pnathan

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by pnathan 4y ago
> having to prove they know things in an industry where a lot of people don't know things. The number of people I have interviewed who have been unable to code fibonacci or fizzbuzz, even the number of people with "senior"
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by pnathan 4y ago
Conversations allow smooth talkers to run a snow job on you. Having a work sample test provides a best-in-class hiring filter.
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by pnathan 4y ago
would you like a take-home or would you like a whiteboard session? I need to have useful information that a candidate is more than a smooth talker.
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by pnathan 4y ago
Same. The Coway is very quiet, and it works rather well, as measured by the Dylos particle counter elsewhere in the room.
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by pnathan 4y ago
Counternarrative: I live a few blocks from a grocery store, with kid, and frankly, I don't mind it at all. Maybe kid does. But it's nice to be able to just walk there and not worry about parking, loading, etc. Looking to move to a
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by pnathan 4y ago
I love Chris' writing. He seems to be more of a "regular guy", not a "writer", and it comes through in his work.
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by pnathan 4y ago
I do have to agree that Twitter is either (1) basically perfected or (2) coasting. I also might suggest that the buyout offer has prompted some very hard thinking internally and strategic changes.
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by pnathan 4y ago
> They’re looking for solutions — preferably quick ones — and not a week’s worth of study. welp, there's your problem. sophisticated tools require study and care, not a quick hack.
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by pnathan 4y ago
> The only thing the article adds is a critique of a Tik-tok sub-culture. Color me shocked that this is not a particularly enlightened group - but I guess this is the kind of hard-hitting "journalism" popular Substacks were mad
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by pnathan 4y ago
I'm friends with someone who has clinical DID. It is, as near as I can tell, not induced by media, etc, but by extreme and profound trauma. > The people who have traditionally been treated for DID have suffered, greatly, and not in
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by pnathan 5y ago
p4 was known to handle large binary blobs well, vs most of the other vcss.
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by pnathan 5y ago
These sorts of issues are why I moved my personal systems over to Kubernetes years ago for infra, and for code I focus on language ecosystesm with longer horizons. very sad, but, also, yeah. :-/
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by pnathan 5y ago
As a buyer, I don't even know if I can find actual small seller goods anymore. its all existing shops having another sales channel. Sometimes horrible quality trinkets from industrial shops. The unique value proposition of etsy is almo
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by pnathan 5y ago
yes. I've done Aws, Azure, Google. My basic impression, as a software engineer/site reliability engineer, is that Google >> AWS >> Azure. This relates to sophistication of offering and design of cloud. The dominant que
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by pnathan 5y ago
http://pnathan.com personal blog, etc. haven't really done much for a few years, I've been attending to work and family more. its actually built out of a common lisp system that fully embraces code/data paradigm,
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by pnathan 5y ago
that was my basic impression. I drove an '89? Izuzu and a '85? Mitsubishi as my first two cars in the mid '00s; they were pretty "just works" too, barring some repairs. Nothing this crotchety. I now drive a '21
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by pnathan 5y ago
I always enjoy your work, @leeny. I remember quite a few years ago you were working as a recruiter and I liked working with you then, although we didn't wind up with a placement for me. Best wishes!
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by pnathan 5y ago
common lisp is like that.
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by pnathan 5y ago
a revolutionary project moving forward would be a quality gopher browser with a gopher extension for forms, along with a gopherd. the basic problem is fragmentation and assembling a community of interest.
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by pnathan 5y ago
This might be pedantic, but DevOps originated in the idea that ops and devs needed to work very closely together to deliver capabilities. It _then_ turned into a role "cloud sysadmin" and then lately seems to be "build engine
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by pnathan 5y ago
What's really interesting is that I've run into a lot of sysadmins who can't/don't code; its a continual surprise to me. Writing Perl to manage a system was just part of the deal back when (dating myself now. :) ).
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by pnathan 5y ago
I run a kubernetes cluster on GKE for my dynamic tools, and host some other stuff on S3. Eventually I'll get all over to the big G. I got very tired of the VPS/ec2 node "hassle". Too much grief, too little payoff. What d
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by pnathan 5y ago
I would note that every single company I've had in the last 8 years has essentially been replacing sysadmins with infra-knowledgable programmers working with AWS services (who might have been sysadmins in a past life). No one in the en
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by pnathan 5y ago
> Having actually spent a lot of time wandering around outside in the international district in early 2020, I can say that the current trajectory absolutely didn't start around/after the summer unrest. I will absolutely back
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by pnathan 5y ago
that's a pretty common perspective here.
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by pnathan 5y ago
I've lived in Seattle since 2014, with a short break living in Tacoma. For most of that time, I've wandered downtown. I like the high-crowd energy. 3rd and Pike/Pine has been a bad location for this entire time. I am given
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by pnathan 5y ago
If I had to go into the office there, I'd, very genteely, indicate the high volume of recruiters in my inbox that did not require going to 3rd and Pike , and work from that.
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by pnathan 5y ago
I live about 1-2 miles from this specific location (this specific office building everyone's talking about), with my wife and kid. The hot spot is, about roughly, 9 blocks. The boundaries are slightly amorphous as seasons change. It i
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by pnathan 5y ago
It's very frustrating trying to get good information about education. My kid is going into kindergarten this fall, and... its very hard to understand what is a good district and what's not. There's a thousand metrics, most s
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by pnathan 5y ago
Condolences to Mr. Nadella & family. When my son was born, he had experienced symmetric intra-uterine growth restriction; something that seems like Zain Nadella experienced as well. It was clear looking at the photos in the NICU and mee

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