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by stepbeek 6y ago
Is this the perfect Hacker News title?
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by stepbeek 6y ago
It’s been a while. I tried to hack something like this together - without having done any android dev before - and I understand why it’s taking a while. It’s not as simple as I’d imagined it would be.
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by stepbeek 6y ago
I never understood this until I was self-employed. I now feel this in my soul.
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by stepbeek 6y ago
I’ve found from building a few Ryder machines now that while the CPU itself is amazing, the eco-system around it remains less polished than intel. Hopefully this changes with Zen 3 looking like an awesome consumer chip.
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by stepbeek 6y ago
If a team doesn’t have the engineering know how to split a monolith into distinct services in a straightforward fashion, then I’m not sure that team will have the chops to start with microservices.
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by stepbeek 6y ago
Especially in terms of potential liability.
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by stepbeek 6y ago
Man, I brought a few Cuban cigars into the US in 2018 and the border agent tore me a new one. Even my confused “But this is legal now...” went unheard until I got through the line to the real customs agent who wondered why I was wasting his
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by stepbeek 6y ago
> August 2019 when we migrated the GitLab Container Registry to Kubernetes, the first service to move. Though this was a critical and high traffic service, it was a good choice for the first migration because it is a stateless applicatio
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by stepbeek 6y ago
Was anyone else surprised by the timeline of this post? I was under the impression that Gitlab had been fully on K8S for years now, given the hard push of their K8S offering 18 months ago.
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by stepbeek 6y ago
Were I to ask these questions in interview, I think I'd be looking for the candidate to have a bash, do some napkin math, come up with some contraints/failure modes and to communicate their assumptions well. > How do you make s
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by stepbeek 6y ago
All music is at 3AM. We're halfway there!
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by stepbeek 6y ago
Fwiw, I've found that working on Java without IntelliJ to be a pain. Imo it's way more feature-rich than VSCode or Eclipse at this point.
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by stepbeek 6y ago
Great advice! Addendum: if you feel shitty don't always presume it to be lifestyle related. Get blood tests and confirm.
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by stepbeek 6y ago
A Ryzen 3600 is a different tier than a 4770k though. So you're effectively saying a mid-tier CPU today will handily beat a top tier CPU from 7 years ago.
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by stepbeek 6y ago
> This is true, obviously, Is this a dig at Hilbert?
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by stepbeek 6y ago
Man, I really want to say we don't because of the implications of too centralised an internet, but there's no way it isn't a transitive dependency.
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by stepbeek 6y ago
What over-engineered front-end framework? Stimulus?
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by stepbeek 6y ago
I don't know if it's unprecedented, they were at war less than 60 years ago: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War
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by stepbeek 6y ago
They depend on OS support. Apple/Google would just remove support.
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by stepbeek 6y ago
You've unzipped me. That silent hill demo scarred me for life.
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by stepbeek 6y ago
One of the best experiences of my career was making a friend who always admits to not knowing something. I've never thought less of him for it at the time and the accumulation of knowledge from just asking people is staggering. Also, i
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by stepbeek 6y ago
This feels like a straw man. Or maybe a false dichotomy. I think it's entirely possible to ensure code is testable before writing the test. It's also not unusual to tinker in a repl before encoding the functionality as a test. Pre
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by stepbeek 6y ago
I thought the parent to my comment was more an assertion around economic woes, but I'll bite. I'm interpreting your response as an assertion around the USA doing better in the case of major climate shift. I don't perceive the
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by stepbeek 6y ago
> In spite of all these, US/North America is where you would rather be than say, Europe, Africa or even Asia. Why?
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by stepbeek 6y ago
I'm in the same boat with a 3700x. I'm pretty sure the 3950x will be available at a good enough price that I jump to that before needing a motherboard upgrade.
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by stepbeek 6y ago
We switched to Basecamp really and I'm really enjoying it. Far less faffing about.
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by stepbeek 6y ago
Hey thanks for the in-depth feedback/discussion! I've definitely fallen prey to the anti-pattern you lay out here. And it's super hard to not fall in to a kind of sunk-cost fallacy where you begin to limp along until eventual
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by stepbeek 6y ago
> creating a design that covers most test cases of the app I consider this be a very hard thing to accomplish. There are generally too many unknown unknowns. I almost always need exploratory work to figure things out.
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by stepbeek 6y ago
I agree on the schema being the source of canonical truth. I also agree on ORMs - we use jdbi mainly. But I find it hard to reason about everything up front. There are generally too many unknown unknowns that emerge when the feature is mo
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by stepbeek 6y ago
I love user-driven design as phrasing. Although I neglected to mention it, I quite often write basic cypress [1] tests early on to get a TDD-like experience. > For sure, it's not like building a bridge. It's super interesting

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