orestes910

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by orestes910 7y ago
This is weird thought where your solution to the problem is just "have the people on the team be better." The entire phenomena exists because people that see how important these things are end up on teams led by and staffed by peo
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by orestes910 7y ago
The lack of parties and happy hours is music to my ears, personally. I can't stand these events, and they often work in the service of this strange social construct that we all know and love - "culture." At some point sociali
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by orestes910 7y ago
Someone else can find the source, but Netflix themselves have stated that the lions share of viewing on their platform is aimed at TV shows, so it doesn't surprise me that they haven't invested in quality (and expensive) movies. W
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by orestes910 8y ago
Can anyone help me understand why we're even performing studies like this anymore? It would seem that all these years of "x can cause cancer" studies have just revealed that we generally know very little about what causes can
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by orestes910 8y ago
I think it comes down to performance measurement being a really weak area for many companies. No one really knows whats real when it comes to output over a 40 hour week, and so bosses are afraid of getting shafted by an employee whom they c
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by orestes910 8y ago
I'm glad someone else mentioned it. Thought it might just be my imagination.
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by orestes910 8y ago
A friend of mine is making thousands per month simply selling notification bot subscriptions to people who run private discords. His don't even buy, they just send stock notifications to the rooms. Madness.
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by orestes910 8y ago
As someone who used Percona in production, its fantastic for a small/medium workload, (depending on your definition of those) but it has pretty hard limits on scaling without an intermediate layer, which then mostly defeats its purpose
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by orestes910 8y ago
That is actually a really solid point. I still don't know that it's necessarily the right way, but I'd certainly rather those scripts be tested!
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by orestes910 8y ago
Outside of the scope of elaborate CI pipelines, I wonder how useful this can really be. Big CI pipelines are one of the few instances where I can think of Bash being both an appropriate choice AND the resulting product being large, elaborat
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by orestes910 8y ago
My first guess would be that power consumption drove those decisions.
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by orestes910 8y ago
I also liked how "risk taking" was in the toxic group, while "courage" was seen as a positive. Right alongside "leadership". So, be courageous and lead, but don't do things that require courage or put you
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by orestes910 8y ago
Is it really THAT hard to to run on prem/cloud because of the "complexity that comes with setting up and managing MongoDB clusters at scale"? The documentation is strong, it was built with horizontal scalability in mind. I do
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by orestes910 8y ago
Upon looking around in the demo repo, this seems like so close to pure Python that I almost don't see the point. A Terraform for config management sounds grand, but this just seems like a collection of Python classes.
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by orestes910 8y ago
While the network bit is valid, it implies that networking in smaller areas can't still have the same impact in cost adjusted terms, meaning that while your lifetime earnings may be 20% lower, if you're living in an area with 20%
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by orestes910 10y ago
Because tech lies at a difficult crossroads between the applied and the theoretic. You build a building, you have an architect, and engineer, a foreman, etc. With applications, you have to be all of them at once. That just isn't whats
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by orestes910 10y ago
Inexorable is absolutely the right word here. Give people a way to live beyond their means and they will take it pretty much every time.
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by orestes910 10y ago
Can you help me understand this statement better? Why should we do that? I may sound like I'm playing dumb, but I'm really struggling to see whats compelling about this in its current state aside from the fact that its one tool as
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by orestes910 10y ago
Condos can be dangerous. One second you're enjoying your nice condo, the next you're paying your $15k share of the repair cost of the buildings elevator. The invest in something more diversified talk sounds like the ramblings of s
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by orestes910 10y ago
Quantify hard work and "grit" into a unit of measurement - call it a wK. Mitt Romney's sons simply don't need the same amount of wKs to be hedge fund managers as a black kid born in west Baltimore. The kid from Baltimore
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by orestes910 10y ago
Still the closest I've come is Zimbra + zpush. Zimbra isn't fantastic, but it covers a lot. zpush is for the mobile part, and allows to you to connect to Zimbra as if it were an exchange server.
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by orestes910 10y ago
Forgive my ignorance here, but what is he referring to when he says "Magic Systems" and "ML"?
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by orestes910 10y ago
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia
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by orestes910 11y ago
While pricey, the Hue Tap seems to be a good middle ground. Its powered by the press of the button itself, so no wiring needs to take place. Pair, stick it onto a wall, and then you have 3 light switches ready to go.
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by orestes910 11y ago
An appropriately academic look at the problem. Ignore all the reasons its done the way it is and scream "We should this because physics!"
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by orestes910 11y ago
I'm still struggling to get on board with this. It seems to just favor speed above all else. I found the linked article at http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/11/modern-static-websit... to be a bit more hel
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by orestes910 11y ago
I really like that Netflix is constantly open about how their systems are run. In terms of raw throughput not a lot of companies can hold a candle to them, so its cool to see how the big players do things.
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by orestes910 11y ago
I think he's being diplomatic in not bringing up another reason for meetings. Some people make their career around them, especially management. When it comes to decision making, most team sizes simply don't produce enough decision