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I use Go as my preferred language and I think the author is mostly right. There’s no way for me to know or even check what are the possible errors this function can return? Sure, s…

genuinely curious, can you steel man stored procedures? views make intuitive sense to me, but stored procedures, much like meta-programming, needs to be sparingly used IMO. At my n…

off the original topic, but on topic for this - Yes! Gibson recognized they were getting cut out of the vintage market and started making not only the reissues (RIs), but also the …

ADHD-haver here. I do the same thing but with music. I created a playlist of albums I've heard hundreds of times. The songs are in album order and when I play the list I play from …

^ I can vouch for this. Worked at Goodreads from about 2013 to 2017 ish. I’m sure my name haunts git blame now.

Oh man, thousands of up votes for a Led Zeppelin reference. This mirrors my experience as a musician. Learning to play gave me the confidence to go into different scenarios and rec…

i helped build this! it's not what i do anymore, and i don't want to go into too much detail, but the TL;DR is that, yes, just walk out (JWO) really does use machine learning model…

This is my experience as a line manager but also a manager of managers.

Hire for fire feels like an urban myth. We do a lot of work to find you, interview you, hire you, and train you. Managing someone out is also a lot of work. That being said a compa…

i think this is too pessimistic. via FBA they've also enabled thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of small businesses and a cottage industry of others that have formed around them.

Not sure what the J was for. Internally it’s been IHM since I joined. “Inventory Health Management” is a backronym. I won’t spill the - albeit boring - beans on where IHM actually …

Flippantly, because hardware is cool! Plugins - software for audio programs - are available but audio engineers are famously persnickety.

I don't have perfect pitch so it's not that I hear a note and see the color it's more like when I think of a note, chord, or mode I see a color in my minds eye. When I'm playing I …

Key of D is typically black for me. For dorian F-natural is a soft shade of red. The B natural is purple. F major is red. E-minor is a desert sand color.

Can’t find a reference, but i think it does. I used in the past year for that purpose exactly. Also, checkout typing.io which has lessons based on open source code.

(Amazon employee but not doing anything related to deliveries) UPS drivers pee in bottles while out delivering, too. In another life I worked facilities at a UPS distribution cente…

as always, Miley Cyrus is right. I use this mapping in my current setup and find it really useful.

I wrapped my head around the ergodox by realizing that you have to use layers. It's not supposed to map 1:1 with a regular keyboard. I use a modified version of the default symbol …

I disagree. I found the book enlightening as I was experiencing growing pains moving to a more senior role on my team (less time for getting things done, more time helping others, …

I’ll have a blog post out in AWS Big Data in a few weeks but the parent is right in that it’s not terribly difficult. Should take about an hour with testing to get a Pyspark script…

100%. Expect a follow up in the future with a simplified pipeline.

The docs are a good place to start to get a sense of what Athena can do: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/what-is.html There are no indexes in the traditional MySQL / P…

This architecture is meant for business intelligence purposes, not for oltp queries. You're right, it would be pretty expensive to power a user facing service this way. However, I …

Carrier pigeon transport?