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by tsechin 4y ago
Well... If your rocket ship is going down, don't ask which parachute.
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by tsechin 5y ago
On some level, you gotta give 'em credit for trying. A couple of years ago, they tried to recruit me into a platforms/SRE role for their consumer banking services. There seemed to be a pretty clear desire to Modernize All The Thin
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by tsechin 5y ago
Story time! Years ago, I was a contractor writing (a small piece of) software for DBS. It was probably a couple of hundred lines of Java, and I probably delivered it by emailing a zip file to someone. I don't recall their code review s
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by tsechin 5y ago
The DBS UX is absolute garbage. Their android app is extremely slow, and is full of (probably?) iOS patterns. It's almost like they decided to implement their own cross-platform framework, but poorly. (I apologize in advance if they ar
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by tsechin 5y ago
Classic innovator's dilemma. They're retreating up-market.
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by tsechin 5y ago
Yes you can! Accessibility gets abbreviated to a11y, which is about as inaccessible as it gets.
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by tsechin 6y ago
Calling tech debt maintenance seems a little odd. I've always understood tech debt to be the shortcuts we take along the way to ship fast(er). A global variable here, a hardcoded constant there, that copy-pasted-slightly-modified funct
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by tsechin 6y ago
I recently had to work around https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1806329 by installing and selecting a specific (older) kernel. On affected versions, my wifi wouldn't come up. Granted it wasn't strictly &
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by tsechin 7y ago
I've tried Eclipse Che (listed in the article), and it's pretty good. I'm looking forward to Che switching its editor to Eclipse Theia, which promises to be "the VS Code experience in the browser".
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Markets Are Eating the World(ribbonfarm.com)
3 points by tsechin 8y ago|0 comments
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The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy(qz.com)
139 points by tsechin 8y ago|63 comments
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by tsechin 8y ago
- a16z - Exponent - Slate Money - Planet Money - Goldman Sachs - Hidden Brain
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by tsechin 9y ago
This is a great headline for Tesla. The point isn't whether a Tesla could beat it in a real race, etc, this is just a "brand" moment for them.
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by tsechin 9y ago
At a previous company, we got burned using UUIDs as MySQL PKs. Turns out MySQL keeps data on disk sorted in PK order, so even a moderate INSERT workload would lead to lots IO and disk thrashing as pages kept needing to be rewritten. Fun tim