GFischer

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by GFischer 7y ago
It´s basically one of legitimacy, as you point out with "lawful government" (so I guess you disagree). The police ARE the state goons, so the outcome doesn´t change much .
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by GFischer 7y ago
As an Uruguayan, I loved it and found it entirely accurate :)
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Reddit Is Down as the Summer of Outages Continues(gizmodo.com)
11 points by GFischer 7y ago|3 comments
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by GFischer 7y ago
Cost of living is cheaper, so you'll just accept less money and let the company keep it? Yes. I work remotely from Uruguay. It´s basically the only option to compete with U.S. talent, the whole point of remote work for the company is
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by GFischer 7y ago
For whatever reason, software engineers don't have the luxury of doing a diagnostic. That´s not necessarily true. I´ve worked with very good, serious consultancies, and I´ve seen a quote for thousands of dollars for exploratory work
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by GFischer 7y ago
An AirBnB for coworking space? Sounds interesting!
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by GFischer 7y ago
Wow, that is ridiculous. I guess there´s an unmet need for coworking spaces in Boston then :)
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by GFischer 7y ago
Set up a very short timeframe and goal - let´s say, I´m going to make a prototype (or code feature X) this weekend. Then show it here :) . The risk of it "getting stolen" exists, of course.. but if you don´t do it it´s exactly the
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by GFischer 7y ago
The main thing with Salesforce, or SAP, or other software of the sort, is the ecosystem and knowledge that´s tied up with it. You can do most things you can do on Salesforce with generic software, but the know-how is explicit on Salesforce
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by GFischer 7y ago
That´s very interesting to hear. Thank you.
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by GFischer 7y ago
I think you have to be introduced into the program by an accelerator now. I´ll miss it, it was a pretty awesome program.
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by GFischer 7y ago
I went the opposite way, from an employer with an insane dedicated server to using cloud services, and I was appalled at how weak the cloud SQL servers are. Of course, they don´t need hardware expenses, licensing is factored in, administrat
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by GFischer 7y ago
I think that conferences, etc, build up on the human element and are important, but not for the reasons you mention. My current belief is that a 95% remote team works, you do need in-person opportunities, the more the better, but at least o
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by GFischer 7y ago
I work on a remote office, and while I definitely agree that the rapid prototyping stage works better in-person, current tools help a lot - we have a pretty large app that was built 100% remotely (I did ask for in-person meetings but there
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by GFischer 7y ago
At a financial institution I worked for, they had a separate entrance with separate badges and alarms for the really sensitive stuff. I only entered that area once, as I was a low-level programmer. It was also the only company where I never
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by GFischer 7y ago
Reminds me of Roger Federer being denied entry: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/tennis/not-so-fast-roger-fe... Rules are rules in Australia, even if you are a 20-times Grand Slam champion and one of the mos
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by GFischer 7y ago
That´s exactly what I have at work, and it does deter tailgating. Some people do ask for the owner of a badge to do a second pass but security always appears at that point.
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by GFischer 7y ago
And they have it for almost all other plans, so the technology is there. It sounds like an intentional product decision and not a technical obstacle.
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by GFischer 7y ago
Microsoft Azure has such a feature (although not for Enterprise users, which is evil), I´m surprised that AWS doesn´t. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/offer-detail...
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by GFischer 7y ago
At least for MS SQL, code is fully source controllable, I have it on Git and we have all automated deploys and niceties. Views can be a problem from a performance side, Oracle has materialized views but MS SQL lags behind (I think Postgre h
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by GFischer 7y ago
In my case, we actually chose it, as we´re a Microsoft shop. Hasn´t been that bad, but we did experience 2 major outages in 1 year. Not sure how many outages are there on AWS.
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by GFischer 7y ago
Cows have it pretty good (especially in my country Uruguay) - I absolutely understand it when you´re speaking about chicken and fish though. The one ugly part for cattle is the slaughter, you need to have tough skin to work at a slaughterho
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by GFischer 7y ago
I´m really sorry, this is what copyright should be for, but I´m sure it´s whack-a-mole and a load of money :( FWIW I love your content.
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by GFischer 7y ago
I´ve unfortunately searched for some customer-friendly e-mail provider and people want Google. I had set up some commercial accounts on Zoho (my own e-mail is on Zoho) but they asked me to migrate to Google, even though it was more expensiv
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by GFischer 7y ago
Just to give you my perspective as an Uruguayan (South American) software developer, whenever I visit the U.S. I think houses are ridiculously huge - most are bigger than mansions here in Uruguay. I don´t have the same experience in Europe.
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by GFischer 7y ago
A twin bed isn´t a requirement for a single person. I lived in a 14 square meter apartment for 8 years, it´s not that harsh.
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by GFischer 7y ago
As someone who lived in such an apartment in the past, computers are the main thing. I wished I had air conditioning back then. I agree, It is pretty incredible how many things have been miniaturized - thanks to smartphones I no longer trav
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by GFischer 7y ago
I used to live in a 14 square meter (150 square foot) apartment in Uruguay while I was working and studying, for almost 8 years (definitely at age 25 like Sotaro Ito). Honestly, it wasn´t bad - I was outside all day, and the miracle of the
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Two in five 'AI startups' essentially have no AI, mega-survey of nearly 3k(theregister.co.uk)
16 points by GFischer 8y ago|2 comments
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by GFischer 8y ago
The best kind would be using your first customer as a funding source. The other, typical option is to consult for a not very demanding customer.

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