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18,101karma·4,324submissions·June 13, 2018
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> It’s almost impossible for a human to figure out how to handle UNKNOWN correctly. What does UNKNOWN really mean? Should the code retry? If so, how many times? How long should it wait between retr…
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Interesting read. Relatedly, FoundationDB has a distributed testing framework called “Simulation”, which can simulate distributed failures on a single machine (thread!). Quoting from https:/…
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Extended families have more people to share the unexpected burdens—when a kid gets sick in the middle of the day or when an adult unexpectedly loses a job. Very true. Nowadays society/state is …
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I used to enjoy Quora, but it lost its charm and I quit once my feed became mostly filled with questions such as: - As a software engineer, what makes you roll your eyes every time you hear it? - What…
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I’m currently using Thinkpad X1C6 with Fedora for development. Works like a charm, no issues so far.
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It would’ve been great to have a “Political/controversial HN”, as a separate section of the site like Ask and Show.
Obviously with the HN guidelines, and where the posts and moderation have the …
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This is the right answer. Thank you. But I still have a question : > Unfortunately, on some teams, a strict hierarchy is imposed and you ARE expected to comply with a peer's instruction in all…
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Aren’t incentives hidden principles?
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What exactly is wrong with using master/slave?
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Why is this the top comment? @dang, spam account posting misleading comments
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Which alternatives worked for you?
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> has not been scientifically validated, but this does not mean they do not work. I’m wondering the same, but for the opposite : What things did you notice badly affect your health, but has not nec…
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Found a section the docs “Relationship to Airflow”: https://dagster.readthedocs.io/en/master/sections/learn/guid... …
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Does anyone use Dagster in production? Specifically how would it compare to other options like Airflow?
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« Many people aspire to “silent success” at work - to do work that “speaks for itself”. Unfortunately this is the wrong move in the theatre of work. Instead we should aspire to the opposite - for know…
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I’m thinking about the future. What skills will dominate the software market 10-20 years from now? - Big companies use C++ heavily, besides being the language for deep learning/GPU programming. W…
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It’s worth noting that the author is François Chollet, the creator of Keras. This seems to be what he has been working on for the past two years.