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by hospadar 5y ago
Escalati: the secretive guild of hereditary escalator engineers who maintain the escalators in the Illuminati's secret volcano lair (escalator reliability engineering is a major concern when world leaders are frequently escalating over
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by hospadar 5y ago
> Let me know when the CIOs of listed companies are up for that kind of lifestyle for their email and word processors. I think you're absolutely right that this kind of rigidity is not part of our tech culture, but maybe it should b
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by hospadar 6y ago
Personal experience is that AWS elasticsearch has often been missing some really useful stuff, index rebalancing, some of the utility endpoints that avoid me having to spend forever rebuilding indexes, etc. I'd be a little spooked to
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by hospadar 6y ago
While I think this is in general interesting, a couple things stand out to me: > And there's a reason why: these are mostly companies that win by having better technology, rather than just a CEO who's really driven and good at
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by hospadar 6y ago
Personal hot take: It's super hard and no one cares very much. With SSDs, booting is fast. Most apps that I care about which have complex state (browser, IDE) do a much better job of saving their state than the OS can do (browsers &am
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by hospadar 6y ago
As a person who has acquired several "free" pianos, I personally love this analogy and in no way view it as a criticism. Free pianos _are_ free - when I was broke and 22, it was the only way to get a piano. I had lots of other br
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by hospadar 6y ago
For us, depends on the seniority of the role, but we've had good luck bringing in people coming from both directions (where I define the "directions" as "software engineering" and "data science/analysts&qu
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by hospadar 6y ago
I think you're right, they're pretty wishy-washy, but I'd define data engineer as someone who builds systems that make quilty, useable data available (i.e. anything from building ETL pipelines to productionizing models), vs a
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by hospadar 6y ago
I'm really curious - has anyone ever worked somewhere where _all_ packages are _actually_ reviewed? I'm pretty sure this really is a thing in some places (defense contractors, etc), but I'm curious if anyone's actually b
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by hospadar 6y ago
Yeah OP certainly is pushing an ideological agenda, but although "don't be misogynist" is certainly an ideology, it does seem pretty related to the FSF being an effective force in the modern world. If women don't partic
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by hospadar 6y ago
Like, so what? Should we care a lot about the safety and security of places where dangerous infectious diseases are studied? sure! I think we should care A LOT MORE about our [apparent total lack of] ability to quickly deploy effective publ
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by hospadar 6y ago
I hope we discover less work! I so agree that increasing automation doesn't always mean more Jobs That Make Money (even if it might continue to for a while yet). Maybe when there's less work for humans to do we just... work less?
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by hospadar 6y ago
Look into mushroom identification - many little brown mushrooms (LBMs) are differentiated only by careful microscopic analysis of their spores or DNA sequencing. Mushrooms are especially difficult because many of the potentially useful ide
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by hospadar 6y ago
Personal guess: because switching DBs is expensive and if it works, why bother? I personally LOVE pg over all other choices, but I've got some 5-year-old apps sitting on a little mysql DB and no intention to move them. Dbs are small,
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by hospadar 6y ago
I wonder what McKinsey's profit on this gig was - if >= $573M, then this is just the cost of doing business, no problem, do it again and make some more $$.
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by hospadar 6y ago
I feel like this answer to "how to make government censorship of private communications over the internet impossible" is more complex though than just "use element/matrix" It seems like both signal and matrix choose
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by hospadar 6y ago
I see the subletting analogy, but there's a big difference between subletting an apartment over the summer to minimize your losses (usually for ≤ your rent) and renting all the apartments in manhattan, then subletting them for profit a
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by hospadar 6y ago
AMEN! Maybe the team is a bunch of n00bs, so what? Wouldn't the perfect framework/language make it hard[er] to screw things up regardless of the lack of dev skill? For a big multi-year project it often strikes me that the best t
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by hospadar 6y ago
> Elastic used its position as an open source maintainer to grow Elasticsearch to be one of the most important pieces of software in the world (nowhere as important as linux or arguably lucene but still in the top echelon), and then once
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by hospadar 6y ago
Isn't this just describing a therapist? I don't mean that to belittle this (whether it be real or fake), I think therapy is great, and I often feel like therapy could (and does, I suppose) exist in many more formats than just sit
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by hospadar 6y ago
Wow I love me a window function! Favorite/weirdest thing I learned to do most recently with window functions is using/abusing min() and max(). If there is no value in a column in a particular window, min and max will give NULL. W
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by hospadar 6y ago
row_number() ! As in: SELECT * FROM (SELECT *, row_number() OVER (order by <some column - primary key column would be a good choice>) as rowidx FROM your_table) as numbered WHERE rowidx > ? AND rowid < ?
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by hospadar 6y ago
I very much agree - the likelihood that your business will die because it just isn't great at selling stuff seems much greater than the likelihood that it will die because you get really unlucky with a service provider. THAT SAID, it s
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by hospadar 6y ago
Genuine question, I'm a dev, but primarily backend and all my frontends are internal/chunky/it doesn't matter I usually do 2 things when styling my crummy internal sites: a) manually write semantically-named classes for
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by hospadar 6y ago
I'm SURE that there are MANY people for whom incarceration "worked" (i.e., didn't get back in jail, broke their addiction), but on the whole, there's a lot of evidence that incarceration is simply not the most effec
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by hospadar 6y ago
> I'm not saying taking heroin should be a felony, but selling it definitely should And in Oregon, it still is, presumably because the people agree with you?
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by hospadar 6y ago
This is SO GREAT! I often feel deep existential dread about deepfakes and the lag between when they are viable (now) and when everyone stops trusting video that doesn't have some kind of rock-solid signed/encrypted/testified
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by hospadar 6y ago
I prefer the reverse question: "What's the purpose of these 'productive' activities" - usually to increase the amount of time I have to read articles about bizarrely huge japanese chess games I guess :)
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by hospadar 6y ago
Lots of speculation in the comments is answered by the article itself: - There's little/no evidence that cash bail increases the rate at which people show up for trial - People are (shocker) better able to defend their innocence w
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by hospadar 6y ago
Things the EARN-IT bill (reminder: supposedly designed to protect children) doesn't do: - Increase funding for child protective services & foster care services - Increase funding for parents (EBT, social work, etc) - Increase fundi

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