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by collinf 7y ago
Yeah it's a total hog of attention. At the company I just left, you could walk through our office and 90% of people were just talking on Slack. What a waste of engineering time. We were pretty invested in ChatOps which I thought was gr
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by collinf 7y ago
It sort of bothers me that the kubeadm logo is just the K8s logo wrapped in the React logo. That said, I’m a big fan of the improvements to the CRD’s. That was a pain point in the past.
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by collinf 7y ago
Posting this here hoping that someone with more knowledge can enlighten me about this. After going down a bit of the rabbit hole, I see that the SR-71's first flight was in 1964. It has held the record for fastest air-breathing manned
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by collinf 7y ago
> These interposing network elements, called middleboxes, often unwittingly disallow changes to TCP headers and behavior, even if the server and the client are both willing. There is nothing worse than finding out that someone not even
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by collinf 8y ago
"A Manhattan is a Screwdriver but you replace orange juice with bitters, replace vodka with sweet vermouth, and add whiskey." Can't wait to explain this one to my bartender tonight!
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by collinf 8y ago
This is anecdotal, but I used to work at a large (Fortune 500) financial company. The CEO had no engineering experience, but every year they would do an annual summit of the goals of the company. Over 50% of the talk every year, they would
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by collinf 8y ago
Another point I recently heard, and I can't recall the exact quote off my head but it was along the lines of: "Amazon at this point is really just a cloud company that is using it's cloud earnings to subsidize its other busin
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by collinf 8y ago
The author states that the talk was inspired by this series of blog posts[1] if you are like me and find articles about technical topics much easier to consume than talks. [1] https://medium.com/databasss
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by collinf 8y ago
I still have that on iOS? Never noticed it going away and it’s still there for me. That feature really did take way too long for me to realize although.
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by collinf 8y ago
Docker has a multitude of benefits for single machine multitenant deployment strategy, namely resource and file system isolation. It also has the benefit of being self documenting of dependencies via layers, which is a nice thing to have. T
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by collinf 8y ago
It's so true. People take these stories as hard truth, when in fact many studies on economics (and social sciences in general) are hard to replicate. [1] 1. https://www.nber.org/papers/w13026
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by collinf 8y ago
In the article they said that both regions consumed writes and got into an inconsistent state during the process. > This effort was challenging because by this point the West Coast database cluster had ingested writes from our applicatio
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by collinf 8y ago
I would have to imagine that they have a huge market share of Developer laptops. Unless they are willing to jeopardize all of that or integrate developer first productivity into a tablet which nobody has done yet, MacOS will stay.
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by collinf 8y ago
Freakonomics did a Podcast on this if anyone wants a pretty good listen. I listened and couldn't stop thinking about all of the applications to software in it. freakonomics.com/podcast/in-praise-of-maintenance/
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by collinf 8y ago
This is awesome. I just hacked together a makeshift version of this using a couple watch’s while debugging a deployment issue today. Always so interesting to me when someone takes a step back from a problem and comes up with a great solutio
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by collinf 8y ago
As a precursor, I don't have anything necessarily against the concept of a mainframe. It's just one big shared computer, not too much different than a kube cluster etc. But if there is one thing that definitely deserves to die in
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by collinf 8y ago
I believe that from the minimal perspective, you are right. I actively lift weights/run though so I try to hit around .75-1g/lb daily for recovery (and vanity) purposes.
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by collinf 8y ago
This is so true. I used to be consume articles about healthy eating, but it after all the contradiction I have decided that I'm done reading about it all. I keep it simple with the opinion that eating protein, your veggies and drinking
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by collinf 8y ago
I've tried just about every single one and the best one is still the main one. It gets better just about every release similar to VSCode. Not saying it's perfect, but with all of the other VSCode benefits I find it so much better
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by collinf 8y ago
Amdahl's law, for further reading. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
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SEC Chairman Wants to Let More Main Street Investors in on Private Deals(wsj.com)
7 points by collinf 8y ago|1 comments
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by collinf 8y ago
Why? I think that they move on to another service industry job such as customer service or something. I don't think working in a fast food restaurant is building the sort of skills that making a horizontal jump to another industry is o
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by collinf 8y ago
While it looks great, for a real noob the real problem (at least when I was starting out this was mine) is fast terminal navigation. To learn to do that I always thought the normal progression is sort of like this: 1. Mastering getting arou
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by collinf 8y ago
Here is a free one I really enjoyed! Goes through the history of networks and a lot of the performance tradeoffs that we must make as engineers. https://hpbn.co/
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by collinf 8y ago
I come to HN to avoid these Medium articles shilling their personal twitter account disguised an article that has already been written 25 times. Your typical Medium article: 6 reasons why you need Async in your Javascript code! (generic art
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by collinf 8y ago
It always really bothered me that there had to be so much syntactical sugar on top of testing frameworks. Unit testing should be written in exactly the syntax of the language you are working with. I don't want to have to carry that add
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by collinf 8y ago
If you want to make it as a career choice, I think you should start with learning Java and Scala. For better or worse, this field is tied to the JVM and learning these languages will make picking up Spark and Hadoop (which tbh is a prereq f
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by collinf 8y ago
My only fleeting experience with Julia is in a Numerical Analysis Course three years ago... but it has 1-indexed arrays so its good for scaring away all people who are programmers before analysts/scientists! Really though, I think it h
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by collinf 8y ago
Couldn't help but notice the irony behind this post in your "Previous Posts" section: https://martinhering.me/post/0/everything-thats-wrong-with-h... Also, I've always been curious what the pro
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by collinf 8y ago
Like the other commenters, I had never heard of this either until reading the latest funding round recently. Here's a summary from the WSJ[1] from yesterday: > Peloton, founded in 2012, makes a $1,995 stationary bicycle. Most custom

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