legedemon

citext doesn't solve your problem of case-insensitive search?

Thanks for the great write-up with links to many more interesting articles and code! I have long stopped working on Linux kernel but deep dives like these are very exciting reading.

If possible, could you please explain what your slopware does?

Exactly my reaction. Every time I've used something from Google, it ends up dead in a few years. Life is too short to waste so many years learning something that is destined to die shortly

Great puzzle. Do you ship internationally?

For someone whose interaction with spatial data is very limited, I found the article to be a treasure trove of information.

Also, thanks for sharing S2! It'll be nice to look at.

Does someone know which are the books lying on his bookshelf? Alternatively, is there an interview with Donald Knuth where he mentions the books he studies.

Could someone suggest a good book on Geometry beyond what is taught in high school? I find co-ordinate geometry to be more algebraic than geometric and miss knowing the interesting properties of curves and shapes and bodies.

When you stop consulting stackoverflow to find answers to your queries because you know that you know more than the most people browsing and willing to answer your question on stackoverflow. Or when you start answering questions on a topic rather than just reading answers posted by others.

Have to disagree a bit. If you aim to have this level and breadth of skill over a n-year period where n<5, yeah, your personal and social life would suck.

But if this is built over 5+ years by reading, doing and learning from others and teaching others while understanding what level of abstraction/detail meets the current and future business requirements reasonably well, it's not that difficult or rare.

Agree.

Pretty much agree with what r-s has written above.Have spent 11+ years working/consulting for mostly startups. Have used everything listed above except Salt (Nothing against it but the Salt team should look to so some PR and build their case) and a lot more.

For example, this job post mentions nothing about monitoring solutions like Zabbix or centralized logging solutions like Graylog or message queues like RabbitMQ or any of the myriad specialized data stores, etc.

No, it's not that hard. It's more about getting the priorities right.

The developer and production environments should be separated at a deep network level making it very very difficult for anything (rogue script, rogue admin, etc) to access production environment accidentally.