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One of the best lessons I had was in my senior year of high school with my economics teacher. We did a project where we had to pick a career and research the average salary. Then he showed us how much taxes would be taken out of that pay check and you had your monthly spend. Then you researched a home, car, budget for food and if you could afford it, saving for retirement. Suddenly you saw how quickly the money disappeared and reality hit me. There were so many other factors you could have added in that would suddenly find yourself in negative each month like student loan payments and various "wants"

yes! this was so great in college to learn pointers and visualize linked lists

Use a straw

What books of his would you recommend?

which one are you using?

We do a "ScrumBan" style. Basically we do backlog grooming, sprint planning with 2 week sprints. We factor in that the oncall engineer will likely have less velocity that sprint and we're ok with carry over of some tickets (try to minimize this as much as possible).

If you're having issues with your work fitting into a sprint, have you dug into why? Are you breaking down the task into small enough units that make them more digestable in a sprints worth of time?

We also punted on standups, I never found them to be valuable and past experiences felt like they were more of a mechanism to get people into the office at a certain time. We do a once a week team meeting with an agenda that you can add to before hand. We discuss anything that needs to be discussed as a team and unblock anyone then. I trust everyone is doing work daily and I can check our sprint board without having everyone tell me what they worked on daily.

It took me calling them out in a tweet to get myself off these calls. The only place I used my phone number was for two factor auth, which they then decided they would use to up sell me. There's also no way to opt out on their website. Very shady practice but love the product otherwise

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Same reason I was using Crashplan, now looking for suggestions for a good cross platform solution

problem is they don't support syncing folders. You'd have to keep track of what you've uploaded already. Also I haven't been able to get it to successfully upload all my photos, seems to always stall out after a few hundred photos or eventually hit some sort of rate limit that goes to a crawl

Is each customer given their own redshift cluster for their data?

Sounds like GroupMe, sold for 80 mill and was around a year old at the time

interesting, I can't find anything that supports this. Do you have a link to a doc?

edit: or are you referring to using ENIs?

Great info, thanks! going to look into these

Interesting solution! Wasn't aware Route 53 handles those types of requests free of charge, certainly makes it a cost effective solution if you're on Route 53. Thanks for the response

I debated doing this once. I was still in college interviewing for an entry level position where the company found my resume on some job site and invited me for an interview.

I arrived at the place and was told to go into a large conference room. In the room were about 30 other people all staring at each other wondering what just happened. We were all given a coding test in Java (Java was no where on my resume and I had zero experience with it). After answering what I could with C we were broken up into teams and started a Jeopardy style game on Java and XML. I can't imagine they gained any insight into any candidate with this game since so many different people were answering questions.

Once the game was finished we were then kept in our teams and given engineering problems to work out as a group and then had to present the solutions to the "judges". Every team was pretty much told their answers sucked, I can only compare the feedback to something out of the TV show "Apprentice."

I left the interview completely dumbfounded as to what just happened. People had flown in from out of state to be there for the interview and were blind sided by this horrendous group interview that felt like it took place solely to stroke the ego of the guy leading the whole charade. I also remember the head guy preaching to us that Java was the future and if we didn't learn it we'd be left behind.

RIP forkqueue, i loved you greatly and used you daily

no offense, but JIRA is not in the slightest lightweight. JIRA is extremely abstracted out to be whatever you want it to be. It's good for project management and for different projects that require different work flows, but you definitely need to spend time in setting it up to fit your needs.

If you are using EC2, expect your instances to randomly disappear and possibly not come back. I'd have a warm standby for your database and definitely have backups using either s3 or EBS. As someone else mentioned, you may be better off starting with linode or <insert favorite VPS company> and as you grow start planning on moving to ec2 if needed

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"Edward Tufte has written seven books, including Beautiful Evidence, Visual Explanations, Envisioning Information, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, and Data Analysis for Politics and Policy. He writes, designs, and self-publishes his books on analytical design, which have received more than 40 awards for content and design. He is Professor Emeritus at Yale University, where he taught courses in statistical evidence, information design, and interface design. His current work includes landscape sculpture, printmaking, video and a new book."