manyxcxi

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by manyxcxi 9y ago
I'm in complete agreement, but to add to the thought of "Hire the best..." as lazy, I think it's just incorrect. The best what? If you're talking about a software development team, are you hiring the best software d
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by manyxcxi 9y ago
Do you have a citation for that? I've not heard of this and I follow the issue relatively closely. I also find gun death stats pretty widely available and broken down to pretty small geographical areas from various governmental (not ne
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by manyxcxi 9y ago
A project I lead at least ten years ago was all about moving a company away from a COBOL based system- huge piles of money were an option and the timeline was in the 3-5 year range, and still everyone (myself included) thought there were be
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by manyxcxi 9y ago
Oregon State '05, they were charging $60 for the Kinko's packets for my various math and engineering classes. The best was the $150 I had to pay for a 'pre-print' loosely bound CS 'textbook' that one of my prof
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
I went the opposite way. I started out writing few liner bash scripts that just basically wrapped my perl script with proper environment vars, args, etc. and do all the heavy lifting in Perl. It also happens that my dad was a a build engine
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
> Additionally, people may just be 'wired differently'... That leads back to my statement about not judging them per se. I can't ever imagine work/business related stuff, or even just general stress leading me to tear
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
I think it's a huge character builder. You realize that some people are outright assholes and the most annoying thing you can do to them is keep your cool and kill them with kindness. Others are actually stupid, but most are just uninf
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
My first 'real' job in HS I worked in the warehouse at Circuit City as seasonal staff (getting ready for the holidays) in 1998/99. 5am Saturday truck unloads, snotty people pissed that you can't fit a 32" CRT in the
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
I've got this weird place in my mind for electronic music. I listen to it in the background nearly 9 hours a day while working. I've got a pretty huge collection on Spotify and a well-tuned Pandora channel. Generally up-beat, few
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
I don't know about people actually believing they have more intrinsic value because they make more than minimum wage, I just think the problems comes from a few areas: - They were/are getting treated like shit and are transferring
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
Maybe it's Google advertising Sesame Street advertising Google Earth? I've worked on a few projects like this before and it's really hard to not wind up cringing at the vast majority of the ideas. To me, this seems pretty meh
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
I've found myself getting much better at making testing changes in such a way they can be hotswapped, then batching them up into a change when it's necessary to do a JVM restart. Sometimes I impress myself with how long I can go w
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
A lot of projects my team did at my last company were of the "You've got 2 or 3 weeks to build this awesome thing for a launch event that will have a crushing wave of usage for about 3-7 days". It was really fun work, because
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
If I start with the presupposition that Mr. McCarthy is an intelligent and broadly knowledgeable individual (given his corpus of work I think it's a safe place to start), I can chalk it up to one of two things: 1. It's a device to
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
Love it or not, at least Python has uWSGI, which certainly helps keep things running through errors, and gives you more robust logging at a higher level, etc. if you lose your Node process it's just poof with no guarantees you'll
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
Honestly, because I'm pretty good w/ Node (or just JS in general) and haven't invested the time to get good w/ Groovy or Clojure at this point. I've only just played around with Clojure and I've written a middl
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
You nailed it. Three major things I care about for my application: - Logging - Metrics/Instrumentation/Tracing (memory usage, transactional performance monitoring, etc) - Surviving exceptions All of these are either very immature
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
IntelliJ is an awesome IDE, but it's not necessary. Part of it is Kotlin as well though, that's definitely as immature (as in age and mindshare, not attitude) of an ecosystem as there is with Java. The thing with Java is the amoun
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
You know what isn't as quick? Websockets, non-trivial asynchronous code, boilerplate, and build times. The vast majority of my company is built on Java and we're not encumbered by legacy code, so we get to play with all the new st
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
I've got over a decade of professional experience in C#, Python, and Java. I'd consider myself a Java developer before all else, yet I still turn to Node.js for proof of concept projects because certain things are just quicker to
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
I use docker every day, but I'm not committing patches to their source. The docker folks use Go to build their product and core libraries, but I wonder how much of their ops functionality is written in Go. I use Linux binaries in every
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
I guess I just naturally skipped over Python because I use it for many things- it just didn't stick out in my brain as a tool I use when solving Ops problems, but I certainly do. That being said, Python isn't necessarily available
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
Why are Go and C top five for DevOps? There's also no explanation as to why they're 'top' of anything. I've never once written a line of Go or C to help me with an ops problem, but I'll tell you what I sure hav
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
I work with and know plenty of people who groan at the idea of an all USB-C primary MBP for getting work done that swap phones and other hardware quite frequently. Also, it's not just about being totally USB-C w/ the MBP: - Loss o
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
And basically heaven on Earth when you're stuck in Schipol (Amsterdam) over night in a snow storm, all planes are grounded, all the in-airport hotel rooms are booked, the first four hotels you lookup are booked solid, and your only oth
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
My point is that I'm the exact demographic of people who should be getting hit by "random" searches and I've got the volume of travel where it should be happening to me somewhat frequently if it is a widespread issue tha
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
I was into hiking and camping at a young age (Boy Scouts, friends who's parents did it) but my parents weren't what you'd call outdoorsy. We were good for about one or two family camping trips a year. I'd saved up some c
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
That's a good point, I do enjoy road trips for the purpose of a road trip. I usually take two or three on my motorcycle every summer. But if I'm just trying to get somewhere (work, family for the holidays, etc.) I'd be happie
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
Man, I'm not sure if your home airport is not very good, you don't travel that often, or if you just have a higher base level of anxiety or what- but any drive over 4 hours and I'm on the lookout to see if I can fly there. I
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
There is a simple beauty to finding the best solution you can given the constraints of the system, and often that's the garbage pile that is the old codebase. The simple truth is that for every greenfield project we get in life, there&

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