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by jeffasinger 8y ago
What I don't get about your strategy: Why not work on something so valuable that even if it takes twice as long as the best estimate, with twice the headcount working on it, it would still be worth it? As a a manager, I feel that helpi
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by jeffasinger 8y ago
I was at a severely overloaded grocery store pre-storm this past weekend, which had implemented two global queues (one for 20 items or less, one for everyone else) in order to attempt to increase throughput and block the store less. The man
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by jeffasinger 8y ago
Sure, let's go back to my payroll example. I need to make 8 HTTP requests to properly setup my test from a clean slate, including setting up the deductions, previous earnings, company location and employee home address. If each of thos
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by jeffasinger 8y ago
I think your argument is missing the "cost" of feature tests, which is that they necessarily must run much slower than tests that are only testing a small unit of code. For example, I worked on payroll software at some point. Afte
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by jeffasinger 8y ago
Never having a cold boot isn't quite the same as being able to set a minimum concurrency level, though both would be very valuable. At re:invent this year, someone on the Lambda team indicated that they were working on something in thi
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by jeffasinger 8y ago
Depending on the industry, if the training is somewhat universal (like in the mig welding example) it's possible employers could offer 0% interest loans for training, with forgiveness after some payback period as part an offer.
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by jeffasinger 8y ago
I'd be curious if you interviewed at the company I work for (DraftKings) or not yet. If you have, I'd be interested in any feedback you had on our process, and if you haven't, I'd be interested in why you hadn't con
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by jeffasinger 9y ago
DraftKings | Backend (C#), Web, Android, iOS, DevOps | Boston, MA | Full-Time | Onsite | http://draftkings.com DraftKings has a wide array of interesting technical problems to solve, and we are hiring engineers widely across the
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by jeffasinger 9y ago
I really think they're going to have to consider using forward facing radar as well.
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by jeffasinger 9y ago
I'm not entirely sure I get your argument. The MBTA faces a bunch of horrible infrastructure limitations: 1. Only two rails for all subway lines, so a lot of the maintenance requires downtime. 2. The green line is on horribly dated sig
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by jeffasinger 9y ago
At a minimum, I'd like to see something half the size of the r4.large. The current r4.large is definitely bigger than I'd want to use for an experiment with a few users.
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by jeffasinger 9y ago
In a series of calls with the top tier of support at Paypal, no one was able to even answer which API was the best to use. I was told not to use SOAP (or NVP), because they're ancient, not to use REST because it wasn't ready yet,
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by jeffasinger 9y ago
I think a majority of their processing traffic goes through Wells Fargo. They would be a possible acquirer.
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by jeffasinger 10y ago
There are other Amazon services that were affected. For example, we're still not seeing auto scaling groups working correctly.
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by jeffasinger 10y ago
This is an unsigned int, so the expectation would be to do integer division, which would not get you the same result as multiplying by the inverse.
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by jeffasinger 10y ago
While probably not what you're looking for if you're mentioning Cassandra, RDS does let you have read replicas in any region.
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by jeffasinger 10y ago
It's not functional, and not automatic but Rust has an arena type which supports very fast allocation and de-allocation, with the restriction that de-allocation has to happen all at once.
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by jeffasinger 10y ago
Where I work we use several different MySQL replicas in production, where we don't expect them to be in sync. So long as the source of truth (Master MySQL node) is up to date, it's okay. For example, if we show a user how much mon
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by jeffasinger 10y ago
ZIP Codes are 5 digits. I can't think of a good reason why 6 would be so popular.
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by jeffasinger 10y ago
At work we use a rather idiosyncratic tool called RoundhousE to deploy our SQL. It treats sql labelled as a stored procedure differently, and will run the file on every deploy, as opposed to scripts that alter the schema, which are only ran
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by jeffasinger 10y ago
My best guess is that they're actually going to use the ITS first stage for this. If that's true, we may see as many as 500 of these launched in one go, with a reusable first stage.
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by jeffasinger 10y ago
I installed a firefox plugin to specifically remove those results from Google.
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by jeffasinger 10y ago
Where I work, the hardest scaling problem we face really boils down to lots of users contending for the same resources. It's very possible that HotelTonight sees the same issues around room availability.
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by jeffasinger 10y ago
At one company that did a take home, the first step of the onsite was some pair programming to add a few new small features to my submitted solution.
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by jeffasinger 10y ago
There are two sides to this though. There should be a sane middle ground. At a college, maybe the thing to do is have a fire sale on (or give away) things that are about to expire. I remember that my college food service had a policy that f
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by jeffasinger 10y ago
For the most skilled players, it would certainly be worth it to them to treat it as a full time job. They make more doing that than most jobs.
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by jeffasinger 10y ago
I work at a Post Series B startup (so really medium size tech company). I typically work about 9:00am-6:30pm, with a decent break in the middle for lunch. Fridays are usually shorter. This is busy season for us, in the winter, I'd prob
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by jeffasinger 10y ago
I often fly out of a smaller airport in Upstate NY. For a morning flight, my routine is to set my alarm for 1:15 before the flight takes off. I get up, pack, and am out the door about with about an hour to go. I get to the airport with abou
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by jeffasinger 10y ago
If the infrastructure being built isn't disposable, then it makes a lot of sense. For example, building a new transit line to the airport would make a lot of sense. Building a gigantic temporary stadium does not.
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by jeffasinger 10y ago
I work with some people who worked at Karmaloop. I've heard that it simultaneously was a great place to work (plenty of challenge and room for growth), but also a terrible place to work (bonuses paid out in virtual currency, very poor

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