DavidSharff

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by DavidSharff 4y ago
While there are areas where my functional convictions have greatly diminished, my mid career zeal had the tremendous benefit of illuminating new architecture and data design principles. Storing data as discreet changes and relying on pure f
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by DavidSharff 4y ago
It would have been a beautiful "footprints in the sand" moment if you had turned off the ignition and carried the motorcycle those last hundred feet for the photo.
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by DavidSharff 4y ago
> I gave up after a paragraph or two. It looked like it was going to moan about people trying to have fun and do some self care. I don’t have time for that. The author had quite the opposite conclusion: > The Great Regression isn’t re
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by DavidSharff 4y ago
My perspective is that I had recently realized that I didn't have a great justification for having used JWTs in my last two projects (and worried I had been part of a cargo cult myself). Truly. I can't see their value against a be
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by DavidSharff 4y ago
You can track JWTs on the server, via a sessionId or whatever you wish, it just breaks the intended pattern. If you have to do a lookup on each request (necessary to invalidate the token imperatively) your JWT is no longer stateless which i
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by DavidSharff 4y ago
And my favorite album, Abbey Road, was composed right before the crash. The concluding medley may only exist because they were spinning out. RIP George Martin, you gave us much.
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by DavidSharff 4y ago
Fascinating. Do you think (remember) that the incentives for bands were different? I know people listened to more full albums because it'd be tedious otherwise, but was consuming music more of a dedicated activity than it is today? If
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by DavidSharff 4y ago
Love it. I feel similarly about the quality (don't know what else to call it) of the many songs I listen to from that time, compared to similarly popular songs over the past decades. Though for me they're also nostalgic in a way w
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by DavidSharff 4y ago
I have similar thoughts but they can be broken into two distinct feelings: Ideally everyone would routinely have their attention called to the sword of Damocles, or at least listen to Dan Carlin's Destroyer of World's once every f
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by DavidSharff 4y ago
It may seem so boring at first because it is so real. The depth of insight into the characters and culture is what makes it so moving as the plot picks up. Another perspective shift that makes it more enjoyable: it's a time machine. I
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by DavidSharff 4y ago
I think his point's logic is as follows: If you don't think the default school is important, why would you care if a kid switched? -- If the response was that it's too expensive to allow them to switch that'd be logical,
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by DavidSharff 4y ago
I agree about the contradictions and hypocrisy but the answer can be much more pragmatic: > As a non-US, non-Chinese citizen, is there something that makes TikTok espionage and Facebook not? Or is it just "china scary"? There&#
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by DavidSharff 4y ago
> Overcomplicating things leads to overcomplicating things. This would be the most efficient title, subtitle, and entire contents of most posts about programming principles. However, each reader has to have a similar enough perspective,
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by DavidSharff 4y ago
I appreciated their synthesis but I think some general recommendations would have also been useful for the public (imperfect but helpful): 1. Ask primary care physician for a lab referral or purchase a nutrient deficiency test from a straig
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by DavidSharff 4y ago
Oh if only the fallout stopped there. The proliferation of these sources have torpedoed my Google effectiveness. Not only do these sources amplify themselves, they are of near necessity targeted at simple use cases. The result? Google has a
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by DavidSharff 4y ago
It's strange but really cool to zoom out and see various meetings between people in different rooms, or when we bring an outside contact into our space for a meeting you can introduce them to coworkers ad-hoc (like a real office). Swin
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by DavidSharff 4y ago
I think it's a good point that there are many more domains within large organizations than one might expect from the outside. However, people are undoubtedly in more specialized roles and teams on the whole. I'm merely trying to e
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by DavidSharff 4y ago
+1 from a manager of a fully remote small team. I find the mental overhead of the always-on camera exhausting, and I prefer voice only communication for certain types of conversations so I can dedicate all my processing power to what's
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by DavidSharff 4y ago
Are you able to compare the experience of being at a Big Tech company against a very small team with wide responsibilities? I'm in my 11th year as a developer and left a pure tech company 6 years ago where I was surrounded by other eng
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by DavidSharff 4y ago
Are you referring to people often misapplying the concept, or its replicability issues (which I had admittedly come across before but don't hold in active memory)? I'm confident I nailed the former (I thought I was better at thin
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by DavidSharff 4y ago
Love it. I do think there is more activism at play than you might. At a minimum it provides the fear mechanism that prevents employees from challenging the work, particularly if they aren't even on the project (why stick your neck out?
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by DavidSharff 4y ago
Yep, I had struggled down these lines too but the always lucid John McWhorter cleared things up for me, and as a linguist it's right up his alley. "On metaphor, master is a useful example. The basic concept of the master as a lead
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by DavidSharff 4y ago
Sincere question: since idioms and metaphors are rooted in history and shared experience, isn't dropping extremely common usages kicking the can (if you will) in the other direction? In other words, by trying to be inclusive about allo
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by DavidSharff 4y ago
Same age, same boat but I wonder about two independent factors: how my cumulative health decisions have depleted my energy reserves, and if being lower on the Dunning-Kruger curve had some distinct advantages earlier in life (i.e. I expect