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by wikibob 7y ago
Just a question, are you familiar with work that's been done on the OpenCensus Collector and Agent [0]? There was discussion earlier this year about creating a design doc for OpenCensus to handle logs. I'm not sure if that got fin
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by wikibob 7y ago
A excellent explanation of this principle in long form by Dan McKinley http://boringtechnology.club
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by wikibob 7y ago
What is the suggested solution for Greenfield development?
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by wikibob 7y ago
iPhones work as a cellular modem and can be tethered by USB, WiFi, and Bluetooth. It works especially seamlessly when tethering your Mac because the Mac can signal the iPhone to enabling tethering mode. https://support.apple.com&
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by wikibob 7y ago
FYI, the bizarre practice of “garden leave” as well as contractual notice periods is limited to the U.K. market. In the USA no significant tech company has any contractual notice period, and the social norm is to provide two weeks notice.
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by wikibob 7y ago
Apple Engineering Compensation ranges from ~$150,000 to ~$450,000 per year (including salary, bonus, and stock compensation). $15,000 would be between a week and just over a month of compensation. See https://www.levels.fyi/
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by wikibob 7y ago
Have you considered using AWS EC2 Spot Instances? The price can be 50 to 70% cheaper. You would have to add some additional reliability to your pipeline so it could continue processing when instances are unexpectedly terminated. But this mi
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by wikibob 7y ago
This is a Big Deal because it enables support for QUIC, which is now being standardized as HTTP/3. To work around the TCP head of line blocking problem (among others) QUIC aises UDP. QUIC does some incredible patching over legacy decis
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by wikibob 7y ago
This is interesting. At the Banks was this driven by internal staff, or contractors? I’m considering contracting, any particular banks that you thought were more competent?
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by wikibob 7y ago
Check out the Google Java Style Guide: https://google.github.io/styleguide/javaguide.html
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by wikibob 7y ago
What are the policies exactly? I’ve heard it’s equal time off for every night you are on call?
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by wikibob 7y ago
check out https://monzo.com/blog/
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by wikibob 7y ago
Sorry, you don't have flex time in the common usage of the term. You simply have a standard professional, non-hourly, job.
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by wikibob 7y ago
Would love to hear more details about your story. What were you doing before exactly? What tech specifically do you feel helped you?
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by wikibob 7y ago
I’ve seen you mention the superior operability of Java and the JVM in high load production environments and I think this is a really important, often overlooked, and commonly misunderstood point. Would you be up for writing a short post or
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by wikibob 7y ago
Lots of details on StackOverflow’s architecture here: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar...
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by wikibob 7y ago
And also illegal.
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by wikibob 8y ago
BQ is considerably more performant.
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by wikibob 8y ago
I keep seeing that Borgmon is deprecated but no references to what the replacement is like. Can someone please share even a high level summary? Is the replacement a high cardinality event store like Facebook’s Scuba [0]? [0] https:/&#
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by wikibob 8y ago
Check out the 3M Peltor Optime III Earmuffs The X5A's are 31dB reduction, the Peltor Optime III's are 35dB. Edit: I was wrong, the X5A's are a bit better for reducing human speech than the Optime III (Optime 105)'s. htt
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by wikibob 8y ago
No, the failure mode is not two pilots consciously fighting against each other. The failure mode is two pilots who are UNAWARE they are commanding contradicting inputs. Airbus negligently averages these inputs. This is legacy tech debt beca
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by wikibob 8y ago
Yes. In major tech cities (NYC, Seattle, Silicon Valley) the starting salaries are over $100,000, plus $20-40,000 in Restricted Stock Units, and $20-40,000 in yearly bonus. Importantly, RSUs from public companies are directly convertible to
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by wikibob 8y ago
Not mentioned is the official GoLang version of the Jsonnet compiler. https://github.com/google/go-jsonnet In my experience the Go version is 10x faster than the original C++ implementation due to improvements. The onl
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by wikibob 8y ago
Can you explain or link to details on the on-call policy restrictions and compensation?
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by wikibob 8y ago
As an alternative view, I cannot strongly enough suggest to get an academic degree if you can afford the time and money. Self-directed learning is ok if that's the best you can do, but having the structure of an academic setting is abs
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by wikibob 8y ago
Could you describe Piccolo a bit? Can't find anything on it.
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by wikibob 8y ago
Is this the video you mention? https://youtu.be/4fFDFbi3toc
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by wikibob 8y ago
While this topic is being discussed, what books do folks like for Data Structures and Algorithms? And importantly, can you contrast why you chose the one you like over others you’ve worked through?
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by wikibob 8y ago
Docker is from France.
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by wikibob 8y ago
Just to note, the CoreOS ALB controller [0] has very little in common with the design of Skipper. The ALB controller configures Amazon Cloud "Application Load Balancers" and adds a Kubernetes service as the upstream. There's

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