lbriner

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by lbriner 4y ago
The Mythical Man Month might be an object of worship but it was written in 1975 at a time when software engineering was VERY different than today. Most of what today's developers do is not close to castles in the air and much more like
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by lbriner 4y ago
I think this sounds great in theory (and I do agree with you) but depending on how many people you have in the company, you will have sales arguing for one thing, devs arguing for another, product might want another and marketing need the s
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by lbriner 4y ago
It is only fine if you are running your business on the assumption that people can and do leave for different reasons and you plan or adjust for it. A startup I worked in struggled because someone had been given too many shares and then t
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by lbriner 5y ago
It is very doable, we host our own email servers at SmartSurvey and send a relatively high amount of traffic. Depending on your skill/software it might take time for you to test your configuration is setup correctly although there are
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by lbriner 5y ago
I think it's a false economy. At best it is security by obscurity. Google tell you why things are spam and often they even return quite detailed error emails when they don't accept stuff it doesn't benefit an attacker that mu
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by lbriner 5y ago
Definitely annoying when "official" looking stats are not just a bit out of date but sometimes are completely wrong. Then a tonne of the uneducated take these things as gospel and either tout them to their friends or perhaps start
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by lbriner 5y ago
This resonates for many disciplines, even in engineering, I found my college course (pre-University in the UK) to be much more useful than most of what I did at University but there is a mixture of universities wanting the income; some comp
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by lbriner 5y ago
It depends what you want to do and at what level. There are many Makers in the world who don't have and don't need the AoE, it is a tome written a while back before lots of circuits came pre-packaged and which in many cases people
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by lbriner 5y ago
Yeah, it's a pretty hardcore book and would only work for most people after High School unless they are super committed. It is good in that it develops why using transistors as switches doesn't work in many scenarios but then basi
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by lbriner 5y ago
As an electronics teacher, I don't think it is specifically that learning from books is difficult but that it is hard to strike the balance between theory and practice, the high level and the low level. My approach has been to ignore a
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by lbriner 5y ago
You are right but there is something that has to underpin all of this advice and that is openness, honesty and balance. Openness because you should be able to communicate why something might not be possible in unambiguous terms; honesty s
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by lbriner 5y ago
My understanding of the narrative: * Musk approached us and we decided it was the best thing for him to take over and join the board * We have decided that the best way forwards will be for him not to join the board * We have decided that w
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by lbriner 5y ago
I think the best advice is not to take people's advice! Everyone's life, stress tolerance, maturity, health, wisdom etc. is very different. Also, the companies are different: OKTA has a very specific market with a relatively well-
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by lbriner 5y ago
None of us live forever but I think for many people, the ultimate hope is to make a difference, to leave the world slightly better than we found it, to invest our skills into progress and removing some of the evil we find around us. If you
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by lbriner 5y ago
I don't think it's strange that to many people, some service are useful but not always seen as useful enough to commit to X dollars per month, especially if their own use is for free stuff as well. Also, many businesses are not
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by lbriner 5y ago
True but there is also a difference in priority with different package maintainers which isn't always helpful. Why were old features removed from the upstream packages? Probably because upstream either wanted to ditch old/insecure
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by lbriner 5y ago
Isn't this a really common danger for those who want astronomical growth? Most of us would love $100M to spend on stuff but the expectation behind those investments practically begs you to employ far too many of everybody and just assu
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by lbriner 5y ago
So what you mean is, "A Recruiter lied about A position"?
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by lbriner 5y ago
The Recruiter could have left, they could have been told it was Remote and the company changed their minds later, could have been a simple mistake. Why burn a company without knowing the facts?
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by lbriner 5y ago
I thought the same but I guess if your library has 500,000 items, multiple storage locations and 1000s of people that can borrow things, not always with permission and not always recorded correctly, I can see how you wouldn't want to c
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by lbriner 5y ago
This is true! What I have learned is only to plan for the next order of magnitude from a sensible starting point. If you are creating a new e.g. AirBnB, you will need a minimim viable performance, let's say 1000 users at a time on the
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by lbriner 5y ago
That isn't really the counter-argument to the OP. Their examples were all about large complexity for the gain in throughput. Clearly, having HA and reliable transport is reasonable for your use-case but that isn't the same as micr
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by lbriner 5y ago
I have obviously missed something but what is the main objection to Musk being part of Twitter's board?
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by lbriner 5y ago
This is pretty sweet! There isn't enough information about larger/heavier but greener battery technology that would be suitable for grid/home storage without the environmental costs associated with the rare earth stuff needed
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by lbriner 5y ago
I thought ICANN can forcibly transfer a domain that is not being used to another entity who can prove a legitimate need for it? That was supposed to end a lot of domain squatting, especially since web addresses are kind of crucial to modern
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by lbriner 5y ago
> We're not, not really. We are, by definition down to single factor if you store the codes in the password vault. The argument wasn't that therefore the system is weak, it is just that the point of having a second/third f
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by lbriner 5y ago
The way I read that is, if you have a staging environment, it is someone else's job to test things before they deploy (Product Manager etc.) which allows them to merge it and forget it. I agree if it is the dev's job then it would
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by lbriner 5y ago
I think it's great that more companies are open about what they are doing for security. It makes it sound like they are confident in their abilities unlike other people who are nervous to mention things like "We use Octopus"
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by lbriner 5y ago
You also have to ask at what cost to maintain the backup system and how easy it is to test the Disaster Recovery process. If once in a while, you have a few hours delay (or in this extreme case, a whole day) you might ask if it would be wor
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by lbriner 5y ago
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