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Product management is broken. Engineers can fix it(newsletter.posthog.com)
2 points by tmarice 2y ago|0 comments
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by tmarice 2y ago
If you're on Postgres, StringAgg and ArrayAgg are nice alternatives to prefetch_related to avoid building Python model instances and waste memory. I wrote a short blog post on recent optimizations we did on our Django codebase: https:
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by tmarice 2y ago
This is what purgatory looks like for software engineers.
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by tmarice 2y ago
You can still have domain experts collaborate directly with engineers instead of adding a middleman in the form of a product manager. The more I work, the more I'm convinced that product management is not truly a profession but rather
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by tmarice 2y ago
Mid-level LC questions are an excellent indicator of problem-solving ability: you need to read the task, understand the requirements, write code, think of edge cases, and potentially optimize, all of this in a time-constrained environment.
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What are the options for storing hierarchical data in a relational database?(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by tmarice 2y ago|0 comments
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Django Enhancement Proposal 14: Background Workers(djangoproject.com)
3 points by tmarice 2y ago|0 comments
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by tmarice 3y ago
> But please, stop thinking the answer is more engineers. The answer is to hire more product-minded engineers.
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by tmarice 3y ago
If only it had Vim keybindings...
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by tmarice 3y ago
This is a great way to to write very unaesthetic Python.
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by tmarice 3y ago
I wouldn’t call this “simplified”. Personally, it’s much more valuable to have all business logic in one place, in a single language, available at a glance. The perforance gain isn’t worth the increased complexity in codebase.
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by tmarice 4y ago
We need an interface to translate our thoughts into the computer, and the keyboard and the mouse are a necessary evil for now. But if you chose a career of software development, you should strive to minimize the friction that interface intr
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by tmarice 4y ago
You probably get recovery codes you have to store somewhere. Major 2fa code apps support migration between phones, and backing up the encrypted database to the cloud.
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by tmarice 5y ago
Hand over what? I lost it all in a boating accident. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN_P39xI1ss
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by tmarice 5y ago
Love the concept, not so much the execution. The "Login after customizing everything" and "Pay to remove the watermark which renders the calendar useless" are borderline dark patterns. But on the positive, it gave me an
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by tmarice 5y ago
Grindr is incorporated in the US, I'm not sure how they plan to enforce this fine.
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by tmarice 5y ago
Python uses a generational reference counting GC, it should be able to handle circular references.
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by tmarice 5y ago
AWS OpenSearch is also returning 500 in us-east-1.
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by tmarice 5y ago
Looking forward to reading the book, looks great. Just a small technical issue: I just tried to buy the book on http://momtestbook.com/ via Gumroad, and Chrome refuses to autofill the credit card number in the Gumroad widge
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by tmarice 5y ago
> At some point I got a job as a Django application developer, a framework pompously marketed “for perfectionists with deadlines”; a punchline filled with hubris and undeserved merit. Thankfully these days Cloud Native Python apps are bu
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by tmarice 5y ago
> Proof of work systems are in trouble. Bitcoin isn’t. Difficulty will adapt and all operations will carry on as usual.
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by tmarice 5y ago
This is either the best or the worst thing that happened to Bitcoin.
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by tmarice 5y ago
logger.exception is basically a shortcut for logger.error(exc_info=True), so there's no need for explicitly assigning e as an error message.
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by tmarice 5y ago
https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#KeyboardIn... `KeyboardInterrupt` inherits from `BaseException` instead of `Exception` exactly in order to avoid this situation.
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by tmarice 5y ago
Those grapes sure are sour.
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Taproot Activation(taproot.watch)
1 points by tmarice 5y ago|0 comments
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by tmarice 6y ago
VCR.py ( https://github.com/kevin1024/vcrpy ) is a great utility for mocking APIs. It will run each request once, save the responses to YAML files, and then replay the responses every time you re-run the tests. It's
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by tmarice 6y ago
> Longform reading is magic because it's rarer than ever - it's an art now, according to people like this author. Adler wrote "How to Read a Book" (which this article is about) originally in 1940, I wouldn't call
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by tmarice 6y ago
It is, unless you're deemed untouchable.
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by tmarice 6y ago
I also switched to Fastmail 6 months ago, and I'm content. It's not bad, but the UX is nowhere near Gmail. I didn't understand how useful was automatic email classification (Updates/Promotions/etc.) until I stopped

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