warren_s

8 ms·

1.
by warren_s 11y ago
We started getting SQS errors from us-east-1 around 05:08 UTC. We also have a bunch of files on S3 which Cross-Region Replication hasn't yet replicated... I think that depends on SQS as well.
2.
by warren_s 14y ago
This is where regular company or team-wide meetups are worthwhile. GitHub do this semi-annually I think, I know Engine Yard do it with their remote support staff, and the company I work with does a monthly hack day. Distractions can be over
3.
by warren_s 14y ago
Talk to your GF about it. The best part of living with someone, is you don't have to give them your attention every second you're together. If you need time to spend on your interests, surely she does too? Try to schedule some guilt free ti
4.
by warren_s 15y ago
It's a glib statement, but it's not coming from a place of envy - more likely cynicism than anything else :) As I said, he has real world experience, he's made his money and continues to do so... I am both self-taught, and have a CS-type de
5.
by warren_s 15y ago
Disagree. There are plenty of people with CS degrees who can code, what's more dangerous is a programmer with gaping holes in their theoretical knowledge. A friend of mine who both has years of real world experience and a PhD in CS is fond
6.
by warren_s 15y ago
There was a study done on this a while ago: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8914028... I agree with the premise that there are diminishing returns after the 2nd screen, but I personally always use my 13" Macbook scree
7.
by warren_s 15y ago
My own experience suggests you are truly burnt out when you are no longer capable of doing work in the face of dire consequences like missing mortgage repayments and feeding your children. Of course, this feeds back on itself, with further
8.
by warren_s 15y ago
Just as long as they stay away from that Eve kid, I hear she just wants to know EVERYTHING!
9.
Aussie brothers cash in again after blocking US giant Groupon(theage.com.au)
1 points by warren_s 15y ago|0 comments
10.
by warren_s 15y ago
At an ethical/moral level, they should care, but at a business level, they should also care. Every time a staff member walks out the door, how much does it cost a company in terms of replacing them? Not to mention the kind of bad will emplo
11.
by warren_s 15y ago
"Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught, will we realise that we cannot eat money" Staff shouldn't be treated as some kind of natural resource to be burned through and discar
12.
by warren_s 15y ago
I can't imagine Rackspace would be happy with the impact that would have on their clients...
13.
by warren_s 15y ago
We skipped unit tests when we built desksnear.me for the rails rumble, but we DID have a cucumber test suite for integration testing. It wasn't that much of an impost for us, and it meant we spent more time coding, and less time manually te
14.
by warren_s 15y ago
Yeah, I had wondered if it was something like that. It IS a tad concerning.
15.
by warren_s 15y ago
"They store your password in cleartext" Do you have a reference for this to back up your claim? Preferably before I sign up.
16.
by warren_s 16y ago
Mining money isn't a good fit for dotcoms, I've seen it first hand, as an employee of a startup with investors there (WA). These guys get edgy in businesses they don't understand, and IT is a long way from digging shit up and selling it to
17.
by warren_s 16y ago
Did you actually read the article? retraining other devs to use Ruby was identified as one solution. Nevertheless, bringing new developers in who need training is not a zero-cost process compared to hiring an experienced developer.
18.
by warren_s 16y ago
Unless you're hiring someone fresh out of school, they've likely had some experience in the job market and base their expectations of salary and conditions on that. It's not really a sense of entitlement if I can point to similar positions
19.
by warren_s 16y ago
What have you done to improve your networking opportunities and the community in YOUR city? I started a monthly lunch group where a bunch of us get together and just talk tech. Some of us are devs, some are sysadmins, others designers, we e
20.
by warren_s 16y ago
Hey, at least they're using something . There's no need to waste time on a religious war within the church of version control, when there are non-believers who must be shown the light.
21.
by warren_s 16y ago
There was no version control available to me when I started programming BASIC on a BBC Model B in 1987. :) It's a bit of a different story in 2010. I would sincerely hope that anyone who aspires to be a professional developer would be aware
22.
by warren_s 16y ago
Not trolling, but seriously, is there really a significant number of developers out there who aren't using any form of version control?
23.
by warren_s 16y ago
I doubt much/any of this will come to pass, speaking as someone who has always had to deal with download limits, it's really not THAT big a deal. We here in Australia have been subject to tiered broadband pricing since day 1 - I feel pretty
24.
by warren_s 16y ago
I've tested the link on Chrome, Safari and Firefox under OS X while logged out of google and in none of these cases was I asked for a password. Other people have been able to successfully complete the form too. I'm not sure why this has hap
25.
by warren_s 16y ago
It's a google docs webform. A few clicks, a submit, and you're done. Did you actually wait for it to load before passing judgement?
26.
by warren_s 16y ago
clickable link: http://bit.ly/gcFlDv
27.
Ask HN: Do you work remotely in IT? Care to fill in my 1-minute survey?
2 points by warren_s 16y ago|7 comments
28.
by warren_s 16y ago
counterpoint: trademe.co.nz - started up in 1999 and pretty much owned the NZ auction space because eBay didn't have a presence there at the time. Sold for 3/4 billion NZ$ in 2006. Being a big fish in a small pond can be profitable - these
29.
by warren_s 16y ago
He showed slides of a normal distribution for the previous semester's results, vs a bimodal distribution for the current semester - that's the aberration I'm talking about.
30.
by warren_s 16y ago
So, if it was known in previous semesters that a test bank was used, why such a large statistical aberration this time around? It seems implausible that 1/3rd of the class just happened to memorise the answers accurately, and indeed, the di

More ›