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Prior employer paid $50/day for on call. Not a ton, but it helped me feel like the valued and understood the sacrifice of always having to be within X minutes of a device.

Mind the clock drift. https://github.com/abiosoft/colima/issues/274

I was there live! Good times. A friend convinced me to dip out of another session to go watch Gary's talk. I feel lucky.

I've seen Gary give a few talks. All fantastic.

The Birth & Death of JavaScript is my second favorite. The fact that he stayed in character as someone from 2035 for the entire talk and used a slightly evolved English.. brilliant. I saw that at Strangeloop and have fonder memories than the PyCon rendition on his site.

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

Buffering, filtering, and mapping information has value. If that consumes a full day, every day, it can no longer be broadcast to every engineer.

It’s a nuanced thing. An EM should share accurate context, filter distractions, and deliver it in the most effective way for that team.

There’s also the shielding aspects in dysfunctional organizations which is a whole other thing.

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There's something perverse about a liberal arts college campus being repurposed for co-working.

You may already know all this, but I thought I’d add to what you said.

JDBC doesn’t provide connection pooling out of the box. There are connection pooling libraries that layer into JDBC. Most frameworks and application servers do bundle a connection pool out of the box.

Lambda is just a different paradigm than a single monolithic app with a connection pool. I assume that’s what you’re getting at. :)

There are other use cases though. Tools like pgBouncer are fairly useful in a large enterprise where a single database has multiple clients. They provide a single point to coordinate failovers and manage resource limits. I generally prefer a 1:1 relationship between an application and a database, but sometimes you have to play the cards you’re dealt.

I agree with you about the disfunctional public services.

I disagree with you that downtown never really declined that much.

Woodward was mostly boarded up 20 years ago. During the recession downtown was a ghost town. It didn’t get worse because there was no one there to make it worse. It wasn’t uncommon to go downtown and not see a single person on the streets.

A revival has to start somewhere. Businesses and restaurants moving in is the start.

Tracking food intake for several months helped me immensely. You may want to track carbs, fat, protein as well as calories.

Once you cut the junk food out of your diet, it's easier to keep it out. The cravings for sugar subside.

I go through on/off periods with weight lifting, but generally try to lift at least once a week.

Apart from that I try to get outdoors with some kind of physical activity 2-3x a week. I've been lucky to find a few physical hobbies I enjoy. I used to wake skate / wake board on the weekends and mountain bike during the week. Mountain biking has now taken over the weekends as well.

That would be my biggest recommendation. Find a hobby you really enjoy that keeps you active.

You're missing out in the meantime. Even just for a local development stack, it's extremely useful.

Do they not get their apps security scanned? In my experience checking all requests go over HTTPS is the first thing that the security teams check. You'd think since Equifax works with banks they'd force them to adhere to some kind of security testing.

Pure conspiracy theory but it is to Netflix's advantage to hinder upstarts from entering the market by not supporting net neutrality.

Common sense is often worth repeating.

I've seen it several dozen times. A solution to one of our sample tests made it out to Github and that was all she wrote. For a while we kept the same sample test as a honeypot, but disqualifying half of the candidates for cheating was tiring.

I still agree it's the best approach.

You've lost me. You're saying that the city has real problems which are being ignored due to the successes?

This already has a name, it's called brogramming.

Please see the following: http://www.facebook.com/getwiththebrogram http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi_AAqi0RZM

Anyway, cool story bro.