natefox

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by natefox 3y ago
Agreed. Went to share the link and it was such a wall of text I deleted it.
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by natefox 4y ago
Pinterest uses (used?) mysql. Blog post is a bit old but a fun read https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/sharding-pinterest-...
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by natefox 4y ago
That saved my ass. Had been on AOL for a month or so, by stealing my dads CC number out of his wallet. Just happened to look at what the bill was going to be and it was something stupid like $400 (mid 90's dollars, so like a grand toda
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by natefox 6y ago
Anecdotally, we've walking a few OC beach towns the last couple weeks.. its _all_ vinyl sided tents everywhere outside. They're keeping in the heat for evening dining. Afternoon dining is pretty easy to do, but dinner seems to be
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by natefox 6y ago
So, so wrong. How did (s)he think experts get so good? Isn't the phrase `the master has failed more times than the apprentice has even tried` well known for a reason?
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by natefox 6y ago
Along these lines, I once heard somewhere that people do not process the word 'dont'. As a coach, I've had to shift my vocabulary to focus on the 'do's rather than the 'dont's Eg: If you're doing a sp
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by natefox 6y ago
If you run out of time, set up another call for you to interview them (eg ask these questions). Interviews are a two way street.
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by natefox 6y ago
> Once you put it in production, you can't just run it from docker on your workstation. But that's true for any data store. This isn't any different. Nor is an RDBMS. They all need HA/replication. And that is rarely t
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by natefox 6y ago
> in production. I went looking, but found nothing regarding any operations management. * How does this scale? * How is it monitored? Where do I get the metrics for it? (indexing performance, search performance, etc.. Stuff not found in
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by natefox 7y ago
I give my boss/coworkers my wife's phone number when I go on vacation. I tell them you have to talk to her to get to me. I then put my phone in airplane mode 95% of the time and use it as a camera. I'll occasionally undo airp
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by natefox 7y ago
Even taking that to a more 'day to day' degree: 1. I live near the coast. I want to go surfing, but not sure where. Is my rideshare or autonomous car going to drive me around checking out different breaks to see what waves are goo