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by shoo 5y ago
I believe the data mesh claim is that as well as the operational API exposed and supported by some given domain team, the domain team also gets a new goal of exposing and supporting an analytical API to deliver a data product to potential c
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by shoo 5y ago
Are you aware of any case studies / examples of applying structured concurrency to a nontrivial codebase, which illustrates the benefits and drawbacks of the approach? It'd be great to see before & after comparisons of taking
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by shoo 5y ago
I think the word "supporting" here is doing rather a lot of work -- in this case by "supporting" we'd mean "releasing a new version of the software that is compatible with the backwards incompatible changes int
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by shoo 5y ago
megacorp; laptops have much enterprise security & surveillance bloatware installed. whirrr, such cpu fan, very compliance. by default no one has local admin rights for their work laptop. developers are approved local admin rights upon r
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by shoo 5y ago
Alexander advocated getting the people who would live or work in the buildings involved in the design and construction of the buildings. Get the people who will live in the place out in the field and work together to peg out the outlines of
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by shoo 5y ago
> There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named. [...] It is not only simpler beauty of form and col
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by shoo 5y ago
i can imagine intentionally useless UI for this. require the account number to be entered in a particularly stupid format. 12345 -> one TWO 3 four FIVE. add heavy input validation. make the validation give no hint about what is wrong wi
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by shoo 5y ago
it's a step in the right direction. unlike some problems[+], this one doesn't immediately seem like a problem that requires widespread international cooperation. if country X cannot be bothered to regulate against companies using
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by shoo 5y ago
> What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion. This has resulted in a remorseless paring-down of what she can and will wear. She is, literally, allergic to fashion. She
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by shoo 5y ago
always use `git add -p`. review each individual hunk before staging it into commit. dont blindly add everything. once you've got it working, do a second pass on the commit history and compress it into one or more coherent logical commi
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by shoo 5y ago
> snoozing our website at night what does snoozing your website mean? turn off all your webservers so all inbound requests time out? switch the theme to dark mode? keep the frontend and queues running so you can acknowledge and store
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by shoo 5y ago
the latest episode of the economist "checks and balance" US politics podcast touches on what cities in decline can do to try to turn things around: > Since the founding of America, its people and its economy have moved steadily
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by shoo 5y ago
the annual-prepaid cashflow trick is discussed by Jason Cohen in this ancient 2013 microconf presentation, starting at around the 13:20 mark : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otbnC2zE2rw
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by shoo 5y ago
probably not what you're after -- there are some pretty cool maps of network infrastructure. think less "high level cartoon of logical architecture of web-app playing bingo with managed cloud services" and more "telecomm
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by shoo 5y ago
I guess part of it is really hashing out how decision making in your team works, and getting everyone on board and used to that. For the category of decisions it is acceptable for the team to have authority over: one way this could work is
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by shoo 5y ago
> automate it this is such good advice, at least for low hanging fruit where there is already a solid tool for automating it. by running code formatters such as `go fmt` or python's `black` as a mandatory lint stage in CI (or git pr
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by shoo 5y ago
Why do you think that is? Is the balance of power in France tipped in favour of labour rather than capital? Or is the arrangement in France fairly typical for European countries, and it is countries like the US that are weird exceptions?
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by shoo 5y ago
in australia it is standard for all full time permanent roles to have 20 days paid leave a year, in addition to national/state holidays (there are about 10 of these). moreover, if you have accrued a balance of leave when you quit your
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by shoo 5y ago
I found the 2014 paper by Friedlingstein et al "Persistent growth of CO2 emissions and implications for reaching climate targets" [1] helpful in framing the situation in terms of a cumulative emissions budget. In terms of feasibil
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by shoo 5y ago
this is a great book, but the author structured it to focus on sustainable energy. it would be necessary to complement this book with others focusing on global warming, greenhouse gases, sources, sinks, geoengineering.
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by shoo 5y ago
a convolutional kernel, maybe
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by shoo 5y ago
structured programming and rpc demonstrates you can get pretty far if your only verb is CALL
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by shoo 5y ago
maybe a more illustrative example of where this can be messy is where a customer has placed an order for a bundle of products A B and C, and there's no "order bundle" API that can do that operation atomically, instead the cli
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by shoo 5y ago
i was in the process of writing a snarky reply describing how the next level enterprise approach is to host api/product in microservice A and api/options in microservice B, each with their own internal data store using completely
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by shoo 5y ago
I reckon the population of hacker news has drifted tremendously over the last decade. More content about the general grind of corporate tech industry, less focus on entrepreneurship. Many people in the tech industry who read and comment o
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by shoo 5y ago
I agree. But it also depends on the type of work. If someone is acting in some kind of project delivery lead function, it is often necessary to be in the loop of many coordinating conversations. This kind of role might not be a good fit f
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by shoo 5y ago
There are quite a large segment of engineers later in their careers who would be interested in this kind of arrangement, especially some engineers who are parents of young children. I suspect the demand for these kind of part-time working c
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by shoo 5y ago
arguably that assumes that the operator that each letter denotes is self inverse. in the general case, y⁻¹ t⁻¹ i⁻¹ l⁻¹ i⁻¹ b⁻¹ i⁻¹ t⁻¹ a⁻¹ p⁻¹ m⁻¹ o⁻¹ c⁻¹
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by shoo 5y ago
same feature is often very helpful when you tyop or missspell a word. Some google system will be crunching the odds on P(X=wordle | Y=worldle) / P(X=worldle | Y=worldle) where Y := observed sequence of characters the user ty
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by shoo 5y ago
one thing to keep in mind: one component of the outcome is in your control (your skill, how much prep you've put in -- especially for things like interview technique that you won't otherwise use on the job), and the other compone

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