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by brango 9y ago
Thanks Amazon! Now I can finally drop GCP :-)
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by brango 9y ago
Vertical sucks. You have to scroll down to somewhere different each time to find the thing you want. Also, the search box doesn't have all results cached so you type in, e.g. endpoints and it pauses for a few seconds until it displays
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by brango 9y ago
Bravo on the optimism. Personally I'd be crapping myself.
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by brango 9y ago
I was building something similar to meetup for a while but focussed on making new friends instead of networking/paid events. The thing is, when I sat down and analysed the business model I realised that if it worked successfully, no on
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by brango 9y ago
Different strokes for different folks. Sounds good to me :-)
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by brango 9y ago
> Meditation and yoga breathing are still exotic. Perhaps some day they won't be, and our descendants will wonder how people from our era stayed sane without daily meditation. Yes! Energy can be experienced very simply after perhaps
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by brango 9y ago
> If you just let me be and let me listen to some music without being disturbed, I'll be perfectly calm and relaxed, no mysticism needed. Do you spontaneously laugh because you're filled with such joy in this state of "rel
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by brango 9y ago
I was looking into this yesterday. Apparently while there's support for transpiling Kotlin -> JS, more work would be needed to support transpiling for react native[1]. Not sure why. [1] https://blog.jetbrains.com/kot
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by brango 9y ago
Well I did watch a film on Netflix ("UFOs: The Best Evidence Ever (Caught on Tape)"), but even in that it was obvious some was CGI - they had analysed it and reported it as such. It's quite an old documentary so videos are pr
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by brango 9y ago
True, but some of the events had multiple independent witnesses reporting what sounds like the same object as it travelled overland.
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by brango 9y ago
IIRC some UFOs were tracked by multiple independent radar stations simultaneously.
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by brango 9y ago
Anyone know anything about the credibility of the Disclosure Project[1]? I think something like 100+ ex-service personnel testified under oath that they'd witnessed UFO activity. If 100+ people testified to seeing me do something illeg
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by brango 9y ago
Yeah but presumably as the end user you'd still want to interface with a single entity, even if behind the scenes they're then aggregating, filtering, etc. But yeah any humans employed by them doing that work are probably at risk.
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by brango 9y ago
They're aggregators. There's value in going to a single shop to buy everything instead of going to 200 individual suppliers for your weekly shopping.
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by brango 9y ago
Access to better healthcare lowers the infant mortality rate. That than leads to couples having fewer children since they don't need to hedge their bets as much (ie having a more offspring expecting several to die). Combine that with e
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From Miami to Shanghai: 3C of warming will leave world cities underwater(theguardian.com)
17 points by brango 9y ago|9 comments
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by brango 9y ago
Why not just go for a non-smoking break without any pretence?
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by brango 9y ago
> These days I just point the company to my github and am explicit that if that isn't enough to grant me a face to face I probably don't want to work there. I'd be happy with that if the projects looked they were yours. I
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by brango 9y ago
The thing is, as gilleain says, the majority of promising-sounding candidates aren't worth progressing with. This is a combination of: * Failing outright to do anything even close to the requested task * Not even basic error handling *
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by brango 9y ago
[1] says "A probably even larger issue with EncFS is a security audit from 2014 that attests EncFS to deviate from established security standards and also found some vulnerabilities in the current EncFS implementation." [1] https
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by brango 9y ago
This is what we do. We created a small programming test that's very representative of 80% of our work. Candidates are asked to only spend 2 hours on it. If they can follow simple instructions and write a reasonable implementation we&#x
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by brango 9y ago
In the UK (IIRC IANAL, etc) the interview must be about assessing a candidate's suitability for a job and unsuitability for performing the work is the only justifiable reason for not offering someone a job, as opposed to, e.g. gender,
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by brango 9y ago
Why not ask them to build an anti-gravity device as well while you're at it? I just ask interviewers what the point of these questions is now. If you can't give someone an interview with relevant questions, how can you justify not
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by brango 9y ago
Well for a start you have to stop a GCE instance to add a new scope to it. So if your devs want to use a new API and you're running a massive production K8s cluster, you somehow have to stop your instances to add the new scope and othe
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by brango 9y ago
Not just physical devices. A lot of the Google stuff I have to use seems half-baked, unfinished or with crappy UI/UX. And Google Cloud is complete shit compared to AWS. I guess that's what happens when engineers lead a company. Th
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by brango 9y ago
You could call yourself a Whoover.
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by brango 9y ago
Jumped out at me too. The link 404s so there's no source for the claim. Plus, what does "use it" mean? They dabbled with it for a small, non-critical application, or they're using it as their primary language in a non-so
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by brango 9y ago
Thanks! I've set up an alert for when it goes on sale :-)
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by brango 9y ago
Anyone play Battlefield 2 on the PS2 I think it was? You could look at any allied character on the battlefield and hit a button and you'd take over control of the character. So you could be a soldier on the ground being pinned down by
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by brango 9y ago
You're not meant to write it by hand. I know you can, but why would you want that world of pain?

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