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by manv1 4y ago
One thing to remember that's surprisingly important is to understand how the upstream people are using your data. The shape of data in your datastore should match what upstream the consumers need. The more it matches their use cases th
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by manv1 4y ago
IoT stuff is the easiest stuff to understand when it comes to high-volume data processing because it's a wide problem (ie: you have a whole lot of devices sending data continuously) instead of a deep problem (you have a few sources sen
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by manv1 4y ago
Yeah, that's the downside to learning about end-users. But it's better to know than to be ignorant, usually.
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by manv1 4y ago
Yes!
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by manv1 4y ago
Agreed. It's fun and frustrating how ridiculously hard it is to measure and mark wood for cutting consistently. I've been off by 1mm because I accidentally cut on the left side of the mark instead of the right side of the mark. Or
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by manv1 4y ago
The industry is full of "the next big things" that now only exist on archive.org.
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by manv1 4y ago
In general, what's worked for me in the past is to have someone do a shared state update every 15 minutes or so (pick the appropriate time interval here). It should be done by a senior person (or people), and they have to understand ei
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by manv1 4y ago
All developers should spend time working in support. That time will make them appreciate the incredible power and utility that documentation provides to everyone...including your future self.
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by manv1 4y ago
You could say that about any piece of technology, including the Internet. I mean fuck, the internet is in your home! It's like letting every basement dwelling pervert peek into a keyhole in your basement!
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by manv1 4y ago
Really, the first question you should be asking the people who interviewed you is "Given your evaluation, what areas do you guys think I need to work on?" If you're in a big company you can then go off and get training etc. T
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by manv1 4y ago
You need to understand the problem, understand what you're trying to do, and understand how this abstract solution maps to your problem. Then you have to implement it.
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by manv1 4y ago
10x is about management skills, not technical skills. Catmull's team did it with Disney Animation - they took low performers and made them high performers with a better process. However, you have to start with a process that works. Doe
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by manv1 4y ago
The walls of my parent's house are plaster, and it's impossible to find anyone who can repair them. OTOH their walls are completely smooth, which is aesthetically pleasing. When we build our house they had an option for "smoo
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by manv1 4y ago
The press and the rest of the chattering industry is so full of shit that it's amazing they can taste anything. Today doesn't matter. Tomorrow is what matters. If you read the press Apple would be in bankruptcy, Intel would be uns
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by manv1 4y ago
HL7 is't technically an academic file format, it's an industry standard interchange format for health data. DICOM is for radiology. RDF and SGML, well, they're from the same era as XML, so yeah.
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by manv1 4y ago
Obama would be personally liable for drone strikes that were done under his authority. Would you be OK with that? In any case, it's unclear if the US even has jurisdiction. The crime happened on Saudi territory in Turkey, and MBS has s
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by manv1 4y ago
It was a fight between DiskPaper and PDF. PDF won because the tools were better and it was cross-platform. And PDF is a subset of PostScript, the product that made Adobe and the DTP industry. It's janky because the goal was to render i
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by manv1 4y ago
PDF is a subset of Postscript, which is a full-blown programming language disguised as a page description language. People who think of the format as "adversarial" are wrong. Adobe never gave a shit about being adversarial in that
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by manv1 4y ago
You can include binary data in PDF files, so it's not necessarily ASCII.
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by manv1 4y ago
CORBA was interesting, but the authorization side really strangled it. I worked with Tivoli back in the day, which was pretty much the largest production CORBA application in existence. CORBA allowed them to be super flexible when implement
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by manv1 4y ago
Yeah, I can see that happening. There are combinations of roles etc that might hit the limit. Do you remember what was failing? That would give some insight into how these get evaluated. I know that S3 does evaluation differently than the o
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by manv1 4y ago
The problem in most other countries isn't PBA cards, it's bribes, either solicited by or offered to the police. So this is really not that big of an issue in the grand scheme of things. I mean, cops usually get free coffee and sna
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by manv1 4y ago
Realistically speaking, she probably had no idea what was happening to her money. That's why she pays professionals to handle it. It's like blaming her for a compromise on her website. Do you think she has any idea that her wordpr
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by manv1 4y ago
Election integrity is more about the people running the election, not the method in which the votes are tallied. That's both a strength and weakness of the system. The less people in the process, the easier it is for someone to manipul
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by manv1 4y ago
This is one example of the CEO making something happen that essentially birthed AWS. Bezos, of all people, was like "make it happen." And it did. It was basically work for no reason except future proofing. Having someone up the fo
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by manv1 4y ago
When you're young you need to work in a restaurant because restaurants a hub of booze, drugs, parties, and people. New to a city? Work in a restaurant. And if it's a good place the money is pretty good.
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by manv1 4y ago
Why haven't they IPO'd already?
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by manv1 4y ago
In general, you adapt to the excel owner's quirks, not vice versa. If you don't like it you should create an excel sheet of your own and copy/paste, which people also do. I knew a project manager who's job seemed to be r
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by manv1 4y ago
Yes. Badly designed is an opinion. It works for them and matches their thought process, ergo it's perfectly designed for their workflow.
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by manv1 4y ago
You probably got hit with whatever they're calling iTunes Match now.

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