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by penland 8y ago
NovoLabs | Dallas, TX | Full-time | Onsite or REMOTE NovoLabs is a small team focusing on Conversational Commerce in the Restaurant Industry. Our vision is to provide a world class product that allows users to transition from an analogue ch
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by penland 8y ago
I've been jumping between AWS and Google Cloud ( with a bit of Digital Ocean sprinkled in ) for the last several years. I chose Google as our cloud platform when we founded our company last August. I could War and Peace a bunch of thin
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by penland 9y ago
I'm happy for the guys at Bouyant, they've been great to work with in the past. There's a very large complexity payment inherent in the new "cloud native" architectures that fundamentally isn't worth it for a l
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by penland 9y ago
Nokona gloves are almost comically well made. I've used mine for over 20 years at this point and outside of a once a year oil'ing it has held up remarkably well. My dad has his from the early 60's and while it looks worn ( he
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Illustrating the Future of Travel(medium.com)
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by penland 9y ago
Alan Jacobs has a pithy overview of Morton, and the following is taken from a recent post on Morton by him: This strategy of employing familiar language in unfamiliar contexts gives the appearance of being radical but may not be quite that.
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by penland 12y ago
You're 100% correct. Sorry about that, my fingers didn't translate what I had in my head in regards to pkgng replacing the old separate multi-component way of handling binary packages. My understanding was that pkgng is a archite
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by penland 12y ago
That's a good overall article - I've been switching back and forth between FreeBSD and Debian for several years now, and I never spend more than a couple of month without using one of them. The one thing that surprised me was his
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by penland 12y ago
Did anyone else actually laugh out loud at the "Scaling is a solved problem" line? Guess I can take off early for the weekend then.
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by penland 12y ago
+1 - that's an outrageously good book.
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by penland 12y ago
Scala is much closer in spirit to ML / OCaml / Haskell than a LISP dialect, but I do agree w/ you that Scala rocks. It's my favorite language I've picked up since O-Caml.
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by penland 12y ago
Man that's a bad post about Scala. Scala has a lot to love and a bunch to hate within the language itself, but writer doesn't appear to have the ability to actually discuss it.
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by penland 13y ago
The difference between the high quality math guys and the high quality distributed jocks at that level is much larger than I think most people think. I come from the engineer side, and it's really bizarre to hear people w/ Ph.D.s
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by penland 13y ago
Dr. White, who heads this up, spoke yesterday at Strata . . . it was the most bizarre talk I heard in the 3 days by a mile. At one point, he actually put a slide from a Wired peace that bashed him, then spoke for about 45 seconds about how
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by penland 13y ago
It's worth trying to grind through a few months of Free-BSD after using Linux to get a feel for it. One of my favorite quotes on the differences is, "FreeBSD is what you get when a bunch of old school Unix beard brigade hackers s
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by penland 13y ago
I've done a lot of Spring side work and your first paragraph is the best explanation I've ever read for the framework. I also agree that if you can't test Spring code you are doing something wrong. I get the frustration with
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by penland 13y ago
This article confuses me . . . a better title would have been, "Why we changed languages, went from PaaS to IaaS, and changed our datastore - or why we changed everything". I find it interesting that the author didn't go fro
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by penland 13y ago
Yeah, this is one of my favorite tricks as well . . .
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by penland 13y ago
This is 100% correct. Southwest uses SAAS, which is so old that last year they begrudgingly updated because the Big Iron SABRE was using to host these things was no longer being supported by IBM. SAAS is mostly a Sabre Product at this poin
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by penland 13y ago
I worked for Southwest as recently as last year. In the industry, ALL reservation and ticketing systems are written by specialists. The major players are Sabre ( think IBM ) / Navitaire / ITA ( which was bought by Google not too
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by penland 13y ago
According to github, 85% of this is in Scala. It's written on the JVM for the simple reason that if they wrote it in Go or Erlang, no Enterprise would adopt it as there isn't a CTO at a non-tech Fortune 500 that has every heard of
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by penland 13y ago
I keep waiting for someone to mention that the Texas law is virtually identical to the laws on the books in 48 other states. Also, Ford went to the Supreme Court over this in 2001 and got the back of their hand. The law is on the books for
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by penland 13y ago
Wut? This is, umm, complete and totally false. Where do people come up with this crap?
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by penland 13y ago
/thread (:
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by penland 13y ago
For those that don't know Texas politics, the Senate and the House are roughly divided into thirds -> 1/3 liberal democrat, 1/3 old school country club moderate Republican, 1/3 Tea Party Republican. I can't think of a single non-rules
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by penland 13y ago
Another big issue not addressed here is the reluctance by project owners to completely turn over design. In the enterprise, the outlays for development are typically covered by another department, and in most cases that's marketing. So if
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by penland 13y ago
This thread interests me as well. Java is the acquire currency language currently - it would be nice to leverage an advanced knowledge level for something beyond the 25$ an hour rate you see on odesk or freelancer.
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by penland 13y ago
Well done, very well done indeed.
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by penland 13y ago
I see two sides of this. My degree is in applied math - the only comp sci I ever took was 101 - 102, plus one data structures course. I could do basic dev ops or web dev from now until the cows come home with 2 years in the industry. Co
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by penland 13y ago
I think you overestimate the quality of developer in the outside, "non-hacker-news" world. Labor is always the biggest outlay management worries about; if they don't have technical experience, there are tons of small to medium sized compan

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