After 9/11 Islamophobia was in full flourish. People were getting beat-up. Many people started distancing themselves from Islam, Sikhism or anything else that might make them a target.
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There’s a sad time in testing land when you have a test suite that you can’t rely on. Instead of running a suite and merging if it passes, you have to glance over the failed tests and say “Oh that one… that test is flaky.”
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What if diversity was bad for the bottom line? Should we still support it?
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Having children is a juggling act, but it’s manageable. You might find yourself holding your child while you pee, only to realize that you are not the only one peeing. You change your clothes, clean up the baby and you move on.
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You try to be great at your job and you try to be a great parent and then you deal with all the little paper-cuts that your life at work and home bring to you.
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Using statsd (and Datadog) to visualize your optimizations.
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Without this context — unlimited can easily mean never.
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Many of the tests at Pinterest were fast, but altogether it could take upwards of 30 minutes to run through the unit tests. I experimented with a few approaches to make this faster.
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We got a second car and it's a stick shift diesel station wagon.
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Using Python and APIs to automate CI at Runscope.
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Where I left my job at Pinterest so I could self reflect.
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