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by laurentl 7y ago
From where I stand, it’s much harder to find good devops profiles.
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by laurentl 7y ago
_The hard thing about hard things_ (Horowitz) has some good pointers, although not for your more practical questions (for which, btw, the answers will vary a lot based on context - e.g. sector, country, bootstrapping vs external funding, et
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by laurentl 7y ago
Could you elaborate on what “dispassionate” means in this context, or link to the article? As an aside, I’ve just re-read a Terry Pratchett novel and your description of the good engineers’ behavior made me think of Leonardo da Quirm :)
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by laurentl 7y ago
API gateway + Lambda functions (in Python) + DynamoDB if I need to store data. Pricing is completely linear with usage (and very low/free for low traffic) and I don’t have to worry about uptime or scalability.
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by laurentl 7y ago
I will usually doodle a diagram flow of the expected process or customer interaction. Sometimes it translates directly into program logic, sometimes not so much. Slightly different but I like to reason in states and will often draw up cellu
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by laurentl 7y ago
Nothing that fancy, we just looked at the average case using a conservative estimate of salary increase after an MBA (something like + 30% 3 years after, so way below what the FT figures show for instance), and a conservative starting salar
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by laurentl 7y ago
Actually, it was the first exercise we did in my EMBA finance class :D Even with an EMBA, which happens later in a career, the NPV is quite positive.
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by laurentl 7y ago
> the quality of information is maybe inversely proportional to the levels it has to go through I think that each level distorts the message to bring it more in line with company culture (e.g. make it look better, or highlight blocking p
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by laurentl 7y ago
> it is important to be aware of what projects employees work on (with much less detail) In my experience, employees get told which project to work on by management, usually through a formal budget / roadmap process which allocates
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by laurentl 7y ago
Large scale reliable systems are antinomic with “launching a startup”. You’re going to go through 2 or 3 pivots and as many refactors, large scale is the last thing you want to optimize for.
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by laurentl 7y ago
And don’t forget this other mainstay of British understatement: I am just going outside and may be some time > I’m committing suicide, don’t wait up for me
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by laurentl 7y ago
Have you seen WeWork’s prices? It’s much more expensive to host a team in WeWork than just about anywhere else (including in your own corporate headquarters). I can understand companies wanting to variabilize office costs, but the first th
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by laurentl 7y ago
The alternative tenants would also presumably rent the building rather than buy it outright. So it would still be opex.
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by laurentl 7y ago
I switched my default search engine in FF to Qwant a few months back. You have to re-learn to formulate clear search queries (no magic pixie dust^H years of browsing history to help it read your mind) but I find that it mostly works.
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by laurentl 7y ago
If you read Zodiac, Anathem and (part of) the Baroque Cycle I assume you’ve read his other books (Cryptonomicon, Diamond Age, Snowcrash...). If not, lucky you! I discovered Stephenson with Anathem and I was hooked. This book doesn’t get a l
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by laurentl 7y ago
> During normal operations, you usually want administrative traffic (e.g. config or executable updates) to be low-priority so it doesn't disrupt production traffic Honest question: is it not best practice to have an isolated, dedica
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by laurentl 7y ago
The mortem ?
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by laurentl 7y ago
> Checklist item 1: Hire an outside security auditing firm to report on the state of this checklist quarterly Security auditing firms cost a lot of money. Money you don’t have when you’re a small startup. Besides, an auditor audits and
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by laurentl 7y ago
It counts as personal data, and as such, under the GDPR you have a duty to handle that data sensibly and responsibly.
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by laurentl 7y ago
No bail-out, but a lot of tough decisions. Selling assets or subsidiaries in some countries, building JVs with erstwhile competitors (EE in the UK, a purchasing JV with Deutsch Telekom, etc). A lot of cost-cutting (Lombard’s number 2 at tha
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by laurentl 7y ago
A large majority of these employees were above 50 and had worked most of their life on the telephone infrastructure (network, last-mile, etc.). In 2004 France’s telephone network was fully mature, there simply wasn’t any more work for them
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by laurentl 7y ago
I worked at France Telecom/Orange from 2004 to 2017. Let me give a bit more context to the situation. 1) as mentioned in the article and comments elsewhere, the majority of employees in FT at that time were civil servants. This meant (
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by laurentl 7y ago
They didn’t look at it as being civil servants, they were civil servants. The last civil service entrance exam in FT was in 1995. The vast majority of employees hired before 1995 were in fact civil servants. When FT was privatized, part o
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by laurentl 7y ago
The French cyber security community has a similar challenge every year: https://www.sstic.org/2019/challenge/ (in French). The challenges usually involve static analysis / disassembly, breaking improperly con
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by laurentl 7y ago
ISTR at least one service (AWS or Google) asking for the first 2 codes after scanning the QR code, probably to sync. So I always assumed simply re-scanning the QR code wouldn’t be enough but maybe it is this simple.
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by laurentl 7y ago
Yes, I lost my Signal conversation history as well and had to be re-added to all group conversations (another PITA). How do you store seed values in password managers? More specifically: how do you export them from Coogle Authenticator? (I’
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by laurentl 7y ago
I had a fright last time I changed phones. After restoring my backup onto the new phone, I was about to wipe the old one; I did a final pass through my apps just in case... and saw that Google Authenticator configuration did not carry over
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by laurentl 7y ago
You say the job is really easy, and your manager rates you a 4/7. Maybe you’re playing the game in easy mode? I.e. doing (well) what’s asked of you but not doing the implicitly expected (finishing tasks earlier than you said you would,
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by laurentl 7y ago
This is basically what the chief of the Paris fire brigade told the news (dumping a load of water on the building would finish destroying it). Add to that the fact that the closest Canadairs are 600 miles away and designed to draw water fro
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by laurentl 7y ago
I just realized this morning that JavaScript is the new Java. js targets the browser (angular, React...), the back-end (node), the desktop (Electron) and mobile (React native). Just like the Java of old with applets, javax, JME, and of cour

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