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by dimitar 4y ago
So what other possible solution there is? Cut scope? Hire 200 more people?
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by dimitar 4y ago
The clojure toolbox: https://www.clojure-toolbox.com/ There also the various awesome lists on GitHub, but they are not always well curated
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by dimitar 4y ago
Line-oriented pipelines are great and have their place but I'm still sticking to a high-level general purpose programming language (lets abbreviate this as HGPPL) for scripts longer than 10 lines, because the following reasons: * I lik
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by dimitar 4y ago
This is some sort of horse-race journalism for quarterly and yearly economic indicators. The news are not good for Russia. The more interesting comment was buried at the end - the IMF have upgraded the GDP growth from -6% to -3%, but that i
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by dimitar 4y ago
It is using some sort of an alternative to GDP, but I don't understand why they made that choice: "The Current Activity Indicator (CAI) is an alternative summary measure of economic growth constructed from major real activity indi
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by dimitar 4y ago
We have a saying in Bulgarian - "a craft is not learned, it is stolen" which neatly explain the old school approach to learning and training, that is still present in most of world. The master will only train the apprentices the t
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by dimitar 4y ago
Having worked with IT departments and developers from developers from developing countries here is the following observations: * Microsoft is still very dominant, people use pirated windows on PCs, and in a corporate setting MS tech stacks
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by dimitar 4y ago
How does this account for subsistence farming? It doesn't seem it does. The linked report focuses on trade policy and markets and yet a huge chunk of the worlds population doesn't rely on them. What happens is that there are a lot
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by dimitar 4y ago
It is war between Ukraine and Russia, regardless how Putin markets it. Ukraine hit an airfield inside Russia on the 25th of February. They are not going to use nukes
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by dimitar 4y ago
Yep, two types in fact, line comments with ; and a discard sequence - you can tag code that is read (so it must be correct), but then discarded. We have edn files that are well documented with comments. https://github.com/ed
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by dimitar 4y ago
Unfortunately, this might as well mean more natural gas extraction and the availability of a cheap fossil fuel. This is why we also need carbon taxes; technology developments can impact the fight against climate change in unpredictable ways
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by dimitar 4y ago
I wonder what happened to the p2p craze? That seems like the solution to the hosting costs.
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by dimitar 4y ago
He is running a business. He says it will be hard to meet regulatory targets, then the incentives are way too low. Given they are such a a global business it makes sense for them to sell EVs and Hybrids in Europe and California for example
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by dimitar 4y ago
I got a MacBook Air 2020 with 128GB storage to use mostly for browsing and light dev and that quickly filled up. It's like the OS tries to obsolete the machine as quickly as possible. The biggest annoyance is Finder telling me most of
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by dimitar 4y ago
In BG and the USSR there used to be quotas and also less choice over what to study, so about 50% of STEM students were women. When I studied in BG the quotas were long gone and 20 out of 160 students in our engineering specialty were women.
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by dimitar 4y ago
Well everyone has logs, but not everyone has user-facing search features. I personally wouldn't recommend self-hosti gElasticSearch for logs; it's such a commodity now that it cheaper to get something like Datadog or another manag
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by dimitar 4y ago
Any chance of it getting sold in the EU?
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by dimitar 4y ago
toastytech.com - old GUIs, IE hate, Doom levels
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by dimitar 4y ago
Have you also considered Clojure for your use cases?
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by dimitar 4y ago
This seems to be a historical doc. Most people don't use email like SMS anymore, since instant messaging walled guardens took over
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by dimitar 4y ago
Interesting you mention this as Slack was originally an acronym: Searchable Log of All Communication and Knowledge Point is that it was intended as a communication stream that is recorded and indexed, so you don't need a wiki/shar
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by dimitar 4y ago
When looking for 'clojure' none of the results are even related to programming
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by dimitar 4y ago
My role is mixed, but it wasn't hard at all. What helps is that a lot of these companies hire remotes.
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by dimitar 4y ago
Neither is true; While sociological data in a dictatorship is to be taken with a grain of salt, the data shows that most Russians support the "special military operation": https://www.levada.ru/en/ Worse, the
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by dimitar 4y ago
People ask me why I buy some many books when obviously I haven't read them all - I usually ask them if they wear all their clothes all the time. I think it is is perfectly fine not to finish a book. Or read a few chapters to see if you
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by dimitar 4y ago
The bottleneck is the CEO as this is the role that is supposed to figure it out and more often than not the CEO's attention is on 120% percent is on sales, investors or a fire to put out. That is why I think a small secretarial/ad
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by dimitar 4y ago
I think part of the reason it is so hard with C-level executives is that they are not under the same scrutiny and control as a person as the rest of the employees. Everything else stems from this: the corruption, incompetence, abuse of othe
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by dimitar 4y ago
Well all of those issues are fixable, but I think it is a totally valid reason not to use k8s if you don't have a dedicated infra person/team.
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by dimitar 4y ago
Recreational mathematics - games, puzzles and toys are what you are looking for.
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Business Retreats and Sanctions Are Crippling the Russian Economy(papers.ssrn.com)
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