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by halbritt 8y ago
Rumor is that it's a slightly reworked 9570 with a really nice screen. Comes out in March.
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by halbritt 8y ago
Maybe not a "red flag" but I wouldn't be desperate to hire anyone with no experience, even in the Silicon Valley where competition for engineers is fierce. A headcount is a headcount as far as investors are concerned, so I&#
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by halbritt 8y ago
Maybe not an option for all, but for everyone on my team, we ordered the least memory available (8GB) and swapped in 32GB of memory for less money than the 16GB unit. I also swapped the Killer wireless for an Intel unit.
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by halbritt 8y ago
I have an XPS15 that's almost two years old at this point. It doesn't have the same flaws as an MBP but overall I feel like it may be slightly less durable. The screen isn't covered with Gorilla Glass and gets marked up the
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by halbritt 8y ago
As a hiring manager for an infrastructure engineering team in a startup in the Silicon Valley, I have some opinion about the value of these certs. I'd likely never hire an engineer with one of these certs and no relevant experience int
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by halbritt 8y ago
Backwater IT orgs deep in the heart of Texas that have heard that they have to move everything into the cloud?
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They're called energy recovery ventilators or ERVs. The Panasonic units are most well-regarded.
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by halbritt 8y ago
I didn't make that assertion. I was simply pointing out that the NFL has a set of skills tests that aren't football. Further, the effectiveness of the combine is as widely debated as the effectiveness of algorithm questions.
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by halbritt 8y ago
Ever heard of the combine? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_Scouting_Combine
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There's really no need to screen for liars. Generally speaking, I'll try to ascertain how the candidate represents the skills on their resume. Some represent their skills well and can describe in detail their approach to solving
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by halbritt 8y ago
I'm not sure how many companies really think this, not that I'm arguing the point. I do know that successful companies realize that developer ramp to productivity time is an important metric and attempt to optimize that metric. T
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by halbritt 8y ago
Hello fellow David Bull fan.
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Nothing like that at all. It boots completely fine to a blank, black screen with no errors at all. Completely minor. Just need to set a few kernel options to make it work properly.
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by halbritt 8y ago
Come to the dark side. It’s glorious (with maybe one or two minor issues).
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by halbritt 8y ago
I think the premise of this article is misleading. It's true that creating a storage subsystem in Kubernetes is exceedingly difficult, however using Kubernetes for stateful applications isn't any more difficult than using instanc
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by halbritt 8y ago
You can ask, but the ones that are terrible will tell you point blank that they care about work life balance and then simply fail to follow through. My advice to folks is that if you don’t have a very significant chunk of the company, ie &g
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by halbritt 8y ago
I work at a startup. Neither myself nor anyone on my team works 80 hours a week. I’ve been in tech in the Silicon Valley for two decades at a half dozen startups or more and have only ever put in a few 80 hour weeks. Doing that consistent
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by halbritt 8y ago
Not really. There's roughly a 50% premium vs raw EC2 instances for any RDS related service. The crux is keeping the operating cost below that delta.
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From my perspective, performance and scaling issues are most likely to occur.
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by halbritt 8y ago
While I don't love MongoDB, I don't find it to be especially difficult to run. I'm running ~200 instances of MongoDB with a small team and it consumes very little of my attention. ElasticSearch on the other hand...
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by halbritt 8y ago
I agree with your observations. The startups have given us new tools and maybe lowered reduced the cost of commissions, but it's still real estate people doing real estate things. If you're not worried about maximizing value over
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by halbritt 8y ago
The market is unlikely to shift that much in a month and prices are still near an all-time high. It might be more difficult to get it to sell, but that doesn't make it a bad time. If the real-estate market does take a real downturn a
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by halbritt 8y ago
"Less pay" generally entails something that's still reasonably lucrative. One could potentially make 20% more at one or two FAANG companies. Frankly, the big difference is in the RSUs. It's not unusual to see $100k&#x
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by halbritt 8y ago
I likewise run and prefer a Linux desktop and boot into Windows for the occasional gaming foray. Also, to run stuff like Fusion 360. I have to say that even on Windows, driver stability leaves much to be desired (for Nvidia in my case).
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by halbritt 8y ago
I started in tech as a network engineer. Eventually I ended up in a management position and thought I was doing pretty well simply because I was the most talented and knowledgeable person on the team, the team liked me, and I was able to m
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by halbritt 8y ago
Okay, I get what your point. I'm still living in the world where operating a platform for the benefit of a set of developers entails building and operating a set of services that abstracts the details of the infrastructure sufficiently
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> It also seems way easier to start up something like Patreon than a FB competitor. I think you're probably right. I feel like it's a semantic argument, but it's still worth having, especially when it comes to creating le
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by halbritt 8y ago
By podreset are you referring to something like poddisruptionbudget? Because it'd be neat to define that on a per namespace basis.
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I see this argument relatively frequently. "Why use Kubernetes when I can accomplish X with [puppet|chef|ansible]". The answer is that k8s offers something fundamentally different and until the person posing the question gets tha
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by halbritt 8y ago
The attack surface argument certainly is debatable. I wonder how many multi-tenant workloads are actually at risk of an escape vulnerability. I wager that the multi-tenancy described in the article in the OP is actually disparate workloads

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