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by jb3689 7y ago
Step one for me when I am giving sensitive information is always "let's end this call and let me call you". I had gotten an e-mail from my bank and I called the number in the e-mail without thinking to lookup the support numb
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by jb3689 7y ago
> Everyone on the teams I worked on seemed to think that standups where useless It sounds like a bigger a problem then standups; if everyone feels they are useless why is there no forum in which this meeting is being discussed and remove
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by jb3689 7y ago
> many privacy issues would go away if devices were designed to operate without needing to regularly “phone home” This is the sole reason why I do not buy IoT devices. I would love to have a resource which lists devices that do not try t
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by jb3689 7y ago
They have their place. I particularly like Ruby's ActiveRecord for handling relational data. The extra caching and easy eager loading is really nice. It sucks for high performance batching processing but it works great for web requests
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by jb3689 7y ago
There is some talk about something like this, and I believe Purdue was trying it out already
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by jb3689 7y ago
> I wonder if there's a way to add some Rust into MRI Aaron Patterson spoke to this in a recent interview. In fact I think he specifically mentioned using Rust as a possibility for a JIT
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by jb3689 7y ago
I broke out of a long term video game addiction (I think we can call it that now) a few years ago. I still go back to them from once or twice a year and I'm always surprised by how hard the grip of them is even after just a play or two
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by jb3689 7y ago
I like the progressive enhancement approach using a small amount of JS, and I'm fine with jQuery. The thing is that I don't _use_ very much of jQuery. Rather than pull in all of jQuery you could just define your own `get` and `pos
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by jb3689 7y ago
> We call it "culture fit" but we're really just trying to vet their personalities I've seen this end up in teams that lack diversity several times. My last company was big on interviewing for fit. Then a year goes by
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by jb3689 7y ago
Yeah, in my ETL work we call things like this bugs. I've never understood why this is acceptable on the front-end. Users seem to have been conditioned over the years that it's just "slow internet" I think and are willing
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by jb3689 7y ago
I loved Designing Data-Intensive Applications. It gives you the reasons why NoSQL databases exist and the problems they solve. Moreover it gives you reasons to select one over another. It's really excellent and one of my top two CS boo
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by jb3689 7y ago
My real issue with SQL is how verbose it is. The amount of relative importance to the number of characters in SQL is often pretty poor (for example, when doing multi-table joins). Having to spend a few minutes deciphering each SQL query is
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by jb3689 7y ago
What if you just give the money to charity? Does that change your opinion?
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by jb3689 7y ago
They do say they pay for personal hack projects too, so I read it more as "hey, go do whatever OS projects you feel like/do some skill building and we'll pay you $20/hr". That makes sense to me - the company benefit
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by jb3689 7y ago
I did remote for about two years. Found it really draining and too easy to go full workaholic and work into the late hours/be constantly stressed out. I'd like to try working remote again but I can totally get how it wouldn't
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by jb3689 7y ago
I like Elixir overall as a language and love it as a platform. That said, the metaprogramming feels passable for me. I would much prefer to write and read things in a Lisp but it works fine in Elixir
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by jb3689 7y ago
It's more like Erlang with syntactic sugar and macros. Phoenix and Rails have more in common than Elixir and Ruby do
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by jb3689 7y ago
I don't think it being in the cloud or not makes a difference. Applications that aren't in the cloud can still be broken into. Leaving things in source control just adds another surface for attackers to use to compromise your appl
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by jb3689 8y ago
My coworker is an older guy with a PhD. He's really smart (also a bit aloof). We do the same job (typical backend software engineering)
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by jb3689 8y ago
This. I have been looking for a company to be mentored at for the past 8 years. They don't exist (well they do, but they are few and far in between - and it varies from team to team even in a company) The way I've learned is throu
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by jb3689 8y ago
Pony's memory sharing model used with Actors is really interesting. When I was writing in Elixir the overhead of deep cloning any message (or almost any - I realize large binaries are an exception) between actors seemed like a big limi
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by jb3689 8y ago
Food was by far the biggest expense of our wedding. My wife and her family did want to go all out, and it came to about $100 a head for food/drink (I forget if I rolled out the venue price out of that exact number). For a nice meal for
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by jb3689 8y ago
The problem with Kubernetes (and microservices in general) is getting a team productive with it, and that requires lots of time, dedication, and tooling. It's not the right solution for most teams, but it could be if we streamline it m
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by jb3689 8y ago
How many times does this need to get reposted?
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by jb3689 8y ago
Crunchbase to understand the company's funding Github to see if they have open source stuff Company blogs I've told companies I want to remeet the team after interviews and they've scheduled lunches for me to talk with them i
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by jb3689 8y ago
Title is a bit misleading. Not sure this is "I'm not using GUIs" but rather "I'm using a terminal-based dev environment". I was hoping to find some nice terminal-based tools for browsing and e-mail and all the
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by jb3689 8y ago
Keep in mind that pattern matching can be dangerous. Change something and suddenly your code could be flowing in new unexpected ways without notifying you with a runtime error. I like pattern matching too but it has bitten me
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by jb3689 8y ago
I mean, if your current employer will do it and you're happy then why jump? I don't think 10% bumps with the same employer is the norm, but I do think it is when switching jobs as original comment suggested (until you hit median)
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by jb3689 8y ago
The number of programming fuckups (or bugs - call them what you want) causing me real life stress seems to be increasing exponentially as I'm getting older
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by jb3689 8y ago
Pretty much this My wife and I are complete opposites. I went to state school, commuted from home, studied engineering, did well enough, got my M.S. paid for by the school (which is fairly easy to do if you are open to schools), now making

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