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Teach someone how to be a software developer, mentor them and encourage them - someone who would otherwise not been able to get there. If you want to leverage your ability, start a company and build i…

With the number of applications and acceptances isn’t it inevitable that a few get by? This is the first I recall, but surely there have been others? I don’t envy the folks doing the filtering with so…

My daughters are competitive sailors. On the back of one of their regatta shirts is a semaphore message that, when decoded, reads “always sail with the confidence of a mediocre white man”. Ouch? :)

I think CEOs should be looking further down the road and at systemic problems, as well as reacting tactically. Of course the experience of the attendees matters. I have unreasonably high expectations …

I tend to agree that businesses should be withholding their money because of the persistent homelessness, but Marc Benioff’s “why” is a little bit off. It isn’t (shouldn’t be) the impact on conference…

The TL role is a little restrictive IMHO. I’ve worked with very junior people who have a very effective ability to pair and improve others’ effectiveness. Perhaps as they learn they also teach.

Wonderful. In rowing there is a practice called “seat racing” where different combinations of people are rotated in and out of the eight positions to determine the combination that is the fastest. Ind…

> The cards can also operate in temperatures ranging from -13°F to 185°F, come with X-ray and magnetic protection, and the SD card has shock protection of up to 1,500g. I’m not sure why, but that’s…

It’s entertaining, but also dumbfounding that Mr. Jassy would choose to say that he’s conferred with other CEOs, and they feel the same way. Well, I guess that’s not surprising — validating his opinio…

I use AWS Simple Email Service for sending and receiving, but my use of email is largely automated (not reading it with my own eyes) so a bit of a niche. I wrote about the harder bit (receiving)[1]. …

I don’t think Scrum was the basis of the problem.

Given the very different history and evolution of these two sites, is there ever a point of (even approximate) intersection where they are actually competitive? I myself don’t see that happening now, …

I’m only as good as I am at building software because I started my professional career working with seven brilliant, mid career people who set a high bar and encouraged me at every step. It’s not coin…

It’s “generally accepted” that intelligence is a thing, but that’s also commonly understood to be vastly insufficient. People can be observant, quick learners, have expansive knowledge, have excellent…

Route 53 latency based routing -> APIGW or ALB -> Lambda or Step Functions -> DDB Global Table. No reserved capacity (pay for usage), so it works for boot strapping startups and provides supe…

Adding the application/component code to do ”good logging” is tedious. Friction in the interface decreases the probability it will be done well, and consistently. I think the interface matters, a…

I can see the case for flat logging, aka. key value logging, as an optimization for very, very performance critical code that needs to emit string logs. That however, isn’t mainstream in my experienc…

Are there languages that solve the “performance“ problem with maps? In fact, isn’t Go one of them?

Yeah, this is where it gets real. VC funding and unbounded potential operational costs. Ouch.

As a former FRC judge, and FTC and FLL coach I congratulate you. It is no small feat to just get to competitions as a “rookie” team, and wonderful to excel once there. Thank you for writing about it! …

That seems like a problem that should be solved. Logging structured data is a very basic expectation.

Indeed. Logging a map-like object seems like a pretty basic expectation. Separate keys and values as parameters seem very C-like.

Now, project this idea to selecting technologies…

Why not UDP for sending the event info so no response is needed at all?

Ironically, if true, the net effect of displacing programmers will be lower demand for AI because because of the resulting economic collapse.

Before CloudFront I had a setup that used custom HTTP server code to capture requests directly as S3 objects, then wait on an SQS queue for the response which would indicate the location of an S3 obje…

Contrary to the majority of the thread here, I find this to be an architectural issue. For whatever reason the system was designed without a way to communicate important service and maintenance issues…

It strikes me that concerns with “sustainability” like this may be a bit passé given the population of humans is very likely to peak, and decline soon. That solves myriad problems.

My question, a few sentences into the article was “has the author already been there”?

I rarely get to work at all three. I think that is a manifestation of my principles - when getting paid I don’t feel like what I want to do comes into play as much as what my employer needs . When …