bob_roboto

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by bob_roboto 5y ago
It actually depends on the country (and I assume even state and city). Where I grew up, most firemen actually sleep at home and not at the station. They have "normal" work hours during which they do non-emergency work, such as tra
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by bob_roboto 5y ago
The problem is that on-call is something in between work and not work. Depending on how often you are actually paged, it is closer to one or the other. As such, the policy I usually implement is simple: - Being on-call is compensated, altho
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by bob_roboto 5y ago
I know the article is intentionally provocative and over the top to provoke a reaction... whether it's a healthy reflection on your attitude to success or crippling self-loathing probably depends on the reader. Also, there are undeniab
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by bob_roboto 5y ago
Not necessarily. Granted, you obviously need to make a network call at some point but you can host the entire experiment configuration in a file that is served through a CDN and the mobile client only needs to download it once (and it can b
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by bob_roboto 5y ago
It depends on your definition of fully embraced. If you mean that there is no synchronous communication between services, then no, and neither does it make sense in the real-world scenarios I am aware of. However, I am an advocate of the pa
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Etsy buys British fashion app Depop for $1.6bn in ‘Gen Z’ push(ft.com)
2 points by bob_roboto 5y ago|1 comments
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by bob_roboto 5y ago
Maybe I'm cynical but I'd bet money on people being able to turn this into a business...
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by bob_roboto 6y ago
I second that. Once a vendor becomes important enough I even stop thinking of it as a vendor and rather as a partner that you interact with as if it was part of your own organisation. I am not amused when members of my team are rude to a ve
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by bob_roboto 7y ago
> When Google acquired Alooma, they slowed down the development and dropped the support for other destinations such as Redshift and Hive. Do you have a source for that? As far as I can see on their website [1] they still support it [1]
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by bob_roboto 8y ago
Scala works just fine in the java runtime for us
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by bob_roboto 8y ago
Prove you're not an alien lizard person.
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by bob_roboto 8y ago
I can second this. I always take 3-6 months off between jobs for travel and personal development (given I stayed there ~2 years). I'd say I technically progressed about the same during these periods as I did during the preceding employ
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by bob_roboto 8y ago
How would that work in this setup?
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by bob_roboto 8y ago
That's simply not true. Many European countries have privacy laws that render credit scoring agencies effectively useless. And yet it's not at all hard to get a credit card.
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by bob_roboto 8y ago
AWS Athena does thesame and is fully managed. Works reasonably well unless you have lists with complex objects in them.
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by bob_roboto 9y ago
There is so many more examples. Also hardly any of the links in the web version have an URL behind them, so you can't just open them in a new tab when researching something. Arguably one of the core use cases of a map application.
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by bob_roboto 9y ago
Used Tyk with a similar experience. Generally very happy with it but the documentation was, at the time, a bit challenging.
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by bob_roboto 9y ago
Great job! The search can probably be improved. Searching for "Cedric" without the accent aigu (é) does not yield any results, despite there being several Cédric in the database. If this was an educational project I recommend spen
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by bob_roboto 9y ago
Having had to go through public interview processes (i.e. not being approached by the company or referred) recently for the first time in a while I can't agree more. Take home assignments are fine _after_ an interview. Companies that s
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by bob_roboto 9y ago
You are, of course, absolutely correct. And I hope this is what internal package maintainers in large companies and individuals using putty as their standard SSH client do. However, for many of us putty is a backup when they are not on thei
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by bob_roboto 9y ago
Ultimately this probably helps increase the overall internet security. Although in recent years it was available from a TLS secured source [0], the putty.org site (which might or might not be operated by the maintainers) is still not https
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by bob_roboto 9y ago
If a company can't spare the time of a senior team member to talk to you after some initial vetting they are probably not worth your time. I've been on the other side quite often and properly interviewing is time intense. Preparat
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by bob_roboto 9y ago
> So it goes. Always makes my day :)
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by bob_roboto 9y ago
I don't know where to look since I never had to. Personally I would stay away from the financial industry. Most jobs include politics, frequent restructuring, mediocre tech, etc... the ususal. (They have their perks too, see above answ
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by bob_roboto 9y ago
To be honest I never had to actively look for a job so I don't know where to look. I grew up, studied and worked there until I moved to London so I was always approached for jobs. If you have an income of 120k you can deduct something
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by bob_roboto 9y ago
I really don't like UBS, but my friends there all make +/- 120k CHF (might be that my conception is wrong though and that is average). In addition to that they get to "buy" up to two weeks of vacation which means they ca
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by bob_roboto 9y ago
If you have a degree and 3+ years of experience, you'll find a lot of these. Just check on Glassdoor, it lists the average as 90k GBP. From the top of my head the following should pay above average Finance: UBS, Credit Suisse, Sw
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by bob_roboto 9y ago
I've heard this magical number of 45k for software engineers a lot since I came to London. I'm on 60k, without being overly specialised and not working for the financial industry either. Most of the jobs that are being sent to me
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by bob_roboto 9y ago
Immutable persistent data structures used in FP tend to perform slightly worse than their "conventional" counterparts. So if you can manage to run your non-FP program in parallel with a shared mutable data structure and no synchro