davidrupp

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by davidrupp 1mo ago
I learned the term at ThoughtWorks (consulting company), where it was a play on the phrase "on the bench", which itself meant "not working on a billable project". The "bench" version comes from sports like (Ame
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by davidrupp 8mo ago
> Kill Sauron and the Palantiri are safe to use again. Alt: Be Aragorn and wrest control of the Orthanc stone from Sauron.
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by davidrupp 11mo ago
I used to tell people there that my favorite development technique was to sit down and think about the system I wanted to build, then wait for it to be announced at that year's re:Invent. I called it "re:Invent and Simplify".
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by davidrupp 11mo ago
AWS Fault Injection Service: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fis/latest/userguide/what-is.htm...
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The AI Bubble Is Worse Than We Thought(planetearthandbeyond.co)
5 points by davidrupp 11mo ago|0 comments
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by davidrupp 1y ago
> A modern compiler embeds a considerable degree of probabilistic behaviour. Can you give some examples?
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by davidrupp 1y ago
I'm intrigued, as this article did not trigger my (clearly as yet underdeveloped) GenAI spidey sense. Will you share some specifics of what triggered yours? Separately, do you have any thoughts on the subject matter? Whoever or whateve
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Simplicity, Agility, and Agency(articles.pragdave.me)
1 points by davidrupp 1y ago|0 comments
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by davidrupp 1y ago
I agree that it wouldn't cause the doors to open any sooner for deplaning, but once they did, people could just ... leave. The people standing in the aisle with their luggage out of the compartment are the ones who started in the aisle
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by davidrupp 1y ago
One reason that I would value is that it would speed up boarding and deplaning. As you correctly point out, the prevailing overhead luggage system provides a benefit to some travelers, potentially to the detriment of others. It's a tra
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by davidrupp 1y ago
I do the same substitution for “ML”. :-)
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by davidrupp 1y ago
Whenever I see the term "AI" or similar, I mentally substitute the phrase "a lot of math, done very quickly", which is more concrete, and typically helps me sort out the stuff that still seems plausible, as in the senten
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Decomposing Aurora DSQL(brooker.co.za)
1 points by davidrupp 1y ago|0 comments
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by davidrupp 2y ago
SDE, just passed ten years at Amazon; opinions my own, obvs. The three best managers I've worked with in my career have all been at Amazon (you know who you are). Also the three worst (ditto). And the respective bars were pretty [high
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by davidrupp 2y ago
> it runs red lights Fixing that would require "full self stopping". Coming soon[1]. [1] ... for some value of "soon", that is.
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by davidrupp 2y ago
He did? I'm surprised to find a quote I'm not familiar with. On what page of which edition did he say this?
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by davidrupp 2y ago
I recently was asked to take over the role of Deputy Governor Danforth in The Crucible a week before opening. I accomplished it -- barely -- largely through rote memorization. Yes, I also had to imbue the words with appropriate intent and e
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by davidrupp 2y ago
And how do "you" evaluate Alice, with an MS in Computer Science, active Github, ten years of experience, all FAANG? Exactly the same way. Even if I agreed with your premise that the prevailing paradigm is necessary for Bob (spoile
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by davidrupp 3y ago
Perhaps because it was a better deal than any of the alternatives. I left a startup a few months before it was (as far as I know) acquihired, partly because I could see the end of the runway approaching. All of the extant team were offered
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by davidrupp 3y ago
@dang: Not sure what guideline I broke with my previous comment that was flagged, but I would love to learn so I don't repeat offend.
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by davidrupp 3y ago
As far as I can tell, all of these are problems with deferring integration, not rebase per se. I prefer trunk-based development, partly because of all of this: https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com
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by davidrupp 3y ago
I didn't read "not targeted at industry" as equivalent to "doesn't care about industry".
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by davidrupp 3y ago
What's a scenario in which adding $20K to my income results in more than $20K in additional taxes? The highest marginal tax rate in the U.S. for 2023 is 37%, and it kicks in after about $578K for a single filer. So increasing my income
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by davidrupp 3y ago
I think Duverger's Law [1] is applicable here. The dominance of two primary parties is an emergent property of the rules for how candidates in the U.S. typically win elections ("plurality wins" as opposed to "majority wi
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by davidrupp 3y ago
https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy#5b-dspy-vs-application-d...
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by davidrupp 3y ago
"Most programmers find themselves drawn strongly to typing or not quite early in their career, and then spend the rest of it rationalizing The Correct Choice to themselves and others." Hashtag irony.
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by davidrupp 3y ago
Possibly an inadvertent holdover from a previous event in 2019? https://developers.slashdot.org/story/19/04/21/191201/histor...
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by davidrupp 3y ago
Flex on, lad. Flex. On. Long may you flex.
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by davidrupp 3y ago
I learned a lot about programming by taking a book like this that was written specifically for the TRS-80 (which I did not own), and translating the programs to what I owned instead, which was a Sinclair ZX80. This primarily involved transl
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by davidrupp 3y ago
"Bragging" seems unnecessarily pejorative. Reading the information about his patents didn't sway me one way or the other the first time I visited his site, but I can see it being relevant data for some of his audience. The (s

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