johngalt

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by johngalt 7y ago
Progress has never been a linear slope of ever increasing capability in all technology areas. It's better to think of progress as a series of new directions that we couldn't access without the prior advances.
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by johngalt 7y ago
Counterpoint from someone who did developer support back in the pre-cloud days. Even pre-virtualization, I could instantiate servers very rapidly with network based imaging. With pre-staged templates of various os/program combinations.
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by johngalt 7y ago
Respectfully disagree. I'm an ops person, and I have a nostalgic attachment to running my own stuff in boxes that I can touch (or at least visit). However, cloud is just better for most applications. Certainly there are some scenario
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by johngalt 7y ago
Tearing up walls is absolutely not necessary. Structured wiring in the building with an MPOE room for cross connects to the carriers is how it works. This is what usually happens regardless of contractual arrangements. More accurately, the
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by johngalt 7y ago
Imagine you are out at night with a flashlight. Trying to detect a car driving towards you. One car is painted like a fire truck with reflectors. The other is matte black/gray. The first one you will be able to spot much earlier and de
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by johngalt 7y ago
Thank you. To anyone viewing my answer as a guide: a backup by itself is not a continuity plan. There are other important areas such as setting recovery metrics (RPO/RTO) and testing restores against those metrics. The world is rife wi
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by johngalt 7y ago
A generally safe backup process looks like this: Production has no access to backup. Backup has read only access to production. Backup writes are append and not overwrites. Deletes/archival are governed by a retention process.
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by johngalt 7y ago
Agree. Entirely too much misplaced focus on finding better/more technical talent when commonly the bottleneck for a companies growth is not limited by engineering brilliance. It's much more common for the limiting factors to be lo
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by johngalt 7y ago
> why people are so eager to conflate... Because identifying, hiring, and keeping 10x programmers is difficult and expensive. Companies fail at it and assume the problem is the concept of a 10x programmer, rather than own inability to ha
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by johngalt 7y ago
It's not just the cloud providers perspective on outages. That is the rosiest interpretation of misleading availability stats. There is an obvious moral hazard involved because most availability tracking is self reported and outage cri
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by johngalt 7y ago
You are underestimating how much of your electricity bill is going to capital costs. It's possible that the cost of electricity consumption will drop, but only if it replaced with other costs to subsidize the cost of the various electr
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by johngalt 7y ago
5) Operational reliability is both difficult and unsexy. The fancy new feature, increasing traffic, or adding AI to something will generate headlines, accolades, and positive attention. Not having outages is something everyone expects by de
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by johngalt 7y ago
I enjoy how it is thinking constructively about planning a life after the 'peak' times. The football player becoming a coach or referee rather than simply sinking into obscurity. My only criticism is that the messaging seems a lit
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by johngalt 7y ago
The optimal design for a 'jet fighter without a pilot' rapidly converges on a missile.
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by johngalt 7y ago
Don't underestimate the programming aptitude they have already. I coached a lego robot team for kids of similar ages. We spent one tenth the time that I expected teaching programming, and double the time I expected teaching mechanics.
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by johngalt 7y ago
Adjust your air balance to cool your room more. The vents for your A/C have little control flaps to increase/reduce airflow. Open yours all the way up, and slowly reduce the others until everyone is comfortable.
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by johngalt 7y ago
Rental car companies have more to worry about with ridesharing than any competitors.
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by johngalt 7y ago
Interesting, but I don't think it is as easily cracked as simply creating a 30hr job board. Certainly there are people who want to work 30hrs because on balance they will be more productive per hour. Perhaps even enough to offset the o
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by johngalt 7y ago
The article presents a 'gentrification' view of development. Building new housing simply allows landowners and developers to build another luxury condo tower, and for additional rich and high skilled workers to move in. The networ
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by johngalt 7y ago
> For many non-tech companies where IT computing is a cost center, their employees won't be able to match the iteration speed of Google's engineers constantly improving on GCP or Amazon's employees enhancing the features o
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by johngalt 8y ago
I agree with you, but I don't believe the 'inequality' complaint is generally about $30k vs $50k. It's a mischaracterization of their argument. The complaint tends to be about <$30k vs >$250k.
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by johngalt 8y ago
A business that pursues a poaching strategy will not develop the practices to identify in-house talent. Ergo, you have a hard time understanding anything about employee performance other than you pay a lot. When you are the one adding the f
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by johngalt 8y ago
Yes. It's known as 'value based' pricing. When you see a 'contact sales' form it usually means professional sales people. Their job is trying to determine how much you are willing to pay based on how much you'l
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by johngalt 8y ago
Don't try to become a productive superman in one day, you'll fail. Don't even decide to work towards lofty goals. Instead slow down and iterate. Move the ball forward a little each day. What does that look like in practice? 1
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by johngalt 8y ago
A flying motorcycle would be better executed as a motorglider/powered sailplane with detachable wings.
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by johngalt 8y ago
Foreclosure doesn't provide the entire value of the property to the lender. But it does allow the home to be sold at auction in order to recover the money owed. Any remainder is given to the home owner. That said it would be an excepti
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by johngalt 8y ago
Aren't 'killer robots' ethically similar to landmines? Only with better fire control systems. Not saying that landmines are paragons of ethical weapon systems, but they are making a kill decison without a human being in the l
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by johngalt 8y ago
> G Suite is a joke compared to desktop Office If there is one area where I've been consistently wrong, it is betting on "powerful/serious tools" rather than simple, ubiquitous things that handle most of what people n
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by johngalt 8y ago
The idea behind '2' is to avoid having all your backups dependent on a single point of failure. For example you religiously have three copies of data but they all came from the same tape drive that silently went bad months ago and
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by johngalt 8y ago
Riding a motorcycle amongst CA drivers is taking on a significant injury risk. The efficiency gains of a motorcycle vs economy car aren't that significant and the emissions are worse.

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