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by blindhippo 3y ago
I would presume they are organizational/protected repos which cannot be shared due to a contractual obligation, not private and personal repos.
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by blindhippo 3y ago
This is true in an accounting sense, but generally speaking most people are referring to the definition of "cost-center" as a business unit that does not generate revenue directly, in contrast to a "profit-center" which
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by blindhippo 3y ago
Unions are meant to be effective in situations where the balance of power between capital and labor is heavily tilted towards the former. In a situation where there is an actual competitive market and people can leverage their skills and ex
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by blindhippo 3y ago
Digging a bit more into the links I found this: Instead, the TSA has argued that, even if all of the allegations in Ms. Leuthauser’s complaint are true, the TSA and its employees have absolute impunity. Regardless of what “torts”, even rap
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by blindhippo 3y ago
It very much is not what autism is. At a superficial level you can describe some of the characteristics this way, but autism is vastly more complicated then a simple sensitivity to stimuli.
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by blindhippo 3y ago
This is what I tend to believe (as a very high scoring introvert on various types of tests). Introversion in a physiological sense is high sensitivity to external stimulation. Fill up the bar too fast, it can cause an anxiety response. Some
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by blindhippo 3y ago
Ahh ok - I think what I kept seeing were "Sponsored Images" on the new tab page. Finally found a setting that can be toggled to "Default Images" - hopefully that removes the ads. Some of them have been close to the line
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by blindhippo 3y ago
I've noticed that middle management and up don't really see humans or even differentiate between them except during compensation assessment (and even then, barely). It's all just a numbers/headcount game to them. Every h
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by blindhippo 3y ago
Isn't Brave basically what Google is trying to turn Chrome into? I use Brave on my mobile phone, but honestly I'm kinda turned off by the weird advertising it shoves on me despite theoretically protecting my privacy. I just go wit
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by blindhippo 3y ago
I'll echo this: search, in a purist sense, has definitely improved (just looking back to the mid 90's through to now). The "search experience" however, has degraded since the mid 2010s, for me at least. I'm in a con
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by blindhippo 3y ago
100% This is ideal. The trick for me though is that the foundational assumption on which to build our "proofs" change often and quickly. This creates drag on any software project to keep up, and becomes untenable if the abstractio
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by blindhippo 3y ago
It's often debated but in my mind, you know you're talking to a "senior" dev when nearly every response they have to a question is "well, it depends..." Every software project is different since software is a p
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by blindhippo 3y ago
Amazon engineer here - can confirm that Glacier transcodes all data on to the backs of the shells of the turtles that hold up the universe. Infinite storage medium, if a bit slow.
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by blindhippo 3y ago
Without knowing details, it could be that this person (or persons in your experience) are actually delivering work that doesn't fit what you deem to be meaningful work. Yet the businesses are rewarding them. Might be a calibration issu
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by blindhippo 3y ago
I'd argue it's not as hard as you seem to insinuate. If a person wants to be able to live in their own accommodation there are some very key things they require. One of the most basic is a bank account (how do you pay rent without
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by blindhippo 3y ago
... why would you pass $GET through to a logical layer with access to a data store write without sanitizing it? This seems like a pretty basic thing to fix, but then I only have your snippet to go by.
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by blindhippo 4y ago
Hah I was going to say - isn't quantum physics in many ways the intersection of statistics/probabilities and reality?
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by blindhippo 4y ago
It’s not a bottleneck for anyone. Some people just like playing with tools. They do it for loads of reasons, but end of the day it’s basically a hobby tangentially related to software development. I torment a friend of mine who talks all th
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by blindhippo 4y ago
Will be interesting to see what happens when the market starts lifting again and all these companies who are scoring people at a discount suddenly are struggling to keep them. 33% drop is significant in an economy that is squeezing the rank
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by blindhippo 4y ago
As a senior dev theoretically on track for principal, I'm finding coding occupies maybe 10% of my time over a full year. The rest is largely in "leadership" meetings where we argue over details about goal language and trying
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by blindhippo 4y ago
The point for "microservices" to me is to separate the components of an integrated system to achieve scaling factors independent of other related but not directly coupled parts of the system. Most systems in my experience don&#x27
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by blindhippo 4y ago
One dimension to consider here is cost of compute. Going from 8 hours to 4 hours is a 50% reduction in the time to compute and we're assuming this is occurring on the same relative hardware/instance size. At scale, that could tran
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by blindhippo 4y ago
To be clear, haven't read the article yet. But I disagree that fondness for handwriting is a romantic notion. For me writing things down by hand engages a different part of my brain. It's similar to "rubber ducking" for
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by blindhippo 4y ago
Based on what I've read (here, reddit, and sadly the cesspool that is Blind) Twitter engineers are lazy and the epitome of the "rest and vest" career path. So, just software engineers being toxic gatekeepers based on dubious
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by blindhippo 9y ago
Loans can and should be used by individuals in two big ways: 1) spreading cash-flow over a long period (car loan) 2) investing in long-term gain (mortgage, education) By saying you shouldn't ever take on debt, it's similar to sayi
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by blindhippo 10y ago
Definitely agree with this. We have to engage more of our active brain to consume physical media like paper books. eBooks remove a lot of the tactile reality, and audiobooks is a wholly different format. I've found that simply talking
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by blindhippo 10y ago
It really does surprise me how a simple programming questions like this does stump the average interviewee. If they need a bit of guidance to get started, I never hold it against the candidate, but if they need a massive hand holding to com
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by blindhippo 10y ago
I see it as a positive if a candidate uses an existing solution to the problem. That's exactly what a good engineer would do in the real world. But then I take away the library/method and re-state the problem. Because the point is
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by blindhippo 10y ago
My personal approach is to present myself as an individual with a large amount of skill and experience working in a specific programming discipline (e.g. web applications). I present a short list of the core tech I have experience with, one
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by blindhippo 10y ago
Resume filtering is terrible - I tend not to be involved in the process since usually recruiters or hiring managers do this. However, when someone stops by my desk and asks "should we schedule a phone screen with this candidate who lis

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