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by wjossey 9y ago
I was / am pretty sympathetic to their situation. At that point, SDB was already deprecated in favor of dynamo, and they had been asking us to move off of SDB for over a year (before I had joined the company via acquisition). If someon
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by wjossey 9y ago
In 2012, I worked on a nine month project to migrate a fairly large hot dataset (10s of TBs) off of SimpleDB and onto Riak. At the time, we were experiencing tens of hours of downtime a quarter, much of which could be attributed to SDB. My
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by wjossey 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15148619
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by wjossey 9y ago
Leadership and Management | Los Angeles | Weston J | wes@eagerlabs.com For full disclosure, I am founder of a venture backed startup (eagerlabs) that does this as part of a product offering for companies. I also do mentoring on the side in
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by wjossey 9y ago
What kind of things did you do to self educate, given you lacked formal training or guidance?
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Interviewing to Hire Trailblazers, Nonconformists and Originals(firstround.com)
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Yes. This is exceptionally beneficial in terms of testing and experimentation. Virtual machines in the cloud shine for non perpetual workloads, such as learning and experimentation. They shine less for long term (3yr+), stable workloads, wh
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One of the things you should think about in your interview is how you're planning on interviewing them to make sure they're the right fit for your first managerial role. Managing a team, even for those who have been tech leads or
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by wjossey 9y ago
No. No team member at a company should ever be a slave to another, regardless of their role and function. Teamwork and participation in a group is all about service, not slavery. The developer acts in service to the marketer, who needs assi
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The differences between the middle of the country and the east & west coast, since 2000, is startling. I'd love to see this sort of graphic normalized against wage inflation as well. Is what we're seeing just fairly flat wage
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Change in Real Home Prices Since 2000(harvard-cga.maps.arcgis.com)
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Symlinkk- As someone who smoked daily at roughly the same age as you, I can understand your concern. I smoked almost daily for about four consecutive years, starting around 21, and ending around 25. Looking back on that period, I had numero
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At Peak Production, CA Pays AZ to Take Their Renewable Electricity(latimes.com)
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While not 100% analaogous, there was a fantastic EconTalk episode recently that touched on sweat shops and human behavior. I'm not attempting to say that UberEATS is an "American" sweatshop, but the relative wage in our marke
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Life Expectancy vs. Health Care Spending Curve(npr.org)
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Harassment Using Fake Accounts Results in 1,100 Visits from Strangers(money.cnn.com)
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Ask HN: How does your company achieve equal pay?
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I was in Boston last week on business, and I took a meeting at the Boston Public Library downtown in Copley. I had the exact same thought walking through that area on a Saturday morning. It was packed (although not quite to capacity). I cas
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by wjossey 10y ago
While I'm quite left of center on most issues, I'm also a political hound. I listen to conservative talk radio a couple times a week for the purposes of oppo research and fake news is regularly tossed around in reference to NPR, B
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by wjossey 10y ago
Hi Mos- That's basically what getcovert is meant to be. I forward all of your email along to your singular email address (so no multi-mailbox), but the site never sees your real email.
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In a lot of ways, that doesn't really hurt them hard enough. Unless you use a unique email address on every site, you're inherently leaking information about you. [1] Advertisers can then use that data to cross-track you between s
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by wjossey 10y ago
Thanks for the link. That's a good highlight. The experimenter in me reads that article (and mind you it's very brief), and I actually get encouraged. They were attempting to measure it on a pure 1:1 basis, where all their other s
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Unfortunately no. Any advertiser / marketer worth their salt knows this already and often will just strip it out and bypass it in their marketing platform. Sorry to say, but that's not good at avoiding the issue as outlined above.
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I have been reflecting on this problem a lot over the past six months since I left the ad tech industry after four and a half years. These posts always sadden me, because I recognize the importance and value that advertising brings to web s
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I whipped together https://getcovert.com to help address this problem for me. Currently it's a chrome plugin that allows me to generate a unique obfuscated "proxy" email address for sites I want to sign up for but
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Continue to enjoy the write ups here by the citus team. Your articles are good primers as well young engineers who may not know how basic database management looks like in a production environment. I have a follow up question from the artic
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Just to add my two cents here. I've been using cloud SQL now through the weekend for a private alpha product that receives under 20,000 requests per day right now. Im currently running this in conjunction with GKE and I have to say it&
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by wjossey 10y ago
How do people currently scan their infrastructure to look for vulnerabilities? Do you have a dedicated team that handles this, or is security "everyone's job"?
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I'm excited to see this show up on hacker news. As a Santa Monica resident, I'd gladly pay more in taxes for universal coverage. The only way that we are going to achieve federal universal coverage is via states paving the way. Ju
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by wjossey 10y ago
This article attempts to correlate the layoffs with the justice department fine against Credit Suisse. It's unclear to me from the reading how true that is, but I'd like to pose a hypothetical based on that presumption. Credit Sui

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