cbryan

You're getting heavily downvoted and I'd love to know why. I've seen similar attitudes toward testing among the groups I've worked with, nobody really wants to do it.

Are folks downvoting this because they don't like testing? Is this idea that prevalent?

The philosophy of python is there should be only one pythonic way of doing things.

Thiiis really hasn't been my experience with the Python community. Every place I've worked on a Python codebase has done it a different way, and none of them have agreed on what is "pythonic".

Each team has claimed that _their_ approach is the most python-y way to do it, but they've all celebrated Python as not being "restrictive" like "other" languages. It's really weird.

This is complete hogwash. I know and work with plenty of Christian scientists. They do just as well as everyone else in the job market.

This is a wildly uninformed opinion. People have always written to social norms, and this person is unwilling to acknowledge changing attitudes towards types of writing. I would love a concrete example of the kinds of things this guy thinks are being 'self-censored'.

There are other manufacturers that are building ARM servers these days. AWS even went so far as too build their own chip: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/

I know a few people with similar histories of civil disobedience who now work at FAANG companies. I would wait for them to bring it up.

FWIW, I'd be proud to work with you.

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It's a great process for reigning in "great" engineers that produce a ton of technical debt. It's a fantastic approach for making your engineering team more stable and product delivery more predictable.

It's not Scrum. It's Extreme Programming. It works fantastically well, even when you're __fixing bugs__. The whole idea is that you need to be paired so that two people can understand and problem solve around the bug. You end up with twice the understanding that you had before. It's worth it.

The problem with your point is that it assumes users' are using Chrome because of its rendering speed. I don't think that's the case.

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Nope. They should get political as heck in this thread. It's a story about a person who was in an activist group for chrissakes.

Working with other developers, in person. I worked remotely for years. I moved to a new city and I learned so much when I started working on a team, in person, and with other people.

It's almost as if engineers should get together and advocate for themselves as a group.

Where is this person getting their salary data from?

Only the rich say that money doesn't matter.

What are good questions to ask during an interview to avoid situations like these? How are other people weeding out employers like this one? This sounds like a bad situation that I'm sure we'd all like to avoid.

Does anyone know what bands they're talking about? What's the theoretical max bandwidth on these new frequencies?

I've been in a similar situation, and I think it's about risk. It's relatively easy to decline a job, you're not going to jail for turning down a gig. Not paying taxes will get you some serious jail time though. So morally, yeah, both actions are enabling the same results, but one is easier to commit to.

This. A thousand times.

You'll get asked to migrate your login and data over to the "new" system. I did it earlier and it didn't take long at all.

Neat! Thanks for this. I've been playing with node this weekend and I was pining for something like the http://rubygems.org site and this fits the bill nicely.

Yowzers. Really not fun for anyone.

I realize it's a little morbid, but I'm looking forward to the writeup on this one. Those blog posts are always really good reads about keeping your site afloat.

Suprisingly little training involved. A FOAF started doing this stuff on a dare and was well on his way 9-ish months later.

Thanks for being open to suggestions. Maybe on the documentation homepage? http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Home

"This is because you assume you'll run it on single server. MongoDB's documentation clearly, repeatedly, and earnestly tells people to run MongoDB on multiple servers."

Err, what?

I'm using MongoDB in production and I've looked at your documentation a bunch. After spending days with your docs open in a browser tab I can't say that it was especially clear on this point.

Perhaps I'm particularly ignorant, but I'd wager that not many other developers know that multiple MongoDB servers are currently required to achieve reasonably acceptable durability.

I'm wondering what technology Netflix is going to use to stream video to their app and how they're going to address studio's security concerns. IIRC, they were using Silverlight because it supported some encryption scheme that made everyone happy.

Hm, looks like Silverlight can run on the iPhone: http://mashable.com/2009/11/27/silverlight-iphone/

Seconded, I'd love to see this as a library. GitHub it maybe?

I'm really glad that he weighed in on the topic. While it wasn't a statistical tour-de-force like some of his other writing, it was really nice to read a well thought out piece on the topic. Everything else I'd found online was really noisy and shouty.

I'm with you most of the way, I think that most of us on HN have more freedom than what alot of people would consider slaves, but I think you're ignoring the coercive factors of economy and society.

I think that people can be placed in compromising positions by economies and cultures that they're a part of. A concrete and probably relevant example could be student loans: a student incurs a tremendous debt for their education, only to be obligated to work in order to service that debt.

Also, your last sentence irks me. Contributing to your community does not mean to have a job. There are plenty of ways to 'pull your weight' that don't involve making money. Building community spaces, plain talking to people, working on a neighborhood watch are all beneficial but are often unpaid. Paying taxes does not necessarily make for a successful community.