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by cdogl 3y ago
Thanks for the clarification. > is at very bureaucratic organizations Seeing as this career is a golden ticket with a guaranteed job for life if you’re half competent, I’d spin the complaints from some about these practices around: if an
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by cdogl 3y ago
I’ve written go code for large corporates in Australia who absolutely did not have a tech or software focus. One was a notoriously bureaucratic company which used to be a government owned enterprise. For the niches it fills well, it’s becom
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by cdogl 3y ago
I can’t even imagine being asked about this part of my life in a career context. I’m 35 and for the better part of a decade I’ve just been asked about my previous roles. Seems like most organisations simply couldn’t care less where I’ve com
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by cdogl 3y ago
A big part of the Kubernetes value proposition is “autoscaling”, used in the loosest sense. Pods will come and go over time, in response to events, etc. as part of normal operations for many systems. If I still had to deploy to Kubernetes,
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by cdogl 3y ago
Interesting - I didn't realise the performance of a system was measured in how "obscure" the source language is. (edit: I am Australian - this is sarcasm.)
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by cdogl 3y ago
Including the filename is a highly opinionated decision. First of all it means your error value needs to have a string in it at minimum, which means extra overhead compared (eg) an enum that could compile down to an int. Maybe you don’t nor
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by cdogl 3y ago
It's not either or. A config file checked into git and applied by a CI/CD pipeline is infrastructure as code.
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by cdogl 3y ago
I have an X86 MacBook Pro.
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by cdogl 3y ago
I prefer clean code that doesn’t have comments except as doc strings for various parsers on declarations and in areas that are particularly surprising. If I want to know why something was done, I expect to be able to use git log or git blam
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by cdogl 3y ago
This is why AWS took over the world. It’s the opposite: WYSIWYG vis a vis pricing. I’m not sure why so few other developer oriented SaaS services follow their lead.
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by cdogl 3y ago
For any distro, “fixing bugs” that affect users will mean upstreaming patches to source in over 99% of cases. If you’re upstreaming patches, you’ll want to run the new version of upstream with those fixes included. Now you’re running new so
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by cdogl 3y ago
Australia has plentiful fresh produce of superb quality and is a major food exporter. Climate change will be a challenge for this country but hyperbolic predictions like OP don’t help anyone.
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by cdogl 3y ago
FWIW City of Sydney has ample space for pedestrians and along with state governments has done a lot to reduce car traffic, including largely repurposing the central road running down it (George St) for light rail and pedestrians. There are
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by cdogl 3y ago
I’ve met benno at various linux.conf.au and pycon events. Lovely fellow. It’s a nice surprise to see someone I know from the Australian scene pop up on the HN front page.
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by cdogl 3y ago
Testing kits are procured easily. Pure MDMA does have psychedelic effects. Wikipedia says it’s a psychedelic!
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by cdogl 3y ago
I'm in Melbourne and this is indeed one of the fastest websites I use. But most websites are bloated JavaScript apps with a gazillion assets so it's chalk and cheese really.
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by cdogl 3y ago
> hah if you consider yourself "talented" or "experience" and can't contribute to a project you want to contribute to just because it's Haskell, you might have misevaluated yourself on those axes I was descr
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by cdogl 3y ago
I may be missing something but don’t see how this is pertinent to Go.
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by cdogl 3y ago
I saw a talk at linux.conf.au about a decade ago by the then-main (only?) Git Annex developer. He was living way out in the styx with no internet connection and surviving off community contributions. It seemed like the choice of Haskell, wh
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by cdogl 3y ago
I’m not sure how long it’s been included, but a non-technical colleague of mine noticed this week that VS Code now has built-in “history” for files in a project. Highly limited compared to a VCS, but very useful for basic change history and
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by cdogl 3y ago
Honest question: why would atomics be necessary or useful if data isn’t shared between threads?
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by cdogl 3y ago
Or the people undertaking these studies (and more importantly, the people peer reviewing and publishing the work) push back on broad conclusions that aren't substantiated by the research. Having seen the nonsense my partner has to put
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by cdogl 3y ago
I’m sympathetic to your points and have heard all the horror stories about FAANG hiring practices, but again: if you don’t want to go through the interview process, go for an ordinary job that doesn’t pay through the nose. Sure, they have s
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by cdogl 3y ago
No other industry is capable of automating weekly security updates, basically by definition.
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by cdogl 3y ago
If a candidate assumes the hiring team is “competing to abuse them”, I’m happy with more or less anything that filters out people with that attitude. Entitlement cuts both ways. Software development pays very well and largely has excellent
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by cdogl 3y ago
I agree with your central point but take issue with this characterisation of human vision. For people who have two functioning eyes, the perception of depth is baked in. Our subjective experience of a 2d image is an illusion. In fact, much
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by cdogl 3y ago
It's not uncommon for tradespersons to charge to come out and quote. Having said that, I think paying people to interview for 6-figure salary jobs (AUD) is a non-starter to me. If a company is stretching your interviews out to the exte
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by cdogl 3y ago
> I remember hearing about IPhone apps that can get a 90% hit rate on correct diagnosis for general practitioner style visits. Was that in marketing materials? > so most of the time Dr's were using their big brains for big comple
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by cdogl 3y ago
I can buy something, pay using a number of different standardised mechanisms (debit card details, Apple/Google Pay, other web services like PayPal) and have it quoted for shipping from almost anywhere in the world to my house with just
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by cdogl 3y ago
> If the params for the search are so many or so big that they don't fit in a single url, how could you use that as a cache key? I think the horse has bolted here. With HTTP/2 (and often without), URLs can be _very_ long.

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