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by hibikir 5y ago
This is something that is very difficult to see at a distance: Just like in politics, it's very easy to get an unrepresentative picture of the world online. I am a Spaniard who was fortunate to qualify to a US visa, so I was able to co
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by hibikir 5y ago
If the release/rollback process is fast enough, and your detection of anomalies is fast enough, you can still have great productivity, and few relevant outages, when testing in production. Hell, there are situations where testing outsi
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by hibikir 5y ago
Urban geography: In 1947, the US started to build very low density, cheap, mass produced suburbs. Along with this, most American cities have very little mixed use zoning, and large parking requirements, both of which increase the typical di
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by hibikir 5y ago
The problem is not pure cost with a competent team: It's that many companies can't even tell that the team they have is competent. And when the team is not competent, prices, and opportunity costs, are so much higher than what you
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by hibikir 5y ago
But that is a large problem today, because you have no idea when, if ever, the liquidity event is going to happen. There are companies that spend a whole lot of time private, and if said company is going well, it's going to be growing
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by hibikir 6y ago
It's not that maintenance has no marketplace value, but that it's only really valuable when the system is on fire. I've optimized that kind of SQL statement, and it paid really well, but only because it was at a point where
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by hibikir 6y ago
Even the migrations that appear small end up being huge. Over a decade ago, I was working for a large biotech company, which at the time was having trouble with their Oracle installation. The technical team, being very conservative, and hav
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by hibikir 6y ago
It's not just believable, but it's normal. I have spent quite a bit of my career maintaining software, and I don't recall one employers where low hanging fruit like this wasn't available everywhere. The problem is not th
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by hibikir 6y ago
I worked on one, for a large telecom: It was simple business software, which before was written either in Cobol or plain old C. The large performance penalty that Java had back then was far less important than having to mind memory leaks i
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by hibikir 6y ago
Walking everywhere is not really much of an individual decision though: It's a collective, city-wide decision, as the city's infrastructure and geography decides whether walking or driving are really alternatives. I was raised in
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by hibikir 6y ago
Supermarkets also need to stay open so they can sell you your beloved products, and you'd not believe how thin the margins of some supermarkets are: Having 8 kinds of lemon yogurt, each someone's favorite, while disposing of the p
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by hibikir 6y ago
Your own change to the analogy isn't really all that accurate either: What you are saying would be closer to, saying "This game is cheaper in Android" in the Apple store's product description. I have no idea of what the
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by hibikir 6y ago
I am not sure about that. There's this small company called Stripe whose entire business model is about making it easier to make your online store: They don't do anything you couldn't do yourself, but it sure mes it a lot eas
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by hibikir 6y ago
Having worked at some of those companies, along with small startups, the biggest difference isn't really plain old sophistication, but expenses so high as to make the engineering effort worthwhile. If your production system is 10 insta
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by hibikir 6y ago
The US has very localized housing problems. Many tech giants are realizing that they have to either diversify their locations or enter into a housing spiral, as there just aren't enough houses for how many people they'd like to hi
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by hibikir 6y ago
Money not being an issue can still happen: See Valve, which have a money printing machine in Steam, along with a few long living, lucrative games. Work on Half Life 3 never really stopped , and we had a 13 year wait between Half Life Alyx a
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by hibikir 6y ago
If your apartment building will not be attractive without two dedicated parking spots per bedroom, the government doesn’t have to say a thing: A builder will not want to make an unprofitable building with insufficient parking. The trick her
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by hibikir 6y ago
Late stage startups have to offer RSUs, as the equivalent option package becomes extremely unattractive if you depart before the company is public. Imagine, for example, an initial option grant of 180K shares at $2.00, which expire 90 days
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by hibikir 7y ago
I used it at work, 3+ times a day for about a year. It worked well most of the time, but it had interesting ways to fail when it didn't like the connection quality. the MacOS app sometimes decided to stop connecting to any meeting. It
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by hibikir 7y ago
While I won't say that the Postgres ideosyncrasies are correct here, I can tell you that your experience is not necessarily typical. In my career, hint abuse has always been rampant. From telcos to biotech companies, a high percentage
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by hibikir 7y ago
The shape of social graphs is likely very different across countries, but I don’t know of studies checking this. However, there are anecdata aplenty. My hometown in Spain has a lot of part timers in senior living facilities, so you will fin
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by hibikir 7y ago
Newer constitutions have this features. For instance, a prime minister that can put a state of emergency limiting rights for 2 weeks without approval, but needs a significant majority in the house and senate to extend it further. Spain’s fi
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by hibikir 7y ago
Just like a big percentage of Japanese cars destined to the US market are assembled in the US or Mexico, Tesla will probably build their highest volume cars in the EU the moment it makes sense. They've broken ground for a large factory
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by hibikir 7y ago
Being a developer in St. Louis, the median developer that makes 85k here is not really the kind you’d find at a good Bay Area company. When you look for the good ones, they often have competing remote offers with salaries not that different
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by hibikir 7y ago
It’s not necessarily known mainly as a PC game, but the most common 80s game where you play a barbarian with upgradable weapons in Rastan, originally for arcades in the late 80s.
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by hibikir 7y ago
There's a secondary problem too: They are questions that have right and wrong answers, and they break down quickly if the candidate realizes that the truth is a liability. Having been in panels where we had to ask some of those specifi
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There's a feedback loop, regardless of whether we find the communities virtuous or not. It's not difficult to see how, for instance, the boardgamegeek forums helped turn a very niche strategy hobby into something that has a nice s
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by hibikir 7y ago
Hi Dave, you probably won't remember me (we only spent about 2 months together in Stripe), but I bet Mr Larson remembers. The first question is who is this written for: It lacks the detail I would write for the incident review meeting
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by hibikir 7y ago
I used to work at Stripe, but not in quite a while. My job was focused on both increasing capacity and minimizing downtime. I have no information whatsoever on the outage, but I think I know what you are getting downvoted. I suspect the rea
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by hibikir 7y ago
The complications are about drawing a line about what breaks the agreement and what does not. This is important when both parties rely on a third party to decide who broke the agreement, and justify penalties: Nobody wants uncertainty in fr

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