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by gunsch 4mo ago
A few months ago I was debugging a similar issue in a Go-based service layer, where frequent HTTP requests to the same domain kept making fresh TCP connections when I was expecting TCP conn reuse. In this situation we were discarding the HT
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by gunsch 10mo ago
Pair programming! Get hands-on with your junior engineers and their development process. Push them to think through things and not just ask the LLM everything.
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by gunsch 10mo ago
I hoped this might be like an externalization of g3doc. Nope. Instead, I started reading through one of their highlighted examples --- the Go repo ( https://codewiki.google/github.com/golang/go ). This might be the
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by gunsch 1y ago
Sure, that's advised in interviews, where you're about to make a decision on someone's livelihood, hence the importance of reducing bias. That's a completely different context than in casual conversation at a social eve
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by gunsch 2y ago
I recently took 10 months off before my current gig. I did little to no coding, mostly just recovering from burnout and doing some side fun stuff. No one batted an eye about the break when I started job-searching again --- I think breaks li
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by gunsch 2y ago
I had the fortune of taking Erdmann's Python class at the University of Arizona 15 years ago --- a Python/Pylab/data engineering class aimed at materials science engineering students. He was already getting into this kind of
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by gunsch 2y ago
I spent a few years building OpenAPI-related tools at Google, collaborating with Apigee. One of the "open secrets" about OpenAPI's history was how Smartbear spun out the OpenAPI spec to be a community-managed spec, but with
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by gunsch 3y ago
Engineering lead/manager looking for engineering leadership roles. Ex-Google (Staff SWE), have managed teams and orgs from 20 to 140 engineers. Looking for anything from managing a single team, to director-level, to principal-SWE type
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by gunsch 3y ago
+1. The comments bashing Closure in comparison to TypeScript feel like they're missing the timeline. Closure brought modules, requires, compile-time type checking and optimizations to JavaScript years before TypeScript was on the sce
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Creating a platform for employee-internal apps with GCP(adhocteam.us)
1 points by gunsch 3y ago|0 comments
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by gunsch 4y ago
There are also government contractors who often pair with USDS doing this kind of work! Ad Hoc (my employer), Nava, Civic Actions, etc. are all part of a new generation of companies with related missions trying to bring modern software prac
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by gunsch 4y ago
I happened to join Oink just before it fell over, and when it went down I managed to find some of the former members on a forum saying "hey, let's go build a replacement right away." I was only a budding PHP developer in high
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by gunsch 4y ago
It sounds like you're assuming "managing up" is about managers who don't know how to do their job. I don't think this article is saying that. My best managers weren't ones who knew every detail of each project
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by gunsch 4y ago
Yep. google.com homepage is giving me 502s. It's been a looooong time :-o edit: aaaand it's back
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by gunsch 4y ago
I've enjoyed YNAB a lot for budgeting and been using it for the last 3 years now. Works very well with my spreadsheet brain. It's got solid APIs if you want to do your own add-ons or integrations too. As an example, a friend of mi
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by gunsch 4y ago
It's a real problem. I've got a friend who went through the Code Fellows program last year. They advertise 93% job placement within six months. Based on conversations we had through his program, it seems like they're generall
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by gunsch 4y ago
This one's the real answer (or at least a substantial part of it). On VA.gov, the USWDS components (and their composition into a modular forms system) was a large part of making sure that applications met the accessibility needs of the
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by gunsch 5y ago
This has been a little tricky to confirm, but I'm getting 100% ping packet loss to 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4,4, and https://isup.me/dns.google confirms the site is down.
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Google Public DNS is down(dns.google)
8 points by gunsch 5y ago|3 comments
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by gunsch 5y ago
In doing so, you're betting that _you_ can grow your money faster than organizations you give it to can make impact on their communities. Helping people who need it _now_ rather than in ten years helps _them_ start contributing more e
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by gunsch 5y ago
Ad Hoc | Frontend, backend, infra / DevOps engineering | REMOTE (within USA) | Full-time | US Citizenship required Ad Hoc is trying to make federal government better by fixing its tech from the inside. We work on Healthcare.gov, VA.gov
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by gunsch 5y ago
Ad Hoc | Frontend, backend, infra / DevOps engineering | REMOTE (within USA) | Full-time | US Citizenship required Ad Hoc is trying to make federal government better by fixing its tech from the inside. We work on Healthcare.gov, VA.gov
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by gunsch 6y ago
Yep, good guess, thanks for noticing. Added to the post.
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by gunsch 6y ago
Ad Hoc | Frontend, backend, infra / DevOps engineering | REMOTE (within USA) | Full-time | US Citizenship required Ad Hoc is trying to make federal government better by fixing its tech from the inside. We work on Healthcare.gov, VA.gov
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by gunsch 6y ago
I replied to your other comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25975825 about that exact question! One weird thing we've discovered working on VA.gov for the last five years is that we on the contractor side a
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by gunsch 6y ago
As others have mentioned already, 18F and USDS are in this space. They do some work, but their scope and manpower is limited, and they try to multiply their impact through contracting. Part of that is helping federal agencies write better c
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by gunsch 6y ago
There are government contractors who are doing this kind of work! There's a group of younger companies that grew up around the Healthcare.gov rescue and work in conjunction with USDS, trying to build cultures of better software develop
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by gunsch 6y ago
VA has attempted a lot of open-sourcing as well, including most of VA.gov [1], including the project management of it, mostly as an ideological stance from the VA product owners we work with. Open-sourcing hasn't cultivated much in the
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by gunsch 6y ago
You're right that it's ambiguous with respect to gender, and that _is_ the point. However, it's _also_ ambiguous with respect to quantity of people it refers to (singular or multiple), i.e. the "Sally and her friends&quo
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by gunsch 6y ago
I work on a contract for the VA, which includes open-source repos [1] for VA.gov's frontend + backend systems. We work closely with USDS [2], who has been a huge ally in advocating for doing our work in the open, including our project

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