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by comprev 6y ago
I've worked at several fintech companies who all used NodeJS at the backend. Engineering management decided it was suitable for the high IO demands of payments processing.
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by comprev 6y ago
Given they come in multiple colours (and this was a selling point), it looks more aimed at home users/classroom - web browsing, watching movies, light photography/video/audio editing, etc. Those seeking more power would likel
873.
by comprev 6y ago
A Dutch company I worked for had much of their legacy code with Dutch words throughout. It was rather challenging to onboard international non-Dutch colleagues.
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by comprev 6y ago
Excellent technique to gain feedback whilst still in the interview. I'll use that in the future
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by comprev 6y ago
Same in Finland I believe. The fine is a % of your annual income.
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by comprev 6y ago
https://www.fonoa.com/ These guys also have an API for dealing with different tax laws around the world. Founded by some ex-Uber people.
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by comprev 6y ago
Garmin Edge Explorer 820 has onboard route planning and I have the whole of Europe on the device! Amazing little unit.
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by comprev 6y ago
He'll still get ad display revenue even if the viewers don't purchase anything.
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by comprev 6y ago
My GPS cycle computer does something similar - plots a random route close to a fixed length.
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by comprev 6y ago
Got bought out by Zoom, and given their reputation for security/privacy, many users ditched Keybase quicker than rats from a sinking ship. It's almost like Zoom forgot that Keybase users are more likely from the more technical end
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by comprev 6y ago
Same here on mobile (iPhone 7)
882.
by comprev 6y ago
DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer (Junior/Medior) | Permanent | Yomali Labs https://www.yomali.com | Ireland | REMOTE (Ireland only) | Competitive compensation Yomali is a remote-first group of companies which covers th
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by comprev 6y ago
Killarney, County Kerry. I have worked remotely on & off for years, and decided to be 100% post Covid.
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by comprev 6y ago
Moving from Amsterdam to the rural Irish countryside where I can escape to the hills on the mountain bike or road bike each day. It's done wonders for my mental health.
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by comprev 6y ago
I think they meant using a remote development server instead of spinning up a VM locally. There was a post a few days back about using a NUC as a powerful remote (over LAN) development server
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by comprev 6y ago
Can't decide if the Gist is tongue-in-cheek or actually serious...
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by comprev 6y ago
You're assuming your line manager has the power and/or budget to hire more staff. This is likely not the case for the vast majority of salaried employees.
888.
by comprev 6y ago
My experience was in NL too and agree with all your points. After the _second_ botched attempt I don't understand why building in-house was decided - instead the company inherited a super rushed barebones MVP with zero docs and spaghet
889.
by comprev 6y ago
First thing I do on a new mac account is enable "always on" scrollbars. They give me visual clue as to how much of the information I am reading - am I 10% down the page or 80%?
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by comprev 6y ago
A company which had existed in the digital music realm and realised it was late to the streaming party. The company was about 15 in size with zero tech people. I understand capital was raised exclusively for the MVP. The MVP being built w
891.
by comprev 6y ago
Not hired one directly but I joined a team during the transition from agency to in-house. The transition took 3 months for us to be self-supported as the platform came with zero documentation. Due to politics the MVP had 2 false starts at
892.
by comprev 6y ago
Wonderful music, thanks for sharing. Huge supporter of BC over here!
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by comprev 6y ago
This blog post is just a rewording of the same topic from https://teachyourselfcs.com/2016/ "There are 2 types of software engineer: those who understand computer science well enough to do challenging, innovative
894.
by comprev 6y ago
It's all about cutting the time in standups down to a bare minimum. I don't care what you did yesterday, I want to know in one sentence what you're doing _today_ and if you're blocking anyone.
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by comprev 6y ago
I learned all my early MS sysadmin skills on a homelab made up of eBay HP servers/Cisco switches and pirated w2k/sbs2003. It allowed it to gain MCSA and get onto the operations career ladder where my employer had legit licenses.
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by comprev 6y ago
Title needs (2011)
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by comprev 6y ago
I've used Okta to provide gateway access to physical devices and AWS roles in the same deployment. Very impressive when every endpoint and SaaS product is behind a single 2FA login.
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by comprev 6y ago
It's interesting reading the comments and seeing a fairly clear divide between developers and operators. Tooling exists to make horizontal scaling much easier these days without going all-out with k8s.
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by comprev 6y ago
Exactly the example I was thinking of. It was a turning point for Microsoft in the David vs Goliath (IBM) story. Now their software could run on IBM-compatible hardware opening the floodgates for PC manufacturers
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by comprev 6y ago
Most Eastern Europeans I worked with in the Netherlands all had one thing in common - they put the effort in to leave their home countries (Romania, Hungary, Greece, Bulgaria, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, etc.) and never return. They took al

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