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by kevan 10y ago
Seconded. I ended up spending several days trying to re-organize my first decent-sized Flask project when I tried to add a different config for testing. On the next project I started with a template that handled the boilerplate bits like ap
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by kevan 10y ago
It's almost like this is becoming a regular occurrence. I'm looking forward to the next generation looking back on this and being incredulous that we used to completely throw away boosters on every launch.
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by kevan 10y ago
Our feature toggles have tended to live for months to years. Sometimes the really old ones were our fault for not removing, for example we rewrote our payments UI in mid-2014 and the flag stayed around for more than a year after we were at
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by kevan 10y ago
>Stand ups are bad - Let's be frank, I'm belting out code so quickly that staying on the same page as everyone else is just not worth the time anyway (at the speed I'm going it'll be done tomorrow anyway). Could you e
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by kevan 10y ago
A fundamental difference between medicine and flight is motivation. When pilots screw up they die, when doctors screw up, someone else dies. Medicine idolizes heroes, a single doctor doing everything and saving the day. In air travel the he
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by kevan 10y ago
If you have a chance I'd recommend reading The Checklist Manifesto [1]. There's data showing that checklists are effective in medical settings. The point of checklists is not to give you a flow-chart of exactly what to do. Their p
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by kevan 10y ago
>the sudden deprecation of docker-compose for docker-machine was a nasty surprise. I think you meant the deprecation of Boot2Docker?
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by kevan 10y ago
I think they mentioned the weather because it's relevant to his reputation as a legendary live performer and it's part of a great story. [1] There's something almost magical about incredible live performances. I can't re
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by kevan 11y ago
I found this out recently, in case anyone else doesn't know, messenger.com [1] gets you facebook chat without the rest of facebook. I use it a lot during the day when I want to talk to people but not get sucked into the news feed. [1]
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by kevan 11y ago
>there were no tools that allowed to evaluate the performance. This reminds me of Brian Cantril's remarks in a talk (sorry, can't remember which one) about Solaris and DTrace. For the first time ever, DTrace gave them the abili
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by kevan 11y ago
They explained the issues in laymans terms that most likely mask the true complexity of what happened. It's easy to read the final result: "tried to reject but then deleted everything" and think "Well duh that's bad
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by kevan 11y ago
“I also explore the social and cultural forces that provide the atmosphere for innovation. For the birth of the digital age, this included a research ecosystem that was nurtured by government spending and managed by a military-industrial-ac
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by kevan 11y ago
Yep, this is in our ESLint config: "semi": [2, "never"], // Disallow semicolons "no-unexpected-multiline": 2, // Prevent edge cases caused by excluding semicolons. And I haven&#x
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by kevan 11y ago
One of my relatively new coworkers did this a while ago, the logic was: "We can't deploy until the build is green, and this test is failing, so I'll just skip this test so we can deploy." Great teachable moment
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by kevan 11y ago
Sounds like they're hosted entirely on Heroku and didn't want to go through the effort of adding external infrastructure. But I just found out apparently you can host Nginx on Heroku [1] which is neat, but looks a bit sketchy [1]
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by kevan 11y ago
To be fair, auto-braking isn't useful until you need it, and by that point you're about a half second away from smashing into another car so you don't have much time to think about it. That feature alone could reduce total cr
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by kevan 11y ago
I haven't seen this come up before, but skimming through the features it reminds me a lot of Engelbart's NLS [1]. Tables, lists, links, exports to other formats, all from a plaintext base, it seems like this was directly inspired
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by kevan 11y ago
>It's unfortunate they don't have `npm install --save-dev babel babel-preset-es2015` and "write `{"presets":"es2015"}` to a new .babelrc file" smack-bang at the top of the homepage though. I think
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by kevan 11y ago
Not exactly the circumstances I'd like to see my state hit HN with... My guess: school districts up north have some extra days built into the semester (usually for closings due to snow storms) and they figured it would be less stressfu
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by kevan 11y ago
Most of my work on an ecommerce platform doesn't need much attention to algorithmic complexity, but everyone on my team still curses the guy who wrote an O(n^4) algorithm in our checkout pipeline (discounts, promos, shipping, tax, etc)
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by kevan 11y ago
We use existing ones, but we haven't added any new ones in 2-3 years. Our web code dates back to before module bundlers were around and removing jQuery isn't really worth the effort.
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by kevan 11y ago
Usually when I hear it people are talking about Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon [1], but in the last couple years it seems like Microsoft is getting back in gear. [1] http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tech-sanity-check&#
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by kevan 11y ago
>making a land-landing more pleasant. Or at least a bit less unpleasant http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/06/08/back_to_...
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Evolution of JavaScript at Bluestem(medium.com)
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by kevan 11y ago
I thought Google was still using Borg[1] internally but Kubernetes is being built with the lessons learned from Borg. From that paper: >Now, all Borg tasks run inside a Linux cgroup-based resource container... I don't work for Googl
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by kevan 11y ago
I worked in a Sears store from 2008-2010, somewhere around 2009 I think our store got upgraded from a literal mainframe terminal to a virtualized mainframe terminal for inventory management. The box managing the registers ran OS/2 Warp
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by kevan 11y ago
At my favorite tech interview we debugged a real prod issue they had a few months before. The interviewer spent a few minutes sketching the basic architecture of the system on the whiteboard and then started with the customer complaint: &qu
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by kevan 11y ago
Yep, 37 signals recently did something like that [1] [1] https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-...
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by kevan 11y ago
Perfect timing, we just started building a system for this at a hackathon in the past two days, hopefully we can use this instead.
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by kevan 11y ago
> Currently our node servers run behind nginx I was going to ask about this, in our current setup Nginx or an F5 in a DMZ handles TLS termination and everything inside the trusted network is unencrypted. I guess direct termination on the

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