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   by mcfunley 16y ago

   It is a bit of a mystery to me, too, but it's clean. Equal parts office managers, people pitching in, a custodian every night, and my dachshund patrolling the ground for remnants of food.
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   by mcfunley 16y ago

   I am biased but this looks insufferably sterile compared to where I work: http://tycole.blogspot.com/2010/05/etsy-office-in-dumbo-hang...
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   by mcfunley 16y ago

   I agree. I have been at Etsy since the (relatively) early days and despite what the post says the office was pretty much the same, except in a crappier Brooklyn neighborhood. It didn't take more employees or more money to have a great DIY s
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   by mcfunley 16y ago

   We are in the midst of migrating from some vertically partitioned postgres databases (each with a warm standby) into master/master mysql shards. The PG databases weren't SPOF's in the worst sense of the word. They could fail over, but this
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   by mcfunley 16y ago

   Certain details of our (legacy) image system made the batch resize necessary. The explanation would probably be tedious, but maybe Mike will cover it when he rewrites the damn thing.
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   by mcfunley 18y ago

   At an old job, I interviewed a few hundred programmers for Windows jobs. Almost every single MSCP could recite .NET esoterica from the test, but could not write a for loop. I am not exaggerating. Eventually I started screening out MSCP's. T