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by mlhpdx 3y ago
I like this for the “sum is greater than the parts” aesthetic, which keeps the door open to so many applications.
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by mlhpdx 3y ago
That is not what I wrote, and not at all what I meant. A high-pressure "test" is cruel to folks who simply don't test well. Simple as that. Interviews can get at the skills of someone without putting them through that. I can
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by mlhpdx 3y ago
Each company I’ve worked with has attracted a slightly different group of applicants, so I find it easy to believe NL would be different yet. Whenever I start thinking the problem is the candidates I start asking myself “why?”. Why we came
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by mlhpdx 3y ago
I don’t accept the premise that being kind and respectful in an interview leads to underperforming teams. My current team is way, way into the “exceptional” range by common measures (DORA, etc). I don’t characterize what I do as “tests” bec
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by mlhpdx 3y ago
Exactly. At the other end of the spectrum, having a conversation also exposes the “over prepared”. There are some (few) folks that practice leetcode all day, but that doesn’t translate to team fit and on the job value creation. Not being ab
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by mlhpdx 3y ago
I don’t disagree with the sentiment but the tools aren’t the problem, it’s the delivery. A puzzle can might be toxic if it’s a test, but constructive as a gimmick used to explore communication. Likewise for coding exercises. It’s all pretty
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by mlhpdx 3y ago
I would not assume that it is a specific Azure problem from that statement. Many, many teams struggle to take advantage of cloud infrastructure because of habits and knowledge retained for operating the existing systems. It’s possible given
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by mlhpdx 3y ago
The idea of an undo “graph” in memory is something I’ve implemented, and in C++ even, so it was fun to read the article. Couldn’t agree more — once you’ve had it, going back to the linear, often truncated thing most application implement is
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by mlhpdx 3y ago
Playing Devil's advocate, with an eye on the dwindling resources of the planet, perhaps we need a prize for accelerating the rate at which humans mature (including completing education/training/skill development) and shorteni
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X-Prize – Health Aging Made Possible(xprize.org)
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AI for school admissions is high risk(twitter.com)
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by mlhpdx 3y ago
No, but it would add to build time and cost. And generally be one more thing to think about for the designer/builder and we know how that goes.
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by mlhpdx 3y ago
I think most residential homes in the US aren’t the work of architects these days, but designers. The difference being credentials, not diligence/skill. Either way I suspect they aren’t optimizing for living space, but salability and c
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by mlhpdx 3y ago
Yep. This kind of forethought is rare in home design, but magical when present. It doesn’t sell, though (not like the latest color or cabinets do). I put thought into long term maintenance and upgrades for my current house and for the first
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by mlhpdx 3y ago
I have, yes. What’s really important is the way members of the early team compliment each other. We’re all mediocre; some are just more willing to admit it and seek about those with the ability to make us most effective. Looking through the
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by mlhpdx 3y ago
That doesn't sound like an issue with semver (or pragmatic). There is no versioning convention that will prevent people from being people. A rigid, automated (magical) versioning _system_ might do that, but not a convention/stan
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by mlhpdx 3y ago
My approach to inbound-email triggered workflow using SES, which is working great for my needs: https://github.com/mlhpdx/email-delivery It’s industrial strength in some respects, but not for those wanting an e-mail UX
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by mlhpdx 3y ago
It’s more than that. If you spend a couple or more years learning to maintain those systems, where else will you work? Will you find a co-founder or investor for a COBOL based system when you go “entrepreneur”? Maybe, but it better be a dam
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by mlhpdx 3y ago
I learned COBOL from curiosity (never using it professionally) in around 2010. It’s simple enough to read and use, but without having seen these legacy systems I don’t know what I don’t know. This is just one of many examples of organizatio
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by mlhpdx 3y ago
I have to agree this a a great tool. I had low expectations, but I found it easy to use and the AI diagram generator actually worked on my experiments.
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by mlhpdx 3y ago
Nice. This would have been very helpful when I was building an e-discovery document processing engine. Back then we could get text out (OCR, so kind of) but it was a bear to present. Markdown would have been a whole lot easier.
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by mlhpdx 3y ago
My built-in refrigerator was slowly dying. Weak beeping, occasionally power cycling - and getting worse as the days went on. No longer under warranty, and no replacement parts being made. Replacing the fridge would escalate to replacing cab
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by mlhpdx 3y ago
It's a lagging indicator - based on past manufacturing, past purchases, past support practices. This is unescapable, but when I buy cars (and stocks) the past is not a reliable indicator of future performance. It's flawed/bi
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by mlhpdx 3y ago
I hope folks understand what this means - there will be an IEEE standard that makes using Wi-Fi sensing, to some degree, hardware agnostic and thereby drives it into mainstream.
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by mlhpdx 3y ago
I’m perennially baffled by CR’s ratings. They are a lagging indicator at best, and skewed/biased at worst. Does anyone actually use this information any more?
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by mlhpdx 3y ago
Including a secret key in a plaintext configuration file is really not something to do. Alternatives: - use the default local environment variables AWS_* - run it in AWS and use ambient permissions (instance role or execution role) - Use IA
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by mlhpdx 3y ago
> I think it's about escaping local minima? Yes. It’s also been said (not often enough) “if we don’t compete with ourselves someone else will”. Getting out of one’s own head (and repo) is gold. It shows humility and respect as well
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by mlhpdx 3y ago
An argument could be made for calling it “compression of the string encoding”. Since HTTP is string oriented, that makes some sense as an optimization of sorts, perhaps.
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by mlhpdx 3y ago
Exactly as I do as a human when I build such walls (several of them in my life). It’s a very difficult spatial problem to fit the stones into a pretty, stable structure. No doubt something large memories and detailed spatial search on a com
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by mlhpdx 3y ago
One of my favorites.

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