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by suchire 5y ago
Schema management is not too hard at small numbers of devs. We have a monorepo and a well defined data access layer in the monolith, so simple migrations, grep, unit tests, and frequent deploys are enough to handle 99% of needs The harder p
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by suchire 5y ago
It’s pretty easy to exhaust a DB if you have many replicas of a service connecting, each at high concurrency. 20 replicas at 20 connections each is enough to hit limits (like on Cloud SQL for GCP) As you say, you can write a service to stan
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by suchire 5y ago
Cetacean ops https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Cetacean_Ops
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by suchire 5y ago
Fastmail. Excellent features, fast performance, and very reliable
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by suchire 5y ago
This isn’t exactly Prolog, but Chalk [1] is a Prolog-inspired use case [1] https://rust-lang.github.io/chalk/book/
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by suchire 5y ago
I don’t personally have use experience of Quip, but from engineers I know who work there, fine-grained locking is how Quip handles collaboration.
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by suchire 5y ago
A large part of it is ease of hiring. In 80% of cases, new grads are relatively simple to hire; you go to campus recruiting fairs, get bundles of resumes, and since new grads don’t usually have specialized skills, you can do bulk filtering
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by suchire 5y ago
The likelihood of mutation is directly proportional to how widespread a virus is multiplied by the amount of time it stays that way (more specifically, the area under the curve for infections over time). Vaccination and control of spread
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by suchire 5y ago
“In Kubernetes, secrets are base64 encoded, so they are quite secure” What
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by suchire 5y ago
As people become more senior, the distinction in skills and responsibilities between managers and engineers starts to blur a lot. In fact, the best folks in both tracks have spend some time in the other track
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by suchire 5y ago
The main issue tackled here is that multinational corporations operate across borders, and thus create problems of capital flight out of a country. Thus, even if the economic activity is almost entirely happening within a country (e.g. a lo
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by suchire 5y ago
“Innate immunity” is a particular thing in immunology that’s distinct from “adaptive immunity”. Adaptive immunity includes things like antibodies, and is most often what we are targeting with vaccines. Innate immunity covers a huge range of
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by suchire 6y ago
In addition to the manager-to-managee “contract”, there are two other reasons to have goal setting exercises: - Setting goals rather than tasks can allow for less micromanagement, if used properly. You have a problem to solve, with some fre
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by suchire 6y ago
Geographic monopolies. Most households have only one broadband provider they can choose, with satellite or DSL as the only other fallback
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by suchire 6y ago
Awesome, glad to hear that it’s been helpful!
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by suchire 6y ago
Descript | Senior Backend and Full Stack Engineers | SF or remote (UTC-8:00 to UTC-4:00) | https://descript.com Descript is a newly Series B startup applying AI and great design to make media editing as easy and collaborative as
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by suchire 6y ago
“It’s been the way people have been growing up for millennia all around the world.” I don’t think this is a very convincing argument. There are many, many things that have been around for millennia that just aren’t that great. We’ve been li
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by suchire 6y ago
This isn’t a Mac layout? https://www.daskeyboard.com/daskeyboard-4-professional-for-m...
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by suchire 6y ago
Yes. If he weren’t in office, there would be no obligation
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by suchire 6y ago
Our stack isn’t super novel. We’re trying to make sure we don’t write ourselves into a corner with a stack that no one else uses, so we use Typescript/NodeJS + Kubernetes for much of our backend services, and Python for our ML pipeline
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by suchire 6y ago
Thanks for posting this! It’s great when our users are excited about our product :-) If anyone is interested, we are hiring engineers and PMs! In particular, we’re looking for senior backend engineers and full stack engineers. https:/
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by suchire 6y ago
Not solely, but in part? ;-)
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by suchire 6y ago
I find they can sort of be taught in similar ways, as there are a lot of things about good, clear coding that translate to/from clear writing. At the risk of self-promoting, I wrote a comparison here a long time ago: https:/&#x2F
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by suchire 6y ago
There were many influential policy decisions at the Federal level that pushed for defunding public programs, such as cutting federal grants/loan forgiveness for teacher training
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by suchire 6y ago
It’s too bad some of these numbers are reported as averages. It would be nice to see something more percentile based, like p75 or p90, which are more effective ways of measuring quality of service
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by suchire 6y ago
More likely it is the overhead of multiplatform support that motivates them to use Electron. Their support matrix is pretty big now: iOS, Android, Web, Mac, Windows, browser extensions, Chrome OS, and Linux
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by suchire 6y ago
We use Dashlane at work, and every day I want to switch to 1Password, which I use in my home life. Dashlane has weird permissions glitches, a really buggy and very non-intuitive desktop app, really terrible web browser extensions that makes
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by suchire 6y ago
Which government?
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by suchire 6y ago
A job is a contract. If you don’t want the contract to be used that way, don’t write it that way. I don’t feel bad towards my employees or coworkers who wait to give notice until shortly after annual bonuses are given out. My previous boss
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by suchire 6y ago
I think another rule of thumb I would add, which other commenters have mentioned in passing, is to negotiate scope, quality, and likelihood of success, not estimates. Negotiating estimates is where people start questioning each others’ expe

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