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by __d 4y ago
He was born in Australia, but in 1985 he surrendered his Australian citizenship in order to meet the legal requirements to become the owner of a US television network. So, he is not (anymore) an Australian.
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by __d 4y ago
It's a tough call. Firstly, all agencies prep their candidates to some extent. They know your stack, they know what skills and experience you're looking for, so they make sure the people they send in match the profile, and you kn
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by __d 4y ago
Yeah, I did wonder about that, but they could've just recorded the interview. Although that did happen, but I think that was the recruitment agencies: they'd debrief their candidates after their interviews, and the next time they
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by __d 4y ago
Early 2010's, Wall St software tech vendor: I had a candidate show up for an interview, in person, go through the preliminaries and then sit down in a meeting room for the detailed questions. As we got into it, the candidate often aske
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by __d 4y ago
barchart.com used to be decent, but I don't have recent info.
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by __d 4y ago
There's always the LSI11 for those of us with .. compressible appendages.
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by __d 4y ago
If that's the simplest way to get a decent photo, then Linux phones are going to have a very limited audience.
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by __d 4y ago
GCP is a SPoF. If you care about your availability, avoid single points of failure. Then it doesn't matter if what support tells you turns out to be not true. How you do that can vary, but ... billing issues are always a risk. Havin
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by __d 4y ago
I assume you've deliberately chosen not to use a rope structure for storing text? They're kinda the default for text editors.
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by __d 4y ago
I think c't -- a German language magazine for "computer technology" is the last of the classic "quality" computer magazines. Byte was perhaps the best known, in English at least, and certainly in its prime published
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by __d 4y ago
The W Richard Stevens book "TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1" taught me, but it's not really a good overview: more of a deep dive. Still, that along with his companion volume "Unix Network Programming, Volume 1" wi
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by __d 4y ago
Yes, that Wikipedia link is the one I mean. It was sold independently but was also the native OS of the Atari Transputer Workstation. Like Plan9, Helios has servers that export a namespace into a common tree. The Helios server protocol is
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by __d 4y ago
The T414 was the first useful but affordable Transputer. It was 32 bit but lacked the floating point hardware of the more expensive T8xx series. Later on there were even cheaper T4xx chips, which were relatively easy to get on a PC expansio
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by __d 4y ago
It seems unlikely? At least, I hope it's the ex-DEC,AMD,SiByte,PASemi,Apple,Tesla,Intel Jim Keller.
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by __d 4y ago
In Australia, cash transactions of $10,000 or more must be reported to the government (AUSTRAC https://www.austrac.gov.au/ ). So ... cash can be anonymous, but only up to a certain point. Making multiple transactions of $99
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by __d 4y ago
I started working in the 70s. Through until the 90s, I was paid in cash. The company didn't track which bill serial numbers went to which employee. That was the same for pretty-much everyone in Australia until the 90s, when we starte
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by __d 4y ago
Solaris had separate libc, libnss, libsocket, and libpthread, I think? Unlike many languages, Go doesn't use any libc on Linux. It uses the raw kernel API/ABI: system calls. Which is why a Go 1.18 binary is specified to be compa
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by __d 4y ago
Warranty lasts 12 months. AppleCare lasts 3 years. Your choice. Dell is the same. IIRC, HP was too. There's nothing to see here.
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by __d 4y ago
I have a 2011 13" Air that has been mine, then my wife's, then my kid's. It has been thrown in backpacks, dropped, stood on, you name it. It's still going strong, and my kid still pulls it out to play some Mac-only gam
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by __d 4y ago
I couldn't see a rationale section for this (unlike the ThoughtWorks radar). Anyone have any information on why Zalando made this change?
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by __d 4y ago
It's (mostly) not a time-based decision. I say "mostly" because less than a year, without good explanation, can be a detrimental factor on your CV. Two years is probably good. But ... rules are made to be broken: don't
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by __d 4y ago
In Australia, electric leaf blowers are very common, almost certainly the majority of such devices. Most are battery-powered, but some have a mains lead.
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by __d 4y ago
I use plain xterm as well. With 6x13 aka 'fixed' bitmap font. Clean, simple, fast. I don't want background images, or transparency, or beautifully rendered fonts: I want to be able to clearly distinguish characters with min
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by __d 4y ago
I like the "put it aside until the next wave comes" approach. I have many hobby projects, ideas, partly-built things. I have some that are very near to completion, and others that are probably a lifetime's work. I tend to
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by __d 4y ago
They have _tried_ to diversify: They have competitive NICs, although they don't seem to be maintaining the lead there they once had. They bought competitive network switches. These have largely languished, in part because they sat on
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by __d 4y ago
Nights, mostly. I never do personal projects on my work machine or during work hours. I normally manage an hour or so 3 or 4 nights a week, maybe if I'm really into something, I'll stay up late and do a 4-5 hour sprint. I normal
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by __d 4y ago
Laptop: MacBook Pro 15" Mid-2014, 1 x 2.8GHz 4c i7-4980HQ, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD + 512GB SDCard Desktop: Dell Precision 7920 2 x 2.9GHZ Xeon 6226R, 192GB RAM, 2TB SSD VM host: MacMini 2018, 1 x 3.2GHz 6c i7-8700B, 64 GB RAM, 1TB SSD NAS: Q
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by __d 4y ago
It's true: there are people in NYC who have a thing about going to New Jersey. But ... Who cares? You work in the city, go out in the city, and you have a short PATH-ride home to decompress. It's fine, and if the city rents are
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by __d 4y ago
Maybe live in Jersey City? It's closer (time-wise) to mid-town or lower Manhattan than much of the outer boroughs, and is (or was, at least) heaps cheaper. And sure, NYC is crowded, dirty, frustrating, and so very expensive, but .. it&
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by __d 4y ago
I agree, that'd probably be the best model for most of the world, but it's unlikely to fly in the US. But that's ok: they can have commercial certifying entities, and otherwise, it could be a government function.

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