SassyGrapefruit

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by SassyGrapefruit 2y ago
My friend an I were struggling to orient a couch correctly during a move. We were struggling to fit it through a door. So we wrote an app called "Will it fit" You took a picture of the piece of furniture side on. Then you could ta
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by SassyGrapefruit 3y ago
Most people just aren't cut out for it. To be a good manager you need to .... 1. Be willing to be wrong a lot and admit it 2. Show vulnerablility 3. Deal with constant setbacks and disappoinment Most people get the reigns and are supri
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by SassyGrapefruit 3y ago
He meant to say "Famously Tucker Carlson claimed that the NSA spied on him". Given that the man is a bastion of journalistic and personal credibility I can't see any reason not to believe him /s
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by SassyGrapefruit 3y ago
I think my favorite part of this discussion is that most developers give this sort of process/code a mystical vibe. Like it's some sacred code built by a priesthood of the world's greatest and smartest programmers. Not access
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by SassyGrapefruit 3y ago
I don't know man. I am employed but I still get 64 recruiting emails a day. Seems like business as usual. FWIW I have never had luck with applications. The last time I was unemployed I sent out 10 or 15 and heard nothing. I reached out
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by SassyGrapefruit 3y ago
They are getting a bunch of negative press for rescinding job offers. This doesn't seem any better. Better would be just not hiring people you don't need and not chasing growth like an unmonitored heroin addict.
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by SassyGrapefruit 3y ago
The issue is these businesses are hiring without strategy, consideration to risk, or proper forecasting. There should never be a situation within a fortune 100 business where the forecasting is so poor that offers are rescinded. I began mak
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by SassyGrapefruit 4y ago
I don't know man. The attitude comes off as defeatist to me. I think most people with this outlook are engaging in self-sabotage. It's easier than putting themselves out there and risking failure. They don't try then claim &q
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by SassyGrapefruit 4y ago
Corporate finance doesn't work that way. If someone sets something up that costs $500K a year and it can be done for $150K a year. $150K is the baseline thats how much it should have cost in the first place. Otherwise why wouldn't
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by SassyGrapefruit 4y ago
maybe, but I'll keep doing it anyway.
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by SassyGrapefruit 4y ago
This is exactly what I'm talking about. It can surprising why a business actually exists. It can be counterintuitive(i.e. the mcdonald's is actually a real estate company conundrum). Even the "Product Engineer" guy who c
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by SassyGrapefruit 4y ago
For me I hate bosses, performance reviews, meetings, etc. I'm cantankerous and angry but I have always had a knack for finding and solving major problems on my own. From my experience if you have a track record of doing a good job work
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by SassyGrapefruit 4y ago
I don't know how your company works but at mine we have a profit target associated with our annual bonus. By eliminating that waste I am helping to ensure we hit that target so I get paid. Imagine if I let it slip and we missed our tar
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by SassyGrapefruit 4y ago
Maybe specifically for product engineers, but does that extend beyond the specific product that engineer is working on. Do you think a network engineer knee deep in a data center knows the margins on all the products? I don't work for
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by SassyGrapefruit 4y ago
I travelled to Yellowstone National Park. I wandered into the back country office and spoke with the ranger. She was super friendly and informative. One interesting fact she shared is that Yellowstone is almost 4,000 sq. miles and receives
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by SassyGrapefruit 4y ago
>But this isn't just about cost. It's also about what kind of internet we want to operate in the future. It strikes me as downright tragic that this decentralized wonder of the world is now largely operating on computers owned
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by SassyGrapefruit 4y ago
Where are the numbers and how do they calculate them? This article lists their cloud spend in detail then "waves hands" at the Datacenter costs simply saying "it will be far far less". Ok why not break it down? I don&#x2
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by SassyGrapefruit 4y ago
I would like to see some real numbers on this. I spend between $5 and $6 million a year on infrastructure. I have a physical datacenter in a Colo and two clouds AWS and Azure. I have detailed KPIs on my spend. One of the KPIs is total cost
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by SassyGrapefruit 4y ago
I just don't see this. Building what I am describing can be done in days sometimes hours. Where exactly is the time and complexity? I would be willing to bet given a true greenfield(e.g. I can't use an ansible script that stole fr
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by SassyGrapefruit 4y ago
> But I think most startups would save money and time by keeping it simple until they really need more. Having done this several times I can definitively say given my experience it's best to start in the cloud with a cloud native ar
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by SassyGrapefruit 4y ago
The problem with "don't buy things you can't afford" is that society really says "you don't deserve things you can't afford". Why is it that some brat that never worked a day in their lives can enjoy
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by SassyGrapefruit 4y ago
Good luck with that "Free to Spend" category. It just turned into emergency fund 2.0 for me. One thing that allowed me to spend some money is the idea of diversifying my savings by purchasing assets. Rather than let Emergency fund
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by SassyGrapefruit 4y ago
When I read your postI can't help but read smart as "smart". You vacillate between holding their intelligence in esteem "but eventually I came to understand that he is so good at reading code..." and condescending &
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by SassyGrapefruit 4y ago
please no AI is advanced enough to tackle vertical centering in CSS.
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by SassyGrapefruit 4y ago
The jobs computers do today used to be done by "Human Computers". The same arguments were raised when these jobs were mechanized. It's the same cycle over and over. AI/ML is no silver bullet. It's just another abstr
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by SassyGrapefruit 4y ago
>Use the Cloud, but don’t be too Cloudy The number of applications I have inherited that were messes falling apart at the seams because of misguided attempts to avoid "vendor lockin" with the cloud can not be understated. There
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by SassyGrapefruit 4y ago
I think git is wonderfully elegant and simple. I wish more people would take the time to sit down and understand it. It only takes maybe an hour or two. >Even a simple merge/rebase leaves one confused. I've never had this probl
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by SassyGrapefruit 4y ago
I agree I consider kubernetes to be a simplification. I have two apps running at my company the first is a forest of php files and crontabs strewn about a handful of servers. There are weird name resolution rules, shared libs, etc. Despite
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by SassyGrapefruit 4y ago
Why build it when you can buy it? Right? The decision is more involved that this. The real question is... What is the shortest route to a sustainable, defensible revenue stream? In the 80's IBM built a super quick computer out of piece
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by SassyGrapefruit 4y ago
Discovering that there is nothing the be discovered is a discovery.

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