> "I specifically went over on Christmas to get infected and get it over with if I did not already have it"
Logical!
>"That's how much I'm not scared of this virus."
<swoon> You're like a real life Liam Neeson.
Readit Newsthoman23 commented on NY State Assembly Bill A416 nysenate.gov/legislation/... · Posted by u/rglover
thoman23 commented on The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer payne.org/blog/the-myth-o... · Posted by u/payne92
A few people have touched on it here, but I'll add my voice. I firmly believe that there are programmers who are better described as a "1 vs. 0" programmer. Some programmers have a creative talent in them that leads them to create elegant solutions that literally a team of 50 average programmers would not.
thoman23 commented on The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer payne.org/blog/the-myth-o... · Posted by u/payne92
The equivalent comparison would be professional athletes at the top of their sport to other professional athletes in that sport working or playing in a lower league. Would the the top performers be 10x the other ones? Hard to quantify this, but I'd say no, more like 2x or at most 3x
All you have to do is look at someone like LeBron. He single-handedly makes a team a championship contender.
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I completely understand that you need to start with epub books. But do you have longer term plans to partner with the proprietary ebook providers? There are a lot of older Kindle eBooks without audio versions that I would love to listen to during my commute.
Hmm...he was wrong while not being wrong.
thoman23 commented on A Manager’s Guide to Kubernetes Adoption unixism.net/2019/08/a-man... · Posted by u/shuss
For the life of me I can’t figure out why I would recommend Kubernetes to any company who is already on AWS. Except for the custom stuff, you should probably used a managed equivalent and for the custom parts where you need HA, scalability, etc. just use regular old ECS or Fargate for Serverless Docker. Heck even simpler, sometimes is just to use a bunch of small VMs and bring them up or down based on a schedule, number of messages in a queue, health checks, etc and throw them behind an autoscaling group.
I’m not familiar with Azure or GCP, but they have to have more easily managed offerings than K8s.
If you’re on prem - that’s a different use case but my only experience being responsible for the complete architecture of an on prem solution was small enough that a combination of Consul/Nomad/Vault/Fabio made sense. It gave us the flexibility to mix Docker containers, raw executables, shell scripts, etc.
That being said, for both Resume Driven Development reasons and because we might be able to find people who know what they were doing, if I had to do another on prem implementation that called for it, I would probably lean toward K8s.
God, HN can be so cynical at times. (I'm not really directing this at just you, scarface74, but the overall tone of responses here). Docker and Kubernetes are not just about padding your resume. Why would I not want to use a solution for orchestration, availability, and elasticity of my services?
At this point in my career I won’t do coding tests or problems at home or over the phone. I’ve done my fair share of hiring and I’ve never needed to resort to such things.
Being asked to perform these tasks is actually a pretty good litmus test to filter out companies. Also, I expect a certain degree of deference given my resume shows a 25 year history of implementing and delivering systems.
How much hiring and interviewing have you done? I've seen countless resumes with 25 years of stated glorious achievements, and they couldn't write a for loop.
thoman23 commented on You don’t want a child prodigy nytimes.com/2019/05/24/op... · Posted by u/mindgam3
Yes, quite seriously - I go to worship most every week, annual session most every year, am on several committees, including the one that does memorial services. There are actually a few computer people at our meeting.
Having a spiritual practice really helps keep me grounded. Keeping it relevant to the article, it's something I would recommend.
Thanks for the reply. I will admit I live in a bit of an atheistic bubble, so it’s interesting to hear a different perspective, especially from someone as incredibly accomplished as you.
thoman23 commented on You don’t want a child prodigy nytimes.com/2019/05/24/op... · Posted by u/mindgam3
Yes to both. The isolation was pretty bad because I grew up in a rural area and thus there just wasn't a large group of friends to draw on, much less those with similar interests and drive. So I experienced quite a bit of resentment, and strong feelings of social awkwardness.
For me, "resuming normal life" was going into the PhD program at UC Berkeley at 22. I wasn't the only former child prodigy (hi NJ if you're reading!), wasn't the smartest kid in the room. More importantly, I had peers I could bond with. I keep up with a lot of my grad school friends, not so much from the small town where I grew up.
Btw, here's some publicity from the time (there wasn't much, which I think was very wise of my parents): https://archive.org/details/marybaldwin1980mary/page/9
I took a look at your Wikipedia page. Are you actually a practicing Quaker? I know it’s none of my business. It’s just so unexpected to see from a UC Berkeley PhD, computer science prodigy, that I find it fascinating.
Listening to it again now, it feels like he might have know what is going on:
https://youtu.be/JN3KPFbWCy8?si=WnCdW45ccDOb3jgb&t=5100
Edit: Especially this part: "It was created as a non-profit open source and now it is a closed-source for maximum profit... Which I think is not good carma... ..."
https://youtu.be/JN3KPFbWCy8?si=WnCdW45ccDOb3jgb&t=5255