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by rufius 4y ago
On the contrary, I mostly get spam from yahoo and gmail addresses. Microsoft is pretty rare for me to see in spam.
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by rufius 4y ago
ECS/Fargate for long lived things. Lambdas for short lived things.
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by rufius 4y ago
Back it up and wipe it clean.
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by rufius 4y ago
No. If you see them show up at your company, run. It will be hell. My mother, a nurse for 40 years, knows first hand what a bunch of consultants know about patient care
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by rufius 4y ago
> CNBC spoke to a former advertising executive who said that even though TikTok is a Chinese-owned business, it has a recruiting edge over Meta because it is viewed as having less of a “moral downside.” I actually view the moral downside
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by rufius 4y ago
I had this observation the other day with the HN post about Mr. Beast. Never heard of that guy before that article. That said, if the internet is at least in part a reflection of humanity’s interests, this isn’t surprising. I’m confident th
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by rufius 4y ago
Most systems that are connected to the grid require it by local code from what I've read. When the city did the inspection on my system after the contractor finished up installation, one of the things they checked is that it was on an
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by rufius 4y ago
As always, don’t use google for anything you care about. News at 5.
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by rufius 4y ago
This is the first time I've heard of Mr. Beast. Seems I haven't been missing a thing.
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by rufius 4y ago
This world - the one you exist in right now. I say that as someone that wrote C++ for 10 years before moving to Rust. Rust was by far easier. That said - that’s an extremely biased statement and I recognize that. I think it was largely the
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by rufius 4y ago
Scala the language is fine. Not my favorite - it’s a little conceptually big for my taste but that’s a preference thing. Scala the ecosystem was never fun though. I can’t decide if it’s worse than JavaScript (NPM upgrade hell sucks hard).
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by rufius 4y ago
The other thing people don’t often talk of is PM2.5 inside their home while cooking. Lot of people have poor ventilation or insufficient air movement capacity in their kitchens.
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by rufius 4y ago
Bob has either outgrown that company or needs a vast increase of scope. If scope increase, figure out how to coach him because it won’t click initially. That said, if I were his manager I’d be trying to help him find an opportunity outside
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by rufius 4y ago
Lack of autonomy and lack of clear goals. I’ve quit one job over both of those. Almost quit my current one but then got a lot more clarity after a couple of raw 1:1’s. Was good in the end. Going to see how it shakes out.
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by rufius 4y ago
The thing most folks don’t realize is that Computer Science isn’t Software Engineering. They’re related but distinct. Software Engineering is a lot of the day to day work you do as software engineer. It’s more about people, process, executi
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by rufius 4y ago
The goals don’t need to be minute and fine grained. They could be as simple as “onboard 20 new customers by December 15”. From there, you build whatever is necessary to capture 20 new customers.
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by rufius 4y ago
Generally, everyone should have clear goals - use OKR’s if you want for this. If the goals are clear and time bound, then execution be straightforward enough. The trick is what to do if things don’t go according to plan. I generally ask my
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by rufius 4y ago
see also: the theory of mimetic desire[0] [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimetic_theory
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by rufius 4y ago
I wouldn’t use it. Not interested in outsourcing my identity to another entity - at least not with social login features. But I’m a minority in that regard.
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by rufius 4y ago
I find all the modern chat apps to be this way.
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by rufius 4y ago
If you trust them enough to work on your product at such a crucial time, then you should trust them enough to give them full transparency. Siloing info rarely benefits anyone. At best it builds incompetence and distrust (lack of full pictur
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by rufius 4y ago
Those aren’t the skills that would matter if you’re maximizing financial pay off. Staff Engineer skills are where your payoff are. Hard truth - most programming problems can be solved with most languages with varying degrees of optimal. But
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by rufius 4y ago
I think about it a lot. A portion of my job has been either optimizing big systems or building very minimally invasive software that has to process a lot of data. It’s akin to tuning a sports car. You can slap a big engine in a car, but the
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by rufius 4y ago
In general, our industry lacks a sense of "mechanical sympathy"[0]. Whether it's understanding what knobs are tunable in an operating system or using streams for reading data to keep a consistent memory profile, we often don&
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by rufius 4y ago
CardDAV on Fastmail. Migrated Microsoft and Google accounts to it several years back and cleaned them up in an afternoon.
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by rufius 4y ago
Basically all money is our money, jointly. We consult each other on purchases over ~$500, but otherwise don't worry too much. We are in the minority of both being in tech, however she has maintained a job at a large tech company for up
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by rufius 4y ago
That’s not what the parent comment implied. It implied any tech career required this. I grant you a developer advocate would need to do this.
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by rufius 4y ago
I’ve avoided work events basically my entire career and have not had issues with career advancement or development. I reject the idea that they’re somehow mandatory in tech. Many of my friends have similar experiences.
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by rufius 4y ago
Google Cloud is the Clown Shoes offering amongst major providers. I’d much rather bet my business on DigitalOcean or Vultr before I ever touched Google Cloud.
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by rufius 4y ago
Golang is my default for REST API’s. I may swap that to elixir for certain use cases. That said, being able to use pprof to debug and the single binary deployment makes life really easy.

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