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That, and it would be an FBI van, not an NSA van. But the point holds.

True in some regards, but it’s also incredibly easy to learn how to do things the wrong way, if you have no one to learn from.

Make the changes on a non-active replica database (assuming your database supports replication), then promote the replica to be primary. If you don’t have replicas, the concept of …

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You've never been to a grocery store? Avocados are by no means exotic...

Dynamodb experienced a severe outage in us-east in September of 2015, dropping the service to three nines of uptime on just the single event. During the incident there was little-t…

Conpletely agreed; using DynamoDB for primary storage suffers from needing to design data models around the underlying technology. This is true for secondary keys as well, and is e…

The biggest issue faced with DynamoDB from my perspective has been the problem with any hosted service - that is, the operational stability is in the hands of others entrusted with…

you should play dwarf fortress.

Why would you even ask this? Please don't contribute to the ageism debate. My hunch is the programmer was qualified for the job.

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"Sliding into management" might sound like it's an easy path, but it's an entirely different profession. Only those who are interested and have the ability should ever consider thi…

Which means the employee has to realize income tax on the stock immediately under an 81-b or after vesting, correct? That would be an annoying and surprising tax bill, if the emplo…

This is just from angel list. So essentially just early stage startup salary ranges, presumably?

But in a lot of cases, it is. I prefer a high-functioning communicator with decent programming skills over a top-notch programmer who can't communicate.

Why is that a poor use-case? While the discussion is about "white privilege", the same thought pattern holds true for all bias, be it based in race, age, religion, sexual identific…

> For all the talk about white privilege, I never hear the solutions to it. What is OP supposed to do: not get the job? Not feed his family? How is he supposed to prove that he is …

Do you seriously think most of this is based in straight-up hatred of white males? Every time I read something like was in the article, I view it as representative of what the auth…

This is just misguided, plain and simple. I am white, male, heterosexual, and from a middle class family, and I absolutely know that my background gives me privilege. It doesn't ma…

As a hiring manager who has hired from boot camps, I view boot camps simply as an organized medium to encourage career change into tech. They are not unlike undergraduate computer …

Don't doubt yourself. There are a lot of great companies hiring Java developers; you don't have to worry yourself about the standard YCombinator group.

Wow. Really? Why is stability a concern? Much of engineering is making solid decisions and fucking sticking with them rather than changing to the latest toolset because that's what…

> A key ingredient here is diversity And all of the employees are white men. Yep. And what evidence is there that this advice is sound? The company hasn't been around for the same …