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by grey 9mo ago
Location: Ontario, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Go, Python, Java, AWS, GCP, K8s, SQL, etc. Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hFPH4PgodS_mIZ3lxERSU0hFbJX9Krv
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by grey 10mo ago
Location: Ontario, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Go, Python, Java, AWS, GCP, K8s, SQL, etc. Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hFPH4PgodS_mIZ3lxERSU0hFbJX9Krv
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by grey 6y ago
I have the opposite frustration here, where I queue up some music videos on my TV and inevitably after 1-2 songs, I'm staring at static album covers when I know there's an awesome music video that should be playing instead
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by grey 7y ago
You should look into multistage docker builds, that lets you still use a full fat image for your build but then leave all the build tools out of your final image I liked jpetazzo's post on the subject but there are plenty to choose fro
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by grey 9y ago
Plugging my old student project for GraphViz reference/examples: https://graphs.grevian.org/ I wouldn't mind changing it to use a js renderer, currently it's using the (deprecated!) Google image api but I had
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by grey 9y ago
A while ago it was suggested to me to mentally translate "accident" to "collision" in context of cars hitting cyclists. Most collisions with cyclists are easily avoidable, and caused by negligence, impatience or ignoranc
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by grey 10y ago
Riot accounts are tied to different geographical regions, so I would expect the service doesn't have to span across them, http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Servers
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We are ruthless on code reviews(techblog.workiva.com)
51 points by grey 10y ago|69 comments
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by grey 11y ago
I've wanted something like this for years! A great real world example of a data structure that really made an impression on me during my computer science education, connecting theory to implementation
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by grey 12y ago
I think Google has shown they're trying very hard to become a primary infrastructure host for any business in "The Cloud", getting more people online opens up new opportunities there too
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by grey 13y ago
Any chance of a California King any time soon?
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by grey 13y ago
I'm surprised I haven't seen this mentioned yet, but at I/O during his Q&A Larry Page talked a fair bit about how he wants to see manufacturing get more streamlined, Maybe this could be related? > Smartphones, Page sa
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by grey 13y ago
Really? As a Canadian who crosses that border fairly regularly, the iris & fingerprint records are only for the "Enhanced Drivers License" as far as I knew, I've crossed the border dozens of times with just my passport
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by grey 13y ago
If some requests are taking 30s to service, front ends will be spinning up very often because during those 30s, other requests will be queueing up
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by grey 14y ago
I've always found that knowing the deficiencies of a language is the best way to know the language. Anything that works well should be pretty intuitive and comfortable, but knowing exactly where the trouble spots of a language are let you b
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by grey 15y ago
Has anyone ever read http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm or put it through any verification? It looks good but I'm no biologist, I've used it as my basis for years to avoid polyphasic schedules and embrace naps and biphasic sleep
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by grey 15y ago
There's a fair number of really good Postgres tools out there, or tools that support Postgres among other platforms, They're just pricey. The free tools are passable but not that good.
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by grey 15y ago
I think you misunderstand. You're right that to him "free === good, proprietary === bad" and since his software (GNU) is one of the few platforms that really qualifies as "free" he encourages people to use it, however he's made it perfectly
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by grey 15y ago
Notch has a similar attitude, as expressed at http://www.minecraft.net/about.jsp , specifically "once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed, I will release the game source code as some kind of open source."
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by grey 15y ago
Ok, It's been a while since I read 4HWW, but how is there so much praise for this guy? That book was like a how-to on being an amoral, freeloading douchebag.
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by grey 15y ago
The Linux implementations of ZFS are dog slow, and for the last few weeks I've been evaluating btrfs as a possibility for my home storage server, and I've ruled it out completely. btrfs has been "Close to a stable release" for years now, bu
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by grey 15y ago
Agreed, The surprise birthday party is one exact case where this would be annoying, in almost every other situation most users would prefer the current behavior (In my experience anyways)
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by grey 15y ago
Ugh gross, As I understand it they grant you a patent exception in a very specific case (Displaying exact schema.org valid tags on a website), but remove any incentive to make tools that consume those schemas, or to extend/enhance the schem