idk anything about back end/databases really so yeah. These games are pretty big though. They contain all chats and actions and such.

Suzzer every call (right now) gets all games i.e. the whole collection. Hourly would make it crash hourly

Yeah you're gonna need some way to just store the stats you need in another DB, then add to your stats collection once an hour or something. Grabbing all games is not a sustainable solution obviously. You'll probably have to shard at some point as well. Thus concludes everything I know about Mongo.

I guess i was / am confused. If all you are saying is unify the blood, sugar, etc, monitor into one system, I'm not sure why they didn't do that long ago, as it seems obvious. I'm guessing there is a reason they haven't yet. I'd trust the people who create this stuff is far far more intelligent than I am on this subject.

According to MongoDB, no one needs any of that old theory trash until the data gets too large to deal with (16mb to be exact).

Can you not just retrieve only the data you need, or is that not a thing in mongo? That the games contain chats, actions etc is a complete irrelevancy in SQL.

I honestly didn't think of that but um mongo has to have some sort of map built into it I would guess but still not sure that that would prevent the out of memory problems. Something to do tomorrow. I was obviously just doing the map inside of the node cb itself.

I mean, from what I understand you're essentially loading your entire mongo database into memory? That sounds like a good candidate for what is causing the out of memory problem, lol.

So there are 3 things you need to do. I don't know what language you're writing in, but probably all 3 things are available.

I use mongo with python most often. So you can iterate over a mongo find query, without loading the whole thing into RAM. You can do like

This means you only have to be able to hold each entry in memory at a time, plus whatever structure aggregates results.

Secondly, you can limit mongo queries to just what you want. In pure mongo, this is something like

which means "only fetch field1 and field2, and leave out the _id field". This dramatically limits the amount of **** you fetch.

And finally, you need to look into aggregation. Mongo has ways to do processing on rows to develop summary data. It's not the fastest thing ever and it's a little mind bending but basically you can probably do 90% of what you want to do via aggregation queries and not have to load all the **** into RAM.

Long story short, but, it's time for you to actually learn how mongo works.

It was just the games db! I have a whole accounts and logs db!

That for x in loop sure looks like it's loading everything into memory. I guess it could only be loading a batch of the data at once but that seems unexpected.

Like if the resulting collection from that find call doesn't contain everything, then the loop is hitting the DB n times, no? That seems unexpected too.

The whole point of a cursor is to maintain your place in a database and just load the "next" part.

Some database drivers don't accomodate this and just load everything. But the good ones only load the next record.

Work/negotiation question, curious to get some thoughts. Sorry for verbosity.

Last year I got a ~10% raise (which I asked for) when our founders asked me to switch projects to help our other project get across the finish line for its release. This year I got a ~inflation-sized raise. This happened early in the year during our standard salary review period, and shortly after that my manager (our project lead) swapped projects to become the technical director of our other project. He kinda had two roles on our project, as both overall project lead and lead of a small team of core engineers, including me; one of our founders asked if I'd like to take over the latter role and manage that small team. I said yes.

Perhaps naively (this seemed like an obvious shoe-in to me but maybe my expectations were off), I assumed this promotion would come with a raise, but after asking about that following a month or so in my new role I was eventually told that it's not. The reasons I was given make very little sense to me:
- our company has two different progression ladders, technical and management
- because my advancement so far has been on the technical side, I make far more than what a first time lead would be paid and he said I'm probably about 20k over average lead compensation

...and that's basically it. It seems that this distinction about technical vs management stuff is important to them.

I discussed this first with my new manager (new project lead) before asking our founder about it, and he basically sided with the company. My impression of that conversation was that he had some Stockholm Syndrome about instances in his past when he didn't got promoted and also didn't get accompanying raises, so he didn't see why I should necessarily get one, and this ladder system or whatever seemed to make sense to him (it does not to me).

So, I have some rather obvious counterarguments:
1. as an extremely basic principle, if I'm doing more work/taking on more responsibility then I should get paid more for it
2. there's no reason for me to agree to manage more stuff if I don't get anything in return (a fancier title, which I've never cared about, isn't going to pay my bills)
3. this casts a lot of doubt about my ability to get raises in the future (at least by advancing in management, which I'm now having second thoughts about) if I'm going to continue to be compared salary-wise to people less senior than me

I'm working on a diplomatic email outlining these, #2 is a little tricky because it makes me sound like a mercenary/not a team player/whatever but the other two are easy enough. Kinda just want to sanity check this situation with you guys and make sure my expectations/view of this situation aren't grossly out of line; it makes me question my judgement/perception when something like this happens that leaves me so confused.

Good luck.

I would phrase 1) and 2) from perspective of the value you add to the company, not the extra work you're doing. Responsibility and work load are kinda irrelevant to salary discussion.

