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by acrooks 3y ago
these days I’m often using Supabase on backend, Nextjs+Vercel frontend it has increased my speed to market massively. I mostly work on enterprise CRUD apps so getting things like SSO and API for free on Supabase is a great time saver and th
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by acrooks 3y ago
It’s because LNG ships are cannibals. Due to the nature of LNG storage, a small amount of the gas “boils off” every day (fraction of a %). The longer a voyage, the more cargo is lost. So LNG carriers are incentivised to deliver cargo as qui
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by acrooks 3y ago
I don’t mind cold emails. I tend to read them and sometimes find interesting products and opportunities. I know that many of these emails are automated; it’s too bad that they’re not more personalized on average but I understand the need to
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by acrooks 4y ago
I built a PHP 5 app back in ~2007 that's still in active use today. My hosting provider emailed me at some point saying that they would force-upgrade the server to PHP 8 for security reasons. It took less than 2 hours of effort to upda
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by acrooks 4y ago
So it sounds like Tesla is ok for you to stay remote until August 2022, and you are happy to be local from January 2023. So really you only have a four month gap. One option is to call their bluff. But you should only do this when you have
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by acrooks 4y ago
Based on my understanding, the more recent surge in overdose-related deaths (since March 2020) is less related to contaminated supply and more related to a combination of 1. fentanyl becoming a popular drug-of-choice; 2. fentanyl being incr
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by acrooks 4y ago
You're incredibly lucky if that's the case. I've had a mix of both. The times that I had I micromanager were the most soul-sucking experiences of my career. They're definitely out there.
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by acrooks 5y ago
I agree that is a very common scenario in general, and I have seen it happen myself many times. But intro mentioned that the scope of the article was about firing engineers. > Now we move on to a completely different topic, and maybe not
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by acrooks 5y ago
It’s a terrible article because, despite explaining many scenarios well, it missed one example?
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by acrooks 5y ago
I think it's mostly been a net-positive for me. The lion's share of my friends are non-work, so I never really felt like I was missing out socially. I shifted to an early work schedule, 0500 to noon + some time in the evening, whi
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by acrooks 5y ago
The delayed bag has happened to me a couple of times. When it's at your destination, it really sucks. But when it's at home, it's great, because you're not missing anything important and are eligible for free clothes: h
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by acrooks 5y ago
Well, they have about 100 brick and mortar stores. So in addition to all of the other complexities of running a large business, they surely have more than 1,000 people working in stores and store support.
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by acrooks 5y ago
I work with a number of container shipping companies. Almost all have kicked off new-build projects since the start of the pandemic, after several years of tight margins, budget cuts, bankruptcies, and asset sales. The industry is in a real
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by acrooks 5y ago
For the arbitrary changes, I mean that I will sometimes add a clause along the lines of: "Includes a maximum of _ additional hours for work not already defined as part of the Deliverables." Where the number of hours is a very smal
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by acrooks 5y ago
Well, there are a couple components to that: - Because of my focus in particular industries, I tend to start projects already having a baseline of understanding of what my customers need. - You can write a fixed price contract that leaves r
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by acrooks 5y ago
I’ve shifted to bidding fixed rate on projects around a defined scope. It’s a lot more work upfront to define a clear statement of work, but it has allowed me to stay above USD$200/hr without customers batting an eye - whereas my rate
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by acrooks 5y ago
Weird. I put my deposit down in April 2021 and got my offer in December 2021, but I ended up declining it - no way to use it right now. Maybe it’s related to your location. I’m in Vancouver.
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by acrooks 5y ago
Depending on your age, you may qualify for the Working Holiday visa: https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-li... They tend to have fairly quick approval timelines and don't cost very much.
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by acrooks 5y ago
You can use expertflyer.com, and go check Flight Availability for a particular route. Within a route, it will suggest all the different options to get there. You can judge at a glance how much availability there is by looking at the availab
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by acrooks 5y ago
Let’s say you make $240k annually If you assume that your employer is holding 1 week of salary on average, then they’re holding $4,600 for your money at any given time. Let’s assume an annual interest rate of 3%, which aligns with the IRS r
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by acrooks 5y ago
I should also add as a +1: if you’re in engineering (and I suppose this extends to many other job roles but I’ll speak for eng for now), the difference between say an intermediate and a senior is not completely a factor of contribution, but
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by acrooks 5y ago
Unless you’re in a startup environment or otherwise small company, your company will likely have some sort of rubric for your job’s career ladder. These rubrics are built to try to help managers make impartial, and objective decisions. This
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by acrooks 5y ago
I've sold to several multi-billion dollar orgs with a product that had no certifications, no formal pen testing, etc. In my experience selling to the enterprise things like SOC2 and ISO270001 simplify and reduce friction in the sales p
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by acrooks 5y ago
I find Allbird comfortable and stylish but I find that they wear out incredibly fast. I’ve owned four pairs of Allbirds and they’ve all had a fairly short shelf life compared to my other shoes. My everyday shoe now is from Casca [1]. They’r
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by acrooks 5y ago
I think they meant "wasn't* as keen" - in context the sentence as-is doesn't make sense.
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by acrooks 5y ago
There are other browsers but they’re all forced to use the Apple browser engine, so Chrome on iOS is WebKit-based, for example.
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by acrooks 5y ago
I helped start an organisation which builds data science models for the shipping and commodity markets, and has had great success trading on the results of those models. Within most shipping companies, there continues to be a significant hu
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by acrooks 5y ago
Pretty much the entire ocean transportation industry, with the exception of container shipping, works this way. Prices are largely based on predictions of market conditions in your load port at the time of loading, and the the same wherever
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by acrooks 6y ago
It's not quite how it sounds. There are a number of Carrier Alliances worldwide - "2M", "THE Alliance" and "Ocean Alliance". And there are a number of container carriers that operate independently without
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by acrooks 6y ago
Couldn’t you protect against that with something like com-amazon-secret-token?

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