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Logging for scientific computing: debugging, performance, trust(pythonspeed.com)
1 points by itamarst 7y ago|0 comments
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The new parent’s guide to surviving a programming job(codewithoutrules.com)
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by itamarst 7y ago
"Sure, we lose a little on every sale, but we make it up on volume!"
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by itamarst 7y ago
Fair. I used to work at company that rented from WeWork. And we were in their awful glass cubicles, like working in a Borg ship, and we wanted some privacy, so we asked about putting up some removal decals. They said no, it violated their b
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by itamarst 7y ago
"Clearest economic model"? They're losing almost 2 BILLION dollars a year ( https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/business/dealbook/wework-... )
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by itamarst 7y ago
This guy, looks like: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Davide_Piffer — and he has in fact published in Mankind Quarterly, a racist journal ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mankind_Quarterly ).
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Choosing a Faster JSON Library for Python(pythonspeed.com)
3 points by itamarst 7y ago|0 comments
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by itamarst 7y ago
This isn't a very surprising result: there's a whole body of research showing sleep deprivation reduces cognitive abilities. So why do programmers still sleep less than they need to? Often it's because they're working lo
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by itamarst 8y ago
I wrote up some more thoughts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19647192
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Can software engineering be meaningful work?(codewithoutrules.com)
2 points by itamarst 8y ago|1 comments
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by itamarst 8y ago
Microservices are an organizational pattern: "we have 500 programmers working on one application, how the hell do we do it." Solution: break up application into independent projects, each team of developers works on one of them, h
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by itamarst 8y ago
Try to find something you can do that you have control over and will make things better. E.g. I've been working in free time with local group to get safer bike infrastructure built in Cambridge. One of results of our efforts was on fro
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The high cost of slow tests(pythonspeed.com)
1 points by itamarst 8y ago|0 comments
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by itamarst 8y ago
Asking half market rate is signaling desperation, so it's likely to make you _less_ likely to get a job.
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by itamarst 8y ago
You can still get remote jobs if you pitch it right. Basically you need to emphasize ability to work independently and communication skills. 1. "here is project I designed and built on my own" 2. "our team is distributed acro
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Setting boundaries at your job as a programmer(codewithoutrules.com)
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by itamarst 8y ago
Dedicated bus lanes fix that.
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Why your Docker multi-stage build is surprisingly slow(pythonspeed.com)
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by itamarst 8y ago
You're not getting paid to work during this time. If this will help you in your career in general, e.g. you'll learn technology skills that will also be relevant to future jobs, then doesn't seem like a problem. But if this i
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On learning new technologies: why breadth beats depth(codewithoutrules.com)
8 points by itamarst 8y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Causal logging for scientific computing with Eliot(eliot.readthedocs.io)
1 points by itamarst 8y ago|0 comments
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by itamarst 8y ago
My favorite mistake The Economist made was a survey they ran. They compared UK to US, and supposedly one of the questions was: What better explains the origins of the Earth? A) Evolution. B) The Bible. It's unclear whether they literal
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by itamarst 8y ago
It can take messages _from_ the standard logging library, and they even show up in the correct place in the tree: https://eliot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/generating/migrating.... This is the preferable method
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by itamarst 8y ago
For Python, structlog ( https://www.structlog.org/en/stable/index.html ) is a good tool for what you want. But I think you can do better than structlog, with causal/trace-based logging. I built a Python library
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Multi-stage Docker builds for Python: virtualenv, –user, and other methods(pythonspeed.com)
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Smaller Docker images for Python applications with compiled code(pythonspeed.com)
3 points by itamarst 8y ago|0 comments
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Elegantly activating a Virtualenv in a Dockerfile(pythonspeed.com)
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You are not a commodity(codewithoutrules.com)
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by itamarst 8y ago
Did some searching, turns out I was actually thinking of the the Townsend Plan, which was not actually wacky (I misremembered the details) and helped pave the way for Social Security. The wikipedia article leaves out a lot of details, if me
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by itamarst 8y ago
The general argument is "X has this impact on Y" (in this case, Internet and US). Given that X is global, that the Internet impacts many countries, a reasonable perspective would involve at least looking at how X impacted A, B, a

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