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by darkr 8y ago
Absolutely, people like Peter Thiel need and deserve our support. On a more serious note, I don't think this is the case. It's highly likely that coming out as pro capitalism, pro lower-taxation, and pro small government will not
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As a hiring manager involved in many hires over the past few years, this is excellent advice for anyone with ~10 years or more of experience.
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MongoDB has been deprecated and on the way out at $work for a while now, and we have gradually been rewriting and migrating services to more suitable/sane database tech. I can confidently say that this migration would have gone a lot f
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Already been done: http://octodadgame.com/
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Because they want to discourage heavy usage at peak time, when they are running at, or close to capacity. It's certainly not unheard of for transit providers to do the same thing.
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Any consumer ISP worth using should themselves be a tier 2 network, which means that for full global routability, yes - they take transit from peering with at least one tier 1 provider, but the bulk of their transit will come via peering at
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Absolutely, story points are used as a component in the estimation of time. Story points on their own are useless though; they are an abstract thing that only means anything to the team and it’s velocity. A good analogy is that they are an
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> We estimated the amount of time each task would take, assigned it points based on that, and we'd fill our task list in such a way to try to make the estimation close 40 hours of work. The concept of story points was invented as an
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I’ve seen overengineered and undermaintained HA systems result in much lower uptimes than a simple system with multiple SPOFs. I’ve seen well built and maintained HA systems fail under “rare” edge cases. I’ve also seen well built and mainta
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No support for Linux.
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Curtesy urban dictionary: A variation of the bong native to SouthWest England, where a straight tube is used instead of a conventional "gauze type" bong tube. The end of the shottie tube (also known as a downie or downpipe/tu
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Receptionists
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Also, not too long after that blog post was written, Postgres added support for logical replication.
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AFAIAA, the only immutable core type in go is string.
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Portage can work with binary packages just fine: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Binary_package_guide ChromeOS/ChromiumOS uses portage for its build system, to produce a signed, read-only image that the OS can boot f
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by darkr 9y ago
I think that’s a separate app/Platform? > https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/02/bumbles-business-networkin...
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Hard, but not impossible: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
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As someone from the other side of the pond I always found it strange that pedestrians could be entrusted to carry a loaded handgun, but not to cross the road.
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The article hints at the driving force behind this vanity project: > Current threats are numerous, including the endangering of 35 ancient forest tracts destined to be damaged by the construction of England’s new high-speed rail link, be
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by darkr 9y ago
> If you are a Nascar driver, you can confidently say that you are a better than average driver. Better at going fast and turning left?
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by darkr 9y ago
I enjoyed this article, particularly as someone who tried and failed to complete Kevin Kelly’s “The Inevitable” this year. If the book had been written in 1996, it would have been cute. Unfortunately it was written/released in 2016; th
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I guess along with knowing the signal protocol you would need to know the exact location. Security via obscurity?
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DynamoDB, Cassandra
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Mail.app and GPGTools gives a pretty good experience if you’re on macOS
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Same. Replaced around 6 Yubikeys, some of which were associated with GitHub. Fairly seamless replacement process (but have obviously yet to recieve the replacement keys yet..) Shitty situation, but good response from both GitHub and Yubico.
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Odd comparison, Google has supported MySQL for a long time, as has AWS. Dynamo might be a slightly closer comparison
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Ditto. UDP support would be great.
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> According to Ed Higgs, Interim Director of Global Service Delivery for Group IT at Rentokil: “With over 500 Chromebooks in use in our organization, Chrome now forms part of our standard offering within Rentokil Initial." 500? Do y

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