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Redis Turns 10 – How it started with a single post on Hacker News(redislabs.com)
855 points by mrburton 8y ago|215 comments
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by mrburton 8y ago
If you don't mind me asking, how old are you? It sounds like you're basically "freaking out". First off, take a step back and recalibrate yourself. I'll share some advice that works but sounds crazy. 1. Start waking
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by mrburton 8y ago
I think this is something most people struggle with. In my personal opinion, when I find it hard to explain things it's often related to one of the following: 1. I honestly don't know it as well as I think. This is a hard pill to
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by mrburton 8y ago
I think what you're doing is comparing medical vs layman usage. A doctor will tell his patient they have a "broken arm" due to past experiences in speaking with patients using medical terms. e.g, fracture or distal radius fra
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by mrburton 8y ago
Just imagine a doctor telling you what ICD code you have. There's nothing wrong with classification and labeling things. I think society is getting a little carried away with such topics. Personally, I think it's a phase that coll
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Ask HN: What's the Most Interesting Article You Read This Week?
14 points by mrburton 8y ago|7 comments
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by mrburton 8y ago
The problem with this article, it talks about years of experience vs. actual experience. The title is relevant when properly defined. Senior Engineers have the following traits. - Self-motivated - They need a little direction on knowing wha
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by mrburton 8y ago
Recruiting firms don't publish the company name to avoid any legal issues with the content about the particular job. There's a great deal of legal concerns recruiters need to be mindful of when posting. e.g, anything that can be c
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by mrburton 8y ago
There's also legal reasons why they don't advertise the company names. There's so much engineers don't know about recruiting. I'm an engineer and spent a lot of time talking to 100's of recruiters to understand
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by mrburton 8y ago
Sure, I can compile a list of books. I'll do that later this week. You can email me at my username + gmail. I'll also post it on HN.
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by mrburton 8y ago
We do - that's how Kafka Registry knows what schema to apply for the Avro message. If you like, you can ping me at my username + gmail and I can answer any other questions about what you're doing.
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by mrburton 8y ago
We're using Avro + Kafka's Registry. We try to append to our messages to keep backwards compatibility. That being said, there are things we intentionally do to ensure we can support this. e.g, Allow for nullable properties. We pas
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by mrburton 8y ago
1. Building Evolutionary Architectures - A great book for those looking to build an IT department that can meet the business needs of today and create an organizational mindset that allows you to still be nimble and evolve to meet future de
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by mrburton 8y ago
This is exactly what TDD came about. It was designed to help you a) write code that you need and b) tests that validate the code does what it's suppose to do. In terms of the latter, you can boil it down to two aspects. a) Does the cod
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by mrburton 8y ago
Question: Is this something you think you'd subscribe to as a service and pay annually? I was considering building out a series of videos on how to be an effective programmer based on my experience After being a consultant for over 10
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by mrburton 8y ago
Who makes the money? The scientists who publish the papers? It reminds me a lot of how software development use to be "back in the day".
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by mrburton 8y ago
I can't say I ever had fear of learning something new. I really enjoy learning. I suspect you don't have a fear of learning, but a fear of how people might perceive you during the phase of learning? Don't get me wrong, I also
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Ask HN: What would be the ideal tech job board you would use?
2 points by mrburton 8y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Why are a lot of research papers behind paywalls?
3 points by mrburton 8y ago|4 comments
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by mrburton 8y ago
Care to support this with your example of something you done?
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by mrburton 8y ago
I actually appreciate this question for multiple reasons. Earlier in my career, I was praised for creating highly flexible solutions that could be easily customized. As a result, you can become conditioned to overengineer a solution. Here&#
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Ask HN: How did you go from idea to product to first 100 customers
20 points by mrburton 8y ago|6 comments
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Google asks Supreme Court to overrule disastrous ruling on API copyrights(arstechnica.com)
1 points by mrburton 8y ago|0 comments
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by mrburton 8y ago
The customer doesn't care about the code - they care about how the system functions. The code could look like shit, but if it "works" that's all they care about. There's a difference between how the code looks and h
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by mrburton 8y ago
It's simple - stop trying to right prefect code because it doesn't exist. Next, go sell it. Building a company means creating a balance and from what I hear, it's one sided; software development. Get people using it. Get peop
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Ask HN: If you're a CTO, how would you describe your role?
2 points by mrburton 8y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How do you store application configuration information?
2 points by mrburton 8y ago|1 comments
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Apple Watch 4's ECG feature is rolling out today(engadget.com)
2 points by mrburton 8y ago|0 comments
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How an Echo Device Could Locate Snaps, Claps, and Taps(developer.amazon.com)
1 points by mrburton 8y ago|0 comments
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by mrburton 8y ago
Are you based in Mountain View? If so, feel free to email me - my username at gmail. I've been building a course on helping people think like an engineer and I would be happy to help you change how you think when it comes to coding. I

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