beebs93

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by beebs93 4y ago
How to let others make mistakes so they learn more efficiently during work hours without crashing production.
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by beebs93 5y ago
Yeah, I noticed that a bit, too. I originally meant the megathread post itself. I try not to read too many comments in such threads on Reddit; regardless of the topic ;)
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by beebs93 5y ago
Agreed. Said family member mentioned in the parent thread keeps a handheld radio (I don't know the exact tech specs, sorry) for such occasions. That said, they mostly use it to just listen for any logging trucks calling out checkpoints
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by beebs93 5y ago
They frequently go camping with their family in the interior of BC so they always have one for emergencies. I agree they can be pricey, but it obviously paid for itself just in this situation alone :)
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by beebs93 5y ago
One of my family members has been stuck just east of Hope, British Columbia[1] for almost two days now. There is currently no cell service, but luckily they have a Garmin inReach so we can communicate via its SMS feature. For anybody with f
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by beebs93 5y ago
Each AWS partition can have its own browser support SLA. China's AWS console has its own [1], although it almost overlaps completely with the "classic" AWS console [2]. For the government/secret partition, I have no clue
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by beebs93 5y ago
Yeah, good questions that I'd also love to see see answers to! My favorites for retro-like discussions (if you think it will be beneficial): 1. What did you worry about the most in the beginning that later turned out to be silly/i
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by beebs93 5y ago
It's an internal tool developed at Amazon so it's not available to the general public. That said, it's nothing super fancy. Simple collaborative sticky note app that supports Markdown and has the ability to vote once per stic
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by beebs93 5y ago
Yup, same here. Not sure how I was ever on their list :/
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by beebs93 5y ago
Another nice add-on to this format within my department is that we utilize an internal retro tool for people to post their questions for discussion. After the 20ish or minutes of silent reading, we give people ~5min to post their questions
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by beebs93 6y ago
Congratulations Dalia! Best of luck with your new adventures in and outside of Google! Your story motivated me even more to keep nurturing my niece's interest in programming :)
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by beebs93 6y ago
I especially do not envy the UX designer & copywriting staff that may have to address this across of all AWS' consoles/public documentation. I've worked with UX/UI designers across multiple companies for over a decad
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The AWS Billing System(lastweekinaws.com)
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by beebs93 7y ago
Heh, when I started working in the payments space, I had fleeting moments early on where I caught myself thinking something similar. I soon realized, however, head-in-the-sanding the other current use cases and their complexities would be a
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by beebs93 7y ago
I'm doubtful browser vendors could ever properly encapsulate the various international payment use cases behind their abstraction, but I would love to be proven wrong. Bank accounts (ACH/SEPA), EU's relatively recent push for
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by beebs93 7y ago
Managing. Expectations. Easily took away 75% of the stress at work and stopped from it bleeding into my private life. This can manifest itself as: - being upfront with what you do and don't know when asked to do anything so if delays o
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by beebs93 7y ago
> synthetic in the sense of synthetic traffic, since it isn't traffic from genuine users. Yup - I think that lines up. > what is the master aggregate "switch" ? what does it do? We have a hierarchy of aggregrate monitor
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by beebs93 7y ago
Yeah, I concede the common lingo within the company (or team even) may not align with either proper definitions or mainstream usage.
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by beebs93 7y ago
Every company I've been with seems to re-invent the terms or swich their definitions slightly. For me, currently, "canary" means a set of basic automated integration tests that are continually running in production with alarm
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by beebs93 7y ago
Yeah, very useful strategy. I've heard it go by various names (e.g. toe-dipping, one-boxing, etc.), but it's always been one of additional methods of helping ensuring safe prod deployments at any company I've worked for. One
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by beebs93 7y ago
> They're also more likely to steal from you, hurt or harass other employees and more. Not disagreeing with you here as I have zero experience with this, but in your experience are there any attributes that ex-cons typically exhibit
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by beebs93 7y ago
Worked for a small design company and one day everyone but me and the office manager was laid off. It was pretty weird and despite reassurances from the partners, I took it as a hint that it wasn't the most stable of jobs. Started look
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by beebs93 7y ago
Agreed. I almost always dial into any large scale events at my company - regardless if it concerns me directly - to listen how ppl critically evaluate data, triage errors, and determine how to mitigate the problem(s). Whatever skill level I
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by beebs93 8y ago
Not a manager, but I meet with my engineering manager once a week. We set the ground rules early on that we'd avoid the two extremes of the topic spectrum: project status updates and venting about issues that neither of us can take act
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by beebs93 10y ago
Agreed. I use FE frameworks a lot so I was hoping for a more detailed summary of what worked and what didn't. If the OP has a more in-depth analysis I would love to read it.
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by beebs93 10y ago
This is good news - looking forward to it! I'm hoping this will eventually speed up my tests during deployment a bit as I currently have to pipe my ES2015 code through a Karma transform to have it readable by my PhantomJS instance.
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by beebs93 10y ago
> Be reliable (never, ever go dark) +1 to this point. At a previous agency job I found this to be the biggest pain when hiring/dealing with contractors. As long as they gave decent notice on days off I never complained about their
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by beebs93 10y ago
When approached to work for my current company I met with my future manager and asked: Will I be able to have a more senior developer act as a mentor? Will I have direct access to more experienced devs on my team? What opportunites will the
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by beebs93 10y ago
> ...with the only big advantage jQuery has now is if you're animating. While you can probably get away with using $.animate for very simple animations, you'll run into jQuery's animation performance problems before too lo
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by beebs93 10y ago
> My advice is go on interviews you don't even care about in hopes to get rejected. This was an immense help when I recently decided to switch companies. I applied to places I didn't really want to work at so that I could eithe

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