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by suresk 4y ago
The speed at which you can get a degree can look like a red flag, but you are mistaken about the accreditation. Regional accreditation is actually what you want, not national. Most universities you think of are regionally accredited, wherea
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by suresk 4y ago
I think that is a pretty fair and accurate assessment of it. For me, with a lot of experience, the credential + filling in some gaps were what I really needed and the WGU degree was a great way to take care of both. As for recommending it t
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by suresk 4y ago
I just graduated from WGU 2 days ago, after almost 20 years in the industry. I didn't rush through it was quickly - I finished in just under a year. I studied finance my first time around in college and have tried to do a CS degree a f
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by suresk 4y ago
I have hundreds of books, partially due to how good Amazon's book recommendations used to be. They are now mostly paid ads as well, and are of much lower quality. It definitely feels like a very un-Amazon thing to do, unless the lens y
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by suresk 5y ago
It's always funny to read about crazy overspending on infrastructure and I have a few funny stories myself, but this was far from their biggest problem. For one, we don't know how big those costs were or how much time it would tak
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by suresk 5y ago
I've been in situations somewhat like this before, definitely not as extreme, but the same sort of overall feeling. Everything talked about in Slack/Email is super positive and highlights all the great things customers are saying,
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by suresk 5y ago
For me, it is less about the money and more about sort of an implied contract that exists at some companies and less so at others. That is, I'm willing to work extra hours to finish something or deal with a production emergency, with t
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by suresk 5y ago
I don't know what the difference between a "special operation" and "war" is, but I do strongly think that if you already have committed 100k+ troops, thousands of tanks, hundreds of helicopters, lots of artillery, a
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by suresk 5y ago
I had frustrating issues where they would halfway connect, then disconnect, and only a reboot of the Mac would fix it. Finally trawled through system logs to realize that Spotify was preventing it from fully connecting. Apparently, an app c
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by suresk 5y ago
Yes! That too! A lot of this started after the rate lock was set to expire and they had to keep extending it (costing them a bit of money each time), so part of me thought the whole "You have until tomorrow morning to send us this docu
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by suresk 5y ago
I refinanced with them last year and it was a "meh" experience. Their rates/fees were good, and the UI made it pretty easy to work with, but they were incredibly slow. I would have understood - it was a really busy time for r
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by suresk 5y ago
This was a lot of fun, thanks for building it!
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by suresk 5y ago
The actual content is almost all reading, often with interactive exercises. The way you pass a course is through an assessment at the end - either a proctored multiple-choice test or some sort of project you complete and have graded. A few
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by suresk 5y ago
It is also regionally accredited, which is important if you are hoping to go onto grad school or transfer credits to a different university later. I am about 75% through the program and for someone who has been in the field for a while, it
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by suresk 5y ago
I think there are two big things that can be really hard with scalability - 1) There are a lot of dimensions I think it is fairly common to focus on a throughput-related dimension like requests per second and test that very thoroughly, whil
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by suresk 5y ago
I have chronic gastrointestinal issues and the best "treatment" for them has been taking one every morning (on the recommendation of my GI doctor). This change has made it a lot more expensive and inconvenient to deal with.
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by suresk 5y ago
> With Go making errors a return value you have to actively discard the result (by replacing it with a underscore, e.g. `res, _ := getResults()`) or take the time to handle the error. Right, but because `err` ends up getting re-used in s
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by suresk 5y ago
I've never had a Java IDE insert something like that? But either way, you have to go out of your way to do that, which is sort of my point. The one place where you do see dumb boilerplate and chances to screw up is in dealing with chec
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by suresk 5y ago
I don't think you're weird - I understand that some people like it and I can kind of see some of the arguments as to why - but the error handling in Go is easily my least favorite thing about it. For two reasons: 1) The aforementi
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by suresk 5y ago
Misaligned incentives are certainly part of the problem, but this article points to it being more than just that - even if you want to run a good study, it is incredibly difficult to do so. I have spent a bunch of time on that site and re
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by suresk 5y ago
This sort of dynamic happens in smaller companies, too. And it isn't entirely on the company. I've been through similar sort of situations, for example consider some sort of SaaS service that costs $5k/year. I have to: - Fill
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by suresk 5y ago
> GCP (ie, customer facing piece) feels a bit like a me too thing no? "Me-too" or not, it is approaching $20b/year in revenue, growing quickly, and about to the point where it could start throwing off a lot of cash. I don&
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by suresk 5y ago
Understandable to be wary of anything Google offers given their track record, but GCP is way too big and strategic for them to get bored of it.
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by suresk 5y ago
Qualified Immunity has been interpreted so broadly that it is virtually unqualified - it is almost impossible to actually bring a case against a police officer for something that happens while they are on duty. General incompetence and igno
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by suresk 5y ago
(un)qualified immunity makes this really hard.
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by suresk 5y ago
Pulsar definitely looks like a great combo of capabilities from Kafka + AMQP. I have been wanting to try it out with some of our stuff, but inertia/time constraints have made it hard to consider moving away from Rabbit. I'm curiou
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by suresk 6y ago
This is not my understanding of how the tax code works. If the garage sale is not part of a business and you are selling an item you used for less than you paid for it, you generally have no reportable income. Everything I could find online
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by suresk 6y ago
Comprehensions in Python are pretty handy, but they can look weird sometimes. This is filtering out `None`, empty string, etc values from a list. It is iterating over a list (tokens) and creating a temporary variable (token). It tests the t
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by suresk 6y ago
How do you destroy a 1300 ft ship with 20k+ TEUs of cargo on it? How do you then clean all of the debris out of a pretty narrow and shallow canal so that other ships can go through again? I can't imagine that being a very quick thing t
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by suresk 6y ago
The juxtaposition of this vs the indiscriminate violence police used in the summer against protestors on the streets is pretty jarring. The fact that a large mob of people like this - many of them armed, and some of them planting explosives

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