ritmatter

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by ritmatter 4y ago
I like the idea of moving away from the hard/soft delineation and towards a more qualitative description of each skill. The focus on bucketing into just two things distracts from the differences between all of the things. I also think,
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by ritmatter 4y ago
This is exactly right. It is definitely possible that the email protocol could be as open as what I'm describing, but that has not functionally been my experience anywhere.
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by ritmatter 4y ago
It's definitely possible that in my post I conflate openness coming from Slack vs coming from my company's culture. Maybe the openness I'm describing would persist with many different apps, as long as the company fosters that
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Open Messaging Improves Engineering Quality(mattritter.me)
39 points by ritmatter 4y ago|11 comments
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by ritmatter 4y ago
Excited to see this launch! I think there is a lot of opportunity for a terminal that is aware of the fact that the one-computer-per-dev model is not really how it works anymore. That, and a terminal that can help me avoid big mistakes, hel
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Consequences Create Complexity(mattritter.me)
1 points by ritmatter 5y ago|0 comments
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by ritmatter 5y ago
This site seems like a great example of how the EU forces productive folks to jump through all kinds of regulatory hoops. Hopefully it’ll help them navigate the complex legislation.
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by ritmatter 5y ago
Using 2FA with LastPass (Google Authenticator) makes me feel a lot better about the security. Even if my password were compromised, it would still be hard for an attacker to get access to my LastPass account. Note that 2FA with SMS is much
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DIY Coinbase Portfolio Metrics with AWS(mattritter.me)
2 points by ritmatter 5y ago|0 comments
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by ritmatter 5y ago
In the post there is actually a graph showing that Transaction Logs filled the database in just 6 days (11/24 through 11/30). This doesn't add up to ~100 GB if we assume that each event takes up 16MB of space, but maybe each
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by ritmatter 5y ago
Thanks, I didn't know that. Why do you think the Debezium docs call out this behavior specifically for RDS ( https://debezium.io/documentation/reference/stable/connector... )? I'm wondering if there i
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Postgres, Kafka, and a mysterious 100 GB(mattritter.me)
105 points by ritmatter 5y ago|22 comments
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by ritmatter 5y ago
Why are paper authors able to also act as reviewers? This seems to be a big part of the problem. Is there a lack of topical experts?
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by ritmatter 5y ago
Serious question: why are paper authors allowed to be reviewers at all? That seems like the main logistical issue in this review process.
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by ritmatter 6y ago
+1, my university's program seemed to work well with "program anything" (Python), "program with objects" (Java), "program some cool lower-level stuff" (C)
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Generating Rock Climbing Route Descriptions with ML (GPT-2)(mattritter.me)
2 points by ritmatter 6y ago|0 comments
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Simulating Distributed System Consensus in JS(mattritter.me)
2 points by ritmatter 8y ago|0 comments
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by ritmatter 10y ago
I'm interested in taking a look at this assignment for my own learning, but it looks like there are a bunch of files you need. It would be cool if you put them in a git repo!
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Unit Testing Express Routes with Mongoose and Jasmine(mattritter.me)
1 points by ritmatter 11y ago|0 comments
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Is Pop Music Getting Less Intelligent?(mattritter.me)
30 points by ritmatter 11y ago|66 comments
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Play with all your Google searches since 2007(github.com)
4 points by ritmatter 11y ago|0 comments
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by ritmatter 12y ago
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