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apt-get install anarchism - Laughing Meme
http://laughingmeme.org/2004/11/03/apt-get-install-anarchism
Laquo; “S&M, so long locked up in elitist places like San Francisco, has been subsidized for the masses for the first time by this administration”. Fowler’s notes on notes on notes on postmodern programming. November 3rd, 2004. Will be happening this weekend in Seattle. Lots of reasons to be excited (VOIP hacking, security for the paranoid, a “Tech n Bitch” session, lots of hacking and show and tell, vegetarain meals, and home roasting skill share assuming we can find some green coffee beans). Is there a...
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Communication Skills - Laughing Meme
http://laughingmeme.org/2014/05/17/communication-skills
Laquo; Shell trick for the perpetually distracted. AWS Redshift: “Missing newline: Unexpected character 0x4f found at location 3”. May 17th, 2014. A great deal of negativity has been directed lately at the practice of hiring for culture fit. I find this troubling because its a central tenet of Etsy’s hiring. This pithy insight was shared with me yesterday by one of our senior most engineers, and I slept better last night. 2 responses to “Communication Skills”. July 2, 2014 at 1:02 pm. North American engi...
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Competence! - Laughing Meme
http://laughingmeme.org/2013/02/10/competence
Laquo; Are you here? A feature on the side. The one thing that’s worked so far. February 10th, 2013. When I first started sketching out the “Minimal competence”. Blog post in my head, I imagined it as part of a series. The series had three real functions:. To layout a theory about our obligations as builders of services and consumers of those services. To selfishly hilight the hard problems that Flickr and Etsy had tackled and others had shied away from. To scope those searches to people you follow.
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AWS Redshift: “Missing newline: Unexpected character 0x4f found at location 3” - Laughing Meme
http://laughingmeme.org/2014/07/21/aws-redshift-missing-newline-unexpected-character-0x4f-found-at-location-3
Laquo; Communication Skills. 8220;Wolf” narrative considered harmful (also biologically unlikely). AWS Redshift: “Missing newline: Unexpected character 0x4f found at location 3”. July 21st, 2014. I was trying to bulk load some data into Redshift this weekend using the. Command and I got this error message that no amount of Googling turned up a hit for. It was particularly strange given the hex value specified was for that exotic character the capital-O (as is OMG). As being “.LZO”. On to end of their.
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Flourishes, Craftsmanship, Dates, History, and Flickr - Laughing Meme
http://laughingmeme.org/2011/06/02/flourishes-craftsmanship-dates-history-and-flickr
Laquo; “Sorry! We did something wrong.” – Twitter, on suspending my account. Notes on Feature Based Group Forming. Flourishes, Craftsmanship, Dates, History, and Flickr. June 2nd, 2011. Was an important figure in my house growing up. Mostly because he was one of my grandmother’s muses (growing up as she did in Southern California surrounded by the work he inspired in the California Craftsmen. Eg the sublime Gamble House. Which is suppose why I twitched a bit. Namely that it’s stagnated. The date your pho...
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Surviving being senior (tech) management - Laughing Meme
http://laughingmeme.org/2013/07/16/surviving-being-senior-management
Laquo; Novels, Yes And Improv Comedy. Paths to Production Confidence, Part 1 of N. Surviving being senior (tech) management. July 16th, 2013. I’m sure the list isn’t especially unique to being senior management but there are a few things that are unique to being senior management, that makes it particularly relevant:. Managing Your Own Psychology”. 1 Get some exercise. The ways most of us cope with stress are toxic. They lead to sickness, injury, and reduced cognitive clarity and elasticity. Smal...There...
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Paths to Production Confidence, Part 1 of N - Laughing Meme
http://laughingmeme.org/2013/08/08/paths-to-production-confidence-part-1-of-n
Laquo; Surviving being senior (tech) management. A quick knot in a few Flickr threads. Paths to Production Confidence, Part 1 of N. August 8th, 2013. We believe in being as open as possible about how we develop and run Etsy — our current best theories, learnings, practices, and tools. Given that openness I often get questions about the hows and whys of given subsets of our engineering practice, e.g. “How do you do testing? How do you know you have enough testing? A Theory of Change. Why is change risky?
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Pumpkin Pudding - Laughing Meme
http://laughingmeme.org/2014/10/26/pumpkin-pudding
Laquo; “Wolf” narrative considered harmful (also biologically unlikely). Annoyed by “The Peripheral”. October 26th, 2014. Back when my dad drove his big yellow truck, delivering food for the food bank, he sometimes dropped me off at the Live Oak Senior Center industrial kitchen. And every October I remember peering over the edge into the bowl of an industrial stand mixer taller then I was at a truly giant vat of pumpkin pudding. Click here to cancel reply. Mail (will not be published) (required). Current...
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Explaining to the phone how to be a CTO - Laughing Meme
http://laughingmeme.org/2013/12/05/explaining-to-the-phone-how-to-be-a-cto
Laquo; Slow Twitter. Shell trick for the perpetually distracted. Explaining to the phone how to be a CTO. December 5th, 2013. The other morning I was sitting stuck in traffic … which an odd experience in New York, but for a few reasons I’ve actually been driving to work lately, profoundly surreal as a New Yorker, and not recommended. Back to the story. Finally being right more often then you’re wrong helps, but is less critical then you’d imagine. Software development scales non-linearly with clarity and...
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A little bit on the technical track - Laughing Meme
http://laughingmeme.org/2015/01/11/a-little-bit-on-the-technical-track
Laquo; 2014 End of Year Booklist. 8220;Engineering capacity for an economic revolution”. A little bit on the technical track. January 11th, 2015. I’ve got a post I want to write in response to Dan’s post on the technical track. Also this is about 90 minutes into the fireside chat sitting on really uncomfortable chairs, going to get those replaced before the next extended QA session we do). Click here to cancel reply. Mail (will not be published) (required). Don’t pave the paths used by the unhappy cows.
