brianm

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by brianm 6mo ago
Huh, I got cottage core, not dystopia!
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by brianm 1y ago
Not really -- non-profit boards are usually volunteers, even ion the non-profit has revenue used for operations.
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by brianm 2y ago
I've seen a couple of cli apps recently take the path of "config file is long form arguments, minus the --, separated by newlines, overridden by actual arguments", so if you were doing `dsh` (which doesn't support this)
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by brianm 2y ago
I generally use [click]( https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/ ). Need to try typer now :-)
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by brianm 2y ago
A coworker, once, had a cool idea to use Taylor Series to encode histograms for metrics collection. Basically a digest method akin to sketches or t-digests. We wound up using t-digests as Stripe (iirc) had a good OSS implementation at the t
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by brianm 3y ago
I'm not sure how this applies in softwoods (like the hemlock & fir type stuff usually used in construction), but it is not really so obvious that slow growth (tight rings) is better than fast growth (wide rings) in hardwoods. The f
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by brianm 3y ago
Introduced by mutual friend
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by brianm 3y ago
20 years ago I was in a very similar position, but it was perl I was writing instead of python :-) This advice is therefore dated, and exhibits survivor bias, but it is what I know: 1) Shore up your formal learning in at least data structur
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by brianm 3y ago
Learn both, you will eventually have to anyway, and it won't hurt your learning curve, in fact will probably help to see similar ideas implemented and expressed very differently.
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by brianm 3y ago
beelink or minisforum have you covered
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by brianm 3y ago
https://skife.org/ Kind of on pause for last few years, but not dead :-)
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by brianm 3y ago
Apache uses [APR Versioning]( https://apr.apache.org/versioning.html ) which I think had a big influence on semver, fwiw
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by brianm 3y ago
Most companies, in my experience, don't actually know how to make use of Staff+ engineers. I spent years at a medium sized public "tech" company just trying to help the company change engineering enough to make use of these f
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by brianm 4y ago
Hah, wave . That is a name (latchkey, not jboss) I have not heard in a very long time :-) I was thinking of the EJB 1 & 2 era xml wiring of all the things.
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by brianm 4y ago
This is... EJBs. It is probably less painful to use, but the model is pretty much the same. Fascinating.
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by brianm 4y ago
Yes, but it mainly has come up when combining libraries and releasing something else as OSS. For example, the ASF has a good examination of the effect of combinations with the AL2: https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.
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by brianm 4y ago
glitter
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by brianm 4y ago
It predates Groupon, was actually started at/around Ning (if anyone remembers them). Groupon hired a bunch of the core folks at the time they decided to adopt it.
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by brianm 4y ago
Thrift and GRPC fill that niche nicely.
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by brianm 5y ago
The title is misleading -- one developer (a major one, mind you) is stepping back from offering free community support. This is not "Apache PLC4X" announcing an end of community support, it is one of the core developers announcing
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by brianm 5y ago
This looks brilliant, but... Sending CLI input data, even just the root command, back to Fig is going to be a deal breaker for a lot of companies. Too high a risk :-/ If you don't need that data, don't collect it. I am sure
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by brianm 5y ago
mod_python ( http://modpython.org/live/current/doc-html/handlers.html#pub... ) as a service!
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by brianm 6y ago
The technical heavy lift is rarely the success determinant, so having a company implement half-baked (enough for internal use, but without the edges polished off that are needed to support it with external customers) versions of N related (
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by brianm 6y ago
> can VSCode connect to a remote server and connect to remote docker containers? Yes, it can. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers-advance... talks about setting it up.
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by brianm 6y ago
This is cool! At a previous company we got a lot of mileage in debugging and ad-hoc tasks by exposing various things as filesystems. We mostly did webdav, but NFS is way better from a client transparency perspective. For many folks find, ls
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by brianm 6y ago
I doubt it, the dependency chain is pretty big: https://gist.github.com/brianm/066797531d8cc1f1c6c563ea8db7b...
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by brianm 6y ago
I was curious about this, so applied the easy ones for an existing tool ( https://github.com/brianm/wsf ). This was not an exhaustive test of optimization combinations, just a single stack, but the results are interestin
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by brianm 7y ago
I really like this! I particularly like that it is oriented around a useful workflow, rather than for just "small code at rest". It looks like it parses the schema to find type information (2 minute skim, so please forgive me if I
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by brianm 7y ago
Unifi controller on a pi zero might be a bit painful on the memory front. It wants the controller (java app) and mongo, both of which like to eat up memory.
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by brianm 7y ago
FWIW, I have seen (and have recommended) designing a number of applications with the spreadsheet as their front end. This works particularly well with google sheets, given its reasonable API. It is way richer than anything you will quickly

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