somethingAlex

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by somethingAlex 5y ago
If I had to pick, Single responsibility principle is #1 for me. If each class does one thing, anyone will eventually figure out how it’s doing it. If it’s doing multiple things, all bets are off. It’s also the exact type of code that will b
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
I’d agree, but I wonder how much faster writing a backend API in Django is compared to using node. I’ve written a lot of python outside of the web space and a lot of JavaScript in the web space and I can’t think of a time I wish I was writi
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
It’s a nice metaphor, but hopefully we all know what bad abstractions look like. If you have to refer to the API documentation frequently, even for simple stuff, I don’t see how that’s adding any value. If you have 100 lines of code but you
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
I feel like all of the downsides given in the quotes can be solved by making sure people get a variety of work. Define an interface and split the work into chunks. Just make sure people are being assigned to different kind of chunks should
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
They did this at chick-fil-a corporate as well. An extremely competent product manager described the yearly experience as “standing around not knowing what I should do and trying not to get in the way.” Those kitchens get hectic, super diff
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
Like anything it's just pros and cons. Sure you save money by doing on-prem or just buying servers and colocating, but you also get all the headaches that come with that. I used to work at one of the most popular fast food chains. I ha
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
Honestly shocked that rust is about 4 times faster than node for the DynamoDB insert workload in the average case. I knew it'd be faster but I would have expected maybe 50% faster since most of the time is probably spent simply sending
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
I think it's just the trade off between these two scenarios. - Relatively poor amortized scale out time with good guarantees in the worst case. - Good amortized scale out time with dropped requests / timeouts in the worst case. Wi
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
I think scrum and all agile frameworks are trying to solve two problems. 1) Making good software efficiently 2) How can stakeholders get a better sense of how much work a team can do per unit of time I don't think scrum offers anything
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
But we are just talking about an x ray here. Estimating the price of a radiologist per hour is not hard. It shouldn’t be this difficult to price x rays at a per hour or per shot basis. Pretty much every industry has variability in their job
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
The type of consultancies and firms which actually pay out profit based on equity are usually LLP's / partnerships (part of the reason why "Partner" is a title in finance, law, etc. Tech companies are usually corporation
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
I wasn't talking about people needing to work more than 40 hours. I agree, exceeding that shouldn't become normal. I'm talking about the people who have to take care of their kid, so they can't work the usual 9 to 5. The
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
I fail to see how this new "servant economy" isn't an improvement on the unskilled labor sector. It's never been easier for someone who needs to work two jobs... to work two jobs; one with weekly hours and another you ca
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
Those 1, 2, 3... buttons on the front are presets they already configured. It's triggering their "standing up preset" button once every 45 - 60 mins and then they press the "sitting preset" whenever they want.
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
There's no neural network you could train using supervised learning to solve sorting in the general case. To train a neural network, the training set and test set need to come from a common probability distribution but the inputs of so
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
Personally, I have a tendency to lump them together because they always seem to be propagated by people with certain characteristics. - They think "questioning everything" makes them smart even though many questions are answered t
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
I see a very common arch of "I want to achieve" -> "Okay, life is about more than that, I'm going to practice balance" in these comments. I have also gone through it. Around 19-24 years old I was working like a d
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
I think there was a disconnect. In the context of my reply I was assuming that your opinion is what society generally holds true. I, too, believe this. It's talked about in books like the Growth Mindset and that book resonates with me
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
EDIT: the last sentence refers to the context of authorization systems. Not completely in general.
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
One point I haven't seen covered is complexity. Carta seems to have an extremely complex authorization scheme but I wouldn't say that's the common case. Many organizations can get by using simple role + account based permissi
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
I suppose comments like this are what got the author to write the blog post. Genetics also matter and we as a society should make sure we foster the potential of people like the 10X scientist. I have a great memory - my brother however, has
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
I just don't think browsers are in a good position to implement advanced features like this, though. They are too general of a tool to be opinionated and if you aren't going to be opinionated I don't see how javascript isn&#x
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
In the new technology sector this is certainly true. Find your product-market fit and then optimize when you become mature and scale up. But aren't we talking about extremely mature kernel code here? My impression is that all kernel di
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
Does anyone know to what extent Apple differentiates between in-app purchases and subscriptions? I've heard Netflix and Spotify do not give Apple 30% because, well, that'd be kind of ridiculous for these companies to give 30% of t
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
Could you explain what you mean by inequality eats at society at all levels? Obviously if inequality gets to a certain point, where you don't have a solid middle class anymore - that's problematic. I'm just curious about your
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
What are consumers intuitively expecting compliance with this law to look like? Data from one service may be in an entirely different schema than the service you want to import it too - let alone format. Service A may summarize your data an
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
None. It's not meant to be an investment, it just happens to be used like one currently. It's ironic, the same thing that makes these coins valuable to people (volatility, and mostly in the upwards direction) is a major reason why
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
What do you mean by "cheat" in the workforce?
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
Under 100GB; I'm sure vanilla Postgres would suit our needs too. However, adding TimescaleDB on top was not much of an investment and in exchange we got an interface for operations we do often, effortless continuous aggregation, near-c
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by somethingAlex 5y ago
Very happy with our choice to use TimescaleDB. The idea to simply make it a Postgres extension was brilliant. The compression release was one of the cooler features I've seen in recent times. Row database for recent transactional data,

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