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by BFLpL0QNek 5y ago
There was a lot of stuff/buzz around the semantic web in the early 2000s. I’ve been out of web for a long time but it seems to of mostly died with the advent of React and the single page web application. Now it looks like everyone apar
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by BFLpL0QNek 5y ago
You just put in to words that I couldn’t, exactly how I work and think :)
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by BFLpL0QNek 5y ago
Yes, Ubiquiti suing because of damage to their reputation results in damaging their own reputation more. As a Ubiquiti product owner I’m being turned off Ubiquiti equipment in the future.
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by BFLpL0QNek 5y ago
For a professional product, my preference would be build as a standalone app, package as a Docker image, bake an AMI and deploy to a vps in an auto scaling group with elb in front, or if in a large org with platform team, kubernetes. If yo
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by BFLpL0QNek 5y ago
This is a great blog post on how to do this on nix, https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings . My Nix machine is stateless apart from a few directories such as home that I want to remain across reboots. When I shut
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by BFLpL0QNek 5y ago
Nix Getting a new machine requires a git pull, running nix rebuild / nix darwin rebuild and my machine is set up “exactly” the same as the other machine. Exact configuration, exact versions of software, completely deterministic. No run
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by BFLpL0QNek 5y ago
That doesn’t work. It results in emotional blackmail “don’t be the person letting the team down by refusing to be on call”, “share the burden with your team”, “everyone else has no problems going on call”, “I got a call out on my kids birth
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by BFLpL0QNek 5y ago
I’ve seen it go the other way. The in-house elastic search clusters ended up being expensive to run and a burden with staff / hosting which resulted in rent vs buy and Splunk/Datdog being used to replace the in-house log storage.
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by BFLpL0QNek 5y ago
I’ve worked for a few companies who all love using Splunk but also have struggles with spiraling costs so try and reduce usage, unsuccessfully. They are non trivial spends at not so small companies. Similarly with Datadog. They seem like a
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by BFLpL0QNek 5y ago
My ex company had a single review for 12 months. The review wasn’t a good one for the company but I didn’t disagree with anything in the review. My company went through a big hiring spree during the pandemic. They found out about the review
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by BFLpL0QNek 5y ago
> Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the e
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by BFLpL0QNek 5y ago
Go get a resting metabolic rate test. The one I had was cheap and consists of fasting the night before then breathing in to a machine for 15 minutes. It measures the amount of oxygen your body burns in your breast to calculate your resting
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by BFLpL0QNek 5y ago
Australia is a highly compliant/obedient society. It’s also highly litigious, lots of fines for anything and anything. It’s the defamation capital of the world. Yes this will be enforced, it’ll be enforced selectively against critics o
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by BFLpL0QNek 5y ago
There’s more than just 0-60 times. There’s handling, driver experience, fit and finish, looks etc. Every other EV is a everyday car designed to be practical and it just so happens that electric gives good acceleration/torque. Take an
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by BFLpL0QNek 5y ago
While I have the option, yes. There’s a few Rupert Murdoch owned companies recruiting where I’d be a good fit with the roles, they are one of the few companies building teams with the technology I enjoy working with which is in demand in a
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by BFLpL0QNek 5y ago
It depends on what the events are, how they are structured. You get guaranteed ordering at the partition level. Items are partitioned by key so you also get guaranteed ordering for a key. If you have guaranteed ordering for a key you can’t
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by BFLpL0QNek 5y ago
I was recently having a browse, something like the QNAP TS-473A looks good. I run my own custom built ZFS for Linux server but the QNAP TS-473A interested me as officially supports ZFS and is practically a small Ryzen server in a cute form
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by BFLpL0QNek 5y ago
If you read a lot of the top body builders who are professionals at getting to single digit body fat methodically and repeatedly they’ll agree with you. If you burn more calories than you eat you’ll loose weight. Doesn’t matter what those c
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by BFLpL0QNek 5y ago
I find YAML an incredibly difficult configuration format to write by hand for anything but the simplest of files. Agree it’s a sterilisation format and not a great one. Likewise for JSON. No one can say setting up a webpack config is simple
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by BFLpL0QNek 5y ago
> You received this email because my big data team analyzed your activities in Jira, Confluence, Gmail, chats, documents, dashboards and tagged you as unengaged and unproductive employees What a terrible place to work and measure of prod
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by BFLpL0QNek 5y ago
This was written in 1964 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lucky_Country , it still rings true today.
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by BFLpL0QNek 5y ago
No tech talent shortage in Australia. I’ve been job hunting for the past two years and it’s jobs offering 30-40% less than my current salary or fail to get me excited about the product/tech means I’m still looking daily. I have a few f
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by BFLpL0QNek 7y ago
Trains are meh. The average train speed is 50km/h, so living out in the suburbs is a long slow commute. What should be a 20-30 min journey can be 1hr plus. Forget interstate travel as each state has different line standards. "She&
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by BFLpL0QNek 7y ago
Do you have any numbers to back up Flink is faster than KStreams, also under what scenario? I am genuinely interested as use KStreams a lot but the engineering discipline in the API leads a lot to be desired and more than happy to switch th
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by BFLpL0QNek 7y ago
It is but I think they only have US datacenters. For backups, media and archival use-cases it looks really good for the price if you can live with it being in the US. If you are doing any large data-processing using S3 you get the advantage
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by BFLpL0QNek 7y ago
For all the rhetoric in the tech industry over diversity, "Culture Fit" seems a bit of a catch all exit hatch and anything but diverse.
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by BFLpL0QNek 7y ago
It is healthy-ish, depending exactly what you have, how you cook it and quantity and how frequently you have it. The healthy version will look significantly different than the greasy spoon version dripping in oil. I’ll do a full english wit
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by BFLpL0QNek 7y ago
Yes, Guess it depends on the business. Large companies I've worked at with several hundred people have multiple dish washers per floor, cleaners going round kitchens on the floor making sure cups/dishes are in the dishwashers, run
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by BFLpL0QNek 8y ago
That looks to be the issue though, it’s a generic Android TV update so any generic standalone Android TV box is just as likely to get it unless you run custom firmware.
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by BFLpL0QNek 8y ago
Even smart engineers ultimately have a product manager who makes the call. Many times before I've been on projects where the team said we should not do something in a particular way only for a product manager or their superior to say n

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