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by pbalau 4y ago
This is because most people insist on not acknowledging that running your own datacenter will involve "mundane" tasks as "sourcing bolts on a Sunday before Thanks Giving". For a great deal of the people I spoke to, &quot
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by pbalau 4y ago
Before I've left fb, early 2018, loc/code review did not matter. Around 2016, there was a push to switch to management from within the engs. This did not go that well. After, since the company kept growing and there was a real n
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by pbalau 4y ago
> I'd rather have a $20 bill than $20,000 of Monopoly money All currencies we use are smoke and mirrors. The difference is that that $20 bill is backed by well armed US Marines and an crypto currency is not
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by pbalau 4y ago
There is no tool in the world that will make you good at something you don't know. If you allow me a story, I sail on a kind of boat, called a squib. For the foresail, eg the sail that is in front of the mast, it has the regular sheets
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by pbalau 5y ago
> Aside, the fact that it took almost 4 months to remediate all accounts is crazy. AWS and cloud in general was supposed to make it dumb easy to upgrade, patch and maintain infra software in production. Easy doesn't mean fast.
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by pbalau 5y ago
Not sure why you got downvoted. The problem is with your deploy system. You can consider each of the clusters to be a service. Thus, a change in Service A (cluster A), should not trigger a deployment of Service B (cluster B). My pipeline is
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by pbalau 5y ago
For multi repo I will need to build automation to manage all the repos and enforce a consistent experience across them, including syncing the repos, if we end up using stuff like submodules. And I need to do this now. We tried to "trus
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by pbalau 5y ago
What you see in that picture is mostly routing. Effects, eq are handled on separate devices, for each channel/group of channels.
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by pbalau 5y ago
> It introduces tons of new stuff (like hacking, cyberware gear, scanning, brain dances, etc...) that makes it a programming challenge. I'm sorry, but as a software dev with some hobby experience in game development, I disagree with
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by pbalau 5y ago
TIL I can replace my battery. And one thing led to another and now I added some more life to my space key. yay
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by pbalau 5y ago
If you point a dns entry to an ip and later someone takes control of that ip, guess what happens... This is a YOU problem, not a GitHub problem. Talking about dilettantes in the tech world...
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by pbalau 5y ago
Did you learn how to make apps and games OR did you learn how to use J2ME? If the first, then there should not be a problem moving to a different tech. If the later, you are a bit screwed. My comment is not pointed at you, is pointed at wha
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by pbalau 5y ago
I am 40 this year and next year will be 20 since my first paid job. I am more than confident that I'll be all right in 10 years time. I did desktop apps with Delphi, all kinds of websites with php/mysql/jquery, worked on a me
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by pbalau 5y ago
I'm not sure about the first part of the solution. Why isn't it enough for the "post process" consumer to wait for events on a "persisted events" topic? And have snuba copy there a message only after it was p
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by pbalau 5y ago
> Doubt it lasts a year among most of us Wonder if anyone else plays it anymore.
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by pbalau 5y ago
If I ride a bike from work to home, my fat ass will be terrible unhappy. If I ride a horse, the horse would be. I could drive, but driving in London is not fun. Luckily, there is a decent public transport system that fits my needs. The poin
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by pbalau 5y ago
To be honest, the tech world is full of dilettantes with too much free time.
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by pbalau 5y ago
Wouldn't riding a horse prevent that car crash?
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by pbalau 5y ago
This is an interesting reply, but very much off topic. The GP asked, and I quote: > Why is Microsoft having problems finding designers that use and know both? and you totally failed to answer that.
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by pbalau 5y ago
Thinking like this both baffles me, but also makes me happy because there will always be a need for people like me, infra. AWS is not a magical tool that will replace your infra team, it is a magical tool that will allow your infra team to
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by pbalau 5y ago
Random note, but the only way to tack is into the wind. Not sure how this expression came to be, but if the nose of your boat goes into the wind, this is a tack. If your boat's ass goes into the wind, this is a gybe.
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by pbalau 5y ago
When I was younger, my parents got me a dual cassette/radio thing. Every Saturday, there was a show on a Romanian Radio 3, called Top 100. They would play 100 songs, in reverse order, from about 10pm all the way to early hours. I spent
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by pbalau 5y ago
> My understanding is that since the Cambridge Analytical issue, Facebook now manages all its data access in-house That was the case since, at least, I joined FB via an ad-tech acquisition, mid 2010s. We had a feature that allowed custom
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by pbalau 5y ago
The echo chamber needs thicker walls.
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by pbalau 5y ago
Take a look at most "show hn" posts, exactly the same issue. Looks like there is a group of people here that feel the need to self promote at any possible opportunity, from look at me I wrote this to look at me I also know about t
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by pbalau 5y ago
There is no mention in the article about these people being engineers. These people were fired "to address allegations of sexual harassment and other misconduct". These are the bad guys. And finally, there isn't that much ove
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by pbalau 5y ago
Well, if I am going somewhere and this IS the reason you are going to find me in a means of public transport, I really don't feel the need to entertain you. And the tube is mostly loud, so no reasonable way to have a conversation. If w
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by pbalau 5y ago
You are arguing that all Visa cards in UK are credit cards. My DEBIT card is Visa. So is my credit card. Both from HSBC.
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by pbalau 5y ago
> If you’re a foreigner, congratulations – you’re probably the loudest person on their often (voluntarily) silent public transport. I have this feeling that this is not a Finish thing, but a rest-of-the-world-apart-US, thing. In my ~40 y
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by pbalau 5y ago
My HSBC Debit card is Visa.

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