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by planxty 4y ago
it is tuesday my dudes :P
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by planxty 4y ago
Seeing the same.
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by planxty 5y ago
This was my introduction to drawing. You will not be disappointed. Drawing from Bargue's lithographs will teach you technique, and taste.
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by planxty 5y ago
Look for didactic materials and approaches used by the French Academic painters of the nineteenth century. A good book about the sight-size technique of drawing and painting should be a useful toolset for someone engineering-minded. There a
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by planxty 6y ago
"Easily", not sure that is always easy to do. Is a clever approach to be sure, but to the author's point there could probably be better UX.
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by planxty 6y ago
Of course anyone can look anything up. The point I think the author is making is that the database is better positioned to tell us about potential performance issues. Would be wonderful if we could avoid reading through slow query logs, or
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by planxty 6y ago
This author is spot on. Raise your hand if you've committed the PostgreSQL to memory for looking at the DDL for a table, or identifying slow queries. Too many database management operations require highly specialized knowledge about a
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by planxty 6y ago
Yes, absolutely. I did at 35. Find the aspects of the work you love the most and let them guide you. A bootcamp or similar educational experience should help you ask the right questions at the outset, and will be a significant boost to your
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by planxty 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski
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by planxty 6y ago
No it's been a total fucking nightmare. Take care of yourselves out there! Meditation helps me keep my lid on.
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by planxty 6y ago
Cultural problems are hard to change. If you like your team, one option might be to simply begin testing your own code and ask people to review your work. Don't be overly optimistic, but from time to time the right person can create en
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by planxty 6y ago
Testing is a skill to learn like anything else. Teams that dogmatically apply any new practice or process without making a genuine effort to learn that thing will never extract value from it. If your team can try, fail, and learn from mista
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by planxty 6y ago
I think you have some things to learn, as a manager, and as an engineer.
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by planxty 6y ago
A small step up from the pit of despair we're in should not be confused for meaningful progress, though we should fully expect the Trump administration will soon be releasing misleading self-congratulatory statistics for political gain
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by planxty 6y ago
Forgot to mention: we were not a Rails shop, but I think the kind of code or framework being used isn't the most important challenge here.
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by planxty 6y ago
I worked for a company that did this, and our scale was quite large. It took a lot of work to get AWS to give us more and more databases on RDS. We had some unique challenges with scaling databases to appropriately meet the needs of each ac
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by planxty 6y ago
Cognito has an awful API and worse documentation. It's also super limited in terms of how user metadata is represented, is hard to query efficiently for users meeting certain criteria, and produces super cryptic errors when integration
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by planxty 6y ago
> What a typical 100% Serverless Architecture looks like in AWS Does it look like an unmaintanable untestable mess?
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by planxty 7y ago
Mullet? Check.
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by planxty 7y ago
A gentle beginning is a great thing to shoot for. I would second the recommendation of a Starting Strength program, or something similar, where you can work a clear, well-established path with coaches who are familiar with the principles of
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by planxty 7y ago
An excellent therapist is always a good thing to identify, but excersize can definitely also have a massive impact on self esteem, energy levels, and mood in general. I found that strength training has radically changed my life, and I'
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by planxty 7y ago
A pissing match between two unrelated branches of an enormous org chart has caused monumental waste and discord where I work as a software engineer. My employer is also allergic to open source, even though we are a huge publicly traded soft
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by planxty 7y ago
I suspect the majority of people who claim to disdain SOLID principles are in fact using them every day without realizing it. Seems pretty disturbing that so many engineers are piling on to recommend abandoning adherence to some really basi
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by planxty 8y ago
Test your code, or stay the hell away from me. :)
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by planxty 8y ago
Yes, so good. Martin Fowler's Refactoring is an excellent companion to Feathers' book.
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by planxty 8y ago
Popularize the value of tests. Test, refactor, repeat. 2 years of legacy spaghetti isn't really that bad. I work for a company whose codebase is at least 14 years old in places, and there have only been serious testing efforts for 2-3
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by planxty 9y ago
Awesome, straightforward advice. Why I love HN. Thanks!
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Ask HN: Most secure IP video camera for expecting parents?
1 points by planxty 9y ago|4 comments
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by planxty 9y ago
I would wager they haven't listened to good performances or haven't spent enough time with Bach's music. There's nothing cold about BWV199. Find Gardiner's rendition featuring Magdalena Kozena, it'll knock your
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by planxty 9y ago
The article describes an agnostic man being drawn to faith by Bach's music. I am no Christian, but this is my own experience as well. Douglas Adams is correct.

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