There's a lot of context that's probably important.

But it's not crazy to me to have two different progression ladders and to have good experienced engineers paid more than a fairly new team lead engineer.

I think more companies are recognizing that there's a class of good engineer that wants little to do with management but they still have more value in what they do then an inexperienced lead. Especially if you're someplace where there are a lot of duties assigned to senior engineers regardless of if they're a manager or not (being on call, doing code reviews, participating in architecture reviews, etc).

So one way to look at it is that by doing team management you're actually providing less value (at this point) then when you were just an experienced engineer who was good at their job. Again, context here is probably important.

That being said, if this is actually their philosophy it should be transparent to everybody. And you should have had conversations about which track you were on and where your career could progress on each one.

For your questions I think the responses might be:

1. You're not really doing more work or have more responsibility. You're trading work/responsibilities you had as an experienced engineer for work/responsibilities you have as an inexperienced manager. Again, context is important here because this could be true or it could be complete bull****.

2. Yes. But maybe phrase it as you want to have the conversation about where each ladder can take you. If you don't enjoy/want the leadership responsibilities you should know what your alternative is on the technical ladder. Like is the leadership role a role that tops out way above the engineer role? Is your compensation 'stuck' for some period of time? Etc.

3. I guess I cover this in 2.

I don't think 2. Makes you sound like a mercenary. I think you phrase it as though you didn't know about these two tracks and now you want to know what your future can look like on either one. If the technical one looks better to you overall (short and long term) then I think you just phrase it as you want to follow the non-management career arc.

Also, if you're close enough to the founders have this discussion with them unless you think it would really cause problems.

There's a thing that can happen where 'leadership' can have this great compensation/promotion philosophy and strategy that actually makes a lot of sense and could work really well but a lack of transparency/documentation means each step removed from them loses a lot of the concepts.

So the founders might have a totally reasonable argument for why you shouldn't get a raise. But your direct manager doesn't really understand it and can't talk knowledgeably about it.

any node.js experts here? take a look at this code,

https://github.com/LiskHQ/lisk/blob/...rs/sequence.js

lisk is blockchain and these Sequence objects basically execute a callback on every tick of the event loop. If they have a task in the queue, they run a single task.

This strikes me as bizarre. Is there any reason to write code like this?

Looks like they wrote their own event loop. Not sure why you would do that - but I'm going to assume these guys know what they're doing as they have their own specialized version of node you have to run.

I'm curious, why? Assuming you're getting it all done, I would find it natural that X+1 work/responsibilities should get paid more than X, and for those things to correlate directly with the value to the company I'm providing.

This seems potentially reasonable, though I think they've got a bit of work to do on the part where they communicate how that works to their employees. This year is the first I've heard of this stuff. I definitely enjoy sitting at my desk and writing code more (like, infinitely more) than sitting in meetings and worrying about what tasks each individual on my team should work on.

Not in the professional realm, but in terms of strategy, pays to have an exit strategy in case everything goes tits up.

Also, think of alternative bargaining positions, such as extended vacation if they do not want to give the full raise. Or perhaps a greater share of the vision (?), you get the idea.

The thing to be careful about is talking yourself out of a job, it's going to be easy to sound like you're more interested in money than the company. Can you play the "I want to stay technical" card and back out of the lead spot?

what does glassdoor say about your salary?

Just graduated from Uni with BS in computer science, making my first resume. I have objective (find a job etc), higher education, skills, projects (4 big projects I did in uni), honors (the honors I got from uni), references (1 professor, 1 past employer), and then my question.

I have worked at 2 different places in the last 4 years. (while I was in uni). But neither of them were related to computer science. 1 was as a carpenter and the other was as a heavy equipment operator at a landfill. Should I put these under a section of Past Work or Work Experience? Or just leave that stuff out of my resume b/c it isn't relevant to comp sci?

edit: also, I made a website for one of my CS classes and I decided to make a portfolio website. Its currently at ladin.comli.com. Should I include this on my resume under links?

Anyone familiar with wordpress enough to know what subscribers can do? I've gotten 6 subscribers to my blog in the last 8 hours or so that look kinda fishy. None of them have any personal details, including nickname, and most of them are msn emails. I haven't really put it the blog out there yet.

But I can't figure out what they could do. I have comments set to wait for moderator approval until the commenter gets one approved. But you don't have to be a subscriber to comment anyway.

Here's the blog btw - tell me if you can figure out how to do damage or spam it w/o going through comment moderation. http://ushuaiaorbust.com/

I don't think they can do anything.

Wordpress has such a massive pool of bots/spam/etc. that you are bound to get some action just by using it and existing.

Ok I added a captcha. We'll see if that slows it down.

https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/t...-registrations