chillydawg

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by chillydawg 8y ago
Tell that to the mid level exec who's got 200 seats to fill to hit his bonus pot, after which he's outta there. Leaving the company to deal with the 190 terrible coders he hired, naturally.
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by chillydawg 8y ago
That was the original reason, yes. Now Chrome is installed by default on tons of new laptops etc because Google makes so much money by tracking users via Chrome that they can pay serious $$ to manufacturers to tweak their base build.
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by chillydawg 8y ago
Well it's certainly not feasible in the US with the current government in power.
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by chillydawg 8y ago
Not gonna lie: I wish google had been a bit slower fixing this. I was looking forward to having some (mostly) harmless fun!
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by chillydawg 8y ago
Part of their rationale is that the cost of anti fraud and AML and so on is going up. At the same time, the volume of transactions going via cards is increasingly massively year on year and will continue to do so for quite some time. Surely
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by chillydawg 8y ago
My solution is to use chrome when faced with that particular limitation. There's a bug open on the mozilla tracker and it's been there for a while but no one seems to care.
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by chillydawg 8y ago
It makes such a difference on mobile being able to run a good blocker.
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by chillydawg 8y ago
Can't inspect websocket frames. It's ridiculous.
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by chillydawg 8y ago
I'm not sure data caps are a disease, as such. It costs money to move data around. Caps on "unlimited" deals are obviously a dodgy sales technique, but I don't think that's what's being discussed.
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by chillydawg 8y ago
You in the the EU? Sue em.
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by chillydawg 8y ago
Dropbox, right now. These blogs are always with an eye to recruitment.
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by chillydawg 8y ago
Other than the 30% fee they charge and ad revenue generated via the apps? Please. That fee is 100% an anti spam mechanism.
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by chillydawg 8y ago
As with all things like this, it depends on entirely who you are and how much you spend.
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by chillydawg 8y ago
Can I pay more to stop Google advertising to me and collecting my data? They can keep their HDD space.
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by chillydawg 8y ago
Sensible. Not paying income tax >>>> a few free shitty tshirts and invites to propaganda all hands meetings, IMHO.
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by chillydawg 8y ago
-Gather all applications, with salary information for the offered job that must be correct by law, else $lol fines for everyone. -Sort the applications by pay, descending. -Approve the top-k. -Deny the rest. Let the market sort it out.
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by chillydawg 8y ago
So, I assume everything is streamed back to google for ads? Files, clicks, network configs?
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by chillydawg 8y ago
Longshot Systems | Multiple Roles | Marylebone, London, UK | ONSITE | Full time At Longshot Systems Ltd we're a small startup building advanced platforms for sports betting analytics and trading. Having developed a lot of our core plat
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by chillydawg 8y ago
I'm sure there is insurance cheaper than 50% of all profit.
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by chillydawg 8y ago
I doubt many places really do that. In the UK, for example, it only costs a couple hundred quid for a boilerplate employment contract from a proper employment lawyer that you can fill the blanks in on and re use for a long time. Copying and
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by chillydawg 8y ago
It's left hand not talking to the right. The HR people put the system in place as a way of promoting equality, hiring more easily and generally doing a decent thing. Individual managers of teams, with fixed budgets, high workloads and
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by chillydawg 8y ago
Consider, for a moment, you have a great idea and a couple of friends to start a company. You have no money. Is 100k to give it a shot "suicide"? Of course not. If you're at the right time in your life, this is an excellent o
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by chillydawg 8y ago
Getting oil out of the desert costs very little. A couple of bucks a barrel. Current market price was 80 bucks last I checked. Margin.
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by chillydawg 8y ago
The various democracies your friends are protecting are at risk from Facebook et al, not hackers abusing Facebook.
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by chillydawg 8y ago
Whoever hosts your DNS is the weak point. Account and login security with whoever they are is critical.
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by chillydawg 8y ago
You don't get super user access to postgres via RDS. You can't use logical replication. Plenty of other plugins don't work. For complex use cases, RDS is often a no go.
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by chillydawg 8y ago
For future reference, you can use logical replication to do this online between versions with a minimal window at the end for a final sync when apps are off and not changing data. By that I mean have your 9.6 in prod running as normal, set
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by chillydawg 8y ago
Joda Time is one of my all time favourite libraries. After struggling with JVM stdlib time nonsense, JodaTime was a breath of fresh air and actually made programming with time fun.
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by chillydawg 8y ago
House edge on most table games is significantly bigger than 1%. Single zero (euro) roulette is about 3%, blackjack can be played near to 0% with skill but the rest is all terrible.
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by chillydawg 8y ago
Longshot Systems | Multiple Roles | Marylebone, London, UK | ONSITE | Full time At Longshot Systems Ltd we're a small startup building advanced platforms for sports betting analytics and trading. Having developed a lot of our core plat

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