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by thoman23 8y ago
I appreciate you sharing this. I'm considering embarking on this approach with my team, and everything you are mentioning is what I was worried about when I first started reading up on the microservices architecture. Now I'm seri
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by thoman23 8y ago
Yes, that's exactly what it implies. Like I said at the top of this thread, I'm not an expert on this approach (I've done my reading, but haven't yet spent time in the trenches), but my understanding is that you would e
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by thoman23 8y ago
> "all the services needed to talk to each other" I'm not an expert by any means, but I'm pretty sure that statement indicates a problem.
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by thoman23 8y ago
From the article linked on the github site: > "While the path to becoming a software engineer used to involve going to college and majoring in computer science, now candidates for engineering jobs also include autodidacts who taught
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by thoman23 8y ago
No, one should be proud of creating an elegant solution.
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by thoman23 8y ago
It is orders of magnitude harder to write a “simple” solution. Developers should not be proud of complexity at any age.
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by thoman23 8y ago
My understanding is that the point of microservices isn't to just move what would have been a relational join in SQL to an equivalent join in the service layer, which is what the author is implying. Instead, the order service should a
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by thoman23 8y ago
Thinking more about TaxJar...I wonder if they are at any risk of employees of an existing firm doing work for TaxJar on the current company's time and equipment, which would in many cases make the TaxJar code the intellectual property
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by thoman23 8y ago
TaxJar sounds insane. So after I go through up to 4 weeks of poorly paid work (while working my existing full-time job and raising a family), I get to participate in their hazing rituals! https://life.taxjar.com/taxjar-trad
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by thoman23 8y ago
> "A couple of weeks of work with a task being assigned" lol, OK
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by thoman23 8y ago
Isn’t Crossover a scam of some sort?
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by thoman23 8y ago
Seconded! You could be my work best friend and years after we've moved on we could still enjoy not talking to each other.
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by thoman23 8y ago
If money was already taken care of, I would absolutely be building software (and playing music). I just wouldn't be doing it at my current job (the software part...my music would be frowned upon at work).
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by thoman23 8y ago
Agreed. Time in the market beats time out of the market.
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by thoman23 8y ago
That is a way of winking to buyers and saying,”pssst...it works but we just can’t legally say it works yet.”
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by thoman23 8y ago
No kidding. #2 in class and 1500/1600 puts you in the running for Harvard/Stanford, does it not? At the very least that does not sound like a "very average student".
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by thoman23 8y ago
They might just be over the 50 million gross revenue threshold though.
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by thoman23 9y ago
Is it ethically wrong when big companies influence the tax code itself? Because that's what happens now. Loopholes are created, not just "found".
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by thoman23 9y ago
ITT: A whole lot of people who don't like to talk about what is usually people's favorite subject...themselves. Now I am off to find a random person to describe my ideal tech stack to before fixing their computer.
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by thoman23 9y ago
Hmm, migrate to Java from Scala in search of shorter, concise code? Something tells me the Scala developer in that case basically wrote Java code to begin with.
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by thoman23 10y ago
Dear lord
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by thoman23 10y ago
Depends on what you're optimizing for I guess.
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by thoman23 10y ago
Both the lottery and working at a startup are rational bets if you believe the value of money is non linear.
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by thoman23 10y ago
Of course Google supports exact string matching. Just put your term in double quotes.
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by thoman23 10y ago
It's funny how everyone seems to hate "big frameworks" while at the same time complaining about how "everyone uses them". It's sort of like the Yogi Berra line: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too
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by thoman23 10y ago
Everyone seems to get hung up on "mastery" or being a professional. Well guess what? You know what made me more receptive to music theory lessons? Thousands of hours of guitar practice. Practice feeds on itself. Once I was pr
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by thoman23 10y ago
> About the only thing that comes out right is that to develop a skill, you need to practice. Which, to quote my own least favorite phrase, we already knew. Everybody knows they need to practice. But at least for me, the 10,000 rule set
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by thoman23 10y ago
Exactly! I grew up thinking school is "my thing" and when I saw people with other skills (music, drawing, acting, cooking, etc.), that must just be "their thing". Yes, people have natural strengths and aptitudes, and t
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by thoman23 10y ago
I don't care if it's oversimplified. The 10,000 hour rule is brilliant for getting people past the difficult stages of learning a new skill. Can't play guitar? It's not because you were born without musical talent...i
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by thoman23 10y ago
Well now we know just how threatening Let's Encrypt is to the incumbent CA industry.

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