sethammons

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by sethammons 4y ago
what are some fun battle scars and key learnings?
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by sethammons 4y ago
And protocol specifications
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by sethammons 4y ago
Good teams make more positive comments or more positive comments make good teams? If I want to be taller, should I play basket ball? Only half serious :) At the bottom of the article: > *Authors’ Note: The journal that published this stu
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by sethammons 4y ago
to the downvoters: https://www.science.org/content/article/once-you-hit-age-agi... At a certain point, humans appear to stop aging. Just it is at 105, not 80 :)
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by sethammons 4y ago
No synergy to be had?
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by sethammons 4y ago
I've always liked the marshmallow experiment, but it turns out less clear than we may have thought. If a child trusts the adult will be back shortly with marshmallow in tow, they may wait. But if adults in their lives are less predicta
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by sethammons 4y ago
You are really limiting yourself by limiting free and indoor activities. Free and outdoor, that's the whole world. A walk, a hike, camping, watching a sunset, fishing, hunting, wild life photography, star gazing, bird watching, geocach
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by sethammons 4y ago
Some service dogs are really unique. I watched a program last evening. A young lady has a condition where she can pass out without warning. This caused her to be house-ridden. She got a dog as a pet and it turns out her dog can sense an onc
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by sethammons 4y ago
My wife is much better at initially talking and connecting with people. Last evening, she got the cook at our table (one of those places where they show off with spins, tosses, and such). He loves old westerns and samurai movies and will no
1570.
by sethammons 4y ago
Recently switched from a Go shop to Elixir. Ooof, the compilation feels like molasses.
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by sethammons 4y ago
I loath rebasing. Squash merge into the main branch after tests are green. Bisect still works.
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by sethammons 4y ago
I've gotten out of sync with the remote where that would still fail and decided to just reclone. I think the reason it happened is git-history purists rewriting and pushing.
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by sethammons 4y ago
During hours or if on call and I'm not otherwise responding when I should be? Sure. Off hours and when I'm not on call? This had better be flipping important to be calling me, like people could lose employment if my specific knowl
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by sethammons 4y ago
And the latest commit is "shifted all indentation per linter" by someone who didn't write the code. Viewing the history of a file is vastly more a pain in the ass to a useful "why" comment.
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by sethammons 4y ago
For these people that claim taking cold showers, I want water temp. Out of the tap, in summer, my water is 53 degrees (f), upper 40s in winter. I'm not sure I could get through a whole shower sans hypothermia. Edit: looked it up. 30min
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by sethammons 4y ago
Recently read Guns, Germs, and Steel. Up to the 1970s, New Guinea had literal stone-age technology. Similarly, aborigines in Australia lived the the same ways for FORTY THOUSAND YEARS! We are more likely to end the world as we know it in 10
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by sethammons 4y ago
Wow, I wonder if that is what happened to my company's domain a decade ago. We lost control of our domain due to social engineering at GoDaddy. It was really, really tense as we worked to get control back. We got lucky and we able to r
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by sethammons 4y ago
Amazing, very interesting
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by sethammons 4y ago
What would you expect that code to do? I'd expect to have two different slices, s2 and s3, to contain all the same elements aside from the last. [a, b, c, x] and [a, b, c, y] and s1 remains [a, b, c]
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by sethammons 4y ago
I rode a company from 30 people to 7000. Loved it. By the end however, I had to seek other opportunities with a much smaller company because of what you are talking about.
1581.
by sethammons 4y ago
It is a bit more than this definition, which is a perfectly cromulent definition, but misses the origin as a made-up word from The Simpsons
1582.
by sethammons 4y ago
Hah, having worked at SendGrid, that was just about as far as my dad's understanding was
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by sethammons 4y ago
"You know how there are web sites, apps, and internet stuff? Those all work by computers and apps/programs talking with other computers and apps/programs. I make sure that some of those computers and programs keep working rig
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by sethammons 4y ago
Wild. I didn't know about biting midges. I'm in Montana and live next to a huuuuge lake. Clouds of non-biting midges. Mosquitoes however, they are large, slow, and hurt when they bite as opposed to the SoCal mosquitoes I was used
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by sethammons 4y ago
Just depends on what can be lost and how you handle retries. Last big service I worked on (throughput of a few billion work items / incoming api requests per day) had a dozen network dependencies. We leveraged an in house queuing syste
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by sethammons 4y ago
I tend to reach for a queue when an item should processed by a single consumer and you have fancy retry logic. I tend to reach for a message bus when N consumers may need to know about an event that happened. I usually start with a synchron
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by sethammons 4y ago
That was a great thread, thanks for surfacing it. My gut reaction was that there was no way the thread could be involved in changing spotify's mind. Color me convinced
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by sethammons 4y ago
Every stove knob I've ever interacted with easily pulls / slides off its peg and can be hand washed if it gets too dirty. Changing a lightbulb is an order of magnitude harder.
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by sethammons 4y ago
In code review, I ask that any TODO be augmented with a link to the jira ticket tracking it. If it is not in jira, it is not getting priority. If it is too small to justify a ticket, fix it then and there.
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by sethammons 4y ago
That's where I learned it too :)

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