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by snorkel 5y ago
This is an enormous leap. Texturing and lighting are two very hard problems in CGI. Realistic lighting using raytracing requires a lot of radiosity passes, which means adjusting lighting of each surface to account for each ray of light boun
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by snorkel 5y ago
A spending kill switch can be setup on AWS using AWS Budgets alerts and Lambda but it’s a DIY project, not a built-in feature.
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by snorkel 6y ago
The Cube also had bad market timing. The dotcom bubble was bursting so the market for luxury office equipment was quickly drying up. Aside from that everyone said it looked like a overpriced tissue box.
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by snorkel 6y ago
Checkout the lolwut command in Redis http://antirez.com/news/123
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by snorkel 6y ago
I fault Apple for being too heavy-handed with making HEIC the default photo file format when even in recent versions of MacOS like Sierra, the Finder app doesn't know what the heck a HEIC file is! Apple hasn't released an update p
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by snorkel 7y ago
Also Kinesis records are write-once read-many, where SQS messages are meant to be consumed (receive a message, do the task, delete the message) Kinesis is for streaming data, and SQS is for job queues.
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by snorkel 7y ago
SSO is based on AssumeRole which issues temporary credentials (session tokens) instead of using static credentials. SSO-like centralized access management is important to prove that when someone leaves your company that you cut off their a
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by snorkel 7y ago
Technically that would mostly work but IT leaders at banks and insurance companies would rather pay high premiums to IBM then stick their neck out endorsing anything risky. Renegotiating with IBM is the safest career move at such places. Cl
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by snorkel 7y ago
Unfortunately that’s typical in enterprises. Procurement staffers are typically not technologists, rather they are contract wranglers, responsible for setting terms with vendors that have longevity, references, willing to negotiate, approve
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by snorkel 7y ago
For dev environments SSH is essential, but in production environments I 100% agree with using SSM Session Manager instead of SSH. Getting terminal access to a production server is sometimes necessary but it ought to be temporary access, all
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by snorkel 7y ago
Auto drivers should drive a horse and buggy at some point. Horses don’t need gas and don’t crash on the freeway. Horses don’t just run themselves into trees ever. Car drivers don’t understand safe driving. Can you imagine bringing important
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by snorkel 8y ago
One of FANGs I interviewed at, I couldn’t help noticing they totally avoid asking practical questions that require field experience to understand and instead just focus the entire interview on CompSci college homework problems that recent g
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by snorkel 8y ago
After working with banks that still run production code on obscure and obsolete platforms written by people who retired decades ago, I totally endorse this practice ... as long as I’m not doing the rewrite.
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by snorkel 8y ago
Reminds me of Desert Bus https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/desert-b...
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by snorkel 8y ago
So true! When you experience sudden group layoffs you realize rescuing the balance sheet matters far more than retaining good talent. I once had a boss tell me “Working here should be your career. Don’t treat this place like just another no
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by snorkel 8y ago
strategically burning bridges? Sometimes it’s tempting but I always tried to leave each gig on good terms, no hard feelings, no matter how good or dysfunctional the situation was, since you never know when past connections can be helpful l
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by snorkel 8y ago
Getting off of the people management track and focusing on individual contributor roles. I quickly learned that I do not enjoy being responsible for the productivity, pay, morale, HR processes, deliverables, disputes, and career progression
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by snorkel 8y ago
All programming languages are fads, except for C.
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by snorkel 8y ago
Code beauty is subjective. If the next developer that inherits your code yells “WTF!” then incredulously tells all the other devs what you did, then it’s hacky. Yes, invoking shell commands in a db would likely cause that.
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by snorkel 9y ago
I don't think millennials saw TLJ as a metaphor for baby boomer disillusionment so much as a crushing disappointment that Ewan MacGregor didn't stride into a cameo as the inexplicable forbearer to Rey.
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by snorkel 9y ago
Integration tests are meant to exercise your external dependencies, ie. Make sure that the external API you depend on still replies that 2+2=4 as it did before. Unit tests prove that your own code is behaving consistently, and integration t
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by snorkel 9y ago
I've experienced that when the coders are getting paged they'll focus on quality and writing better proactive tests. But when you throw the ops responsilities over to another team then that other team gets to decide how and when n
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by snorkel 9y ago
I found Google's dev interview to be especially difficult, I personally hate doing hours of whiteboard coding (sorry, I tend to code on computers instead, silly me) ... So I wasn't hired, but those who worked as devs there told me
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by snorkel 9y ago
Indeed, the power of networking. I was not in a frat but I can attest that my GPA didn't help me get a job, my college roommates did! ...and they probably lowered my GPA too!
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by snorkel 9y ago
The Bible stories borrow heavily from Egyptian religious myths and beliefs regarding gods and pharaohs. Same stories, rebooted with new cast members that are more relatable. Any new diety had to demonstrate similar power supernatural abilit
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by snorkel 9y ago
This is essentially trainspotting for telephony nerds. Most of this hobby is exploring and mapping telephone exchanges just by dialing random numbers and listening, and sometimes discovering interesting unlisted phone numbers. The jargon is
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by snorkel 9y ago
Nope. Good fun but not good security. Better to just refuse the connection.
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by snorkel 9y ago
Just ask them to describe an original code or system design they are particularly proud of. That will reveal what design principles they value the most.
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by snorkel 10y ago
Imposter stories are fascinating. You can't help but marvel at the shear audacity of the imposter and their inevitable demise. It also help us all recognize imposters and their motives.
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by snorkel 10y ago
Interesting ... but I still prefer WikiPedia.

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