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by mmt 8y ago
Indeed, the title is startingly misleading, but it's par for the course. It seems that "Engineer", in the context of hiring, for anything YC-sponsored, means programmer. Even "Work at a Startup" was (and likely stil
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by mmt 8y ago
> Running a postgres HA is hell How does Jenkins HA compare? I've only ever used it in the internal/build scenario, never in production.
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by mmt 8y ago
> The filesystem is a shitty database. Thought we’d all learned that by now. How dare you :) "The" filesystem is a great database.. for certain applications. Big, binary blobs of video, store, and even index, particularly well!
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by mmt 8y ago
I think what you're describing may be a batch sceduling system, such as PBS or LFS. Those seem to be rarer, since the legitimate use case for a distributed system (what used to be called "grid computing") were rare. Nowadays,
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by mmt 8y ago
> I understand some of the systemd criticism, but I don't at all understand why you want something else to manage your processes than the process management system (which is basically always the init system)? Perhaps you don't
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by mmt 8y ago
> It's ironic considering that syslog is not standardized. I don't find any irony there, at all, since it's reflective of the history of Unix, and consistent with the OC's "like a zillion ways to get telemetry ou
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by mmt 8y ago
> I guess if the benchmark looses money, and they loose less they get to take a % of something? But they you are paying them for having lost money? Seems odd. I don't see a problem with it. This scenario, like negative interest rate
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by mmt 8y ago
> A lot of the initial work is done as a "virtual" company with no lab. After that stage, if a true "wet lab" is necessary, one of the perceived barriers may be, especially for the majority of modern software professi
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by mmt 8y ago
> I think you have troubles understanding the concept because it's too remote from what you are accustomed too. Oh, I understand the concept. It's government regulation of behavior with the intent of protecting the public. I&#x
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by mmt 8y ago
> Am I unusual, or is this an absurdly high electric bill? You're unusual. Or, rather, her bill is high, though not absurdly so, especially if it includes more than just the per-kWh charge (e.g. a fixed/per-meter charge or even
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by mmt 8y ago
And that page says the average for Virginia is... 11.64c/kWh. I'd say the OC's mistake ends up being incidental.
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by mmt 8y ago
> The only monopoly is the power cable. That there, is enough, though. It's not as if you could choose not to pay for that portion and pay only for the energy. As such, the rate could go up without bound. (Well, bounded by competi
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by mmt 8y ago
> ways to get telemetry out, the original one is syslog, where jobs can send messages that get collected over the network The re-invention of this one is one of my pet peeves, especially since the vast majority of the (legitimate) compla
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by mmt 8y ago
Indeed, I couldn't help but think the title was clickbait, once I read that part of the article. The charts toward the start suggest the penalty maximums are 15% + 25% (the article mentions a 100% penalty which was avoided). That would
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PostgreSQL vs. MS SQL Server (2014)(pg-versus-ms.com)
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by mmt 8y ago
> high-tier datacenters How many people (even tech ops profesionals), these days, know how to tell the difference? Of those that do, how many don't just keep their mouth shut because their bosses don't want to hear it? These de
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by mmt 8y ago
> If any is not in good conditions, it's written down. Having thoght about my own process, I realized that, even if all the relevant details are exhaustively documented in writing (which would be a huge waste of time/money), wh
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by mmt 8y ago
> But you also have the turn around time to actual get the physical boxes and you can’t run experiments as easily. That's a false dichotomy. There's nothing saying that, when one has physical infrastructure, that one cannot al
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by mmt 8y ago
You say you're not worried about over-paying, but you mention the opinion/want of the engineer twice. If you're truly not worried, just figure out the most generous compensation on the market (e.g. consultant rates, what FA
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by mmt 8y ago
A "handful" that accounts for a significant proportion of the general population of the US, and... what proportion of tech jobs?
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by mmt 8y ago
> Not if they were hired with that qualification in mind. That's a big "if". That's why I said "typically". I think you'd find it difficult, if not impossible, to hire someone like that, even though the
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by mmt 8y ago
> my lab, which is just a bunch of people with laptops. OK, so it's something akin to Wikipedia's description of "dry lab". > The situation I'm dreaming of, is, for example, it not being my problem when a grad
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by mmt 8y ago
> Is it hard to get a car inspected in the US? That depends on the definition of "inspected". > recent inspection certificate What information is provided? Are there any details, or just that it passed inspection successfull
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by mmt 8y ago
> there is some "law" here that I can't quite formulate about how developers can't recognize skills above their own level. Perhaps you're trying to reformulate/restate the "Blub paradox" [1]? [1]
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by mmt 8y ago
> 0) All companies are now software companies. See https://blogs.thomsonreuters.com/answerson/all-companies-are... Technology != software. This is a distinction that I've found the vast majority of software pe
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by mmt 8y ago
> Then again it’s also super easy to take a used car to get it checked out, but nobody does that either. Neither of these assertions is true. The second one is easily falsified (even not being pedantic about "nobody"), as evide
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by mmt 8y ago
> helped mentor their developers This is typically missing from startup culture. Anecdotally, mentorship improves everyone involved, but I don't know if there's data out there showing if engineering mentorship within a startup
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15 Companies from the YC Summer 2018 Batch(blog.ycombinator.com)
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9 Companies from the YC Summer 2018 Batch(blog.ycombinator.com)
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6 Companies from the YC Summer 2018 Batch(blog.ycombinator.com)
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