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by rufius 7y ago
SRE + On Call Dev Engineer. Basically SRE takes the page - if they can't troubleshoot it or restore it to normal service, then the on call engineer gets called. In our case, we're still small enough that one on call engineer has t
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by rufius 7y ago
In our case, teams don't own projects/code-bases, they own "features" and "releases". About 67% of our code is some form of Ruby - some of it Rails, some of it custom Ruby code running in Kubernetes+Docker proc
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by rufius 8y ago
In my experience, sometime's SDE Manager == Distinguished Engineer. That said - the few DE's I've gotten to work that I most appreciated were particularly invasive when dealing with management. That is, they would weigh in an
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by rufius 8y ago
I'm using it for an not-yet released product. Roughly 30k lines of code running on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Mostly high volume event processing and parsing. Been a lot of fun to work with. Having spent 10 years doing C++ professional
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by rufius 8y ago
So... what's the monetization strategy? A lot of things you'd expect to see charged for in a smaller service like this are things you're saying are free forever. No details needed - I'm just curious at how you plan to su
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by rufius 8y ago
Things 3 app shared with my wife. Group things by category and most things end up there. This is also supplemented by copious use of notepads.
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by rufius 8y ago
Some quick notes... Corporate Benefits: - While a lot of folks look at bureaucracy as a huge drawback, in retrospect, I learned a lot about how to influence people and trying to see all sides of an argument. - In some cases, it can be freei
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by rufius 8y ago
Conversely, I took the opposite leap from a relatively successful corporate career to startup. I’ve learned a huge amount and appreciated the opportunities and flexibility I have. I think experiences in both worlds are valuable and wouldn’t
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by rufius 8y ago
For me, trying to force focus never really works. My standard is to take a long walk if I find my mind wandering a lot. Alternatively, if I can’t focus on a particular task, I’ll work on something else for a while.
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by rufius 8y ago
I learned to brew many years ago and have always liked this book: How To Brew: Everything You Need to Know to Brew Great Beer Every Time https://www.amazon.com/dp/1938469356/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_JTFx... This book is
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by rufius 8y ago
Neat workflow. I use a conceptually similar system though it’s proprietary (DEVONthink). Drop pdfs or websites or bookmarks in the inbox and burn through them and decide if I want to archive it in the database. I’ve enjoyed having access to
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by rufius 8y ago
I’d contend you should set aside time to have fun at all ages.
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by rufius 8y ago
This is sort of a sideways answer... I wrote some D code for a bit and I enjoyed it. The FFI story is solid and that made interop nice. That said, GC may be a concern for timing sensitive code. That said, since Rust hit 1.0 and the language
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by rufius 8y ago
I’m reminded of this tweet from Morgan Housel a few days ago: https://twitter.com/morganhousel/status/997461370584133632?s... “Mortgage rates are rising, which pushes home prices down. But rates are rising because
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by rufius 8y ago
Anecdotally from my own use cases, I’ve found Go to be good for problems easily made parallel. This is especially true for things that commonly fall under “microservices.” On the other hand, for more intensive work, I’ve found it doesn’t pe
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by rufius 8y ago
Data Janitoring is America’s Hottest Job FTFY.
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by rufius 8y ago
Async event pipeline written in Rust running on endpoint machines for telemetry collection. Also working on rewriting some web components from Ruby to Rust for performance (and cost) improvements. It’s been a fun few months and I am super p
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by rufius 9y ago
While there are ways to get around the paywall, the Economist is probably one of the few publications I’d say is absolutely worth paying for. That said - a lot of folks have access to sites like NYT and WSJ through work.
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by rufius 9y ago
2016 MBP 15” for home. 2017 MBP 15” for work. Pretty happy with both overall. Meets my battery life, perf, and size requirements. For work, I spend most of my time in VMWare Fusion developing in Windows right. Eventually that’ll shift to de
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by rufius 9y ago
Seems like it’s time to decide for yourself? I don’t spend much time or thought on what others have to say about which tech is the best for X/YEverything. I just learn it use it, and then make up my mind.
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by rufius 9y ago
I used to have a lot of consternation for not having a side project. Then I realized that most of the side projects I saw people pushing seemed like solutions in search of problems to me. Overall - it’s a mindset thing for me. I think we ha
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by rufius 9y ago
This is a non-answer but in reality - not a damn thing. Been working really hard lately so it’s time to recharge and read a couple books.
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by rufius 9y ago
Cover letters are largely a waste of time UNLESS you come for a notably unusual background. For example - you have a PhD in Sociology and looking to get a job as a software engineer. General rules for resumes - no more than 10 years experie
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by rufius 9y ago
One monitor - reduce distractions that weren’t ever really helping. Paper/physical books - reduce distractions and interaction friction from medium in reading on. Taking notebooks to meetings and when I’m out. This helps especially whe
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by rufius 9y ago
The tool chain there is still quite irritating and “old school”. At least for me, part of the attraction of Rust is the development tools around the language itself (e.g. cargo).
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by rufius 9y ago
I don’t. In the excellent words of Ron Swanson (Parks and Rec): “Never half ass two things. Whole ass one thing.”
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by rufius 9y ago
Chuck Moore
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by rufius 9y ago
For my own toy compilers/interpreters, I basically always hand-roll my parsers. The only exception to that is when the purpose of building the compiler in the first place is to use a library like Parsec or FParsec. That said - many lan
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by rufius 9y ago
If your income permits, I highly recommend getting a personal trainer. It's probably the best decision I ever made for my personal health. I knew that if I didn't have a monetary consequence and someone holding me accountable, I&#
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by rufius 9y ago
Writing code has many analogs to writing prose. If you were writing a letter and you only used small sentences, it'd be irritating to read and probably difficult to follow. Rather than dogmatically applying "no small functions&quo

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