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New comment by amdelamar in "The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet's Time"

amdelamar — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 19:01:09 +0000

https://www.nwtime.org/current-members-donors/

New comment by amdelamar in "The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet's Time"

amdelamar — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 18:58:15 +0000

I also really enjoyed reading this; the mix of computer science & history was well balanced and kept my interest.

It makes me think there should be a CompSci history class taught in college.

New comment by amdelamar in "Tips for Better Burgers (2010)"

amdelamar — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 18:03:18 +0000

The amount of salt in photo #6 is too much salt. Its very easy to over-salt anything and ruin it. Better to under-salt until you gain enough experience with judging how much you actually need.

As for putting the meat grinder in the freezer, I'd like to know if restaurants do that or not. Because I highly doubt it. Seems very silly.

New comment by amdelamar in "Stores weigh paying you not to bring back unwanted items"

amdelamar — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 00:01:03 +0000

A 25% restocking fee seems like a better solution.

New comment by amdelamar in "Ask HN: Share your personal site"

amdelamar — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 21:30:04 +0000

My blog https://amdelamar.com/blog/ Focusing lately on Scala and programming articles, but struggle to publish more frequently.

New comment by amdelamar in "Vintage Startup Employee Swag?"

amdelamar — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 19:26:19 +0000

Physical NFTs! Sounds like a cool idea for a website...

New comment by amdelamar in "Zen and the Art of Reliability"

amdelamar — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 03:25:51 +0000

> 4. Fail small, reducing blast radius

One more thing not mentioned here, is that using a microservice architecture can naturally help isolate outages to small parts of your app/website. Rather than take it down entirely.

My team supports a large microservice system, and while there are definite drawbacks to the architecture, one of the major benefits is that its never 100% down at any given time. Usually a prod incident will make one particular button flakey or one view/page fail to load. Some users won't even notice theres an outage. Oncall is paged and can quickly rollback the squeaky microservice to a previously deployed version, and let an engineer investigate the root cause in a test environment later.

New comment by amdelamar in "Avoiding the top Nginx configuration mistakes"

amdelamar — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 03:39:54 +0000

This is my top issue with open-source nginx. Nginx plus has the solution though with its `resolver` directive. https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/load-balancer/http-...

New comment by amdelamar in "Two Phase Commit"

amdelamar — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 01:03:12 +0000

I think there's a good analogy to a wedding ceremony I read from DDIA.

"Do you take X? I do. And do you take Y? I do. I now pronounce you X+Y".

New comment by amdelamar in "IETF: The HTTP Query Method ( Draft)"

amdelamar — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 18:53:56 +0000

A year ago I had a coworker build a CRUD app with an API that required GET with a body. Something simple like:

    GET /api/query
    Host: example.org
    Content-Type: application/json
    
    {
      "a": "valueWith$pecialChars",
      "b": "valueWith$pecialChars",
      "limit": 100
    }

It worked fine for him because he used curl, which allows GET with a body. But I was using Paw (similar to Postman) which refused to send it. I mentioned the issue to him to which the reply was along the lines of "its a non issue, just use curl". I kid you not, 1 week after this coworker left for another job I fixed the service to accept POST requests.

If QUERY was around I'm sure I could've made a stronger case to fix it sooner.

New comment by amdelamar in "Common Infrastructure Errors I've Made"

amdelamar — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 23:38:28 +0000

And [Brew](https://brew.sh)

New comment by amdelamar in "On the future of Akka and Lightbend"

amdelamar — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 22:19:34 +0000

My team had migrated about 35 codebases from a mix of Play, Scalatra, Ruby, and Python, to Akka HTTP. The unification definitely made it easier for juniors to start work on unfamiliar codebases, but the same could be said if we unified on something else. That being said, a portion of the services did make use of Akka streams & actors and we’ve found a lot of success there that otherwise would’ve been complex code with locks or synchronized blocks. Stuff that I’d rather not have to onboard engineers with or review their PRs and miss an unlock(). It’s probably a steeper learning curve by teaching them about actors and futures, but it means they’ll be writing safer code by design, and reviewing their PRs becomes easier for me.

Just make sure the actors are small and have one focus. When they get too large and do too much is when they become unwieldy and difficult to maintain.

New comment by amdelamar in "Ubuntu 21.10"

amdelamar — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 23:54:35 +0000

I've had a similar phase and just switched back to Ubuntu a week ago after having used a number of different distros since 2011. As a software developer myself, I think there is a mix of two emotions that lead to this; fear of missing out (FOMO) and imposter syndrome. I was trying to learn as much as possible for a while, adding skills to my resume, thinking my peers were doing the same. (They were not). All that time I ended up suffering from some pretty poor UX issues (Audio/Bluetooth/Wifi) that I tried fixing unsuccessfully or ignoring for the longest time, that I forgot what it was like to use a system THAT JUST WORKED out of the box.

New comment by amdelamar in "I went to the office for the first time. I fucking hated it"

amdelamar — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 04:51:41 +0000

> The best part is that the cubicle doesn't have tall walls so I can literally see/hear everything, including other people's monitors.

Open offices are awful. In my experience most people end up wearing headphones all day, and I did too. My ears would get red and irritated after a while. But I'd keep them on because it was like an unspoken social rule; that if you looked busy and had headphones on, people won't interrupt you as much.

New comment by amdelamar in "You need to be able to run your system"

amdelamar — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 01:16:01 +0000

Monolith, sure.

Microservices, no.

New comment by amdelamar in "Quitting a New Job"

amdelamar — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 22:22:20 +0000

I did this and still feel gross about it even though I don't regret the decision. Accepted an offer for a Java/Spring developer, but a week later I got a better offer for a Scala engineer at Apple that had swept me off my feet. I don't know why I still feel gross having to renege after accepting the first offer; I think its because I annoyed the recruiter. That even if the first offer had salary-matched the other offer, I'd rather be programming in Scala than Java/Spring and that wasn't something they could compete with.

New comment by amdelamar in "Four-day week means 'I don't waste holidays on chores'"

amdelamar — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 23:32:35 +0000

It really boils down to trust. My manager trusts I will make up lost time after my doctor's appointment, as they generally know if I've been falling behind work or not. We also give daily standup status updates so its obvious if work isn't progressing after some time.

This also works in reverse. If I work on Sat/Sun for some system maintenance then my manager tells me to swap time off during the week. But in my experience, What usually happens is I work my full week anyway because something important arose and I push that "time off" to the next week until I forget I had it.

New comment by amdelamar in "Kandi K27 electric car available in California for $7,999 after rebates"

amdelamar — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 05:24:42 +0000

59 miles range? That's not going to cut it for most commuters in California.

New comment by amdelamar in "Leaders focus on doing the right thing, managers focus on doing things right"

amdelamar — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 01:09:00 +0000

I prefer the original quote as it doesn't imply any leader/manager stereotype.

> "Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things." ~ Peter Drucker

New comment by amdelamar in "Grubhub sued for listing restaurants without permission"

amdelamar — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 19:01:08 +0000

If I remember right, GrubHub/Doordash will undercut restaurant prices to gain more customers for short-term, then later adjust prices back up once they establish a more stable audience.