dossy

8 ms·

31.
by dossy 4y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34435338
32.
by dossy 4y ago
"Amazon closing AmazonSmile to focus its philanthropic giving to programs with greater impact" https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-closing...
33.
by dossy 4y ago
It's not about escaping the sex offender status. It's about not having that be the first thing that pops up in a Google search for your current legal name. A legal name change is the obvious solution, here. A thorough background
34.
by dossy 4y ago
Send me an email at REDACTED, let me take a look. I can probably give you a few deliverability tips, if you want. When you've sent it, add a comment here so I know to look at my mailserver logs in case my mail filter hard rejects the
35.
by dossy 4y ago
If you are trying to optimize for income, then go for it. If it doesn't work out, try something else. There's an abundance of opportunity and not enough people willing to take (measured) risks, so if you're smart and willin
36.
by dossy 4y ago
> "The agency is reconsidering its relationship with the contractor Accenture on this project, according to a person familiar." Any time I start to feel that Impostor Syndrome creeping in, I need to remind myself that there&#x2
37.
by dossy 4y ago
Ahh, human-powered Chaos Engineering as a Service (CEaaS): AWS Lolwut.
38.
by dossy 4y ago
Finally, debugging human software - this is the inevitable future we've been waiting for.
39.
by dossy 4y ago
This sounds like an interesting idea, and I could very likely benefit from such an arrangement, myself. I'm Dossy#5309 on Discord, let's figure something out together.
40.
by dossy 4y ago
> Mastodon is about as far from trading in for another Twitter alternative as you can come and that's largely what makes its design so difficult to grasp for Twitter emigrants. A protocol has no inherent value. Its value comes from
41.
by dossy 4y ago
> [...] until the day you cross a line that you didn’t know existed, [...] And then your account gets nuked and you can’t migrate your posts. Exactly. This is the critical flaw in Mastodon's design. It does not solve the single bi
42.
by dossy 4y ago
Thanks, @CharlesW. I'm familiar with Kris and follow her on Twitter, and see a lot of people have opted to join her Mastodon server, which is great, but her explanation of what happened when she tried to migrate her account from one s
43.
by dossy 4y ago
> You can move your account with followers easily (but not posts). That's what I thought based on what I've read so far, thanks for confirming. Unless and until that's fixed, if I finally see enough value in joining Mastod
44.
by dossy 4y ago
> In any case, the purpose of the article is that most people I know implicitly trust their tax preparer, and they really shouldn't. "Доверяй, но проверяй" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_veri
45.
by dossy 4y ago
I came here to suggest something similar: in Thunderbird, it has this feature called "tags" where users can create their own tags and apply them to messages. Combine that with message filter rules that can apply tags based on mat
46.
by dossy 4y ago
> [...] what is the value of a computer science or software engineering degree in 2022/23, in my case? This is what I tell my two daughters who have both opted to not attend university immediately after high school: To an employer,
47.
by dossy 4y ago
Ned's spot on. The single thing that's kept me from joining/participating in Mastodon is the lack of clarity around which server I "should" join, whether I should start my own server, or if I join someone else&#x27
48.
by dossy 4y ago
Tax code is just a program written in the English programming language. Like any other programming language, by definition, 50% of programmers are below average. If 70% success is a "passing" C grade, that means you have a 7 in 10
49.
by dossy 4y ago
Indeed, part of becoming a senior-level-anything is recognizing what problems exist and having the skills (experience, knowledge, etc.) to work on solving them. I can't put my hands on the source at the moment, but there's a clich
50.
by dossy 4y ago
Most algorithms are judged on time (runtime performance) and space (memory requirements). That's a good place to start.
51.
by dossy 4y ago
Who says it's a problem? Can you link to some material that you're referencing that makes you ask this?
52.
by dossy 4y ago
> "Even CLI querying is not possible because CloudSQL has a private IP [...]" Uh, wat? https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/configure-ip # "You can configure your Cloud SQL instance to h
53.
by dossy 4y ago
map/reduce
54.
by dossy 4y ago
Holy... shit.
55.
by dossy 4y ago
Culture fit doesn't necessary equal monoculture. Think more "culturally compatible" or at least "we consider culture as part of the decision-making process" vs. purely assessing skills and salary cost alone.
56.
by dossy 4y ago
The submitted link is to the author's archive page. The actual link to the blog post is: https://blog.heroku.com/next-chapter
57.
by dossy 4y ago
Dig through the teaching staff roster looking for adjunct professors, and ask them if the company they work for has any internship positions open. Bonus points if you can take the course that the professor is teaching to demonstrate your c
58.
by dossy 4y ago
> What could cause something like this to happen? Insufficient testing?
59.
by dossy 4y ago
Does this link work for you? It's just giving me the loading spinner GIF. Edit: I guess I was just early. It eventually loaded, after a solid 2-3 minutes of waiting.
60.
by dossy 4y ago
Yes.

More ›