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by dotdi 2y ago
> Despite the apparent advantages of reusing Instagram's platform for Threads (much faster delivery time), Malkani admitted the company introduced a substantial amount of technical debt that must be addressed in the future. This is
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by dotdi 3y ago
Worked in Germany for 6+ years. 3 months is pretty standard for engineering roles. I've frequently seen managers and other employees with higher responsibility having a 6 month notice period, although people are encouraged to resign, i
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by dotdi 3y ago
I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked! /s Is it a suprize to anybody that employees do not appreciate being exploited for financial gain?
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by dotdi 3y ago
https://archive.ph/MJDbV
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by dotdi 3y ago
Yes, this! I've been burned countless times by Hibernate (and consorts) and now I argue in favour of plain SQL wherever I can. I do not imply that Hibernate is in itself bad, I just have collected many years of observations about proje
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by dotdi 3y ago
If I recall correctly, there were some TRACE or DEBUG logs one could turn on that would - amid a ton of unhelpful output - also emit logs when the JIT was doing its thing. Then, while running a small reproducer app and combing through the o
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by dotdi 3y ago
A few years ago I also ran into a hardware (or at least very low-level software) bug that was only affecting Samsung devices. I had taken over maintenance of a library that allowed predicting satellite orbits from TLE data, which was used b
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by dotdi 3y ago
This has a Linux build too. The releases contain a .deb file.
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by dotdi 4y ago
Nobody mentioned this yet: Vert.x It has great Kotlin support, including Coroutines. I've introduced it into our team for a major rewrite and we are very happy about 18 months in.
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by dotdi 4y ago
https://archive.ph/rB7oD
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by dotdi 4y ago
Correct, and sorry for being unclear: somebody unrelated was trying to buy under-specced hardware for new members of my team in order to save money.
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by dotdi 4y ago
From a professional perspective, I completely agree. I used to run into "not enough RAM" situations frequently and convinced my company to splurge 4K EUR on a Macbook Pro with 64 GBs of RAM. I'm very happy with it. I also had
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by dotdi 4y ago
More anecdotal evidence: a few years back I wanted to get out of the work situation I was in. I looked around, had some interviews, had some offers. None of the postings had salary ranges, as is common where I live. My eyes, however, were s
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by dotdi 4y ago
I get this is targeted at the US, still I'm throwing this out there: my wife and I (with combined degrees in literature, molecular biology and computer science) would have seriously considered homeschooling. But we live in Germany, and
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by dotdi 4y ago
https://archive.ph/pqtwO
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by dotdi 4y ago
A funny thing happens if you just press the down arrow and keep it pressed. The game area quickly fills up with squares, and then it just continues to add more shapes until, after a minute or so, the whole page turns black.
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by dotdi 4y ago
I'm interested to see how Hatch develops, especially in the currently quite fragmented mess that is {pipenv, poetry, conda, pyflow, ...}. I see that tox switched at the beginning of March, which is a realtively high-profile project. I&
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by dotdi 4y ago
True, but on the other hand, people outside of Russia can decide for themselves how to react to and treat companies from unfriendly countries. You mention oligarchs - how can it be ruled out that Yandex is directly or indirectly, fully or p
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by dotdi 5y ago
This is the NY Times article that Reuters cites: https://archive.ph/LOMqw
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by dotdi 5y ago
One twitter comment mentions the account has been active for several years. Call me paranoid, but it's too big of a coincidence that it was closed exactly today.
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by dotdi 5y ago
This happened to me and a co-worker too, and I could resolve it with a `sudo killall firefox` and re-starting it. In contrast to all the heat from many of the comments here, I'll say this: shit happens to any company. My trust in Mozil
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by dotdi 5y ago
The $800 model has an "Add to Cart" button for me (in Germany). The 25.3 model shows "Pre-order".
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by dotdi 5y ago
What?! I was completely blindsided by this. I do regular laptop and smartphone repairs for friends and family and getting original parts often is difficult or even impossible. There are many scammers around that will sell "original OEM
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by dotdi 5y ago
https://archive.ph/Qp2hB
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by dotdi 5y ago
> The Apple M1 Max is a fantastic chip and is going to push both AMD and Intel to perform at their very best. And while I doubt x86 architecture will ever beat ARM on power efficiency, absolute power (within roughly comparable battery li
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by dotdi 5y ago
Yes, this is about Visual Studio, but why the downvote? VSCode is a browser, Visual Studio used to be a browser, and is now native, bravo Microsoft.
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by dotdi 5y ago
I love VSCode, but you can totally feel that it's a browser. I salute Microsoft for this move. Hopefully many others will follow.
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by dotdi 5y ago
Content blocking has been possible for a long time.
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by dotdi 5y ago
Unfortunately the article doesn't mention anything about how common it is for human drivers to crash into first responder vehicles during the night. I'm not trying to downplay these cases, as hitting emergency vehicles is very bad
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by dotdi 5y ago
I agree that webhooks have their problems, but, as somebody maintaining software that uses long-polling heavily, I will say that long-polling is quite difficult to handle reliably "over the internet". ISPs have very different view

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