burnstek

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by burnstek 6mo ago
Yeah dude. Amen. In my 20's I could literally code a side project all day into the evening (sometimes overnight) and it was absolute serendipity. Coding in and of itself was a vibe. Then, life happened, more life happened, and even
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by burnstek 7mo ago
50 here. Years ago I completely stopped coding, becoming tired of the never ending rat race of keeping up with the latest bizarre web stacks, frameworks for everything, node for this, npm for that, Angular, React, Vue, whatever - as if sol
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by burnstek 10mo ago
Post mortems are absolutely key in creating process improvements. If you think about an organization's most effective processes, they are likely just representations of years of fixed errors. Regarding blamelessness, I think it was W.
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by burnstek 1y ago
Reminiscent of the Netflix drama when Mike Kail was accused & eventually convicted of similar. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-netflix-executiv...
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by burnstek 2y ago
Every day I thank god I finished my career in software before Leetcode-driven interviewing became so popular.
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by burnstek 6y ago
I am imagining an industry where half of developers don't know how to design a relational data model. Scary if true.
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by burnstek 7y ago
If you have a problem with MIT taking Epstein's money, then you have a problem with money in general. We all take money in some fashion from disgusting, psychotic, and evil people on a regular basis. Particularly so when we're o
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by burnstek 8y ago
What a silly little article. Venn diagrams are an extremely illustrative and useful way to visualize joins.
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by burnstek 8y ago
If you're in executive management then it's a big cause for celebration, and it's been that way since the dawn of M&A
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by burnstek 8y ago
I love this! Maybe the absolute fetishism over the overrated GitHub and Git will finally cease.
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by burnstek 9y ago
It takes a large technical team to pull this off: https://www.craigslist.org/about/craigslist_is_hiring
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by burnstek 10y ago
I would say the biggest decision point here is how either entity might evolve. If these are truly different domain entities then one may end up with different attributes than the other in the future, meaning these should definitely be diff
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by burnstek 10y ago
It also helps communicate with colleagues who prefer to leverage their CS background when discussing algorithms, issues, etc.
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by burnstek 10y ago
I'd call that a broke person with potential, but that person is still currently broke. I would hope that person looks in the mirror and also agrees they are broke, and will make financial decisions with that in mind. In many ways, thi
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by burnstek 10y ago
W Edwards Deming, one of the most famous and respected individuals in the business management and industrial engineering space, would firmly disagree with you. Driving out fear (of colleagues, of management, etc) was one of his key principl
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by burnstek 10y ago
Workday.
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by burnstek 10y ago
A lot of software developers are are also business people. They focus and make decisions based on the needs of the organization, given the local job market, current staffing, past investments, the future roadmap of whatever product they ar
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by burnstek 10y ago
Great sentiments. I don't see security being discussed nearly enough in terms of risk and ROI. I usually see it discussed only in absolute terms, i.e. unless a solution fits the "CIA" model to a T, then it's unacceptab
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by burnstek 10y ago
This is a great article. We seem to love the act of complicating healthy eating habits. Vegetables are good. Processed foods (including sugar) are bad. Mix in some fish and chicken from time to time. Don't pour salt all over it. T
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by burnstek 10y ago
Man! I hate Basecamp too! I haven't bothered trying it with my Fenix, but I used it on my Colorado handheld GPS for a few backpacking trips, and it was terrible. Especially the early versions.
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by burnstek 10y ago
Love my Fenix 3. Garmin does a nice job bridging the cap between the "smart" watches like Pebble and the Apple watch, and the more serious fitness devices like those from Polar and Suunto. I have much "nicer" watches, bu
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by burnstek 10y ago
"If you're doing simple stuff with <insert high level tooling here>, no problem, but as soon as you need to go deeper, good luck." This is how technology works in general. The deeper you go, the more abstractions you r
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by burnstek 10y ago
But "ve" doesn't create confusion?
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by burnstek 10y ago
Fair enough, but again, YMMV. Agreed that black cabs in London are even more awful, but its much easier to find a ride, which is the core idea. When Uber in London provides the same level of service as it does in Dallas, NYC or Paris... t
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by burnstek 10y ago
London has definitely not been conquered by Uber. YMMV, but I've had nothing but bad experiences in London (multiple driver cancellations, slow pickup times, etc.) especially compared with Paris and many cities in the US.
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by burnstek 12y ago
Most professional developers will view this as a shameful and classless move on your part.
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by burnstek 12y ago
Apple is a fascinating phenomenon. It rightly interests everyone; investors, economists, managers, consumers, and from the look of this thread, even those who it doesn't interest. :)
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by burnstek 12y ago
At first blush, the mental model reminds me of ASP.NET WebForms.
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by burnstek 12y ago
Not at all. In the US, we computer scientists have a wealth of opportunities to which we can apply our knowledge and education. Presumably in NK, you are limited to doing their government's bidding.
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by burnstek 12y ago
The US has a lot more capability than that. Wrong or right, the US (and many other countries) could knock North Korea from the map entirely. Lives are much more important than Internet access.

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