jake_morrison

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by jake_morrison 6y ago
A lot of the pain around production support is easily solved by having staff in multiple time zones. A good structure is to have first line support be relatively generic ops people. They can handle problems related to infrastructure, e.g. h
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There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
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My guess is that Google promotes people based on creating a new service, but not taking over an old service and running it / improving it. So when a manager leaves the organization, their service is orphaned: there is nobody to run it,
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It's more important to focus on the problem domain than the specific tools. Figure out where you would like to work and the kinds of problems you would like to solve, then evolve your technical skills with them. C is mostly used these
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Years ago I was switching my father from DOS to Windows. He was resisting learning about the computer. Not because he was stupid, he has a PhD from Harvard. He was busy trying to consolidate his understanding of 1000 years of English litera
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It was a new AWS account for the client, which includes 50gb of CloudFront as part of the AWS Free Tier, so I guess it used that. I didn’t look into it a lot. As I joked with the client, it is cheaper to leave it running than pay us to turn
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We built a website for a film festival using a static site generator, deploying to AWS S3 + CloudFront Content Delivery Network. A few months later, the client asked about shutting it down to save money. Turns out it cost $0.05 for the mont
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I used WordPerfect in my first job as a tech writer. It was beneficial to have a separation between writing and the layout done by desktop publishing systems. As a programmer building websites, I do the same thing, writing in vim. Learning
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I have the same problems. I am an American who has lived overseas for many years. These questions about my credit history are full of things that I guess are connected with other people. Very frustrating.
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Instead of "lack of encapsulation", it's more "lack of private state". In an object oriented language, you have private instance variables and methods to manipulate them. In a functional language, you have functions
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The biggest problem here is the overtime. Instead of employing full time people, they milk the system to generate more overtime hours.
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This post describes a process of decomposing code into very simple functions: http://www.gar1t.com/blog/solving-embarrassingly-obvious-pro... This results in functions which are, I feel, a bit too small for comfort. On
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Physics is mathematics with the constraint of reality. Engineering is physics with the constraint of money.
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The tech giants leverage the profits they get from dominating one area to compete in another. You can't build a hyperscale cloud without being able to spend billions. Amazon subsidizes AWS using their e-commerce business, Google with
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A friend came from a very large family. I asked him how his parents coped. He said once you get beyond the first number of kids, it basically runs itself. The first kid requires X attention. The second kid adds 0.7X. Then the third is like
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by jake_morrison 6y ago
This deindustrialization was driven by Wall Street. The important metric is return on invested capital. Manufacturing companies use a lot of capital for their factories. Shut down the factory and outsource to China, and you have the same sa
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I have worked on embedded Linux systems recently enough where I had to change the driver and recompile the kernel to repartition the disk. It was just a chunk of Flash memory, and it was up to the driver to tell it what to be.
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I feel like we are going to see an announcement out of left field like TSMC buying a fab from Intel, funded by Apple.
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I had a funny experience where a friend was trying to recruit me to be part of some venture. We met up and got in a car with another lady who he was trying to recruit as well, and he kept talking about it as if it was already a done deal th
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The "specific problem domain" for Erlang is scalable, reliable network services. The problem with GUIs is that making a simple UI is relatively easy, but making a really world class native UI is practically almost impossible. Witn
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I am hoping North Asian countries loosen up about visas. Right now it's easy to be a digital nomad or retiree in Thailand. Malaysia has My Second Home: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_My_Second_Home I expec
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I do see the value in interpersonal and teaching skills. The best developers have them and are interested in helping others. In my experience, though, programmers tend to be introverted. One definition of introversion is that interacting wi
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I have mixed feelings about make. On one hand, it's horrible. On the other hand, it's outlived all the competition, and will certainly be around in decades. And if you are a C programmer, you need to understand make anyway. I have
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Ratio of bill rate to salary of 2.5 to 3.5 is pretty typical in consulting companies. Billing has to cover lots of things, e.g. training, utilization, supervisors, sales, office, computers, accounting, etc. I expect they have particularly h
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Those who benefit from the the current situation are responsible.
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I ran Gentoo for a few years, and it was a great balance of being low level and customizable but practical for day to day use. When you have set things up from scratch, you can fix it when it breaks. The Gentoo install disk helped me recove
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears
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I grew up in Norman, so I am familiar. It's not as good as the prime real estate they had, and the life they had there. Why do you think the government chose Oklahoma for the reservations?
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I find Linux From Scratch a bit masochistic. Embedded Linux development is equally educational while actually being useful. There are good frameworks like Buildroot: https://buildroot.org/
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We have to recognize how much we screwed over the Native Americans. We took away their prime land on the East coast. We gave them some shitty land in Oklahoma that we didn't think we would ever want. We made them walk there in the &quo

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