cheap unlimited energy leads to heat pollution per the laws of thermodynamics. Asimov Foundation series first book warned about this in passing. Be careful what you wish for!
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by gregw2 8y ago
I have been super-unsatisfied with the status quo of Cloudwatch; it is not a production grade logging system if it allows you to keep zillions of streams in logs but provides A) no way to search through them all to find the last time you ha
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by gregw2 8y ago
lmddgtfy 2018 version: http://fortune.com/2018/05/05/warren-buffett-berkshire-hatha... 1997 version: https://buffett.cnbc.com/video/1997/05/05/why-buffett-doesnt... TIL: A
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by gregw2 8y ago
True. My anecdotes correlate with the issues someone raised here of VC bias against remote work which other people didn't seem to have any sympathy for so I figured I'd mention my real-world experiences. I've worked with off
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by gregw2 8y ago
It's an interesting question- which one helped me focus on my role and deliver? I can see in the abstract that distributed work can both demand and benefit from strong focus. In my case, when I was a "distributed" worker I h
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by gregw2 8y ago
I'm convinced it's possible for a business to work in a distributed manner, but I think there are certain business scenarios (and/or persons' personality types/collaboration styles) where it's problematic. Ane
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by gregw2 8y ago
OS/400 did this, very cool tech that was never "cool"
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by gregw2 8y ago
The slight problem is that if top talent wants to live in Houston, there are fewer options of interesting companies to work for than on East/West coast. It's a symbiotic thing, not wholly controlled by top talent's desires.
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by gregw2 8y ago
I would love for Amazon to actually take him up on this. It would be an great illustration for all time of politicians being in the back pockets of corporations. I think we should tease all politicians offering tax breaks to corporations th
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by gregw2 8y ago
Are our brains Bayesian? 1990s Internet debater #1: "The plural of anecdote is not data" 2010s Internet debater #2: "True, but it does make a good bayesian prior"
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by gregw2 8y ago
I hear you. The culturally-encouraged pseudo-slavery of debt really bothers me.
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I applaud Berea. Just want them not to take it for granted having witnessed other schools slide off the path they're on.
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by gregw2 8y ago
Beware friendly Berea-- of the temptation to change your tuition free-stance, even a little bit. It's a slippery slope. Rice University was founded in 1912 with an endowment and grants and the stipulation in its very charter saying &q
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by gregw2 8y ago
example of underappreciation: chrome no longer respects /etc/hosts so I can't block my addictions the simple way
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The Chinese hacked them and stole their source code and was caught tracking dissidents emails.
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by gregw2 8y ago
Lame analysis. The iPhone wasn't great because it had a good touchscreen, battery and the web. I had "smart phones" before that with those. The real innovation was the software UI, pinch zoom and wall of all icons with high r

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