Sanguinaire

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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
£100k base, about £175k all-in. Developer-adjacent role. Realistically I can only think of 5 companies globally which would pay this much while also being interested in my niche skillset.
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
I was thinking the same, assuming it eventually goes on sale in the UK. Actually the 3:2 screen ratio is one of the new laptop developments I am less keen on; 16:9 or 16:10 feels a bit better for having 2 side-by-side terminals in i3.
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
0. Linux support, specifically with the option to purchase without paying the Windows tax for an OS I'll never boot. This is a deal-breaker for me, meaning Dell are one of the few main-stream manufacturers I'd go with. 1. No touch
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
I seem to remember the Azure 24 hour limit being in place in 2018, though it wasn't highlighted particularly well and came as a surprise to me. Could well have been removed since.
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
Likewise - incredibly disappointed. I don't even want to use their cloud storage; I'd much rather be syncing to a server I control. With the current pricing and the fact that I passed on my old rM1 to my wife when I got an rM2, we
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
It's weird how the 3 major clouds have taken different paths to what must be an almost identical resource allocation problem. AWS has had this kind of spot instance for years, but with a 2 minute grace period rather than the 30 seconds
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
Don't fall victim to resume-driven development; keep on KISSing.
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
Or better yet, rewrite it in Go to avoid both the fat blob and python dependency management at the same time!
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
OpenStack is an over-complicated mess. Most enterprise IT orgs already struggle to hire the people with skills to operate a public cloud account, nevermind having to build the underlying infrastructure as well.
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
A bit disingenuous I think; people are concerned about security when worrying about random packages, but privacy with Microsoft. MS have a history of being hostile to open source, but have been able to launder their image somewhat.
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
I have been 100% remote for years and am content to continue to be so, but I totally see where you're coming from. I was never thrilled by my train journey into London, but the short walk I had on the home end was some of my best &quot
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
Thank you for expressing what I struggle with every day. The additional counterbalancing layer on top of this is an internal drive for justice - this is what pushes me to work for a big tech company rather than doing something which gives m
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
It's not about petulance, it's about motivation. I'm in a similar position to the author but acting more like you would want; I care about being good at my job and want to deliver because that is how I was raised, but there i
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
I suppose a parent might be held responsible for their kids below a certain age - and getting pissy about what a 15 year old is saying on their Twitch stream is totally in keeping with my experience of Bezos' corporate PR. That said, t
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
Anything which visualizes a Gantt chart will automatically look like steaming garbage.
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
From a purely selfish perspective, the worst outcome of the pandemic so far is that it has served as a distraction and shield for Tories who bungled Brexit and have yet to face any political consequences.
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
Sounds like we just need to gamify productivity, it's a wonder no-one has ever tried that before... (/s for the dull and witless hordes)
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
If you're not against "Old Media" and classical liberal ideas, I'd suggest just getting an Economist subscription.
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
I have tinkered with both. Basically if you need to write a FORTRAN application but don't want to use FORTRAN, Julia is the correct choice. If ease of use is more important than having a diverse collection of pre-existing numerical lib
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
The problem here is letting drug companies market to the uneducated general public - there is a good reason why that practice is banned in most countries.
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
All-caps mode exists as a safe space for FORTRAN programmers.
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
"College" in the UK education system already has a definition; it is the place you go from 16 to 18, studying a narrower curriculum than regular school prior to 16. You will also hear references to "sixth form college",
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
Hexagons are the bestagons; better than all the restagons.
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
I lived in Luton for a year and commuted in to London. Yes, it is certainly more affordable; but only because the NHS covers the cost of dealing with your stab wounds. For non-UK people: yes of course I'm joking, however Luton is the h
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
There is/was a UK government "Help to Buy" scheme aimed at people who can only afford a 5% deposit, where the gov basically took part of the equity and then charged you rent on the portion you don't own. Never seemed lik
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
Nature is correcting for our artificially enhanced lifespans thanks to modern medicine. Life, uh, finds a way.
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
Once you factor in long contracts, the people who are desperate to go back to the office, and greater space requirements for proper social distancing - they pretty much do need to pay for those existing offices. Hopefully things will re-e
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
The patent system is just not fit for purpose. Even for pharmaceuticals and other long-development-cycle products in the real world it has been corrupted beyond reason; I worked on battery materials for a while and even though there was ple
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
I wish more people were au fait with this concept. If a small business can only exist due to paying bottom-tier wages it is perfectly OK for that business to be squeezed out of existence in short order.
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
Options are problematic because you end up with a competitive/tragedy-of-the-commons situation, where no-one really ends up having the option at all if they want an appealing job or competitive salary. Using national-level regulation t

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