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by fergie 9y ago
Yup- when you start thinking of Palantir as an IBM, a Cap Gemini or an Accenture, it starts making a lot more sense.
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by fergie 9y ago
Train yourself to take the 20 minutes required to learn to "do it the right way" every time you need to. Its so easy not to bother because you are busy but in the long run you will save time.
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by fergie 9y ago
On a related note, its really surprising how industrialised Austria is- their Alpine valleys are full of heavy engineering.
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by fergie 9y ago
I quit my job to start my own company last January. Its been fairly successful so far. For somebody like me, and probably a lot of HN readers, its _actually_ a fairly low risk proposition because qualified, experienced software engineers ar
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by fergie 9y ago
Vindication.
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by fergie 9y ago
The real solution to this problem is to reference passwords, tokens, keys, or and other "private" strings with environmental variables or external config files, which are then excluded from the source control system. That way your
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by fergie 10y ago
Sure its a lot of money, but its not ridiculous. Hourly rates for top lawyers can be as high as $1250 ( https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704071304576160... ), and they can bill up to 2000 hours a year. So if
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by fergie 10y ago
It will be genuinely interesting to see what happens with traffic levels.
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by fergie 10y ago
Its so strange that the US still uses checks.
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by fergie 10y ago
And they encourage remote working . # starts polishing CV #
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by fergie 10y ago
Other people have mentioned Japan, but you could look at basically any eastern european state to see lots of ethnically pure, yet miserable populations. EDIT: those countries are getting better, but still...
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by fergie 10y ago
Property bubbles are basically created by social policies that encourage speculation on residential property. It's worth noting that Norway and Denmark have pretty strong restraints on "buy-to-let"
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by fergie 10y ago
Not so much happy as smug.
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by fergie 10y ago
Its interesting to see how much Git(Hub) is being adopted outside of software engineering.
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by fergie 10y ago
Thirded. It can be really easy to make navigational errors in amateur races, especially with turnaround points. Usually there is no crowd lining the whole course, signage is bad, and the marshalling can be spotty. Yes, this person is a bit
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by fergie 10y ago
It's also predicated on the idea that subscriptions will continue to be a thing.
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by fergie 10y ago
Hyperglide was such a massive step forward when it first came out.
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by fergie 10y ago
Ortleib panniers ( https://www.google.com/search?q=ortlieb+panniers ): * Are actually waterproof * Don't have lots of unnecessary compartments and pockets * Lift on and off really securely, yet really easily * Can be wip
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by fergie 10y ago
Yup- a fair criticism of the F91W is the weak backlight.
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by fergie 10y ago
It's just one of those Telegraph/Times/Daily Mail articles that are specifically engineered to elicit an anger boner in Middle England.
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by fergie 10y ago
Isn't it the same general idea as Amazon's DynamoDB?
862.
by fergie 10y ago
Why did Microsoft never target any platforms outside of Windows with .NET? (serious question)
863.
by fergie 10y ago
Great use case for "duress passwords"
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by fergie 10y ago
Ah- you bet me to it! ;)
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by fergie 10y ago
I'm going to stick my neck out here and say that this may not be an altogether bad thing. From the article: "The foreign work visas were originally established to help U.S. companies recruit from abroad when they couldn’t find qua
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by fergie 10y ago
How can you ever know if encryption is working properly?
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by fergie 10y ago
I did a Masters in Software Engineering, having switched from Sociology and Philosophy. It allows you to work in software engineering which may or may not be a good thing Side note: why do so many people abandon architecture after successfu
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by fergie 10y ago
Relevant insight from Ozzy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfL50eABG3A
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by fergie 10y ago
The only nugget that sticks in my mind was the massive password hack a few years ago. I wonder if Linkedin has a lot of MS tech in their stack? If so, and MS wants to push further into consumer facing services in the cloud, I can see why th
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by fergie 10y ago
It comes as absolutely no surprise at all to find out that the UK's post-Brexit Banking industry will be just fine. At this point, the only possible opportunity Brexit gives the Conservatives is to turn the UK into an offshore financia

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