Azkar

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by Azkar 10d ago
I had claude define an agent for a "skeptic", the first few lines in the agent file are "You are a skeptic. Your job is to refuse to take claims on faith and instead verify them against ground truth. You are not a general cod
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by Azkar 10d ago
This has been my experience (with downloaded skills), and currently my workflow is almost 100% skill driven. Every feature I build uses a skill that does the following: 1. Read a ticket and get context on the task. The ticket was probably w
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by Azkar 4mo ago
> No, it is more accurate to say that leadership at Cloudflare does not know what they are doing nor have they known what to do for a good decade now. I think we're starting to see that across the entire industry. Leadership is easy
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by Azkar 3y ago
I read The Cuckoo's Egg only a few years ago (in my 30s) and it's an absolute delight. Easy to understand if you do any sort of linux administration, and really demonstrates how lax things were and how far we've come in terms
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by Azkar 4y ago
AWS Lambda supports shipping your Lambdas as containers now. Very nice experience.
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by Azkar 4y ago
Yep. I've found that the ticket or tech debt isn't important until it becomes on fire and must be fixed ASAP. It doesn't matter that the possibility for the bug to happen has existed for 2 years, the organization doesn't
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by Azkar 6y ago
about 40 and growing
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by Azkar 6y ago
Having dealt with all of these in production, I can tell you the strategies I've used to combat these things: 1. Solid code reviews. Anyone of our developers can halt a code review for any reason. We require 3 approvers on each review.
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by Azkar 7y ago
> I've worked at a lot of places like this, and I'm continually surprised people enjoy it. That's been my experience as well. When a manager says they try to "shield you from the bullshit" it's just a lack o
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by Azkar 8y ago
I once read an account of someone that took Ibuprofen on an empty stomach and burned a hole in their stomach lining. Since then I always eat something first.
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by Azkar 8y ago
> Will the politicians still ignore the desires of its constituents vs special interests? No question. It seems like none of this actually matters until we can solve that problem.
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by Azkar 8y ago
> You have to really provide valuable, quality content for organic SEO This is the key. Google wants to make sure your readers are getting their questions answered. SEO is constantly changing, but high quality and valuable content will a
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by Azkar 9y ago
> If you call a script that does a few seconds of processing, and keep calling it, yes it will take down the server... aka, exploiting the script loading behavior...
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by Azkar 9y ago
> My network carrier already does some anti net neutral things that I like. What happens when they start doing things you don't like?
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by Azkar 9y ago
> They have to do more than just accept the comments. Or what? There's no one enforcing rules in this administration.
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by Azkar 9y ago
Fantastic response. ~4 hours from report to release.
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by Azkar 9y ago
It's hard to move fast and have a well engineered product.
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by Azkar 9y ago
You should check out Rocket League.
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by Azkar 9y ago
So what's the big picture here? We've suspected for years that football leads to brain trauma. Does that mean the NFL should shut down? Should they continue to operate as normal? There have been efforts recently to make the game s
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by Azkar 9y ago
Yeah, let's not feel bad for the airlines. They do it to themselves.
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by Azkar 9y ago
It sounds like he's doing quality work, really. There's no secret. He claims to have a GREAT copy writer for his niche and provides them with the exact info they are looking at google for. Do that for a few hundred well written ar
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by Azkar 9y ago
Yeah... this seems like a really fast way to lose customer trust.
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by Azkar 9y ago
I'd love to take you up on this offer as well... sdm350 at gmail
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by Azkar 9y ago
Solutions usually come from people who see in the problem only an interesting puzzle, and whose qualifications would never satisfy a select committee. -- John Gall in Systemantics[1] A very short read, and quite interesting. It touches on a
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by Azkar 9y ago
There are tradeoffs to all software. I use lastpass with a yubikey for 2fa and I feel safe enough. I briefly looked at other password managers when I was evaluating lastpass, but convenience won out for me. I haven't looked at moving o
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by Azkar 9y ago
You underestimate how lazy and unmotivated most people are.
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by Azkar 10y ago
I feel like all of this just comes back to judgement calls. You can't pick technologies in a vacuum, and you can't generalize technology choices. It's not very fair to make these claims without knowing all of the details arou
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by Azkar 10y ago
If the taxi even shows up at all...
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by Azkar 10y ago
It sure is, but it still happens a lot.
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by Azkar 10y ago
Being able to remember and implement those algorithms in under 20 minutes on a white board is not applicable to programming at Amazon, Facebook or Google at scale.

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