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by hox 2y ago
That, and it would be an FBI van, not an NSA van. But the point holds.
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by hox 8y ago
True in some regards, but it’s also incredibly easy to learn how to do things the wrong way, if you have no one to learn from.
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by hox 8y ago
Make the changes on a non-active replica database (assuming your database supports replication), then promote the replica to be primary. If you don’t have replicas, the concept of “zero downtime” is really at risk as your primary database b
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by hox 9y ago
Twilio | Software Engineering | San Francisco, CA | Onsite or Remote | Full Time The Messaging Channels team is responsible for building the future of the Twilio Messaging API to embrace new forms of communication, starting with Chat applic
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by hox 9y ago
You've never been to a grocery store? Avocados are by no means exotic...
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by hox 9y ago
Dynamodb experienced a severe outage in us-east in September of 2015, dropping the service to three nines of uptime on just the single event. During the incident there was little-to-no knowledge of when service would be restored, so compani
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by hox 9y ago
Conpletely agreed; using DynamoDB for primary storage suffers from needing to design data models around the underlying technology. This is true for secondary keys as well, and is even constrained by the odd pricing model that DynamoDB follo
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by hox 9y ago
The biggest issue faced with DynamoDB from my perspective has been the problem with any hosted service - that is, the operational stability is in the hands of others entrusted with operating a massive multi-tenant system, and any outage can
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by hox 9y ago
you should play dwarf fortress.
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by hox 10y ago
Why would you even ask this? Please don't contribute to the ageism debate. My hunch is the programmer was qualified for the job.
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by hox 10y ago
Twilio | San Francisco, US | Full Time | Onsite | Messaging software engineers & managers & all the stuff The Twilio platform enables companies to integrate communications directly into their applications via simple cloud API’s and
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by hox 10y ago
"Sliding into management" might sound like it's an easy path, but it's an entirely different profession. Only those who are interested and have the ability should ever consider this route.
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by hox 10y ago
Which means the employee has to realize income tax on the stock immediately under an 81-b or after vesting, correct? That would be an annoying and surprising tax bill, if the employees are mostly familiar with ISOs or NSOs.
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by hox 10y ago
This is just from angel list. So essentially just early stage startup salary ranges, presumably?
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by hox 10y ago
But in a lot of cases, it is. I prefer a high-functioning communicator with decent programming skills over a top-notch programmer who can't communicate.
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by hox 10y ago
Why is that a poor use-case? While the discussion is about "white privilege", the same thought pattern holds true for all bias, be it based in race, age, religion, sexual identification, etc.
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by hox 10y ago
> For all the talk about white privilege, I never hear the solutions to it. What is OP supposed to do: not get the job? Not feed his family? How is he supposed to prove that he is aware of his "white privilege"? Of course he sh
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by hox 11y ago
Do you seriously think most of this is based in straight-up hatred of white males? Every time I read something like was in the article, I view it as representative of what the author feels every day . God forbid we feel that way for 5 seco
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by hox 11y ago
This is just misguided, plain and simple. I am white, male, heterosexual, and from a middle class family, and I absolutely know that my background gives me privilege. It doesn't matter if I earned it or not; I had and still have an adv
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by hox 11y ago
As a hiring manager who has hired from boot camps, I view boot camps simply as an organized medium to encourage career change into tech. They are not unlike undergraduate computer science programs - neither program is required to start a ca
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by hox 11y ago
Don't doubt yourself. There are a lot of great companies hiring Java developers; you don't have to worry yourself about the standard YCombinator group.
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by hox 11y ago
Wow. Really? Why is stability a concern? Much of engineering is making solid decisions and fucking sticking with them rather than changing to the latest toolset because that's what hacker news says is the best today. Are you trying t
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by hox 11y ago
> A key ingredient here is diversity And all of the employees are white men. Yep. And what evidence is there that this advice is sound? The company hasn't been around for the same length of time that the author says is usually when
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by hox 11y ago
dynamo db is affected in the entire region, however, not just a single AZ.
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by hox 11y ago
I'd argue that "unlimited users" not really being unlimited is a pretty big detail that matters.
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by hox 11y ago
As long as you get the right hiring manager it shouldn't matter. I agree that it is a valid concern of yours, and rightfully so in this hiring climate. But fair hiring managers do exist, and they build some of the best teams around. I
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by hox 12y ago
Just hook up a human PIR to that thing. Only $4-5.
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by hox 12y ago
Twilio Client ( https://www.twilio.com/webrtc ) does this through just JavaScript and webrtc, using Twilio as the bridge. granted you need to wire up to the JavaScript, but it's fairly simple.
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by hox 12y ago
As for STUN/TURN being painful, Twilio recently released a STUN/TURN service platform: https://www.twilio.com/stun-turn . At least makes things somewhat simpler.

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