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by azmarks 1y ago
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande is a must read
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by azmarks 2y ago
We did a similar thing. Started all in on Heroku and then slowly moved database, redis, MQ and CICD off to dedicated providers over a 4 year period. Then we spent several months creating an architecture in a different cloud provider that we
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by azmarks 2y ago
We have a analytics SaaS which displays, among many other pieces of data, ratings from different providers, including Yelp. I assumed that Yelp had been doing this all along and we ran above some predetermined limit, but the email we receiv
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by azmarks 2y ago
We received the exact same letter from Yelp. Our usage is significantly higher and when we talked to them, the prices they quoted were ridiculously high (thousands of dollars a month).
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by azmarks 3y ago
It depends on the company and their policies. When working at large companies, there is generally a HR department that has to "approve" all firings. This is usually to make sure policies and laws are being followed. At smaller com
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by azmarks 3y ago
I had coworkers fly out to a training class and met up with some other attendees in the lobby prior to the training. That's when they all realized that there was no training course and no one had told any of them.
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by azmarks 3y ago
When I moved into my last house, I had a fun electrical problem. We moved in October and I would end the day by taking the trash out. Now, my garbage can was outside the door from my garage to the backyard. One night the light outside that
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by azmarks 3y ago
You can (and probably will) have multiple different frontends with website vs app. If you have a clean API for the backend, then you have one set of calls which can be made from multiple different user interfaces
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by azmarks 3y ago
People died of Pellagra for political and racism reasons. See: https://www.theelephant.info/op-eds/2021/09/03/hunger-in-the...
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by azmarks 3y ago
The random lady from HR is why a previous manager sent out a message to my team wishing me a Happy Birthday. In between saying thanks to my teammates, I messaged my boss that my birthday wasn't for another month.
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by azmarks 3y ago
woke? You mean treating all types of people with respect?
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by azmarks 3y ago
She was not convicted on any charges about falsified medical results. She was only convicted on defrauding investors
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by azmarks 4y ago
Yes. This is a system problem. Why are cars allowed to be near pedestrians? Why were cities/streets designed to make it possible for cars to run over pedestrians? Saying it was an inattentive driver misses the point that we can't
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by azmarks 4y ago
Safeguards do not make a company less nimble and it's frankly embarrassing that people think that. We should not have to sacrifice people in the name of growth. And the thinking that it's ok to hurt people because it's a &quo
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by azmarks 4y ago
You need to push to get 1-2 junior devops engineers that you can handle the day-to-day tasks (unblocking engineers, fixing common issues), so that you can focus on larger picture tasks (evaluating new technologies, setting strategies, etc.)
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by azmarks 4y ago
Java came out 3 (or is it 4) recessions ago. There are entry level developers who were born after I started using it. It's a legacy technology.
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by azmarks 5y ago
He did say quickly
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by azmarks 6y ago
No wonder we start counting at zero, it all started with a nun.
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by azmarks 7y ago
Except that Lauren says that she didn't write the story. https://mashable.com/article/facebook-teen-vogue-sponsored-c... "At some point, Teen Vogue contributor Lauren Rearick was listed as the author of the s
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by azmarks 11y ago
That's not what Colonel Hogan taught me.
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by azmarks 11y ago
And stole a hostage and killed several soldiers.
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by azmarks 11y ago
And what did the Ewoks eat prior to the Stormtroopers arrival? Were they cannibals?