readlikeasloth

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by readlikeasloth 1y ago
Say what you want about European financial organizations but they are legally obliged to practice their recovery strategies. So every other month production clusters with all user data get teared down in one cloud region and set up in anoth
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by readlikeasloth 3y ago
... but then you have two competing organizations: OLD versus NEW. This is how it plays out: NEW starts as your shiny, agile, start-up-ish org with all the young people with the latest ideas. A company nearby got rid of all their freelancer
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by readlikeasloth 3y ago
Same here. Tried to connect an old Midiman Midi interface to a recent MacOs. Oh boy. Someone built a driver and I´m grateful for that but it was quite something to get the thing working. It seemed to me a waste to buy a new piece of hardwar
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by readlikeasloth 4y ago
Last time I checked programming had something to do with computer science. You could say its applied computer science. So I ask myself: how come that this discipline, already 50+ years old, has almost no consensus of how its output aka writ
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by readlikeasloth 4y ago
This begs the question: what do you recommend instead?
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by readlikeasloth 4y ago
Ah. Sweet memories of a legendary Steve Ballmer moment: https://youtu.be/eywi0h_Y5_U
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by readlikeasloth 4y ago
> If you're 100% serverless then this doesn't really apply, but if you're spinning up eight different Kubernetes clusters for eight different teams then you probably need to collaborate a bit better. This is exactly the si
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by readlikeasloth 4y ago
I don't want to spill the beans here, and well: you figured it already out by yourself.
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by readlikeasloth 5y ago
You are joking but this place exists, in California in the middle between SF and L.A. and spent 5 months there. Didn‘t write an article about it though.
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by readlikeasloth 5y ago
Why does it have to be the CEO? My first association was that Winston Wolfe character from Pulp Fiction. Wouldn´t it be neat if companies had that kind of fixer who you could call for the real hard problems? Like problems that arise from th
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by readlikeasloth 5y ago
Out of curiosity: what features from Ruby are they reimplenting? I have no experience in Ruby but in a few other languages and framworks. And having encountered something missing yet when writing Go web services.
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by readlikeasloth 5y ago
> I do realize that this no-tech-interview approach would probably never work for permanent positions This. Booking a freelancer is a completely different game than hiring an employee. There are legal aspects here because big company A h
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by readlikeasloth 5y ago
> I can imagine Go shining a lot more brightly when working with a team which has mixed skill levels. Thank you for expressing that thought. However: I came quite to the opposite conclusion. I´m currently working in a small team with mem
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by readlikeasloth 6y ago
Just did the other way last month from jekyll -> hugo after years on jekyll. Compile times down from 30 seconds to 300ms. Also was not able to reinstall jekyll with lots of ruby related errors and my knowledge of ruby is close to zero.
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by readlikeasloth 6y ago
I think you just described the Keynesian beauty contest: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest
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by readlikeasloth 7y ago
Warren Buffet stories are like Chuck Norris jokes. Buffet does this, Buffet does that. Oh well. I just see a pattern in that story: Save your precious time. Use your resources in a better way. Be more efficent. Amass more resources (that co