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by bradwood 7y ago
This has been a long time coming. INFY and others like them have been slave-driving their staff with huge markups for eons. I’m glad the chickens are finally coming home to roost. I’ve worked in wholesale finance for decades and seen how th
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A Git Origin Story(linuxjournal.com)
1 points by bradwood 7y ago|0 comments
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by bradwood 7y ago
Seeing how someone drives an editor, IDE or cli is often a strong indicator of how good they are... Watching people arrow around in vim often gives me all the information I need when interviewing...
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by bradwood 7y ago
traefik?
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by bradwood 7y ago
> get a spread at official conversation rates "official"? What is that, exactly? "Official" determined how, and by whom, and using what inputs? Forgive my scepticism, but that sounds awefully fishy...
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by bradwood 7y ago
Zero fees my hole! There is a fee, it's called the spread. Just because the fee (or more properly, the commission) is zero doesn't me you are not paying for the service. The spread - the difference between the buying price and the
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by bradwood 7y ago
As an avid fan and long time user of the Fisher Space Pen which I carry on me at all times, I've heard this anecdote many times. The urban legend defence of the space pen is that the Russian's didn't realise that graphite in
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Ask HN: Whats the most kick-ass Linux laptop these days?
27 points by bradwood 7y ago|21 comments
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by bradwood 7y ago
Yeah, or just functionality.
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by bradwood 7y ago
I thought that was the Unix philosophy...
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by bradwood 7y ago
And another one: functionalities. It always grates a bit when I hear this one.
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by bradwood 7y ago
While not strictly about monitoring, Designing Data-intensive Applications [1] is one our our bibles when instrumenting a complex global network. We use ideas like CDC and eventsourcing to make streams of data that we then correlate and vis
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by bradwood 7y ago
s/baked/brewed/ and you'd have had me at "hello".
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by bradwood 7y ago
Stock is equity in a company. A stock market is where, by and large, publicly listed stock is traded. So why then, all this talk of bonds and governments? Most debt does not trade on a stock market, but via other mechanisms. The author d
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by bradwood 7y ago
Dabezium on all the relational databases into kafka.
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by bradwood 7y ago
Good money after bad.
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by bradwood 7y ago
Make sure you understand big-O properly. Focus hard on algos and data structures. Keep looking for areas of specialization, eg Networking, AI, compilers, formal grammars, etc. Don't forget to work on the math. Keep coding.
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by bradwood 7y ago
K8s for a single “web page”? Really?
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by bradwood 7y ago
Build a ci/cd pipeline in gitlab-ci or travis to push it to s3. Mix in a bit of terraform to set up ssl, s3, route53, etc
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by bradwood 7y ago
I use my laptop screen every day too. But for the keyboard and trackpad rather than the screen. I have 2 bigger monitors hanging off it though. Don’t like the mouse or full-size keyboard. For coding/shell work I use the laptop monitor
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by bradwood 7y ago
Revoke the VPN key duck :)
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by bradwood 7y ago
If you have the cash in your firm you could look at Delphix. It only works on RDBMSs but allows databases to be “forked”, branched committed to, rolled back and datamasked.
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by bradwood 7y ago
Looks like it could be cool but $6/mo? That feels pricy. It would be nice to see a no-frills free option... I’ll be giving this a miss until then.
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by bradwood 7y ago
Writing code. More specifically, thinking of themselves as code writers rather than feature deliverers.
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by bradwood 8y ago
white noise youtube vid with my Beats (by Dr Dre) over ear hadphones...