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931.
by ketzo 5y ago
And, in case you haven’t heard, California is set up for (yet another!) historic fire season. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sfgate.com/bayarea/amp/fuel...
932.
by ketzo 5y ago
I appreciate this perspective quite a lot. I think that for me, being a good engineer is first and foremost about solving problems for people, and if I lose sight of that simple goal, I lose a lot of my energy for my work.
933.
by ketzo 5y ago
Yeah, seriously. A friend and I in college were talking about how we handle our pre-presentation nerves, and I was suggesting she should try deep breaths, counting to ten, etc.; meanwhile, she would routinely go into full-body fight-or-flig
934.
by ketzo 5y ago
> The way I would capture an action item during a meeting would be to underline (if handwritten) or bold (if typed) the part in the note and commit it to memory. Important things would always get remembered by the very nature of being i
935.
by ketzo 5y ago
Okay, but if we're not able to label every single one (because we don't have the time/resources/ability to do so), we should probably still remove them, no? Better removed than unlabeled, as nice as a label might be.
936.
by ketzo 5y ago
A piece of the system (a junior developer) is allowed to make mistakes. The person responsible for architecting and protecting the system (the CTO)... less so.
937.
by ketzo 5y ago
I'm sort of trying to propose a situation where 1) the price doesn't get inflated and 2) I get to go to the event. Obviously, yes, if I am mad about scalpers' prices, I have the option to not pay them. I would like to go the
938.
by ketzo 5y ago
> For example, you may have a free or cheap concert that sells out extremely quickly, but with scalpers, those with lots of money can always get a ticket. But how do you square that with scalpers causing the tickets to sell out so quic
939.
by ketzo 5y ago
Wow, that seems like a really strong set of guiding principles. I like that a lot.
940.
by ketzo 5y ago
> I feel like Google's approach is more popularized I mean, the engineering architecture being described in this memo is, basically, microservices. That's certainly an extremely popular -- I would go so far as to say even vogue
941.
by ketzo 5y ago
Pretty much the hardest part about SaaS as a business, described in just two sentences.
942.
by ketzo 5y ago
I mean, not currently, but you could make them related with legislation. Which is kind of the idea of this tax credit in the first place, I guess.
943.
by ketzo 5y ago
It's the most trite platitude in the world, but from someone who was also there: the more you do it, the better it gets. Good luck, and keep at it.
944.
by ketzo 5y ago
Because it's not actively generating value, and is in fact actively losing value thanks to inflation. It's legally considered a "liability" in the context of a lot of banking regulation.
945.
by ketzo 5y ago
@internetofshit for the curious. some pretty goofy stuff.
946.
by ketzo 5y ago
It's a service with which essentially every person living in present-day America needs to interact on a day-to-day basis. And yes, they need to. I think it is hugely disingenuous to pretend otherwise. We can talk all day about how Du
947.
by ketzo 5y ago
GSuite/Gmail, YouTube, Search, Android, Google Shopping, Google Maps -- all of these could become separate software companies. Not saying they would enjoy that, of course, but those are some of the divisions that immediately jump to
948.
by ketzo 5y ago
Oh man, but try using “this Friday” on a Saturday. Now you’ve entered into a possible third case!
949.
by ketzo 5y ago
What makes you think that criminals are not capable of centralization?
950.
by ketzo 5y ago
That's one of those things that sounds super fun when you're opting into it on a weekend. Much less so on a Tuesday night after a stressful day and your goddamn window won't close even though it's raining and you can&#x2
951.
by ketzo 5y ago
+1 for that eslint plugin, I was just idly wondering if something like that existed earlier this week. Thanks.
952.
by ketzo 5y ago
I dunno. If you walked into a sophomore-level computer science lecture 15 years ago, most of the people there would either have heard of Perl or be proficient in it themselves. Now? I'd be amazed if a single student had written a line
953.
by ketzo 5y ago
Well, isn't there something a little "revolutionary" about mainstream adoption of cutting-edge techniques? After all, like you suggest, things like functional programming and monads have existed for quite some time. The thing
954.
by ketzo 5y ago
It's absolutely that, yeah. These guys were making fat stacks licensing out their Ransomware-as-a-Service package; now, since a customer flew too close to the sun/U.S. government, they're fucked. Tragedy of the commons? Sort
955.
by ketzo 5y ago
If you want people to actually be able to pay for things with Bitcoin (often a stated goal), then yes, it does.
956.
by ketzo 5y ago
Visa says they do 150 million transactions in a day, for an average of 1,700tps — and I’d have to imagine their spikes are much higher.
957.
by ketzo 5y ago
Your body really isn't meant to stay horizontal 23+ hours/day, and that's what many elderly people are reduced to after a bad fall. Bed sores develop very quickly, and an elderly immune system often simply isn't equipped
958.
by ketzo 5y ago
The saying I heard in my embedded programming class was: “There are two hard things in programming: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one-errors.”
959.
by ketzo 6y ago
Many of those responsibilities have moved into the domain of the Product Owner / Scrum Master roles, which can work pretty well in my experience.
960.
by ketzo 6y ago
FWIW, many states allow you to serve alcohol once you're 18. But the "high schooler" lack is still in play.

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