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by laurentl 8y ago
A few pointers from our own experience: - centralized logs (we tried an ELK stack and have moved to Datadog since they added logging). Using a correlation ID helps tracking the flow as it crosses Lambda / services boundaries - using da
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I agree that it’s (mostly ?) about signaling. I mentioned the junior web dev profiles because it happened a few weeks ago and because this is precisely a situation (lots of candidates, little to no priors to judge on, similar profiles &#x2F
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by laurentl 8y ago
https://tylertringas.com/selling-my-bootstrapped-saas-busine... Might contain a few useful tidbits. What most stuck with me from his pieces on microSaas is that the best time to sell is when you don’t have to - which impli
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by laurentl 8y ago
If you're a (junior) front-end developer, then use the website to show off your skills. In other words make it responsive, accessible, use js libraries _when it makes sense to do so_, maybe some visual bling (background effects, scroll
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by laurentl 8y ago
The Chappe telegraph was also used to communicate information such as harvest results and the price of commodities. Knowing before anyone else if the harvest was good or if the price of a commodity dropped was a surefire way to corner the m
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by laurentl 8y ago
Not only that, but in The Count of Monte-Cristo, the hero subverts a Chappe telegraph to send a fake message to Paris to undo his nemesis. Sound familiar ? (although in the original story, the fake message causes a run on the stock exchange
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by laurentl 8y ago
The way you write "artificial-intelligence" with an hyphen drives me up the wall, if that helps.
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I was totally going to give you a dopamine hit but I don't have enough karma to downvote :( Maybe if people like this comment enough ? (/s, if you must ask)
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Most of the CS tracks I've seen recently (and even back in my days) have an "introduction to C/Linux" module which requires writing common command line tools, starting easy and gradually ramping up to a basic shell, a we
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by laurentl 8y ago
Let me chime in with my perspective. (TL;DR : I can see the use for the lazy or otherwise-occupied developer who already knows vue and needs to dabble in mobile dev) I'm the CTO of a start-up whose core product is a set of APIs. We hav
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by laurentl 8y ago
From your answer, I get the feeling that you need a manager more than you need a mentor. In particular: * if you don't really know what you should/could be working on but are feeling frustrated with your daily routine, you should
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by laurentl 8y ago
Thanks! I'd also add the advice from lostphilosopher: write down the glitches, gotchas, obscure URLs, etc. and make a kick-ass onboarding cheat sheet for the next recruit (who might just be someone joining your team ;)
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by laurentl 8y ago
What follows is my usual way of working and/or the type of behavior I appreciate when onboarding someone in my team. YMMV. 1) You're going to have plenty of questions, and a lot of the stuff you'll see / hear / read
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by laurentl 8y ago
On a thread about stories you found interesting but lost, a story about reading even if you forget. How very meta
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by laurentl 8y ago
In addition to the other suggestions in the thread: * meta: learn to know yourself if you don’t already. It’s half the battle. I took an MBTI course that was tremendously helpful; well-done career counseling can also help in that it can mak
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by laurentl 8y ago
> They have just given up knowing how to setup and configure physical servers. Or they know how complex and error-prone it can be, and decided to spend their time on other things. It’s good to know how that stuff works, how to configure
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by laurentl 8y ago
The entire set-up (the numbers in the boxes) is a permutation. In other words, it’s a function s that maps bijectively from [0, n-1] to [0, n-1], or to put it more simply: for each i in [0, n-1] there is exactly one value j such that s(j) =
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by laurentl 8y ago
I don't agree with the paragraph on databases, unless there is an implicit assumption that you're migrating an existing database. - dismissing DynamoDB unless you're doing "just key/value pairs" is IMO too redu
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by laurentl 8y ago
Console to figure out a new service (it’s a quick way to see all the different configuration options). CLI for some actions not supported by the console. Then once we’ve figured out how we want to use the service, we script the deployment w
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by laurentl 8y ago
> Are you able to create reusable modules in CloudFormation? Not out of the box but Cloudformation templates (jinja2) + Ansible works really well.
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by laurentl 8y ago
I recently finished an executive MBA at a top European B-school. To echo some of the comments, it was overall way easier than my initial studies (eng school), with some exceptions such as a brutal strategy assignment. There was also a sense
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by laurentl 8y ago
Would you care to point out any argument in your little tant, so that it can be refuted?
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Well in this particular example, I would argue that a team manager with honest-to-goodness managerial tasks(1-on-1s with members of the team, discussing personal issues, doing evaluations and negotiating bonus & compensation, etc.) is e
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Change in job or responsibilities, when offices are allocated based on status or job description. E.g you’re a manager so you rate an office, and you move to product manager and suddenly the rules say you should be in an open space. Or spa
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by laurentl 8y ago
I’m currently re-reading Seveneves, and will probably tuck into Cryptonomicon (for the third time) in the next few months. Neal Stephenson’s books are rich enough that I usually get a different vibe from them when I read them again. For ins
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by laurentl 9y ago
And, to paraphrase another poster, be a honey badger about it. "And then what happened? And then? Why did you do it this way? Why did that fail? Why did <cause of failure> happen?" until you get to the bottom of the story or
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by laurentl 9y ago
You can do all of your use cases with serverless, as guitarbill and others have explained. My approach is: when starting from scratch, start with serverless, and only when you hit its limits (I haven’t yet) go back to VMs. The rationale is
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by laurentl 9y ago
It could have been more evident with Random Capitalization and effecting the utilization of grandiose Vocabulary... but on second thought that would just make it harder to distinguish from the original crackpots.
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by laurentl 9y ago
While on the subjects of glasses and monitors, what are your thoughts on blue light filters in glasses?
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by laurentl 9y ago
This, plus a few other comments from the thread. Candidates get better offer and renege all the time; it sucks but that’s business, most hiring managers will suck it up. You’re young, you have your entire career in front of you, now’s the

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