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by IMTDb 4y ago
> Neither ePrivacy nor GDPR require cookie consent popups Except that it does. The law specifically prohibits any form of consent that is not informed and specific. As a consequence, a user cannot just consent - or disallow - cookies glo
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by IMTDb 4y ago
So, GET request not only aren't idempotent but they also affect the party that is read. Who came up with that lovely system ? I gave it roughly 15 seconds of thought and came come up with multiple ways this design fucks up people lives
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by IMTDb 4y ago
> The best coaching in the world isn’t going to help me and my friends beat a pro sports team No, but a good coach will start with you team, replace single player and get slightly better results. Replace another player and get better res
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by IMTDb 4y ago
> What makes anyone on this platform believe that Ukraine has any chance of victory? Because for this platform the definition of "victory" is not "did Russia collapse ?" but rather "did Russia loose more than the
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by IMTDb 4y ago
Roughly 30% of the Americans earning > 250k / year are living Paycheck to Paycheck. Of course one can hope that having to rely on food stamps/charity after earning multiples of the median income will improve people ability to b
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by IMTDb 4y ago
Wouldn’t that lead to a roughly 75% staff reduction for some of these companies ? Just like what happened at Twitter. Would be fun to witness the aftermath on programmer salaries after this.
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by IMTDb 4y ago
> "Plain HTML" gmail vs. any other version. It's way faster to navigate. And offers far less features. Attaching a file to an email takes ages without drag and drop, this alone is worth waiting few more milliseconds to mos
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by IMTDb 4y ago
Bear in mind that serving Wikipedia pages (static text documents) is much simpler that AirBnB listings (dynamic image heavy content). It is possible to create a faster AirBnB by changing some of the underlying constrained imposed on the sys
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by IMTDb 4y ago
> I’m sorry, but there isn’t a union agreement in the world that lets you No Call/No Show repeatedly and be fine. But there are unions agreement that say: if you are fired for any reason, come and see us. Usually the question « ho
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by IMTDb 4y ago
> Not showing up for work at all would definitely to considered "just cause" for most unions I've been involved in Not with some of the one I have had to deal with. There are tons of way to justify not coming to work and
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by IMTDb 4y ago
> The EU only exists because they have no choice after fighting each other for thousands of years over dumb shit And the US have existed for how long ? Give them time they are already catching up.
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by IMTDb 4y ago
The danger for the US are inside, not outside. The military spending is already far sufficient to guarantee the safety of the country against external state nations. The issue is that it does not spend enough to maintain internal peace.
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by IMTDb 4y ago
Emma Watson, probably
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by IMTDb 4y ago
Yes, you can be a good performer working on a failed product (stadia, HoloLens, ...). If the product is cut, you might be let go.
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by IMTDb 4y ago
> Maybe I've been lucky, but every time I've been looking for a job I've had AT LEAST two options. You got many offers precisely because a lot of companies were (over)hiring. And the fact that you had many options on the t
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by IMTDb 4y ago
To put in perspective, my hello world service has less than 1 employee working on it, has been launched 10 years ago and has roughly 5 minutes of downtime per year when I restart the server. I am available for hire to teach a thing or two t
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by IMTDb 4y ago
And Belgian have their own system too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bancontact_Payconiq_Company Which means that everyone uses PayPal since it's the solution that you know is going to be accepted everywhere inste
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by IMTDb 4y ago
> The problem with stack ranking is that you are forced to find problematic employees even when there are none. Could you share some insights on how you organise an hiring process and a company to reach a point were despite having severa
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by IMTDb 4y ago
I don’t know about you but far before I showed up for the very first day of my career my expectations were that if I performed better than my peers I would be paid more and if I underperformed I would be paid less. And generally that has pr
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by IMTDb 4y ago
A working agreement is a contract between two parties. Who made the decision to join a company that was seeing sudden, unsustainable growth ? Workers. Who made the decisions to place themselves in a position they maybe aren't that need
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by IMTDb 4y ago
It was later shown that the whole part were the Tesla goes out of power was staged. The car did inform them it would run out of battery on the way. They made a segment about it and failed to inform the viewer that they had ignored several w
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by IMTDb 4y ago
Their licensing does not ban benchmarking; it only bans publishing the results. A subtle but important point. By all means, run benchmarks on your workload profile and choose the technology that works best for you - that is perfectly OK. Bu
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by IMTDb 4y ago
In order to cool your refrigerator, the system has to have a place to the put the "hot" it just extracted. And that place is your house itself; your freezers and refrigerators are warming your house and contribute just like the ra
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by IMTDb 4y ago
I understand the whole "stuck in walled garden" part when talking about iOS. But exactly which executables have you not been able to run on OSX because Apple prevented you to do so ?
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by IMTDb 4y ago
> is at once the home of the free That's just marketing; no one in their right minds considers the US to be "the land of the free" that it pretends to be. And all objective measures of "freedom" give it an "
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by IMTDb 4y ago
So unplanned interruptions affect programmers less than planned ones ? Next time I need to talk to a dev, I'll be sure to pop to their desk unannounced rather than trying to find a suitable time beforehand then ! /s
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by IMTDb 4y ago
> Many knowledge workers are self-managing Based on my experience; many knowledge workers think they are self-managing because they are able to set objectives for themselves and reach those. But the lack on context means that those obj
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by IMTDb 4y ago
One way to lower the cost of managing is to promote transparency within the organisation: allow and encourage manager to read the PR and the discussion around them, this will give them some sense of the progress of the projects. Provide KPI
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by IMTDb 4y ago
> You want to have me? Give me good working conditions! I'm probably not alone. At those conditions they also very much might not want to have you. And apparently the total package "industry prestige + working condition + pay
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by IMTDb 4y ago
Isn't that your decision ? Why are these two situation related so differently: I quit my boring job as a dev in the banking sector to work in agriculture, hours are longer and money is tighter but it's my dream job ! (Way to go

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