thelittlenag

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by thelittlenag 3y ago
The answer is yes, with the unfortunate qualifier that, for at least what we've put together, it won't be soon. The startup has been on pause for most of the last two years due to lack of traction. I don't have the time, mone
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by thelittlenag 3y ago
You should check out https://www.qalocate.com/solutions/geohashphrase/
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by thelittlenag 3y ago
Oddly enough W3W fails to go far enough in the direction of being friendly to humans. Hence all the many criticisms of it as a solution.
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by thelittlenag 3y ago
Yep. I was (and to some extent still am) part of a startup that found a better alternative to W3W. Our solution is the geohash phrase, which you can find a discussion of here: https://www.qalocate.com/solutions/geohashp
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by thelittlenag 3y ago
And not just that, but rewarding outsized effect sizes so that you reward folks who create the biggest lies with fraudulent stats.
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by thelittlenag 3y ago
GP here. First time: we chose Timescale over Influx (and a few other competitors). I really liked Timescale. This was ~2.5 years ago and obviously Timescale was much less mature than today. We also sent data to AWS Timestream. We're he
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by thelittlenag 3y ago
I've seen better communications around company-internal services that have been deprecated and for which a replacement exists that we need to migrate to. Heck, I've seen this a couple of times. We had even tried out Influx a few d
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by thelittlenag 3y ago
While it’s been 15 years I used to work in telco. Everyday I reminded myself that my software needed to work because someone might need to call 911, or make an equally important call.
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by thelittlenag 3y ago
I was hired from from one a little over three years ago. Still my current gig in fact.
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by thelittlenag 3y ago
I was part of a startup whose entire point was opening up that control. Sadly we failed to gain traction. At least our idea is still around and we may pick it back up if we find the time and energy.
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by thelittlenag 4y ago
The numbers I am last aware of, while ten years old now, were that Federal funding was roughly 10% of their operating budget, with 90% coming from other sources. This came more or less directly from our NPR station in DC as they talked abou
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by thelittlenag 4y ago
Measure never; build again and again and ....
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by thelittlenag 4y ago
In Scala this tends to manifest as either tagless final ( https://www.baeldung.com/scala/tagless-final-pattern#1-algeb... ) or free monad (same thing, different encoding).
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by thelittlenag 4y ago
In terms of cost/benefit, I think it makes way more sense to learn to think in terms of "algebras", and how to create both internal and external DSLs in a host language. I've found it incredibly helpful to have an algebr
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by thelittlenag 4y ago
Came here to point out exactly this.
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by thelittlenag 4y ago
That this is now their 6th year doing advent of code using jq is deeply, deeply impressive.
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by thelittlenag 4y ago
I've thought about putting something together on protocols and systems design for years now. I've found that the protocols-first approach to system design, analysis, construction, maintenance, and sustainment has worked really wel
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by thelittlenag 4y ago
Can you point me towards any resources you highly recommend?
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by thelittlenag 4y ago
The very small town I grew up in had to do this ten years ago. They formed a co-op and it bought the store. They split the co-op into 100 shares costing a thousand dollars each. I thought about buying one effectively as a donation, but didn
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by thelittlenag 4y ago
My wife just started a tenure track job in the sciences. This was the very first thing she had to provide in nearly every application.
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by thelittlenag 4y ago
ScalaTimes: https://scalatimes.com/ DEVOPS WEEKLY: http://devopsweekly.com/
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by thelittlenag 4y ago
I've written a fair amount of code using this library. It is, frankly, amazing.
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by thelittlenag 4y ago
I appreciate the heads up. I've checked out the landing page. I didn't see any docs for the various tools. Is that something forthcoming?
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by thelittlenag 4y ago
Yes! I actually have a specific app in mind that if I had the time/patience I would build. Better yet if you build it I will buy it! The problem is this: in any given day as a developer I'm creating information in any of a dozen o
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by thelittlenag 5y ago
Aren't all gods?
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by thelittlenag 5y ago
The most common pattern I've seen, which dovetails with this analysis, is that new features are thus treated as more important as long as there is a path around existing bugs. Bugs gets treated as technical debt, and given as much prio
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by thelittlenag 5y ago
The clacks would like to have a word with you...
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by thelittlenag 5y ago
I really wish kdiff3 would get a modern update.
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by thelittlenag 5y ago
I worked on a language at one of the big banks that looked very similar. The goal was to have a better-than-SQL language on top of Spark and I think we succeeded at that very well. Unfortunately, politics killed the language and platform.
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by thelittlenag 5y ago
I find that I'm digging the late 70's / early 80's aesthetic for the show. It lends a good bit of "other-worldliness" to the trailer.

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