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by kenhwang 7y ago
There's a bunch of Python used for CLI tools and simple API webservers that Go also excels at replacing.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Sure. The interns have their own branch, but it doesn't stop them from being disruptive to the human in charge of mentoring them.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
I'm more partial to the summer interns hypothesis.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
I felt it pretty clearly in West LA. My dog decided to roll onto her back to get a massage out of the earthquake.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
It looks like instead of making a better error handling system, they just made it easier to not type `if err != nil` everywhere. Then there's all that handler stuff that looks very much like Java's `try ... catch` in reverse order
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Sure, make it a chart. If you paid tuition during X year, you get $Y per month attended.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
My rule of thumb is 3 times. Whatever is abstracted away must be used at least 3 times. It's amazing how much preemptive prettification by abstraction it prevents.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
I agree this is straight up pork barrel politics, not good policy, and rewards poor behavior without anything preventing the problem from happening again. A simpler, fairer proposal: give _everyone_ who attended college in the last X years
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Google bricked my 2013 Google I/O special edition Nexus 7 a month after they gave them to us. Can't say I had much confidence in Google devices after that.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Arguably, if you can't safely operate a vehicle one-handed for your other hand to use the knob, you definitely shouldn't be using a touchscreen.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
With touchscreens, there's always the balance of putting the screen in line-of-sight while driving while keeping it close enough to be touchable. I like the touchpad system in the new Acura RDX the most as a compromise, has most of the
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Took me the entire 15 day trial period for my initial backup of ~4TB. After that though, I never notice it uploading the incremental backups.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
I bought my first big screen TV on Amazon store credit back when I was in college with a typical college student income. 18mo/0% APR is awesome when your credit limit and bank balance is $700.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
This exactly. If I'm doing concentration heavy work, I'll mute IM and batch respond when I get water/bathroom. I also have toasts on a side screen so `hey` messages I can quickly read and ignore without losing focus. IM is on
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Keeping a group in sync is also possible (and I'd say preferable) via email, since current objectives and sprints don't change very quickly at all relative to the speed of conversation, and both have natural paper trails. But if y
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by kenhwang 7y ago
I've noticed the people who dislike IM tend to be weaker communicators in general. Compared to email, IMs tend to have less context and are generally short and to the point but otherwise unstructured. There's a pressure to respond
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by kenhwang 7y ago
There's also a strong correlation between strong communication skills and strong technical skills in our industry that demands frequent learning of new skills. So not only does strong communication augment technical skills, it also sig
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by kenhwang 7y ago
I just say, even if it's a bug, there's no guarantee it'll be fixed on a timeline that's agreeable to our deadlines. Find a workaround.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
My experience is, UPS always arrives on time, Fedex sometimes a day late, USPS rarely arrives late, but if it's late, it's usually not arriving at all. The worst, by far, is Amazon's own delivery service. Often late, frequent
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Even as English speaking person in an English speaking country, I get non-English ads on Google properties. It's astonishing how bad Google's ad targeting is sometimes.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
I love reading the AWS post-mortems since they're always very detailed in describing the roles of the impacted systems, the intention of the action that caused the outage, the actual action triggered, all the nuances involved in the bu
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Then they're waiting for a Taycan.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
I can't imagine that being easy or cheap to make given the staggering number of product offerings across even the few big providers and how subtle some outages tend to be.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
AWS has what feel like monthly AZ brownouts (typically degradated performance or other control plane issues) with the yearly-ish regional brown/blackout. GCP has quarterly-ish global blackouts, and generally on the data plane at that w
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by kenhwang 7y ago
My company has been using OKRs for several years now and the author perfectly describes what the engineering team does. We scan through our backlog, slap some nice OKR tags on items that are vaguely relevant, and then ignore the OKRs until
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by kenhwang 7y ago
I agree that RTB probably is healthier for the advertising ecosystem, but given how rampant privacy abuses are, blasting out a users private information to every bidder in the auction seems like a tough sell.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Notice how you were able to call out the de facto package manager for those languages, but didn't for Python? I would imagine supporting the various Python package managers in use would be a bit annoying.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
I think complexity in software becomes difficult to grok as software gets bigger, and go does seem to go out of their way to code easier to understand at a hilariously micro scale at a huge cost at the macro level.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
For anyone still confused to why AWS dominates the cloud market, it's because they're willing to grandfather features with a reasonable sunset horizon.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Both are as branded or anonymous as you want it to be and I've seen both used for either. I really think the key component for both is how easy it is to share and discuss content that the sharer didn't create with people they don&

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