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by spyspy 6y ago
That's actually pretty outdated. The newsroom (and all other floors at 620 8th Ave) have gotten standing desks that are slightly wider apart. Source: used to work in that newsroom
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by spyspy 6y ago
It's surprisingly quiet actually. It's not a trading floor with people screaming at each other. Source: am a former NYT and worked in that exact room.
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by spyspy 6y ago
Is there any benefit of Anthos over deploying straight to GKE if you're already bought into GCP? We've had this debate several times recently and can't come up with a good answer.
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by spyspy 6y ago
You seem to be mistaking a manager as not part of “the team”. If you have a direct supervisor who over-admonishes engineers for their mistakes they violate point #2 more blatantly than any engineer could.
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by spyspy 6y ago
This is absolutely spot on. In fact these are the exact 3 points I came up with when I’ve thought about “high performing teams”. If you don’t have a team that thoroughly enjoys what they’re building and each other you have nothing. Skill is
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by spyspy 6y ago
Literally in the middle of an outage right now https://www.githubstatus.com/
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by spyspy 6y ago
The entire market is up on Powell’s positive remarks on the economy’s recovery.
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by spyspy 6y ago
In larger organizations you’re rarely building an entirely new web app from scratch. Yes, that’s a more complex endeavor. A lot of the problems boil down to “sit on a queue, grab some data, mix in some other data, send it somewhere else”. B
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by spyspy 6y ago
If you can predict when the spike is going to occur, you can actually use the GAE admin API to modify the number of idle instances on the fly. We used this exact method to handle spikes when new games were released at my last job. Then a cr
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by spyspy 6y ago
Not even flex. AppEngine standard added the ability to deploy containers in 2018.
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by spyspy 6y ago
If you're already using GCP, my general advice for new projects is almost always some form of "just throw it on AppEngine". No, you don't need multi-region deployments. No, you don't need 32TB of memory per instance
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by spyspy 6y ago
A surprisingly legitimate solution.
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by spyspy 6y ago
The sort library has been massively upgraded since you used it. There are a lot more helpers so you don’t need to reimplement the swap and less functions for each slice type.
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by spyspy 6y ago
If your app stalls for 5 minutes you probably forgot to delete the time.Sleep() you threw in while debugging.
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by spyspy 6y ago
The article was really interesting but given it was written in 2013 I wonder how much of it is still true. They're both probably very different places to work than they were 7 years ago (for better or worse or same same but different).
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by spyspy 6y ago
It's been an unpopular opinion but I've contended for a long time that if Go had map/filter/reduce from the onset like it has copy and append, most people screaming for generics would have been silenced.
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by spyspy 6y ago
Same. I can't even remember the last time I deployed code with a channel into production.
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by spyspy 7y ago
Anyone looking at this as just a New York or LA or Miami problem will learn soon enough. The cities were hit first for obvious reasons but it viruses don't self-isolate to population centers.
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by spyspy 7y ago
Anecdotally, my parents keep bringing up this narrative every time we talk on the phone. I've reminded them that while me and my fiance dutifully haven't left the house since last Sunday they've happily gone to the grocery st
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by spyspy 7y ago
That has not been proven or disproven at this point.
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by spyspy 7y ago
This is common for any company that operates a CDN. It just so happens Netflix is a big enough content deliverer that they run their own network rather than pay to use someone else’s.
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by spyspy 7y ago
This is the lesson my last company learned hard. For anything serving less than tens of thousands of requests a second, you just can't really beat GAE in terms of simplicity and cost.
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by spyspy 7y ago
> a substantial number of people that (though very sharp) had pretty severe personality problems This has been my experience with engineers from Ivy League or similar schools. Really smart in a bubble, but with tons of weird neuroses tha
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by spyspy 7y ago
It's also the consequence of hiring tons of very young engineers.
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by spyspy 7y ago
I highly recommend following Malachy Browne on Twitter[0] for more investigations like this. He's also the narrator on other NYT video investigations[1] [0] https://twitter.com/malachybrowne [1] https://www.
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by spyspy 7y ago
GAE and Cloud functions are gradually going to be replaced by Cloud Run. In fact Run and 2nd generation GAE run on exactly the same infra backed by gVisor and you can deploy custom containers to either in almost exactly the same manner.
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by spyspy 7y ago
https://cloud.google.com/scheduler/ ?
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by spyspy 7y ago
You can deploy with a —max-instances flag to prevent infinite scaling. This has been a feature since the Cloud Run beta and has been in GAE forever.
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by spyspy 7y ago
> Source of truth is now the generated code, not the source, so someone else using the source could get a different result. This seems to apply to the other side, I think. Generating from source with different tooling or tool versions co
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by spyspy 7y ago
that's insanely expensive if you're doing any type of code generation.

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