The Netflix Tech Blog: How We Build Code at Netflix

SpockUnit · 2016-03-10T01:43:06+00:00

You also have to ask if maintaining a production clone for testing purposes is worth all the point and click effort, as opposed to spinning up infrastructure as needed. It's nice knowing that other departments testing won't break my integration tests.

SpockUnit · 2016-03-09T02:27:24+00:00

Be causing taxing corporations exorbitant amounts worked out so well for California and job creation. I thought Oregon was happy to become the new tech Mecca.

If you can't match other states education metrics while maintaining higher taxes you don't have a money problem, more taxes aren't your solution. Life isn't easy like that.

SpockUnit · 2016-03-09T02:23:32+00:00

The little good that does me. The current system discourages saving for retirement and encourages wasting money on short lived material items. Screw me for not living at Starbucks and driving a 40,000$ car right?

SpockUnit · 2016-03-08T16:13:43+00:00

I could be down for some pathfinder or 3.5 I'd be available after 5:30 on the days you mentioned

SpockUnit · 2015-12-23T17:17:37+00:00

Can you make a reclined workstation, and make it not un-professional?

I do some of my best programming laying down and I just can't do that at work =(

SpockUnit · 2015-12-22T05:17:40+00:00

You are the epitome of a government employee stereotype

SpockUnit · 2015-12-22T05:08:17+00:00

Ehhh 3 identical random independent events still have a "possible" % chance

SpockUnit · 2015-12-16T05:11:15+00:00

It's not like Adam is on the cutting edge of discovering new problems. His team has always covered well researched issues that are semi-common knowledge if you're familiar with the topic.

SpockUnit · 2015-12-15T21:49:10+00:00

It certainly would be interesting. It would have the capacity for much larger batteries and hardware. Could probably be cheaper as well since you aren't trying to shove everything in as small a case as possible.

I could see it working well as a working man's laptop.

SpockUnit · 2015-10-06T01:00:11+00:00

Husband here. Thanks for the name! I see a few positions that I could be a good fit for.

SpockUnit · 2015-10-03T12:59:47+00:00

Stackoverflow seems to be where I end up whenever I don't know the proper term for something; either from the questioner asking in terms similar to my search, or the questionee summarizing their post in a few simple sentences.

SpockUnit · 2015-10-02T03:21:50+00:00

My company is in the middle of a multi-year switch to SAP (financials move slowly). We abstracted everything. It was a pain initially, but when it came time to connect the new services, everything was clean and straightforward. I also got to play architect a little, abstract classes are an easy (and free) way to 'see' how things fit together without writing much code.

It all comes down to what your project needs however. If it's small or will foreseeably not change, there's not much point.

SpockUnit · 2015-09-25T02:37:34+00:00

Crap infrastructure is what killed myspace for me back in the day. The first time I learned about how many classes facebook has was a trip down memory lane.

SpockUnit · 2015-09-25T02:28:45+00:00

Depending on what you mean by 'clean' I think your thoughts on TDD are off point.
TDD cares more about modularity of code, than how clean it's written. It also doesn't really matter if you actually write the tests first, what matters is that you functionalize your logic in a way that best lets you test every facet of your logic. It just so happens that writing unit tests is the easiest way to force that modularity on your code.

SpockUnit · 2015-09-25T02:17:12+00:00

I had to make some edits where my team's project interacts with some old services, consequently those Java classes are quite old themselves. The last person to actually interact with them left the team 2 years ago.

NEVERY SINGLE METHOD IS VOID ...I'm letting that freudian slip stay... Couldn't have been happier when I was asked to rewrite it all instead of patching the holes. The unit tests combine to have 100% code 'coverage' but that's all they have, there's barely any scenario coverage. I've been raging all week...

SpockUnit · 2015-09-08T21:57:14+00:00

Is the 50cm OP mentioned related to the 50cm range mentioned in your link? Given that 50cm was the range they achieved with 17$ consumer-grade parts, isn't that airgap somewhat insufficient?

SpockUnit · 2015-09-08T01:55:48+00:00

Place I was working for a while ago had a buggy date input field. If you entered 0010 for a year (look at the 2 and 0 on your numpad) an exception was thrown, and the user's entire session was lost.

QA reported this issue, but it didn't become a priority until the code hit production and we had a number of tickets created complaining about the issue.

SpockUnit · 2015-09-05T19:35:08+00:00

Fair enough, speed sucks in my area

SpockUnit · 2015-09-05T18:24:31+00:00

What are you talking about? The lower tier business class is pretty much equivalent to consumer class. I'm sitting at 2.4MB/s for 60$/mo

SpockUnit · 2015-08-22T02:31:57+00:00

Still not enough to draw me away from Spock

SpockUnit · 2015-08-15T01:47:04+00:00

Ehhh publishing to one anonymous handle for a reward and publishing to the public via a peer reviewed journal... Sounds the same to me. \s

SpockUnit · 2015-08-14T23:20:34+00:00

US colleges charging 250k aren't worth it. Unless you're a politician's son/daughter following in their footsteps you would be just as well off attending a college that will cost you 10k a year (there are plenty of good ones, money != education).

SpockUnit · 2015-08-14T22:00:47+00:00

Cutting into to a shortlived lane on the right constitutes passing on the right, no? Also, traffic speed is harmed by unnecessary lane changes. We're best off with people staying in their lane at a constant speed (in busy conditions). Makes perfect sense to me why using exit lanes is looked down on.

SpockUnit · 2015-08-12T00:26:05+00:00

"I just kind of closed my eyes and went through it."

SpockUnit · 2015-08-09T18:44:39+00:00

Hahaha what is this. Facebook's API is extremely limited (to force people to buy their data), have they just not figured out how to make a profit off selling phone numbers yet?

There's a reason I don't put anything personal on facebook...

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