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by comprev 5y ago
Azureus - not heard that word in over at least 15 years or so. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
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by comprev 5y ago
It's fairly common to have multiple businesses to reduce the blast radius. Often staff are employed by one company which has zero assets in case an employee tries to sue.
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by comprev 5y ago
I've got 4x XDJ, 2x turntables and a mixer setup in the front room of the house :-). DJing is my creative outlet, a way for me to escape reality for a fee hours at a time. I can either use DVS to "simulate" vinyl (laptop requ
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by comprev 5y ago
- Can you give me an example of when a project took a major turn in another direction, and what was the cause of this change? - (if applicable) How many heads is this role expected to support? - What was the team's last achiev
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by comprev 5y ago
Terrible battery life on the Apple watches is the only thing preventing me from getting one (and I'm already fully invested in the Apple ecosystem - iphone, ipad, macbook air, hackintosh desktop). By comparison my Polar V800, which has
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by comprev 5y ago
Siemens software was also notoriously flakey and required patching workstations to involve a shamanistic ritual to improve the success rate.
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by comprev 5y ago
It's amazon - so expect it to behave like that by design.
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by comprev 5y ago
Pinkbike has a good article on rim width [1] [1] https://www.pinkbike.com/news/rim-widths-comparison-test-mou...
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by comprev 5y ago
Your post reminds me of a joke punchline which was something along the lines of "an engineer doesn't actually have to remember very much, they only need to know how to efficiently find the information when required" It's
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by comprev 5y ago
I experienced this recently in a surprise 'shared screen' coding exercise the interviewers threw in at the last minute. I couldn't even remember how to write a for loop in bash, something so familiar it would be like asking m
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by comprev 5y ago
I seem to remember they were removed to fit through the door!
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by comprev 5y ago
24/7 operations is the norm these days and I'd be surprised if the client doesn't want redundancy.
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by comprev 5y ago
DNS hosting?
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by comprev 5y ago
I use something very bare bones as the host OS, say Alpine, and install Docker with a handful of other tools for basic sysadmin tasks (curl, etc.). For a single server deployment docker-compose is very useful.
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by comprev 5y ago
Pretty much anything but stare at a computer screen all day. Plenty of exercise (I clocked up thousands of kms cycling), healthy eating, spending time with family and friends, reading (although on a tablet), exploring new music, etc. It&#x
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by comprev 5y ago
I have automated a "release engineer" out of a job. Yea, the irony is strong.
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by comprev 5y ago
I took 6 months off work and was thankful every morning I had been wise enough to have healthy savings for "a rainy day". In those 6 months I introduced some life changing habits and reassessed life's priorities. Ironically
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by comprev 5y ago
I think the recruitment industry themselves kicked off the whole "great resignation". By promoting the idea that employees are going to resign, it forces employers to quickly get into "recruitment mode" - as we all know,
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by comprev 5y ago
Portal The Turing Test
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by comprev 5y ago
In NL the background check is very specific. If you've been convicted of drink-driving the record won't show up if the role is finance related due to the narrow scope.
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by comprev 5y ago
If they want to hire a contractor then offer them contractor rates, i.e 50% above the current offer.
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by comprev 5y ago
dang has been exceptionally good at feeding the hamsters all these years so downtime has been minimal.
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by comprev 5y ago
The integration with Flash, Freehand and UltraDev I seem to remember was good. Being able to edit one file embedded in another program was a neat feature.
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by comprev 5y ago
nLite takes me back to the days of having a carputer in my TT, complete with a touchscreen, rugged industrial PC chassis and a special PSU hooked up to the ignition. Good times!
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by comprev 5y ago
The high demand is for experienced developers and not juniors. In recent years there has been an uptick in coding interest and the pool of newcomers is bigger than ever before. However, the _quality_ of this torrent of new developers is s
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by comprev 5y ago
The fresh graduate salary for 100k is higher than the majority of US workers will peak during their entire career of 50 years (adjusted for inflation). Think about that for a second.
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by comprev 5y ago
Pick the fire station to dramatically reduce the chances of being shot accidentally.
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by comprev 5y ago
To satisfy family members over Christmas. "I'm sorry I can't join the family meal, I have tested positive"
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by comprev 5y ago
Needs (2019)
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by comprev 5y ago
This is HN and the demographic might not even register $200 as "quite a lot".

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