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by foofie 3y ago
> I passed the first interview, but the second was going to be a 5-hour remote codeshare/whiteboard interview with the team. I declined the second interview. Last year I interviewed for MongoDB. They proudly boasted that their hirin
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by foofie 3y ago
> I've always thought math would be much easier to learn if they used descriptive variable names. I think the variable names are already picked to be descriptive. No one is picking them to be more obscure or harder to track. The pro
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by foofie 3y ago
> Equal pay for equal work doesn't mean the same pay. Yes it does. You want me to deliver an output, not to slack off if I live X or Z. If you value my work, you pay me. You don't get to claim a benefit just because I chose to
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by foofie 3y ago
Please don't deflect the question. You claimed you need millions and millions of LoC to get something running on Kubernetes. I stated the fact that I have multiple apps running in my personal Kubernetes cluster and they only require a
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by foofie 3y ago
> The problem with this line of thinking is that cost of living is the same everywhere. It is not. I don't understand what point you think you're making. My disposable income is not my employer's business, and I definitely
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by foofie 3y ago
> you're asking for SF salaries, and those in India are asking for NL salaries(or SF salaries) No. You got it all wrong. You're asking for equal pay for equal work. If all your team members are paid in full but you, in spite of
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by foofie 3y ago
> This isn't remotely true. Nothing in your comment rejects or disproves the claim that egress costs are vendor lockdown. Your link to the bandwidth alliance explicitly states that their justification for network costs is unloading
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by foofie 3y ago
> Several vendors require you to scale your whole instance if you saturate any of the components (...) Interesting. Which cloud providers do you have in mind?
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by foofie 3y ago
> If you're using a K8S cluster just to deploy a few web apps (...) It's really not about what I do and do not do with Kubernetes. It's on you to justify your "millions upon millions lines of code" claim because
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by foofie 3y ago
> Quite odd to label people trying to end horrific violence as "militants"... You are literally discussing militant groups engaged in pushing their political agenda through propaganda. There are no two ways about it.
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by foofie 3y ago
Excellent comment. Thank you for taking the time to write it.
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by foofie 3y ago
> And the point is a 4 bedroom condo or apartment in an expensive urban city is going to be significantly more expensive than a house in some cheaper suburb. You're making hypothetical claims comparing "expensive urban city&quo
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by foofie 3y ago
> K8S is a disastrous complexity bomb. You need millions upon millions of lines of code just to build a usable platform. I don't know what you have been doing with Kubernetes, but I run a few web apps out of my own Kubernetes cluste
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by foofie 3y ago
> My contrarian view is that EC2 + ASG is so pleasant to use. Sometimes I think that managed kubernetes services like EKS are the epitome of "give the customers what they want", even when it makes absolutely no sense at all. Ku
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by foofie 3y ago
> People just want detached houses to be cheaper. Most aren’t dreaming about affording a 3 or 4 bed apartment. I'm skeptical of your claim. From what I read in social networks, newer generations of Americans don't even believe
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by foofie 3y ago
> One thing to keep in mind is that in the US there are often things like setback restrictions and distance separation requirements such, so a small increase in square footage can be the difference between a building fitting on a lot, an
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by foofie 3y ago
> I read this kind of comment all the time, and it's something I almost never experience. I agree, fortunately that's somewhat rare. It still stings if you come across a broken site that you need to use frequently. I'm con
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by foofie 3y ago
> As a developer the lower the market share the less incentive there is to supporting it. I have stopped testing to see if my sites work on firefox and just focus on chromium and safari. It's one thing to claim to not include Firefo
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by foofie 3y ago
> If Firefox is destined for a market share of 2%, may as well get there quickly. A few years of decline vs a few months makes little difference in the long term. How does that play into your decision to use Firefox or any other browser?
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by foofie 3y ago
> For a company that has a declining marketshare like Mozilla it's really way too high IMO. Everyone talks a lot about market share but I never saw the breakdown of the market in terms of what is actually reporting the user agent. F
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by foofie 3y ago
> Winners get to raise the next generation, losers become sushi :( If I'm not mistaken, in Spain some bullfighting events that involve matadors killing bulls for entertainment also end up supplying the dead bulls to local restaurant
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by foofie 3y ago
> People arguing that would be happy if no animals were farmed at all. This. It's a propaganda angle to try to get non-activists to support their group's demands by adding a spin to their claims that makes it more engaging. The
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by foofie 3y ago
> (...) aircraft carriers are going to immediately become obsoleted by antiship missiles (...) I think aircraft carriers are already obsolete, not due to antiship missiles but due to small, quiet diesel subs. Pretty much any NATO navy op
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by foofie 3y ago
> (...) it's getting harder and harder for the rest of us to maintain our $4,000/round artillery habits. The $4,000/round figure sparked my curiosity, and after checking it looks like the actual unit price is below $2,000.
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by foofie 3y ago
> People are applying a stronger point here where changing the original data is hard evidence of foul play and sufficient to completely discount any changes. Manipulating field measurements is already frowned upon in all applications. Th
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by foofie 3y ago
> Once the "suits" take over, things get boring for us techies. To be fair, "suits" are a sign of success and growth. Once your company is large enough to be just a single team, and starts requiring too much time to k
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by foofie 3y ago
> This basically sends the message "doesn't matter how good you are, we're going to spin the wheel every so often and if it lands on you you're out" The conspiracy theory that's making the rounds is that the
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by foofie 3y ago
And also money laundering.
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by foofie 3y ago
> It’s just reductionism: if changing data is bad, changing data is always bad. It's not reductionism, and you're missing the point. The whole point is that changing the original data to be able to support/reject hypothesi
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by foofie 3y ago
> The point was that the corrections aren’t arbitrary. But they are, aren't they? It matters nothing if you apply a precise rule to change values. What matters is that you picked a rule.

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