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by etblg 5y ago
We didn't use to, but now we do. I think we did a better job when we didn't have the team TBH. Engineers here used to be the ones testing out the code, verifying their changes on pre-production environments, and keep an eye on the
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by etblg 5y ago
I recently did their final round of coding interviews plus leadership principles. It's not a bad idea in theory, but the way they go about it makes it very clear that you're just supplying input to an algorithm where the output is
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by etblg 5y ago
> So it's easy for that 4 hours to extend to a whole weekend to make sure all the latest patterns, and trendy libraries are used. And including those could potentially be a liability. I had a take-home assignment (a front-end applic
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by etblg 5y ago
Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer in my current role. Before I set my linkedin status to "open to work" I would get at least one cold one per day, every day. Ignored every single one of them. Amazon started emailing me o
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by etblg 5y ago
You can take my 100% win-loss ratio from my cold dead hands, I cherish my stats.
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by etblg 5y ago
I guess, but my kettle finishes boiling right as I finish hand-grinding my coffee beans, so I can't say it's been a big issue in my life.
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by etblg 5y ago
Electric kettles are very common in Canada and we have the same power systems as the USA. I've never found that the electric kettles here are painfully slow or anything, it's just a culture thing on who wants boiling water on dema
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by etblg 5y ago
And they were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should?
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by etblg 5y ago
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Don't hire moderators, news stories saying how dangerous your unmoderated site is. Hire moderators, news stories saying how dangerous your job is to moderators. I'm being glib and all th
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by etblg 5y ago
It's up on youtube.
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by etblg 5y ago
There was a free to play FPS game called "Dirty Bomb" (made by Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory's Splash Damage). Always felt a little weird googling that name.
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by etblg 5y ago
In Canada it's a SIN! (Social Insurance Number)
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by etblg 5y ago
It does raise a bunch of interesting scenarios that you could potentially sue over. If a Jewish person gets recommended Mein Kampf on Amazon, could they now sue over the hateful content they're being shown? Should Amazon preemptively n
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by etblg 5y ago
The solution, pretty far down in the story: > The solution is straightforward: Companies that deploy personalized algorithmic amplification should be liable for the content these algorithms promote. This can be done through a narrow chan
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by etblg 5y ago
Well the 2003 Northeast blackout was started by a power utility in Ohio, and took out most of the north-east USA and even Ontario -- making it an international outage. The 2011 Southwest blackout was caused by a substation in Arizona, and t
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by etblg 5y ago
I did the same thing to someone after they just joined, figured it'd just come off as a joke and no harm would be done. Pretty soon in the following conversation I got the nagging feeling that it didn't come off as a joke. I still
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by etblg 5y ago
I clicked the link jokingly thinking it was just going to be a Cessna 152 with a DSLR pointing out the window, turns out it wasn't that far off. It's a business jet with a visible light and infrared camera mounted to it.
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by etblg 5y ago
I mean the previous host of the show was literally just "some guy" who was a games show presenter and was friends with the producer, same situation with Art Fleming before him. I don't know if we really need to treat Jeopardy
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by etblg 5y ago
> The author (one Evan Morris) always reminded people that acronyms were extremely rare before about WW2 Why is that?
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by etblg 5y ago
If you're running a web server running the Phoenix framework on Elixir, and you're processing a request and an (unhandled) error is raised, the request fails with a 500 and the rest of the web server runs fine, other requests proc
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by etblg 5y ago
It's also a URL coming from a link shortener, the slug on it doesn't seem related to any ID on the product page's full URL. The product behind the url could have been using a UUID if they wanted to.
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by etblg 5y ago
I think it's downright harmful and abhorrent that they haven't yet. Why doesn't snapchat want to help stop crime??
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by etblg 5y ago
Film photography is such a beautiful and romantic process, with some ingenious technical solutions to make it all work, and still hold up pretty well with the end result compared to digital photography. It's also a huge pain in the ass
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by etblg 5y ago
Even just better lighting alone is a big step up. I started using this cheap desk-mounted mini ring light (with a slightly warm light) for calls, lighting the shade side of my face, and it makes your video look a lot more professional and f
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by etblg 6y ago
There's a guy called Seraph84 who is already permaban'd, multiple times a month he will buy new accounts, make one or two posts on each, get immediately permaban'd again, and repeat this process. So it's not a foolproof
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by etblg 6y ago
Do you really need a photo of a goat? I'm not the author so I wouldn't really know, but if you have aa picture of the back of a goat in shade and you're considering destructively resizing it to save space, maybe it's the
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by etblg 6y ago
Yes.
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by etblg 6y ago
You may like the Adam Curtis documentary series "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace", which basically posits that same thought.
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by etblg 6y ago
Aimee Challenor, someone with a wiki page even https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Challenor
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Climate Anxiety Is an Overwhelmingly White Phenomenon(scientificamerican.com)
5 points by etblg 6y ago|3 comments

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