makoz

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by makoz 2y ago
Disclaimer work at AWS. > Postgres was a "it exists" database back in the early 2000's. If we're really nitpicking it's not saying Postgres is the most popular database since the early 2000's. If you base it
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by makoz 3y ago
Disclaimer work at AWS. I'm still trying to understand the scaling story better. When we say serverless it mentions automatically scaling when it detects some sense of resource pressure. If I have a "hot tenant-database", doe
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by makoz 3y ago
Disclaimer work in AWS. > Rebuilding a cluster from the last-known-good backup should not take that long It's not even clear if that's the right thing to do as a service provider. Let's say you host a database on some data
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by makoz 3y ago
Sure, but isn't this more about risk tolerance at this point and how much your customers care about? Where the responsibility should be on customer's end. Running on EBS/RDS doesn't guarantee you won't lose data. If
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by makoz 3y ago
OOC how are you going about learning more about webassembly?
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by makoz 4y ago
Disclaimer work in Amazon. That at least doesn't work at all in my situation. I'm based in Seattle and I collaborate regularly with folks in probably 3-4 other geographic locations, ironically no one actually in Seattle. If anythi
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by makoz 4y ago
Disclaimer: work at AWS For the record I'd prefer a work environment that's closer to maybe 1-2 times a month in the office. > Most developers are self learners (that's how most people learn to code anyway) I don't th
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by makoz 4y ago
Really? Doping and Lance Armstrong is the first thing that comes to mind. Although I guess we could argue he wasn't competing anymore
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by makoz 4y ago
Data point of one and all that, but I got a decent bump in base and have been with the company for more than a few years. I assume that's true for almost everyone else based off the Blind posts.
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by makoz 4y ago
Data point of one and all but I chatted with a Meta recruiter a month ago and asked specifically about the hiring freeze that was on-going at the time. They mentioned they were still hiring for more senior engineers so YMMV.
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by makoz 4y ago
On the off chance there are more regulatory requirements to accept this sort of business and they don't want to build out the support necessary to do so? Maybe there's different risk profiles that they're not willing to accep
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by makoz 4y ago
Really? If I execute a script that DDoS someone, presumably it should not be treated as "speech" as if it is a protected right. That's such a hilariously slippery slope since you can arguably do "anything" via execu
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by makoz 4y ago
Do you mind expanding why as an end-user paying in cryptocurrencies is easier than signing up for a credit card and paying with that? To sign up for a credit card (in USA), I just provide my personal information to some banking website and
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by makoz 4y ago
The median family income in US appears to be 84,000 in 2020 [0] if that helps. [0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEFAINUSA672N
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by makoz 4y ago
Aren't all sales at that level disclosed publicly, well in advanced/regulated?
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by makoz 4y ago
> As for "erosion of freedom in the last 10 years in China ... the Chinese people don't view it that way Really? My girlfriend and her friends would strongly disagree with that statement. From my understanding they grew up in a
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by makoz 5y ago
Do you have an issue with the polling methodology they used in the survey? Source on it being an online poll?
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by makoz 5y ago
The article links to another article [0] with the following quote: require that employers disclose a salary range "from the lowest to the highest salary the employer in good faith believes at the time of the posting it would p
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by makoz 5y ago
IIRC my parents IKEA dining table is solid wood and we've been using it 20+ years.
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by makoz 5y ago
Disclaimer work at Amazon. Do you mind expanding on this a little bit on what position you were applying for? I think it's perfectly reasonable if someone has 15 years of experience and being rejecting for an SDE I position. It's
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by makoz 5y ago
If the code review is routine, the approval will be quick and straight forward. There's barely any friction in my experience. I'd like to believe I'm competent, doesn't mean I'm infallible. You can dedicate time to
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by makoz 5y ago
I guess to some extent it's about some aspect notion of "fairness". Another concern would be if their poor performance spills over into my own role and that prevents me from pursuing more interesting tasks that are more align
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by makoz 6y ago
What do you think about sports leagues and the fact that the major ones in US have unions for their players? (low supply, high demand)
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by makoz 6y ago
I didn't realize we were suppose to sign social contracts, must've missed that memo.
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by makoz 6y ago
Source?
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by makoz 6y ago
Disclaimer work at AWS. Customer disputes? Returns? Presumably you'll need some sort of history. At the very least saying Person X bought Y product
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by makoz 6y ago
Are we factoring in the vastly different requirements for each profession starting out? Seems disingenuous to compare say Doctors who go through medical school vs people who only need a high school degree and however long training takes.
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by makoz 6y ago
Here's an example where Disney replaced their IT workers with people on H1B https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff...
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by makoz 6y ago
Which minor versions have you seen with breaking changes? Or are you talking about the way Postgres version things
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by makoz 7y ago
I tested this out when it was in BETA about a year ago. It worked pretty well with Path of Exile but it ran into issues when I was trying out Monster Hunter World iirc. Word of caution - if you have a bandwidth limit it burns through it pre

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