bespoke_engnr

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by bespoke_engnr 9mo ago
Thank you! I can relate...buying too much ink is what got me into this mess in the first place :-D.
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by bespoke_engnr 9mo ago
I love fountain pens, and use handwriting as a kind of superpower to remember everything I need to at work. So I started an online fountain pen shop: https://www.bottleandplume.com - it's focused entirely on all the stuff I
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by bespoke_engnr 2y ago
I think splay trees would be good for this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splay_tree
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by bespoke_engnr 5y ago
If anyone wants to test nomad/consul on AWS, and you just want to type 'terraform apply' and then have a consul cluster, nomad cluster, and example app to play around with: https://github.com/groovemonkey&#x2F
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by bespoke_engnr 7y ago
Their twitter account is so cringey: https://twitter.com/bbirdtech I'm also sad to see MIT so overrepresented in their ranks, presumably because the founder went to MIT: https://web.archive.org/web&#x2F
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by bespoke_engnr 7y ago
From one of my absolute favorite articles about this, and about finance in general. The most entertaining thing I've read this month: Matt Levine's "How do you like We now?" https://www.bloomberg.com/opin
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by bespoke_engnr 7y ago
I'm making a video series on DevOps interviews right now. I haven't seen the questions above much, but for non-technical 'warmup' questions I see these repeatedly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mIkRM7y
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Americans Were Skinnier in the 1980s, with the Same Diet/Exercise as Today(theatlantic.com)
1 points by bespoke_engnr 7y ago|0 comments
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by bespoke_engnr 7y ago
That's a great point. A much better argument, I think, than the other ones I've heard against student debt forgiveness. Thanks!
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by bespoke_engnr 7y ago
Yeah, I totally get the sentiment. It's absolutely valid and reasonable. But at some point we have to get to a place where newcomers to the system start getting a 'better deal' then the people came before them. That's g
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by bespoke_engnr 7y ago
I respect your comment, and your viewpoint. But I often hear versions of this: "I had it hard, so we shouldn't let these soft youngsters get off any easier." I'm not saying you don't have a point (college education
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by bespoke_engnr 7y ago
This is so true. Another thing I've seen great NCOs do: When someone has to do something boring/dirty/ugly, never let them do it alone. Sometimes having a buddy help you with shit work can actually turn it into something fun.
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by bespoke_engnr 7y ago
Thank you!
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by bespoke_engnr 7y ago
I really think there's something magical about beginners typing in whole projects by hand (instead of the modern copy-paste). It really helped me when I was getting started with programming. To me, it feels like typing each character m
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by bespoke_engnr 7y ago
What's the book? Would you recommend it?
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by bespoke_engnr 8y ago
Oh cool! $ calendar Sep 13* Rosh Chodesh Tishrei (Beginning of the month of Tishrei) Sep 13* First Day of Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year; 5768; sabbatical) Sep 13 Barry Day commemorates the death of Commodore John Barry, USA Sep 13 Chiang
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by bespoke_engnr 8y ago
I made a video with a list of questions I like to ask (and how to ask them): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9XPTay-x8g They've saved me from some bad gigs. The second half of the video covers questions for your would
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by bespoke_engnr 8y ago
Thanks for that. And just to clarify, I didn't mean to sound negative. I actually think it's a good thing -- I've picked up several really good courses on real estate investing, machine learning, and other stuff. A few misses
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by bespoke_engnr 8y ago
I sell a poorly marketed (but well-loved) "Project-Based Linux" course on Udemy. Most of my business there comes from my YouTube channel. Since launching the course two years ago, the average price students have paid has hovered a
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by bespoke_engnr 8y ago
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by bespoke_engnr 8y ago
1. What are the biggest challenges you're dealing with on the technical side right now? - is this going to be technically interesting? - something you can learn from? - are they doing super boring things or using super crappy tech?
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Managing DigitalOcean Infrastructure with Terraform(youtube.com)
2 points by bespoke_engnr 8y ago|0 comments
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by bespoke_engnr 9y ago
Not a nitpick at all; thanks! I was wondering why the grammar was WAY better than I was expecting, and how they got it to keep track of the 'state' of a subject that had just been mentioned. If things had improved that much in NLP
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Bot Writes New Harry Potter Book(botnik.org)
16 points by bespoke_engnr 9y ago|8 comments
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by bespoke_engnr 9y ago
Explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vMO3XmNXe4
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by bespoke_engnr 9y ago
I don't have the power to downvote but this comment has no place here. Please consider editing it.
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by bespoke_engnr 9y ago
Thanks for the additional explanation, and for clarifying RE: $1/service; that makes sense.
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by bespoke_engnr 9y ago
Charging $1 per secret is interesting. I wonder if that will affect how people design their application. We've had a pretty splendid experience with Vault so far, so I'm not exactly in the market for another solution, but this loo
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by bespoke_engnr 9y ago
This is really interesting, thanks. What's your website? I'd love to see that dissertation when it's up. Fascinating stuff.
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by bespoke_engnr 9y ago
> Her life, up to that point, was very similar to the life that I have been living. And I am sure that, at the time, she was as optimistic about her life as we are today about ours. But she went to the UK in 1935, and she went back to Ch

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