retbull

Joined 11 years ago

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Aug 13
I try to be interested in big data and not make my coworkers tear their hair out with my code. I am very aware that technical writing is a skill I don't have and can't seem to develop easily.
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Comment · 3 years ago
Well the whole point of this paper is NOT everything is a graph.
Comment · 3 years ago
Every 6 months? That seems like a pretty long window for tribal knowledge to get lost. Is 6 months arbitrary or is there some reasoning behind that cadence?
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
They saw raid shadow legends was making more money than them and thought they'd take a page out of their book on micro transactions.
Comment · 4 years ago
I feel like it is pretty indistinguishable in STS if you lost because you made an incorrect decision somewhere or the run is unwinnable. Something like Zelda or Metroid you can reach a point and the game has some kind of obvious solution or key you need. STS has too many solutions to the problems of what you face and no way to go back and recheck things. The fact that it is almost impossible to find an unsolvable STS seed seems to indicate that their approach is pretty good. Player frustration in STS except for the tiny number of runs indicated in this post is entirely skill based.
Comment · 4 years ago
Builder patterns for primitives? I think that seems super cool but then aren't you just building a new language?
Comment · 4 years ago
As long as I can install DOOM on it IDK about the platform.
Comment · 4 years ago
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Comment · 4 years ago
Reading this is making me sick. I am working on leaving my large company for a start up for this exact reason. Something as simple as changing a tag on a server requires submitting a request -> waiting for the reply that they are working on it -> getting someone contacting you 1-3 days later -> Confirming the changes you want -> finding the changes in place the next day -> telling them the ticket is closed.
Comment · 4 years ago
"Only direction is up"
Comment · 5 years ago
From an entirely tongue in cheek perspective isn't all ruby idiomatic.
Comment · 5 years ago
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Power_lines_through_... They cut down all the trees nearby so its basically a clear cut strip thats as wide as the poles are tall.
Comment · 5 years ago
Did you read the article at all? They aren't talking about the pay as it is a separate issue. There literally isn't time for the managers to train and onboard people resulting in a bad experience for the new employee, the customers, and sometimes even resulting in termination for violation of policies the employee never learned about. You can't put knowledge in someones head with just money.
Comment · 5 years ago
That story is so incredibly narrow and misleading its absurd.
Comment · 5 years ago
Yeah volume is a terrible metric to go by. I work as a data engineer and a lot of the time if I am working between environments or when migrating between data centers will have a copy of the data locally that I can write tests against or move to somewhere I can compare it to a running output. This would be possible to do entirely remotely I guess but not nearly as easy. (note I never do this with anything that contains PII)

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