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by markbnj 10y ago
Reasons to use Uber: - I take out my phone, enter an address, and five minutes later a car picks me up. - I take out my phone, enter a time and an address and right at that time a car arrives and picks me up. It isn't that complicated.
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Well you do need to be a little bit of a programmer. You have loops in there, and evaluating properties of objects, etc. Interesting idea and it looks like you've done a nice job of it.
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Like the author I've also been running Docker in production since early 2015. Given the 'HFTGuy' part of his email address I'll guess I don't do anything nearly as edgy as he has to do on a daily basis, so it would
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[raises hand] SRE, not going to post the name of the company but its a distributed org and former YC alumni company. It's only been a few months but I am very happy there so far, and the process that resulted from reading their post he
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I've been working remotely for ten years and I also strongly agree. In a remote-only company you're a team member like any other. When the org simply "tolerates" remote work there is always the sense that you're the
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I understand your attitude a bit. I have 25 years of experience, and I admit to harboring a little bit of frustration when all that is just shoveled to the side and they start treating me like I have to prove I know what programming is. If
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Most of my colleagues on our SRE/devops team have Lenovos and swear by them. I have a System76 and I wish I could recommend it. Great system software packaging, decent mainboard and display, horrible keyboard, touchpad and case quality
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Almost certainly, but I might also let the person know, discretely and in careful language, depending on how close our relationship is.
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I'm not going to get into a debate in the comment thread, but I will respond to you. You should try not to be so reactionary. I am neither cheerleading for the U.S.A. nor condemning Sweden. What I am saying is that the U.S. spans a con
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When you say "citizens of the US" you're talking about a continent that would take roughly five days to cross at highway speed, driving ten hours a day. You may as well say "citizens of Europe." If you haven't
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To the other responses I'll add that very often the right model is to compose containers within a system, not processes within a container. Most of the OP's concerns in this area stem from the basic misconception that containers a
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How many people here are old enough to have seen "Crack in the World?" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059065/
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Same thing in chrome, and the performance of the page is pretty horrible. It's frozen the whole browser a couple of times forcing me to close the window.
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Yep, agreed. I'm 56 and an SRE at a YC alumni company where I work on platform and tools. I have very few peers my age and I agree dilution is responsible for a lot of that. I started in '87 and didn't really know anyone loca
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Absolutely true for me as well. Often what feels on the outside like procrastination is, I think, just providing idle time for my brain to work out a way forward.
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If I were going to engage in the same sort of wide-eyed speculation the author of the piece is happy to deploy then I would say he's looking at the wrong level. The DNA contains instructions for growing a brain; the structure of the br
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>> But Spolsky played down those surveys, saying programmers have “a desire to use the latest, cool new thing” and tend to move on from programming quickly, so that their ranks are filled by “new kids showing up with newfangled thing
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Organizations seek out formulaic ways of qualifying candidates because actually assessing an individual's talent and personality takes time and effort, and is a significant investment. The pressure to streamline the process grows as th
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by markbnj 10y ago
As a working developer and SRE at 55 years of age I can't help being just a little amused at the author. I guess you really _are_ as old as you feel. The points about the competence cycle over the span of a career are dead on, of cours
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That was a really amazing video. Thanks for sharing.
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Am I the only one surprised by the gap between GIMP and Photoshop in calculating the surface blur example?
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I'm afraid I can't agree with this either. There are tons of jobs, including software development, that put this sort of strain on a person but don't compensate like a CEO. My wife is a registered nurse, and that's anoth
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Being a physician or attorney confers additional compensation in the form of social status and prestige which I think it's fair to say we don't get by virtue of working on code. I also think that as a general rule there is a fairl
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This is pretty interesting stuff, but a 10GB base image? Granted its a base and you don't have to push it often, but in my experience pull times to container hosts end up being a big part of overall deployment cycle time, and pulling 1
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by markbnj 10y ago
I love pieces like this that explore the underpinnings of why we experience music the way we do. I'm a self-taught guitar player and its only now, in my 50's with the kids more or less grown and a lot more time, that I have starte
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I'm working at my third startup, and money has never been close to the top of the list when deciding. First, I'm old enough and experienced enough to be skeptical about the pot of gold at the end of whatever. Second, my time is fa
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Swagger UI seems to do a pretty decent job. The thing I like about swagger is you create one canonical description of your API and model and then generate postman collections, API docs, and client/server stubs all from the same source.
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Heh, I applied for and landed a position on the SRE team of a youngish startup that is almost entirely remote. I'm 55 and there is one other guy in his 40's I think who works out of Northern Cal. Other than him I'm 20 years o
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>> I still can't wrap my head around the fact that we have developers who work on .NET and have never touched either WinForms or WebForms. >> And I am relatively young. I still can't wrap my head around the fact that w
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The general idea of transforming a data stream into something that can be sensed and can form impressions the way music or video does is very interesting. Netflix has done some recent work on a tool called Flux for visualizing their very co

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