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by shantly 7y ago
> Oh sure, you can solve the endless little meaningless problems that plague the day-to-day life of programmers everywhere, but the source of these problems — defects at the engineering level — are effectively untouchable. Also untouchab
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by shantly 7y ago
My experience has been, especially if your application layer's in a scripting language, pushing as much data-fiddling to the DB as possible will save you serious performance headaches down the road, even if the application layer implem
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by shantly 7y ago
I work mostly in the "webshit" and mobile industry. The last time, in a work context, that I saw a site (in this case, from a vendor) and went "goddamn, for what it's doing, that is fast , this is really nice to use!&qu
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by shantly 7y ago
Sure, lots of newer tech has legitimate uses and reasons to choose it over other options in some situations, but there are a hell of a lot of projects out there that are way more complex than they need to be, often at UX cost in addition
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by shantly 7y ago
As long as hiring and technology decisions remain largely hype-driven, having someone around who says "we don't need k8s, hadoop, machine learning, and AWS with some big-ass Terraform-driven constellation of supporting serices for
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by shantly 7y ago
The FAANG and similar interviews are designed—one hopes, anyway, because if they're trying to do something else they've screwed up—to select for some combination of decent-or-better IQ and having put in enough work to prep for the
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by shantly 7y ago
I am not kidding: you are all set to be CTO or dev lead (mind: only if there’s actually a team so you don’t have to do much development) at some late-early stage funded startup, that wants a long-time Google alum on their staff, in leadersh
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by shantly 7y ago
TS is a very safe option because you can just strip the TS parts out and you're left with normal Javascript, basically.
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by shantly 7y ago
It’s precisely Fussell’s position in his Class that old-money families learned some time in the early 20th century to live invisibly—an old-money house will be so far off the road you can’t see it from there, modestly protected by a gate
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by shantly 7y ago
It's more about perspective, to avoid beating oneself up too much on the bad days. "This sucked, but we're still basically OK, just gotta learn and move on".
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by shantly 7y ago
It is, quite seriously, heartening, as a father, to know that just 1) being there at all, and 2) trying with some amount of thoughtfulness not to screw up your kids, puts you well into the top half of fathers, by quality. You can still mess
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by shantly 7y ago
I remember serverless PHP. Shared, managed hosting, just add your code, Apache takes care of executing it once per request :-)
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by shantly 7y ago
He omits a lot of philosophy, science, economics, and so on, that aren't directly relevant to the literary canon.
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by shantly 7y ago
> I have thousands of non-fiction (mostly self-improvement) books in my reading list on GoodReads, but almost never bother to read any. > The last few books I read were mostly filled with fluff, anecdotes, stories, jokes, and triviali
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by shantly 7y ago
The camera’s the main thing keeping me on smartphones. My iPhone 7 Plus is a better camera (for me) than anything but maybe a newer iPhone, and also entirely replaces a document scanner. May drop the data plan though, go WiFi-only.
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by shantly 7y ago
I'm having a hard time following what you mean. Could you give some examples of an irreversible decision that can be deferred in favor of some other specific reversible one(s)?
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by shantly 7y ago
I haven't worked with RabbitMQ in years, but IIRC I solved this with federation. My sends were all to localhost or a VM on the same machine. That solves the problem of lost messages if you have e.g. a network problem between servers. I
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by shantly 7y ago
Using wild heavy-duty (or faux-heavy-duty but just as hard to manage) solutions where 2-3 colo'd servers running boring services + Cloudflare would do is so well-accepted as normal practice in Startup Land that it's not worth figh
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by shantly 7y ago
I have real trouble wrapping my head around this kind of thing because I can't imagine paying for a product under those circumstances, no matter how useful it'd be. I get that it must work since so many people say it does, but it&
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by shantly 7y ago
It's really funny to me that someone could get excessively sucked into tinkering with and "nerding out" over Macs, the desktop/laptop platform that's by far the least inclined toward that. Usually stories like thi
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by shantly 7y ago
Does anyone know exactly WTF happened after XP to make the disk space requirements balloon so much, so fast? I know they started including more drivers, but, I mean, so does Linux and you can go pretty nuts with driver modules there and sti
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by shantly 7y ago
Agreed. I may at some point be so desperate for a job that I can't be picky, but for now you can show me the records for everyone between where I'll be in the org chart and the CEO, inclusive, taking & passing the same tests,
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by shantly 7y ago
The unpaid screwing-around-with-computers I did from ~13 through college is very relevant for my employers. I'd be a way shittier developer if you took out especially the Linux admin and networking stuff I picked up then, most of whi
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by shantly 7y ago
> If I as a taxpayer am funding someone else's healthcare they better not be drinking heavily, smoking, doing other drugs, eating excess sugars, avoiding vegetables, etc. How much time to you spend advocating for this position WRT m
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by shantly 7y ago
I haven't done much online gaming in a while, but I remember vote-to-kick most often being successfully invoked for stuff like people logging on then immediately spamming messages or abusing voice chat. The vote call was swift and th
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by shantly 7y ago
If the rest of the players think they'd have more fun if a really good player left, that's working as intended.
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by shantly 7y ago
Mine was a Friday "hey we got bought, it was just enough to pay off our debts basically so no your stock is not worth anything, the good news is you're all hired by the acquiring company so show up at X on Monday for your new job,
58.
by shantly 7y ago
Man, that movie is great, and yeah, it's entirely because it's about the people more than the shark.
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by shantly 7y ago
Used business workstation desktops are a friggin' steal right now, if you don't need the portability. Like if you want to do the old-school shared "family computer" situation. Or just want one really powerful machine f
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by shantly 7y ago
A glass bottle you return isn’t “cheating” any more than bringing your own bag, IMO.

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