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NDAs and lawyers.

Also don’t add personal gh accounts to your companies org.

Sometimes people are asking for what they think they want because they don't know that theres a better way to solve their problem. http://xyproblem.info/

Also https://xkcd.com/1172/

post title is SUPER misleading. Here's the only paragraph in the transcript that mentions Tobias:

> Interesting story - the initial commits for that applications were Tobi himself, who took it upon himself to start something, and as a prototype gets something up and running and make it as lean as possible to get started. And then eventually, that became a team, and we picked it up, and that became the project that we’re working on.

The Founder-CEO is in the commit history. Duh. So what? That doesn't mean he's writing code right now.

Query planners unexpectedly “helping” can lead to very real availability and performance problems. For large scale workloads, I really want to know what my database is doing. Having it suddenly flip an index for reasons no one can predict or explain because some ML algorithm decided it was the right thing sounds incredibly dangerous.

There are TONS of companies running on AWS that face competition from AWS. Snowflake just IPO’d. They run on AWS and sell a data warehouse service. AWS also has its own data warehouse called redshift

I didn’t know riscv was making its way into consumer goods yet. Any examples you can share of places seeing riscv adoption?

The iMac pro is pretty well spec’d

> The fact that the IPv4 address still goes through some sort of NAT on AWS's side (1:1 but still NAT) kind of bothers me.

Why does that bother you?

Snowden is running from the government, not from a corporation.

I go through cycles. I'll have a long stretch where I come home and I'm just fried and can't do anything that takes critical thinking. And then I'll go through a period where either work is more boring or I've found something to do on the side that's so exciting to me that I have tons of energy and focus on side projects.

One thing I've been doing for the last 2ish years is having side projects that are really far removed from my work. So for example a lot of my work is infrastructure automation and related problems, so I've been doing some side projects learning basic electronics and hacking on microcontrollers. Figuring out why my I'm getting weird readings on a temperature sensor is a great break from figuring out why my load balancer didn't do the right thing.

there was no other reason to buy sun?

I got a “smart” tv and just don’t let it on the network. Problem solved.

Loss of life or bodily harm aren’t required for someone to have a bad day.

I used to travel a lot for work and this is how I’d remember my hotel room number.

[rust intensifies]

> But we all know landlords are, by default, shitty

That’s some high quality journalism.

Do you like the gaming chair? I ordered an aeron and didn’t like it, sent it back. Need a new chair. Decade old office chair is falling apart.

Ag yes, that paragon of ethical data use, Google.

Wow. That is a great line.

Dara: we need to take better care of gig workers

Also Dara: if you force us to pay our gig workers more we’ll pull out of your market.

I dont think a lack of curly braces is whats keeping haskell from taking off. It’s the “I need to go study category theory to be able to read the docs on any useful package” problem and the proliferation of language extensions. Taking some of the ivory tower out of the learning curve will do a lot more than adding some tokens.

If it’s world-writable, then is it really a break-in?

I stopped reading when the author described a feedback button as the epitome of customer obsession. Is that really the bar?

this. bloomberg terminal is an expert friendly system. it’s not optimized for high conversion rates and casual stickiness, it’s optimized for the productivity of people who are willing to spend the time building the muscle memory.

The "cold-start" problem of new social network sites

doesn't that describe everyone?

Can we please stop using -gate as a suffix for anything on the spectrum from annoyance to full blown scandal?

bingo. having each team own he boundary of a service lets everyone work as fast as possible, making choices that are right for their service, while preserving the right level of abstraction between components.

that’s very different from a team of 8 people managing two dozen microservices, which is just insanity.

lastpass

bunch of aws services (s3 for file storage, some r53 domains, some resources backing alexa skills my family uses)

twilio for an sms bot

washington post sub (thinking about picking up wsj and economist)

robokiller

how?