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by ryanpers 14y ago
This is a pretty typical answer I've gotten from various people. First off, no one should ever (a) be using SVN EVER and (b) be checking out in production as a way to get code there. So you said "use yum/apt to ensure software packages are
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by ryanpers 14y ago
NT = neurotypical, standard lingo in "aspy" forums. You're probably pretty normal. Expect eye contact and all. On a technical note, it's not clear to me how you KNOW that chef or puppet has solved your system state problem. Now if its li
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by ryanpers 14y ago
One of the biggest problems as I noted in a different comment is that chef doesnt solve _software_ deployment. Configuration management and "best effort file pushes" is not really appropriate for running a website. Sure you could do somet
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by ryanpers 14y ago
leaky abstractions. It's important, but there is also a cargo cultism of asking questions in this certain way that is imitated in form only from how people envision google demands their engineers.
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by ryanpers 14y ago
bad interview process... but they are correct in the sense that chef and puppet solve problems, but that problem is NOT software and clustered software deployment. You could hack it on top of it sure, but it'd be more straight forward to b
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by ryanpers 14y ago
source code management is way beyond 'a computer utility', but since you brought it up, here are some other computer utilities: - dd - bash - find Most of those require quite a bit of time to master. Now, moving past that, git isn't merely
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by ryanpers 14y ago
Accumulo is so similar to HBase, that its major feature sets is merely an application that can be implemented on top of HBase.
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by ryanpers 14y ago
Interesting article, but its only skin deep... The larger issues are down the road, it's where the engineers and the sophomore programmers are separated.
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by ryanpers 14y ago
its the futex() call that is bugged, so therefore things that are highly multi-threaded... for example mysql and java! Many unix things are not as multithreaded as those examples.
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by ryanpers 14y ago
my account got suspended for 24 hours. its very bad. no recourse is the biggest problem. I had 2 phase auth turned on, dont spam, etc, etc. google = an algorithm stomping on a human face.. forever!
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by ryanpers 14y ago
Scala is quite complex, not just the base language, but the standard libraries, the ability to comprehend code by just looking at the lines (implicits!), and the eventual full implications of features as carried out to the logical conclusio
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by ryanpers 15y ago
I believe in team building over lunch, but free food is a terrible attractant and retention item. People who are intrinsically motivated to do excellent work might be motivated to join due to food, but they really join for autonomy, mastery
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by ryanpers 15y ago
If you view a computer science degree, as teaching you particular sub-technologies (eg: CORBA, HTTP, etc), then sure, it is inevitable that one thinks of a CS degree as a time-limited paper slip. This is the very definition of vocational tr
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by ryanpers 15y ago
Having used Tmobile for years, AT&T is NOT the worst carrier. Even here in SF, AT&T is better than tmobile in terms of indoor data delivery.
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by ryanpers 15y ago
The notion of replacing the sun java6 with a openjdk7 is extremely laughable. If you have a high performance java server app, openjdk just doesnt cut it.
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by ryanpers 15y ago
As a developer who had need to run high performance Java, I gotta say your #1 option is just not an option. OpenJDK with icedtea isn't even remotely close to a replacement. I understand that Oracle is forcing your hand, but the lack of comp
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by ryanpers 15y ago
I really like this comment. The MBA-ization of corporations is not a thing to be praised. The reason why companies fail is because management is disconnected from the realities of their business and manage it from a spreadsheet point of v
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by ryanpers 15y ago
I always find the gushing articles about Amazon super annoying as an ex-amazonian. Part of amazon's business practice is to take people, chew them up, spit them out. Replace them with new grads. Regardless of if this is successful or not,
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by ryanpers 15y ago
The most apparent thing from this was the author and I are not in the same business at all. I work for startups, technology and all that. But without a doubt all the big stuff happens in a small part of the world. Unique and important major
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by ryanpers 15y ago
Maybe in a world where you have disposable software products. But if you are developing something more complex, you can have a substantial period where you are developing science, technology and you cant bootstrap that on ramen when the pe
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by ryanpers 15y ago
so you take the requirements from the customers to the developers?
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by ryanpers 15y ago
So in theory you are correct, but the reality on the ground is that 96gb in a box is getting to be pretty standard now. Also the other thing to remember is that the standard java GCs dont reliably work under all workloads above 2-4GB. You
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by ryanpers 15y ago
Always ask yourself before you send an email, what are you hoping to do with the email? Get something out of someone? Maintain or build a relationship? Make that person feel bad? Gloat? In this case it sounds like you had no purpose at
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by ryanpers 15y ago
probably because at nearly every place I've worked at the sysadmin/ops group was the #1 obstacle to getting things done. Sure some of it was "saving you from yourself", but a lot of was pure obstinatance for no other reason than I think sys
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by ryanpers 15y ago
wtf?
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by ryanpers 15y ago
Locally in Seattle, Amazon has a really bad rep. Only on places like hackernews where everyone is excited about AWS (despite its many, huge, annoying flaws, remember when ebs when down - AGAIN?) do people not realize this. Amazon has lost
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by ryanpers 15y ago
There is no effective Seattle startup culture. I worked in the Seattle area for 7 years, and startups are not really a big thing. Going to work at microsoft is a big thing. You make more money there anyways. A lot of this is due to the la
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by ryanpers 15y ago
when i left amazon in 2006 that was MOST DEF not true. well not the backendy parts of amazon. maybe some of the webservers were, but i somehow doubt it.
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by ryanpers 15y ago
because you dont fix everything with another layer of indirection. add in some more queuing (which as we know never has a problem) just to ger around 'no threads' seems stupid.
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by ryanpers 15y ago
ted you're so cool be my friend pleaseeeee

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