jimberlage

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by jimberlage 2y ago
> We were managing 47 Kubernetes clusters across three cloud providers. What a doozy of a start to this article. How do you even reach this point?
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by jimberlage 2y ago
My understanding is that Internet cafes are/were more common in India.
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by jimberlage 2y ago
So I guess Perl is a gateway drug for the APL family of languages now?
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by jimberlage 2y ago
Sounds like there were three major stakeholders in your work at Company B.
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by jimberlage 2y ago
One thing that is always on the table - if you see a person picking up valuable work and they don't have a ticket for it - you as a manager can create that ticket. Now you may need to coach the person on how to do that themselves (can
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by jimberlage 2y ago
Honestly, this doesn't strike me as a bad layoff announcement, with one caveat. I’m writing to let you all know that after careful consideration, we've decided to reduce our global workforce by approximately 20% or 528 Dropboxers.
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by jimberlage 2y ago
I also kinda wonder if they accidentally removed a user or some credential that has the permissions needed to make things public again, a TF change could involve both the public/private change and user account changes. Could be a bit
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by jimberlage 2y ago
My experience with non-AWS providers in TF is that they're less maintained and buggy - in theory this should be easy, but people seem very afraid of TF and I can picture this getting chaotic. But you're quite right that if they&#x
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by jimberlage 2y ago
I would bet money that Elastic uses a Terraform provider for Github and they marked repos private in an automated way, and the reverse API operation doesn't function in the same way. It's possible that any delay is them trying to
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by jimberlage 2y ago
It’s useful to have a vision like this. Not because everyone will hit all these criteria. (If you do, I’d love to steal your hiring process.) I find it useful because coaching people to be better is easier with an ideal like this to point
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by jimberlage 2y ago
In the past, I’ve really wanted better strategies for making this work organizationally. If you say, “we have CRUD apps and some event-driven, truly bespoke stuff,” you have the problem of devs not wanting to work on the CRUD apps and only
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by jimberlage 2y ago
The European cultures of Spanish/French were equally early (and earlier) to California. The author touches on them but dismisses them a bit. I get the sense that this analysis is just based on the author’s knowledge of English culture
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by jimberlage 2y ago
If you want an example of a language where the exact opposite advice is taken at all times (with all the pitfalls described in this blog post), give Clojure a whirl.
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by jimberlage 2y ago
Kinda depends on how much you value inductive vs. deductive reasoning, but the authors make the deductive case that: - There's strong incentives to misreport in these areas (the compelling example from Sardinia was that the person is a
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by jimberlage 2y ago
The security vulnerabilities that affect my PII kinda contradict the idea that the kernel is an implementation detail. It’s not an implementation detail if I do, in fact, have to care about it.
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by jimberlage 2y ago
Do you think that we’ve discovered and cataloged the sum total of milder pathogens that protect against worse illnesses in a lab? Got all mine means “got all the ones we currently know enough about to develop a vaccine for.”
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by jimberlage 2y ago
As much as I hate the amount of illnesses my kids get from daycare - maybe this shouldn't be a goal? In workplaces, hospitals, etc. we definitely want to reduce illness. In daycares, the kids are all building their immune systems and
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by jimberlage 2y ago
No, I am not upset about anything the DNC has done. Trump has more and nastier court cases (including a pedophilia case) than the convicted felony. The RNC is abhorrent and the two cannot be compared.
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by jimberlage 2y ago
No, I am not feeling riled up about this. I’m much more riled up about the state of the executive branch from 2016-2020.
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by jimberlage 2y ago
For $150/hour, I will spend today consulting for businesses who need someone in the St Louis area to go reboot a remote workers’ machine.
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by jimberlage 2y ago
The one piece of help I will offer in FizzBuzz is a reminder of how you can use the modulo operator, for exactly that reason.
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by jimberlage 2y ago
This is one of the thing you pay engineering managers for - someone should jump in and ask the senior people to pause while we go to others’ points.
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by jimberlage 2y ago
I think this gets at my ick with IAM. If AWS knows it needs “s3:ListBuckets” for a call to function, why doesn’t giving permissions on that call just imply that I gave it the “s3:ListBuckets” permission too? For enterprises that genuinely
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by jimberlage 2y ago
I don't know if I'm bought in on their reasons why this is the case, but the observations seem true to me. The times I've moved the fastest are also the times when everyone is not fully busy. This is true of large teams, sma
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by jimberlage 2y ago
> The right to freely travel You would need to change that to "the right to freely travel by any method of my choosing" for your point to stand. If you don't believe in the right to commute by tank, it's pretty easy
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by jimberlage 2y ago
Airports post-911 have a robust security setup with only a few clearly defined entrances and exits, with a person stationed at each one, in addition to whatever team you have brought with you. If you’re arrested at the terminal, they have
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by jimberlage 2y ago
I think their tool is designed for working professionals on laptops - seems like analysts doing traditional business insights reporting. Perhaps there's a world where that target audience is using their phones, but I doubt it's a
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by jimberlage 2y ago
There are also some data lakes (though I have not really worked with any) that are homegrown and consist of smallish parquet files in a blob store; they might have several databases looking at them at any given time, and an embedded browser
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by jimberlage 2y ago
There is an increasing subset of people (think those that used to work in MS Access, Excel power users) who learned SQL in a business IT course or on the job. They don’t have data sized to fit in a DB, but they do want to do analyses that
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by jimberlage 2y ago
We did a study in my neighborhood after two pedestrian deaths. The deaths definitely were the motivator for the community action and studies. You know why the idiot traffic engineers made the streets so wide in the area where these oversiz

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