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by bstpierre 4y ago
> You said "benefits and salary are good", but literally the only reason to not list these things in a posting is if they're not actually that good. The other reason I have seen a reluctance to put salary in a job posting
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by bstpierre 4y ago
It’s not surprising that Unicode in Erlang is hard to get right. It’s hard to get right in general. Every time I read something like this that goes deeply into Unicode I come away with some fun new test cases.
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by bstpierre 4y ago
And they will tell their friends and children too, apparently
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by bstpierre 4y ago
My home server is one that I built in about 2010 with only had upgrades since then. It’s still in daily use. I also run a laptop from 2012 although my daily work machine is newer. One of the keys to being able to do this is to invest in qua
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by bstpierre 4y ago
This is a poor analogy. It doesn’t take any effort to drink a bottle of Gatorade, and it tastes good too. On the other hand, attending a semester’s worth of lectures and engaging with assignments takes a lot of time and effort.
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by bstpierre 4y ago
Similarly, I sometimes generate dummy output up front. It’s especially handy when multiple teams are going to be processing some pipeline.
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by bstpierre 4y ago
I used special emails for my kids’ savings accounts at a major brokerage, and then started getting weird emails to one of them. This was on a private domain and the addresses weren’t really guessable, so that’s how I knew they had been brea
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by bstpierre 5y ago
Also this method avoids “xhost +” which is a huge security hole
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by bstpierre 5y ago
Yes! I came here to specifically mention plaintext accounting I'm also a beancount user. Having all of my data in plain text allowed me to write extra tooling so that I can generate higher-level reports than what beancount has built-in
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by bstpierre 5y ago
Serious question: what are the odds that go 2 ends up like python 3 and it takes the world over a decade of pain to migrate? (I like both python and go, and I’m still maintaining a sizable body of py2 code.) “Backwards compatibility forev
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by bstpierre 5y ago
Some cell plans have a charge for incoming texts, roughly like the cloud bill you’re talking about. And (as sibling comment points out) if you’ve got critical household infrastructure that needs gas/electric, you’re not always in contr
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by bstpierre 5y ago
A gas or electric bill works a bit like this... if you have some appliance that fails in a way that suddenly starts consuming much more than usual you can end up with a fairly large bill at the end of the month. Same for old school landline
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by bstpierre 5y ago
My 2012 Dell XPS14 is still my preferred laptop even without any upgrades or tinkering. I have a somehwat newer XPS13 for work that is also decent (but not as good as the '12), and according to the calendar I'm due for a refresh b
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by bstpierre 5y ago
Also, don’t let the name mislead you — it’s not just for CI jobs, it’s great to use all the time.
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by bstpierre 5y ago
I think a lot of the advice in the article is also relevant to having conversations in other more limited (but still sizable) communities like some topic specific slack or discord servers, or certain forums. Maybe even some rare subreddit b
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by bstpierre 5y ago
Maybe, but also http://www.43folders.com/ would fit the narrative too
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by bstpierre 5y ago
No, because this isn’t being run through the shell, it’s directly exec’ing the program. So you’re just going to get a dir named “$(rm -rf /)”.
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by bstpierre 5y ago
Same here. Never as big as 900 people, but I've been both laid-off and still-employed following maybe a dozen events. I have been laid off four times, both done as part of an en masse event and as a series of 1:1s. It's probably j
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by bstpierre 5y ago
Even better, use an old tire. I like to set the tire on a large round, place a few smaller pieces inside the tire (so they don’t go flying out) and then chop them all before clearing and refilling. Also works with a single medium piece insi
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by bstpierre 5y ago
I'm coming from the opposite side -- my career has had me working almost entirely in compiled languages, mostly c but I've also done very low level embedded assembly and a fair bit of python. For personal projects recently it&#x27
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by bstpierre 5y ago
I don’t know anything about this particular isp or attack, but if that 250 gbps is aimed at specific parts of their infrastructure that are not designed for this much load, it’s likely to saturate individual links, servers, and/or netw
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by bstpierre 5y ago
> If you ask your candidate to demonstrate how they've "delivered business value" in the past, you're basically asking them how lucky they were. Honestly I'd be ok with an answer along the lines of "I got mo
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by bstpierre 5y ago
> A full copy of the code is always fully downloaded to the workstation, so that you always can code away! Is this a full copy of just the current code or full history like git? I often use info from old commits or git blame to understan
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by bstpierre 5y ago
Based on our experience, with anywhere from 2 to about 15 in a flock, guineas aren't super effective at reducing ticks. They're also very noisy, leave big turds all over the place, and at least in our rural New England area, serve
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by bstpierre 5y ago
One thing that is slightly more frustrating is saying “What dumbass wrote this code? How did this ever work?” And then looking at git blame and realizing the dumbass is year-ago you. (Or even five years ago you.)
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by bstpierre 6y ago
That's part of what I was talking about, but the original statement in the article was that rigorous testing guarantees software quality, and it also says "there is no other solution", and that is demonstrably false. One exam
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by bstpierre 6y ago
> What improves (and guarantees) software quality is rigorous testing. To deliver high quality software, there is no other solution. This is 100% false. You can’t inject quality into a bad design via testing. You can’t guarantee quality
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Introduction to Rust Web Applications(erwabook.com)
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by bstpierre 10y ago
He was the adopted son of Frank Lloyd Wright and Andrew Lloyd Webber -- the building is also a musical masterpiece.
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by bstpierre 11y ago
I got this desk earlier this year: http://amzn.com/B00JREVI5G after having tried simply raising a "regular" desk to standing a year or two ago. Standing all day didn't work for me, but the crank-up makes it s

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