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Re:Lies, Damn Lies and Database Benchmarks on Thursday June 25, 2026 @07:55AM (#48672102)
Well, the pelican benchmark is easily verifiable.
Re:PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @06:08PM (#48483391)
Well, not officially, but there are solutions for that. Like BDR (or Postgres Distributed nowadays) by EDB.
Re:AI-assisted engineers are burning out, is this fine? on Thursday May 21, 2026 @07:09PM (#48229910)
You do realise this is your experience, and just outs you as a mediocre engineer and doesn't prove that slow and steady doesn't win the race, right?

Or did you write your comment with an intentional self-demeaning note, and not a sarcastic tone?

Re:Software Internals Book Club on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @09:55AM (#48108367)
It's funny - I was just thinking about your book club earlier this morning. Found some good recommendations over there!
Re:AWS us-east-1 down on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @01:32AM (#36321815)
So much for redundancy I guess.
Re:The power of keeping a coding journal (2014) on Monday June 12, 2023 @07:14PM (#36302739)
I do something similar to your first approach just as I'm about to context switch (either because the day has ended or I have to work on something else).

I write a small summary of what I was doing and what were my next steps at the time, and I write this either directly in the code, in paper or sometimes in a text file. I call them ENDSNAPs (end snapshots).

Re:Dev vs. Ops (2017) on Monday June 12, 2023 @09:13AM (#36292889)
But the model you mentioned also doesn't work, because it's essentially single-task, IIUC.
Re:New Tech Centers Sprout in Europe on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @08:20AM (#16528636)
Now all I need is for wages to be actually attractive in Lisbon, given the rising rents.
Quiver is a startup developing a cloud storage platform, similar to Dropbox with additional protection and tracking over file usage. Quiver allows a user to share a file with other users and enforce various protections on it, such as a validation expiry date, read-only, geolocation based usage, etc...
Re:Prince of Persia – HTML5 on Thursday February 14, 2013 @07:42PM (#5223701)
There's literally only a room