cntainer

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by cntainer 1y ago
it depends, I noticed that many engineers will input information on a slide following their thought process closely, they rarely think about the audience's perspective, especially if the audience is less technical or not familiar with
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by cntainer 1y ago
Sure mate, because taking a messy list of confusing statements and turning it into something like: "High risk of failure on re-entry - foam strike more than 600 times bigger than test data - test data unfit to support decision as fligh
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by cntainer 1y ago
I can't remember the last time I saw a slide as mangled as the one in the article. It hurts my brain just reading it. But you are right, most engineers would consider that reasonable, while complaining about the "muggles" tha
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by cntainer 3y ago
Pretty sure it means that Ruby isn't the bottleneck for your case. In most WebApps the first performance bottleneck people tend to hit is the DB: missing indexes, n+1 queries, etc.
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by cntainer 3y ago
The magic of cloud is how quickly you can scale things up. If you're a new fast growing business it will give you a competitive edge. If you drank to cloud kool-aid from the beginning you kind of get used to huge costs for simple servi
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by cntainer 3y ago
Cloud providers will always make their in-house offerings more attractive and easier to use compared to other (open standards) solutions. That's how you get locked in.
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by cntainer 3y ago
Just another example that a free market does not always ensure healthy competition and some times intervention is needed to level the playing field.
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by cntainer 3y ago
I don't think Google is afraid LLMs will "fix" all its issues. I think they're more afraid that their seemingly unassailable moat is suddenly exposed to disruption. People use search engines to find answers to questions.
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by cntainer 3y ago
"Making fiction become fact" - the dream of many present day entrepreneurs.
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by cntainer 3y ago
Sure, this helps by removing some of the bias, if done right. But many times devs end up perverting the original intent of the framework. Eg: I've seen many scrum teams transforming story ponts into days or vice versa missing the actua
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by cntainer 3y ago
The people getting paid salaries to have a bird's eye view and veto power over those kinds of changes that could screw with my deliverable should be the ones knowledgeable and accountable for that estimate But they are accountable to
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by cntainer 3y ago
I expect a plumber to give me an estimate of time and cost for his "tasks" before starting work. Even if he doesn't tell me the exact cost upfront he'll still be able to tell me roughly if he'll be done in 2-3 hours
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by cntainer 3y ago
Management is punishing waitstaff by underpaying them and then blaming the customers for not tipping enough.
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by cntainer 3y ago
I hate tipping in general, but especially when it's expected or even demanded. The fact that restaurants or any business relying on the practice use it as a reason to underpay their employees just pisses me off.
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by cntainer 3y ago
500 - the number of employees before your CEO becomes a political figure 1000 - the size of company when you’re at risk of losing accountability From my own experience and other sources ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by cntainer 4y ago
Not OP but this definitely rings a bell with me. I started my career in a software agency, maybe I was unlucky, but in this particular agency I overheard the more senior employees staying after-hours and making fun of the the junior employe
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by cntainer 4y ago
did that before: running a single monolithic app inside a kubernetes cluster on a single pod. I still feel dirty after doing it. My current hobby is to try and run monolithic apps like these on serverless services like cloud run. There&#x27
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by cntainer 4y ago
I'm not an "on-premise bare-metal server absolutist". Of course there are trade offs in terms of convenience but there are also trade offs in terms of cost and performance and vendor lock-in. It all depends on what you need a
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by cntainer 4y ago
> It’s not like you can pull people off the street and have them get away with infrastructure this simple I know that in many cases simple != easy but I can't help feeling sad while reading this. When I started my career cloud wasn&
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by cntainer 4y ago
Agreed, but would most engineers understand that they can keep the simplicity of the solution if the underlying infrastructure is based in the cloud/serverless/etc? Fro my limited experience many engineers fall in the trap of addi
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by cntainer 4y ago
Good point, for normal executives (whatever that means). In my little bubble most executives I have to deal with believe themselves to be on par with solution/enterprise architects and they like to show this by saying stuff like: &quot
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by cntainer 4y ago
Imagine trying to present this kind of architecture to a room full of executives already sold on the "benefits" of kubernetes, big data, serverless, etc.
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by cntainer 4y ago
What a funny perspective, thanks for the laugh. I'm sure there isn't anyone in Europe who enjoys cold water, most of them lost their lives or got deported to the US during the last Tepid Water war /jk. The fact that you like
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by cntainer 4y ago
Probably didn't pass the interview. The implementation was rather simplistic and low quality. Here's a better enterprise version: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris... Though the fac
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by cntainer 4y ago
What's interesting is that having a growth mindset also seems to reduce the levels of the stress hormone. So it has a direct influence on your physical well-being, not just the psychological one.
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by cntainer 4y ago
For those who get a 403, like me. https://web.archive.org/web/20221111060921/https://www.lapha...
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by cntainer 4y ago
https://archive.ph/lthwZ
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by cntainer 4y ago
I'm curious what relatively slow means for you. As an example I just made a quick test from my Firefox mobile browser in desktop mode and the switch between PR tabs is not instant but close enough to not be bothered by it.
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by cntainer 4y ago
Honestly github always felt snappy and intuitive to me, more so than many "cool" react fronts I've seen. It would be great if they wrote an article about this switch to understand some of the challenges they were facing. I wo
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by cntainer 4y ago
> Ruby sucks in large codebases where conventions aren't well defined The community is working to improve the outside-Rails ecosystem with efforts like dry-rb or ROM. So you can find plenty of useful non-Rails conventions if you loo

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