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by ianamartin 6y ago
Best policy I've figured out as a developer dealing with product teams is demo everything in a command line until the backend actually works. No chance for suckass product guys to push if they can't understand what's going on
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by ianamartin 6y ago
That was an incredible rollercoaster ride of stuff that's absolute garbage art theory and stuff that's genuinely insightful. I went from, "WTF is wrong with you?!" to "That's a really good explanation of how th
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by ianamartin 6y ago
That wasn't Zuck's laptop. That was an accident of the interview location.
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by ianamartin 6y ago
Apple having a major flaw is a pretty bad mark against this. But in my experience, companies doing it themselves are far worse. The correct response to "Yo, they fucked up." is not "Oh screw it. We'll just do it ourselve
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by ianamartin 6y ago
This is a real wat. You think the tech industry is almost entirely based in San Francisco? Only about 1% of tech workers are employed by companies headquartered in Silicon Valley, let alone San Francisco. The absolute vast majority of techn
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by ianamartin 6y ago
I'm not totally against GraphQL in general. As an alternative to REST it can sometimes make sense. And let's be real, most REST APIs are absolute garbage. Anything would be better than a bad REST API. And if, in fact, you are stor
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by ianamartin 6y ago
Can it be both?
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by ianamartin 6y ago
Even though I like Python a lot, I clicked on a reply to this comment because I was absolutely certain I was going to have to disagree with you. That just didn't seem possible. But . . . I was wrong. That third link with generics mak
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by ianamartin 6y ago
Reddit is one you might have heard of. pypi.org is another that's familiar. You know, every time you type `pip install x` yeah, that's pypi. Although I think those are both powered mainly by Pyramid rather than flask. Still, same
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by ianamartin 6y ago
This is a better way of saying what I've tried to say in like 3 comments.
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by ianamartin 6y ago
That quote is sort of exactly what's conceptually wrong with what's goin on in my opinion. Yes, I know, armchair quarterback and I'm not the one out there building stuff like this for free, etc., etc. But claiming some nebulo
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by ianamartin 6y ago
There are lots of production sites that serve 10,000x as much traffic as sourcehut that are built on Python/flask/sqlalchemy serving RESTful APIs. If you can't make that combination work well, there's another place to lo
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by ianamartin 6y ago
Well, that's too bad. I always thought this was a cool project. But if you can't dev your way into decent performance for a small alpha project using python/flask/sql, I don't think your tools are the problem. And I
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by ianamartin 6y ago
Oh come on. Reddit was never great. It has always been the taint of the internet. There are worse places to hang out, but not by much.
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by ianamartin 6y ago
Not sure if this is what antirez had in mind, but when I'm working on stuff, I whiteboard (if I'm at home--and who isn't these days) or write in a notebook. First thing I figure out is how I want to interact with a thing. Whe
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by ianamartin 6y ago
I'm excited about this. Can't wait to see what performance looks like. As for the effect on sales, it's probably a wash. For people who know and care about these things, I'd imagine a 50/50 split between people raci
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by ianamartin 6y ago
When you say you have 25 million records per day, taking 25 GB of disk space, can you clarify what you mean by that? Does each day of 25 million records take 25GB of disk space? Or are you saying that it cumulatively takes 25 GB up until no
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by ianamartin 6y ago
No one accepts "It's not x, it's y" as correct. Well, maybe some illiterate Philistines do. But no one really thinks that's correct. You have to put a semicolon in place of the comma or it is just plain wrong.
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by ianamartin 6y ago
Meh, I think the title of the article is misplaced. Developers don't need to care about threat models. Developers need to care about the attack surface their applications expose. This article feels a lot more like it's directed at
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by ianamartin 6y ago
wat. I hope this is a joke.
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by ianamartin 6y ago
RethinkDB is a better solution to every problem that MongoDB claims to solve. I wouldn't use it for everything. But once my need for a document store outgrows what's convenient and easy in Postgres with JSONB, I reach for Rethink.
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by ianamartin 6y ago
Kafka is much more like a distributed file system that has queuing semantics baked in than it is an ephemeral queue that implements some level of persistence. The fact that you put Kafka and RabbitMQ in the same category sort of makes me fe
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by ianamartin 6y ago
>> When people refer to "typing", it is almost certainly reasonable to assume they are referring to static typing, as implemented by most languages. Really? You're going to go with "most languages implement static
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by ianamartin 6y ago
I won't go into a ton of detail because payments companies are very protective of their secrets. But imagine the kind of workflow diagram that product managers tend to produce at the beginning of a project. It doesn't look too awf
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by ianamartin 6y ago
I implemented something similar to that at a payments company a while back, but not with prolog because I couldn't get buy-in. I wrote a rules engine expressed as SQL tables, and it was absolutely better than if-else or switch. It let
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by ianamartin 6y ago
I find Mongo do be a really obnoxious company, but you're right and there are use cases for it. The ideal use case for MongoDB is when you are a) collecting a lot of data, b) only need to retain a large enough sample for statistical
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by ianamartin 6y ago
That tweet was a totally unforced error. Like, there are a few people you might to not misrepresent in this space, and Kyle is one of them.
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by ianamartin 6y ago
Yeah, the whole article is pretty sketch. Almost feels like astroturfing. Unlimited budget. Oh but also have to be profitable. Yeah, pick one.
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by ianamartin 7y ago
A shorter version of how I described it above is that Data Engineers intentionally decouple logic from data so that ETL processes can be managed at scale (not necessarily talking about Big Data when I say scale. Sometimes lots of small ETL
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by ianamartin 7y ago
I'm interviewing for a Data Engineering position right now, and one of the questions I was told to prepare for is "What is data engineering?" I think it's far more than just the data science aspects this article talks ab

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