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by jbmsf 3y ago
100%.
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by jbmsf 3y ago
Meh. I don't want background jobs to be a breeze in quite this way. I want background work to live on different compute capacity than http requests, both because they have very different resources usage and because I want to have state
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by jbmsf 3y ago
I built one of the first location aggregation systems. Maybe the first, hard to be sure. My company had close relationships with all of the US cellular companies and built white label apps for them, mostly under the auspices of family safet
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by jbmsf 3y ago
Neat idea. Looking forward to support for more integrations.
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by jbmsf 3y ago
Thank you for not having the obvious and boring take. (I also agree.)
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by jbmsf 3y ago
I get it, but I want to use SQL. It's a lingua franca and has a lot of power for writing migrations that I'd rather use than inventing my own. That said, it's awesome to hear from someone using jsonb with migrations. Most pla
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by jbmsf 3y ago
I want a few things for database support libraries: - Elimination of boilerplate to load data from a table into a type - A reasonable query mechanism that avoids SQL injection - A migration tool Every ORM I've used solves the first p
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by jbmsf 3y ago
It's hard to convince the people with the power and money that they should get out of the way. If you're lucky, they are mostly unaffected by the structures of power and believe in "servant leadership". If you're un
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by jbmsf 3y ago
They exist - I am one - but it doesn't work unless your leadership wants someone who doesn't fit in existing hierarchies. I tend to consult and if I go somewhere where I have prior relationships with leadership, it works. If not,
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by jbmsf 3y ago
I consult as a software architect and my job is mostly the opposite of this: asking people what problem they are trying to solve and why they haven't considered $EXISTING_SOLUTION
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by jbmsf 3y ago
I can fathom it: the larger the organization, the more important it is to the people with power to treat everything else as abstraction. I'm told Seeing Like a State shares this insight. I also hate it. But it's unfortunately &quo
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by jbmsf 4y ago
That does sound frustrating, but I think you are conflating naive management practices with inclusive hiring.
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by jbmsf 4y ago
Fair, but: - The companies that make an effort get a lot closer to population baselines than the ones that just give up. - Organizational pressures are something leadership and management should be steering. I'd rather have hiring prac
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by jbmsf 4y ago
Sure, but if you are lucky enough to have an entire team of interviewers who have this much experience, you're probably not having the same hiring conversation that's happening in this thread.
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by jbmsf 4y ago
Are you trolling now? People tend to substitute their biases when evaluating skills and knowledge. Some people overcome these biases through practice but everyone has them. It's 2023, this is not new territory.
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by jbmsf 4y ago
I'm sure that sounded smart when you wrote it. An inclusive interviewing process does not mean that you hire everyone. It means you reduce the weight of people's biases as part of identifying who you hire (because people turn out
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by jbmsf 4y ago
I agree with the conclusions, though I've seen the structured part go wrong, e.g. the interviewer is so dedicated to following the structure of the process that they forget about the empathetic part. These interviews look more like scr
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by jbmsf 4y ago
I heard a fascinating idea somewhere... hang out while you are in mid-sentence.
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by jbmsf 4y ago
IMO, you need multiple models. The product model (or the "this team owns X" model) force a commitment to an area of work that doesn't always align with business needs. The project model is terrific for aligning people across
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by jbmsf 4y ago
Not just that, but few people have both the depth to recognize competency and the breadth to know which competent people are key. In practice, most places I've been have a few people who are "obviously" key and then a lot of
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by jbmsf 4y ago
The processes designed to enable competition (vs an official just hiring their cousin) become so cumbersome only a small number of organizations can take part.
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by jbmsf 4y ago
> All of these companies have huge, mission critical reasons not to use AWS/Azure/GCP and invest in K8s. Very true. The problems occur when smaller companies without these mission critical reasons make the same choices because
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by jbmsf 4y ago
re: advisable If and only if your business model depends on it. A startup's job is mostly to find product market fit; if being decoupled from AWS isn't part of your market, you are spending money on a non-problem.
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by jbmsf 4y ago
I was recently involved in evaluating a no-code UI toolkit. It did what it said it would, but did not (could not) solve certain key business logic problems (mostly related to domain-specific authorization). When we told people: we're h
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by jbmsf 4y ago
The same is true in reverse. If your team assumes they need the optionality of avoiding cloud lock-in, your CTO had better have made an explicit choice to pay the overhead of not using these cloud services. Sure, you can play FUD games abou
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by jbmsf 5y ago
I don't agree. I've used other CI platforms that get UX a lot more right.
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by jbmsf 5y ago
I love Tailscale and it's true that I am not suffering from stability problems with its database choices. But, I do have challenges working with their ACL structure -- which is backed by their database -- and specifically would love to
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by jbmsf 5y ago
I've been working part-time for the last few years. I generally work a full week, but split my time between two companies. It seems to work; neither company would have been able to hire me full time either because they can't offer
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by jbmsf 5y ago
My spouse is a PT and hates her software. I get the sense that she also has an above average appreciation for the needs of the admin staff. They quote literally make the difference between a good day and a bad one by the choices they make a
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by jbmsf 5y ago
I am fairly ignorant if this space. Do any of the standard methods use multiple hash functions vs just one?

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