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by msluyter 6y ago
Curious about whether Salesforce represents a single point of failure. If it goes down or is unavailable, what impact does that have on the rest of the organization?
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by msluyter 6y ago
Re: point 2. I'm not necessarily advocating it, but one advantage of doing work outside of SQL is testability. Esp. unit tests. It's still relatively difficult to test SQL, for a variety of reason. I'm working with dbt now, w
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by msluyter 7y ago
A debate is a distributed way of thinking. This is a beautiful way of putting it, but IME rarely do actual debates actually rise to this level. Typically, they just amp up our confirmation biases and cause people to dig in. I've had
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by msluyter 7y ago
I'd be curious to know the root cause(s) of their outages. I presume they're using Kafka as an event bus, based on their Faust library[1]: Faust is a stream processing library, porting the ideas from Kafka Streams to Python
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by msluyter 7y ago
OKRs are orthogonal to Scrum True... I wasn't clear about that, but I was including it as another of these extrinsic goals.
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by msluyter 7y ago
Level -1 reminds me some companies I've known, except s/CMM/scrum/g, which leads me to a theory[1] about scrum that's formed in my mind that I haven't heard articulated elsewhere -- I'd be curious to hear
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by msluyter 7y ago
Slightly orthogonal to the original point, but worth noting that operators can also increase confusion when they don't interact with each other in expected ways. For example, in Python, 'x += y' isn't equivalent to &#x27
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by msluyter 7y ago
Here's my submission to the "thing that solved my RSI but which is purely subjective and may or may not work for you" category: I used to try to type with my arms/elbows floating -- not resting on anything. This seems to
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by msluyter 7y ago
Yeah, I agree about HackerRank's UI. When I was using it I think I just used PyCharm and then cut & pasted my solutions.
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by msluyter 7y ago
I worked at a company for a while that had a pretty good take on this, IMHO. First, the take home test was relevant to the sort of work one might actually do in a reasonable time frame. (Read a csv input file, hit an api per record in the c
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by msluyter 7y ago
Weird, I've never had any problems on this front, so I'm guessing it's the latter. I use All-Clad non-stick pans.
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by msluyter 7y ago
I've learned the most and gotten the most bang for the buck from using Cook's Illustrated special edition magazines. For example, Skillet Dinners1[1], my copy of which is well worn. The writeups that go with the recipes really hel
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by msluyter 7y ago
Well, not really saying it's bad in a moral sense or making a value judgement (though it does tend to be "bad" from a usability perspective), just noting what I've observed. And it applies even to things that aren't
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by msluyter 7y ago
I call this the dismal equilibrium . Anything free that provides value is, in brute economic terms, mis-priced. Thus, it tends to degrade due to attempts at monetization until a balance is reached between its inherent value and the pain on
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by msluyter 7y ago
Check out my comment re: learning spikes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21763789 Having an actual story to back the learning process might help making employees feel more comfortable with it.
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by msluyter 7y ago
When I was a dev lead I came up with the concept called a "learning spike," where a developer would pick a focused topic to dive into for a set period of time[1] and then do a short[2] presentation of learnings to the entire team.
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by msluyter 7y ago
I love finding good command line replacements for UIs. One I've grown to rely on a lot these days is awslogs: https://github.com/jorgebastida/awslogs Which allows you to stream Cloudwatch logs via a command like:
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by msluyter 7y ago
I'm not saying lock in doesn't exist. But I can't really envision how you would design a full cloud offering without vendor lock in of some sort? I believe this is what Rackspace was attempting a while ago -- leveraging Ope
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by msluyter 7y ago
This is all incredibly fascinating, but was anyone else's first thought "geez, look at those incredibly uncomfortable chairs/desks. How did they manage?"
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by msluyter 7y ago
I find this interesting. Your point would align with the thread a while ago about the giant kubernetes function ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18772873 ). I have a theory that SRP is the driver behind a lot of this, a
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by msluyter 7y ago
It helps to have a sharply defined goal. At a previous job, I mentored someone in a support role who wanted to move into a dev position. (They were also highly motivated, which was helpful.) Our meetings largely focused on preparing for the
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by msluyter 7y ago
It sounds like you're calculating a running average. Have you looked into window functions? I think they do exactly what you need. Something roughly like: SELECT AVG(stats.val) OVER(ORDER BY stats.date ROWS BETWEEN 5 PR
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by msluyter 7y ago
My variant on this tends to go: "It looks like this <code block/method/module> will cause XYZ to happen. Is that what you intended?" Simple example (Python): def foo(x): print(x.lower()) "If
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by msluyter 7y ago
In the java OrderService example, the author writes: "Second, we can now pass in different implementations of our dependencies when executing in test3. This is very good, but let me rephrase that in more general terms: the values assoc
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by msluyter 7y ago
This seems to be an elaboration/rediscovery/variant of something Scott Adams[1] said a while ago: https://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/car... Decent advice, imho. [1] Note, this
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by msluyter 7y ago
I've used Anki for a while, but never very consistently or effectively until recently. Over the past year, I've started doing the following: 1. Stopped trying to categorize cards and just create them all in a single deck (with tag
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I Recommend My Clients Not Use KSQL and Kafka Streams(jesse-anderson.com)
17 points by msluyter 7y ago|2 comments
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by msluyter 7y ago
AKA, Chesterson's Fence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence
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by msluyter 7y ago
Though not entirely with OSS libraries, there was a guy who did the "development without arms/hands" side of this back in 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWyMA_bT7UI It used the windows version of Drago
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by msluyter 7y ago
I try to minimize not total driving time, but something I call "agony" (term borrowed from Hipmunk). So, I'll take meandering side streets over a stop-and-go highway if it means I'm moving most of the time, even if the t

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