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by abraae 6y ago
If as you say... "nuclear power is the only realistic way to solve the looming energy crisis of the 21st century" because... "most people around the world think that nuclear fission is scary" then we are fucked as a spec
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by abraae 6y ago
My guess would be about 50% for retail. We are in NZ, so unique circumstances apply - there is no Covid on the loose, so things are all normal as far as retail goes, but entire industries such as overseas tourism have vanished for now, so t
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by abraae 6y ago
> "Our Talent Solutions business continues to be impacted as fewer companies, including ours, need to hire at the same volume they did previously." We're in a recruitment-related field (online background checking) and we c
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by abraae 6y ago
It's hard to convey how different acquiring knowledge used to be in the old days. There was so much less information .. no Google, no online groups, and certainly no stack overflow .. but red books were true compediums of hard won know
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by abraae 6y ago
> I was on the bench 40% of my time at Deloitte. Tried to make use of that time to make useful tools, which just got me into more trouble. Got told "libraries are a waste of time" Your boss was right. It doesn't make sense
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by abraae 6y ago
Most of the article is good, but this is weak: > If some code is throwing an error, you could just wrap it in a try..catch statement and suppress the error. No error, no problem. Right? Sorry, for me, making the problem invisible isn&#x2
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by abraae 6y ago
I have a strong revulsion towards platforms that attempt to extract money from job seekers. It always feels just so unsavoury, so scammy. Most employers would never dream of charging candidates to apply for jobs (it's downright illegal
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by abraae 6y ago
"Junior" is about experience, not age. You can be a junior developer at age 30, or a sage by that same age.
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by abraae 6y ago
Each to his own. If I found that a junior had created two separate popups, one for add and one for edit, I'd want to look into the code with them to understand if that was a good choice, because usually it wouldn't be for anything
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by abraae 6y ago
Good on you perhaps for injecting a lighter note, but I'd personally rather that these very upsetting events retain their gravity and perhaps shock us into action. Case in point the Australian bush fires earlier this year. Half a billi
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by abraae 6y ago
> In eleven years I hope I was able to provide a point of view that certain persons understood, about an alternative way to write software. I hope that such point of view will be taken into consideration in the evolution of Redis. To me
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by abraae 6y ago
As usual, Fred Brook's Mythical Man-Month had some valuable insights on this back in 1975: > To make a user-friendly system, the system must have conceptual integrity, which can only be achieved by separating architecture from imple
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by abraae 6y ago
> We force corporations to do all sorts of things that harm shareholder value in pursuit of benefitting society. True, but those things are not the driving force of the corporate, they're things that the corporate has to do to remai
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by abraae 6y ago
To be fair, it is not the role of a corporate to "benefit society", but instead to benefit shareholders.
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by abraae 6y ago
FYI that compelling marketing image at the top is from a "1983 commercial from Australia made for the Commodore SX-64, the portable version of the famous home computer Commodore 64". The full ad, which is quite the blast from the
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by abraae 6y ago
IANAL but this seems a reasonable interpretation to me. So stick to not disparaging your affiliation with GS (or their endorsement of you) and you should be in the clear. Say what you like about GS themselves.
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by abraae 6y ago
Many have made this observation, but I wish there was a way to blacklist sites from my search results. I literally never want to see results from Quora, ExpertsExchange and a bunch of other grotty spam dens with low quality user generated c
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by abraae 6y ago
As with all good advice, this reads well and makes sense but the devil is in the details. > Eric Barone, who went on to sell millions of copies of his game, overcame his struggles at creating art by making and remaking the art assets for
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by abraae 6y ago
> it's basically the same code that must be implemented on the backend in either case :-) No, it's not. If I expose an API e.g GET /widgets,I need to ensure that there is no combination of parameters that will ever return
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by abraae 6y ago
Exactly - when you remove all PII, you are left only with data that cannot be linked to the individual, even indirectly.
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by abraae 6y ago
If you remove PII, then whatever you are left with is no longer personal data.
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by abraae 6y ago
One thing about GDPR that I've never heard answered convincingly - when a user requests deletion of all of their personal data, does that include also any history of the deletion request itself?
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by abraae 6y ago
I've read a fair bit of military history, and I'm fairly confident the moon landings were not done using a green screen, so please elaborate on which 2 of these are not true.
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by abraae 6y ago
You're seriously saying that a "short burst of mass deaths" is a better option than getting your shit together and doing proper social distancing followed by proper contact tracing? It's great that we've got rid of
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by abraae 6y ago
There are plenty of questions like that awaiting NZ. Almost 10% of our workforce is (was) in tourism. But hopefully we have bought time to make measured decisions, and now we do have options, including skulking away until there's a vac
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by abraae 6y ago
I'd say if you have kids and are wondering strongly about divorce, then you definitely should make a change - it just might not be to actually get divorced. Could be counseling, couples therapy, 3 day retreat for self analysis. Small c
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by abraae 6y ago
Data point of 1 - we use Oracle in our greenfield platform (in 2018). My reasoning: - our engineers already know Oracle (this is absolutely reason #1). We don't need to get into religious wars about software, just to write good code qu
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by abraae 6y ago
Could be it was just a catchy rhyme that stuck in his head and bubbled out, rather than a deep and sophisticated understanding of history.
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by abraae 6y ago
No arguments there, and my point was certainly overreach.
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by abraae 6y ago
That is interesting. My take would be that the older population may spend less time on social media (who can compete with a 20 year old with a phone welded to their hand anyway), but that a disproportionate number of these seniors are babes

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