ekvilibrist

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by ekvilibrist 4y ago
You didn't explicitly have a clause saying something like "40 hour work week, Monday to Friday 8 AM to 5 PM"? Pretty standard where I live (Sweden), making this type of shenanigans virtually impossible (at least I haven'
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by ekvilibrist 5y ago
> There have been some weird legal cases in Sweden where businesses and scammers have been freed after having signed in using other people's "BankID" to change retirement savings around or send cash. As far as I know most,
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by ekvilibrist 5y ago
They are very powerful tools, written in plain vanilla language and in a very generic way, a fact that makes them great learning tools which can help anyone learn how to code without them. In order to know how and when you should use a
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by ekvilibrist 6y ago
You've probably heard this but the science says you'll "condition" your mind to sleep better if you associate the bed with just sleeping (and possibly that other thing). But try not to read, watch videos etc for extended
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by ekvilibrist 6y ago
I'm sorry you had to go through that.
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by ekvilibrist 6y ago
> In most monoliths you will see all forms of behavior and that is the primary problem with monoliths. Invoke any client anywhere. Determine the requests context anywhere. Put business logic anywhere. Format a response anywhere. Handle e
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by ekvilibrist 6y ago
This is amongst a study of 600k Israelis, which is about 6% of the population. I believe their deal was that the entire population would be supplied the vaccine in exchange for their medical data, which is why Israel far ahead of most of th
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by ekvilibrist 6y ago
Sometimes I feel his sentiment, like everytime I open up something (that seemingly) is identical to each and every version. Say the FileZilla app, or VLC. (But there are probably bug fixes and new protocols or file formats getting support f
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by ekvilibrist 6y ago
> I dont understand how this could be a viable strategy -- unless your job is entirely useless, the business must replace your position during your absence in order to continue normal operation Just because you cannot get fired for going
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by ekvilibrist 6y ago
So there's no bad code, no poorly designed systems? Only "maintenance"?
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by ekvilibrist 6y ago
Wasn't the problem with "Flash sites" that it was way way worse than any regular website... as a website? Kinda like SPAs today. You had to reinvent stuff the browser already did perfectly. But as long as you made Flash APPS
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by ekvilibrist 6y ago
Different keyboards for starters?
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by ekvilibrist 7y ago
Smoking? Vaping? From what I've heard about other cases its highly unlikely but not impossible to die from Covid-19 if otherwise young and healthy...
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by ekvilibrist 7y ago
You should try one of those unions, I heard they are good at these kinds of things...
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by ekvilibrist 7y ago
> Russia, unlike Saudi Arabia, is a democracy. They have elections. Elections alone aren't the sole definition of a full democracy. Hell, even Iraq under Saddam had elections...
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by ekvilibrist 7y ago
I've only suggested event sourcing once, and that was for keeping physical warehouse inventory synced with orders. I.e. instead of having like a database table with a "available product count", we made a view that calculated
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by ekvilibrist 7y ago
When comparing virtual machine and ephemeral block storage you're kind of missing the point of AWS "value" for me. It's the deep integration to other services. So yeah DO are perfectly fine if I just need that VPS and a
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by ekvilibrist 7y ago
Just remove all nytimes.com cookies and refresh the page.
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by ekvilibrist 7y ago
Netlify.com is pretty great for static websites. Its free tier gives you something like 100GB data bandwidth forever. But it does not give you access to SSH - its a managed service. I think you'll have a hard time finding any service w
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by ekvilibrist 7y ago
EC2 instances?
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by ekvilibrist 7y ago
The problem with "having a great understanding of a system" is that it's hard to pin down, to define what that actually means. You can always use that as an excuse, if you are gatekeeping a poorly constructed system and resis