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by renegade-otter 3y ago
The article literally links to another one that talks about the "emerging type of memory" - from 2012.
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by renegade-otter 3y ago
Didn't we have a thread recently about the dangers of using Let's Encrypt? If on AWS, and if your servers are behind a load balancer, just install a certificate on those. Isn't that a little better?
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by renegade-otter 3y ago
It doesn't have to be excessive - it has to be reasonable. But I agree, outside of the strictly-enforced automation, just let it go and stop going "nitpick!" The less communication between devs during code reviews - the bette
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by renegade-otter 3y ago
"TODO lists will grow and demotivate you" seems to be the theme here. I just recently created a Trello board and I broke it up into the Backlog (that's the big one), and then I have a column for EACH day. I drag no more than
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by renegade-otter 3y ago
Rachel Andrew has a very good 3-part tutorial that helped me actually understand what I am doing: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/01/understanding-css-g... It will take you from a n00b to a Grid pro in no ti
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by renegade-otter 3y ago
I only do UI for business-facing apps and my own projects. CSS Grid massively improved my frustration with CSS. It makes it much easier to reason about how your page layout works. I will never ever do another layout without it, stuck toge
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by renegade-otter 3y ago
In one of the Agile training courses I took we were taught the concept of "horizon of predictability". The base one is two weeks. Within two weeks you more or less can estimate accurately. Beyond the two weeks, the estimates becom
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by renegade-otter 3y ago
I think we went from one extreme to the other. While being an "island in the zone" is super productive, some communication and team work needs to be there to avoid the high bus factor. It's nice when a team member leaves and
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by renegade-otter 3y ago
Musk was already hooked - he just bought the delivery operation because he wanted to mainline the good stuff without risking the dealer flake on him.
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by renegade-otter 3y ago
The Devs is an amazing mini-series, and I think highly underrated (or just unknown) among the nerds. The summary doesn't really give away how big the plot gets.
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by renegade-otter 3y ago
And then what, have everyone sit there all day and hit "refresh"?
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by renegade-otter 3y ago
Totally agree. While it was nice to piggyback on a private company app for a while, the concept has been proven. Mission-critical messages require mission-critical infrastructure. Ukraine, for example, is not using Twitter for this - they u
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by renegade-otter 3y ago
Please do not try to do this while attempting to mirror Elastic Search capabilities. I know what I am talking about. Back in 2000's I was asked to build a search engine. Parsing data from image EXIF information and indexing that into a
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by renegade-otter 3y ago
"Artificial tests produce artificial results".
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by renegade-otter 3y ago
A surprising number of people out there have Trump-like tendencies, but for the most part those were dormant before. Trump blasted onto the scene and showed everyone that it is OK to be horrible. It's actually "manly". People
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by renegade-otter 3y ago
Oh, compute and storage are cheap alright, until they are not. At many jobs I had to deal with the all-hands-on-deck, code red emergency "our AWS bill got too damn high, what can we cut" situation. I can guarantee you a ton of com
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by renegade-otter 3y ago
It's the culture of over-communication. In the last 8 year or so, I have noticed my ability to actually write code had dropped through the floor. Everything has to be discussed to death, reviewed, approved, and go through a release pro
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by renegade-otter 3y ago
That intuitive feel of "what's faster" has been lost ever since computing power exploded. Back when the resources were at a premium, we were just better engineers. Not all of us had the command of Leetcode algorithm problems,
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by renegade-otter 3y ago
Japan is fascinating to me because obviously the culture puts a huge emphasis on traditions. And that is fine. It also seems to me that at some point the fear of not "refreshing" the old ways leads to anachronisms like these. This
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by renegade-otter 3y ago
Depends on your goals. Some people want to take the risk on an off-chance the startup goes supernova, and some are just tired of working for the man. Every time you take someone's money - you get a new boss.
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by renegade-otter 3y ago
Threads are Instagram-compatible. It's literally probably Instagram code, heavily modified. Threads is written in Python, and Instagram is largely a Python monolith.
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by renegade-otter 3y ago
I am almost not able to get anything done during the day anymore. My routine is going to bed super-early, waking up at 2-3AM, and doing deep-focus work then. Of course I have to crash later, but that effectively gives me two "mornings&
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by renegade-otter 3y ago
On more than one occasion I've worked in places where we were asked to be at our tidied up desks because VCs were about to be paraded through the office. Every time there were more of us. Basically, "look at how we are burning thr
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by renegade-otter 3y ago
We already have tunnels under bodies of water! And usually it results in massive bottlenecks at the entrance. Entering NYC from New Jersey, for example, is a nightmare and can result in hours of stop and go before you actually cross the tun
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by renegade-otter 3y ago
I don't think even Elon knows what he wants to do. He bought Twitter out of spite - as he was active there and did not like all the things that were said about him on the platform. This was not a "we are going to Mars" moment