cs02rm0

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by cs02rm0 7y ago
Part of it is perhaps that I mostly do consultancy work. So rather than a product a company lives and breathes through the success of, they're usually costs that just need to be done sufficiently, quickly and then left to run themselve
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
I seem to spend far more time on the deployment of code than I ever used to, more time writing CloudFormation and ansible than the Java backend, python lambdas and static UI that it deploys. That seems nuts to me. I'm not sure how yo
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
I'm not sure it did, immediately. We'd had the Khobar Towers bombing, my dad was in the first Gulf War and even before that I remember him checking under the car in the UK for devices before we could get in because of the IRA. So
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
Much of that echoes with me. I spent a lot of my teenage years in Dhahran as my dad was a UK expat instructor pilot to the Saudi Air Force. Living on compounds with swimming pools, endless sunshine, homebrew and smuggled pork products are f
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
You could probably talk to business owners with problems, launch an (appropriately priced; hundreds to thousands of dollars per year) product against those problems, build contingent on getting 10 commits to buy I don't doubt that yo
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
Something to turn into a product? Economies of scale could help staff it then?
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
Depends what they get in return.
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
As a rule I think if you feel you're outside the sweet spot of an AWS service before you start using it, I'd take that as a steer that it's probably not the right route to go.
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
Last time AWS Cognito, and at least initially, Amplify. I'd never write it from scratch. It's always a PITA, there's always significant compromises - do you make people sign up, do you let them use Google/every other ava
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
I've got the LG 5k2k 34". It's great for what I use it for, mostly software development. Only issue I have is that occasionally MacOS decides it can't see it or won't use the full resolution and I have to do a bit o
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
The remote working place I'm at has a policy of starting with video calls, then voice if video isn't available, down to IM, then email. I'm not an extrovert at all, but I quite like it. We are a relatively small dev team - ma
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
My wife had one miscarriage, we're pretty robust but it was quite brutal, friends have certainly had many more. We had to wait a bit before trying again but not too long later had twins and in an odd sort of way it seemed like that gav
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
1 in 4 pregnancies was the figure I was quoted, when my wife had a miscarriage.
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
This is still a good thing and, if it happens, would add weight to making the arguments for similar restrictions in the UK.
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
Amusing, but also as a Brit, I still think it's good news and that it adds weight to making the same arguments in the UK.
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
On a personal note, the advice not to browsedown from less trusted devices often means an organisation supplying a trusted device. That potentially conflicts with IR35 for contractors who would then not be supplying their own equipment. I&#
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
When customer support resorts to justification by analogy it's not gone well.
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
The graph is from an app that comes with Withings smart scales and it's that I've used. (So take the absolute values with a pinch of salt, but I suspect they're in the right ballpark).
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
Appreciate this is a sample size of one, but IM has worked reasonably well for me. I lost nearly 3 stone, my weight's up a little since then but I'm still within a pound or two of my lowest fat mass over a year on. All it really i
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
Wikipedia?
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
I'd imagine the graphics libraries is where the JVM falls down.
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
No, the data was necessary (though there are a stack of different optimisation strategies they could have pursued with varying trade offs). Fetch size is a standard JDBC parameter for tweaking the number of rows paged in a database query. T
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
I've worked on a widely used NHS IT system and specifically looked at login times for it. We had an issue at one site where instead of taking 30 seconds to log in it took over 20 minutes. Our JDBC driver was using the default fetch siz
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
It's more than SSH access that you give up though. You have to bend to the paradigm completely or you're really fighting against it. For one example, I keep running up against wanting to delay an execution of one lambda from anoth
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
It is in the cloud. It's different in that you don't have access to the cloud server, just a service on it. To me it's like having one hand tied behind your back while someone else uses their hand to do what you'd have d
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
As a software engineer, it's your responsibility to build the product according to the requirements. Ah, the solid, dependable base that is the requirements! I'd question the reason to wait. Shove it out the door so you can lear
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
I don't think that's the case in the UK at least. However the sugar level is higher per fixed volume because the removal of the fat increases the concentration of what remains.
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
And more importantly, FPTP doesn't allow for middle ground. If you are in the middle, you can't get elected, because neither party would nominate you. I'm not sure that's true, at least in the UK, when one of the estab
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
Any chance you could share the script and a screenshot?
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by cs02rm0 7y ago
FWIW it hasn't been my experience. I've spent about 9 years working with a fully remote company. The back channels exist, mostly as video calls in slack, but to me that's no different than a conversation in a quiet corner of

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