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by palijer 3y ago
If someone sets up an antenna in their backyard to accurately transmit and receive signals 32 billion km away, I'm willing to bet NASA would gladly trade old probes for that scientific breakthrough of the century.
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by palijer 3y ago
I'm not concealing my hatred of this, sorry if I somehow gave that impression. Let me say this clearly then; I hate when people make selfish and reckless decisions that can severely impact the lives of others without their consent. It&
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by palijer 3y ago
The tone of this article is always a bit off to me and I can never figure it out. This seems like some sort of bragging, boasting and I don't understand why that is appropriate. I'm not a car person, I don't have the same dra
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by palijer 3y ago
> The downside of synthetic testing is that it's relatively expensive. Doing it in staging is one thing, and personally as a SRE this is where I'd put it I actually have the exact opposite opinion. It is _because_ synthetic tes
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by palijer 3y ago
> Vendors can change schemas on a dime and the schema you're working with is often the schema as you know it at the time. This is partially negated through aggressive dependency management and languages with type systems and vendor
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by palijer 3y ago
Yeah, it doesn't look like they asked every single individual Canadian what they wanted. But here are the details for what was driving this. https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/fair-re...
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by palijer 3y ago
I switched from being a hardcore PC gamer to Xbox and haven't turned on my gaming PC in the 2 years since I got it. The gain I get is how much easier it is to use. I'm fairly tech savvy, but Windows has been a curse and there&#x2
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by palijer 3y ago
Also crazy how California has over 500% more people incarcerated than Canada with the same population and almost double the poverty rate with a larger economy.
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by palijer 3y ago
Writing detailed technical answers to very bespoke problems, writing and creating art as part of a small internet community. Reddit can be used many ways. Maybe archiving your stuff isn't important to you and that is fine.
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by palijer 3y ago
See this comment here. What sort of skills or experience do you think are missing from these individuals? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35764715
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by palijer 3y ago
While the optimization is cool and an interesting read - it's interesting to call this a "Slack alternative" when there are only a couple similarities between the products in that they have people sending text messages to cha
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by palijer 3y ago
We had an app update rejected because we mentioned an android version of our app in the release notes. What marketing says and what a company does don't need to align anymore sadly.
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by palijer 3y ago
How important is teacher performance for students though? What are we even measuring when something is good/bad for students? Obviously anything akin to directly abusing students would be bad for students, but I imagine we're talk
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by palijer 3y ago
Polished UI saves user time, and when your users are engineers it is definitely put into my calculations when we're looking at these venders versus in house.
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by palijer 4y ago
>After the murder, I had to read scores of comments like this[...] >I had to read scores of tech bros [...] Did you though? I can't recommend enough cutting out reading people's comments that you don't want to read. If
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by palijer 4y ago
I don't seem to understand the "let's take back our data" theme here. If someone builds a frontend website that you use, do you have the right to not have any metrics gathered about how you use their frontend that they b
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by palijer 4y ago
Invisibilia, a show about investigating the hidden side of human behavior - was a ripoff of 99% invisible, a show that focuses on the unseen aspects of design? I think your are confused about one of these shows at least, I don't see th
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by palijer 4y ago
I think that is incredibly farfetched. If you got access to 1,000 random private Github repos, I don't think you could sell them, or otherwise utilize them for anywhere near that value, if anything.
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by palijer 4y ago
>There are billions of dollars of assets flowing through GH's infrastructure Do you mean source code here? I have a hard time believing source code holds that much value.
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by palijer 4y ago
Once when I was working our incoming phone support a tech accidentally added our CEO's office number to the round robin system for incoming support calls. CEO fielded 4 calls before he figured out what happened. No idea if he solved th
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by palijer 4y ago
>It also grows the intellectual souls, exposing people to far more depth of thought. This is a thing that happens to folks who attend school, but I don't think it is the school that causes this to happen. I think this effect is boun
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by palijer 4y ago
Take something from advent of code and change it up a bit seems like a good test
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by palijer 4y ago
We don't have a metric for checking and automatically locking deploys. We just integrate their StatusPage notifications into our channels. Datadog doesn't go down often enough for me invest time in automating locking deploys based
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by palijer 4y ago
I agree they don't add anything and do subtract, but I think it is the lesser of the two evils. I find myself wasting a lot of time refreshing, and force reloading JavaScript on incident updates if they haven't had an update in ho
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by palijer 4y ago
>knowing alerts are down, you can actively monitor using other tools/reporting for the duration of their incident. If you just want notifications for when datadog is down, their StatusPage does a fine job of clearly communicating in
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by palijer 4y ago
In your scenario you would have no logs etc until the DD incident resolved. Opting out would just mean all your missing data alerts fire every time Datadog has an incident and you would then check, see that everything is missing, and then i
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by palijer 4y ago
I don't understand how that is ironic. Doesn't seem like that SLA could be defined as a "low bar" to me honestly, 99.8% in writing is impressive. It's public as well, meaning if you need a better SLA they aren'
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by palijer 4y ago
I think having very infrequent large long outages is the norm here actually. I can't think of any company this size that didn't have some outage of this magnitude at least once. Facebook BGP for instance, Slack in Feb of '22,
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by palijer 4y ago
We have alerts set up that expect metrics for things like "orders placed" to always be happening at expected rates. When datadog has the very rare outage that breaks ingestion, all of our alerts would normally go off because we ar
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by palijer 4y ago
We have "datadog outage" as an abort condition that is checked before any deploys or operations. I highly suggest implementing something like that for things you depend on. If y'all are slinging code you are aware that nothin

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