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by gaius 8y ago
America had that chance but Bernie was stabbed in the back. Maybe AOC can deliver.
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by gaius 8y ago
A Surface is a traditional laptop, just one with a removable keyboard which is handy for various scenarios. Basically it’s a laptop and tablet in one and covers the use cases of both. If I need serious power I push that workload up to Azure
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by gaius 8y ago
With a couple of tweaks I have WSL and Hyper-V on my Surface and I am super happy with this setup. I’m a switcher from MBP. Best of all worlds really, excellent hardware (screen/keyboard/battery-wise), runs anything I need. Can’t
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by gaius 8y ago
When you come from privilege, it's much easier to have confidence that things will work out. It’s not just that, it’s that confidence is taught to certain classes. If you know anyone who went to “public” (i.e. private) school they
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by gaius 8y ago
It's not something you wash your hands of and walk away from, having handed it over to the dev team Unfortunately that is the reality of the vast majority of Enterprise Architects I have ever worked with, writing massive tomes comple
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by gaius 8y ago
There was a completely gratuitous fanservice scene with Alice Eve in Into Dullness.
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by gaius 8y ago
they are a minority and we label them as mentally ill The scope for this is highly in flux at present.
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by gaius 8y ago
If you like the sound of that I highly recommend the Westworld reboot, but I don’t want to spoiler it.
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by gaius 8y ago
Right. People can adapt to and some even thrive on stress. What people cant handle is feeling useless or without purpose.
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by gaius 8y ago
What weighs more, a pound of lead or a pound of feathers?
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by gaius 8y ago
It drives down wages by attracting a glut of workers to the industry, aids with lobbying for favourable immigration policies (e.g. indentured labour) and so on. It’s not just what we call tech either; this happens all across STEM.
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by gaius 8y ago
On the other hand, if by sheer chance you happened to be born in a low cost economy, why should you benefit from that at the expense of someone else? You didn’t earn it after all. Both scenarios are just accidents of birth, nothing more. Ev
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by gaius 8y ago
How do I actually make a GDPR complaint? Like is there a .eu website with a form for it?
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by gaius 8y ago
it's downward pressure on US wages without the benefits of having an employer, but for third worlders Right, this was the deal offered to Western factory workers: you, your family and your friends will be tossed on the scrapheap when
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by gaius 8y ago
Should be required reading for anyone pushing the “teach kids to kode” mantra in Western schools. Or the myth of the tech talent shortage.
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by gaius 8y ago
even if it's an eternal long-term 33% to AWS, Azure and GCP, it's a rational investment for Google They would need to grow their marketshare ten-fold to be in that position, and they would need to defeat Alibaba on its home turf
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by gaius 8y ago
Is that with or without the bots? It wouldn’t surprise me if the real number was under a billion. Which is still a big number but it means growth was over along time ago.
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by gaius 8y ago
Right, but they could have upskilled/cross-trained the DBAs to be cloud guys, offered training, certificates, conferences, yadda yadda. Instead they chose to stab their strongest advocates in the back! A smart executive (ha!) would ann
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by gaius 8y ago
Bloomberg terminals
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by gaius 8y ago
There is that, but in an interview fluent familiarity is a proxy for experience and regular usage, if someone can just rattle something off it’s a good indicator that they really have been doing it alot.
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by gaius 8y ago
Some people speak quietly, and use words that do not convey exactly what they are feeling. TK is very good at speaking at an amply audible level and using very efficient words (often no more than 4 letters long)
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by gaius 8y ago
so it all comes down to which company was first in the market (AWS) and which company has got the best and most aggressive sales-people (MS). That is not it at all. What typically happens is an organisation will run a pilot project and se
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by gaius 8y ago
That is what makes Oracles cloud play such a mystery. They had a huge asset in a loyal corps of Oracle DBAs embedded in every large organisation on the planet. Now they are saying “fire those guys and we’ll host your databases”. But maybe t
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by gaius 8y ago
find out anything about their political leanings by looking on LinkedIn Oh you absolutely can, if you look at group memberships, volunteering experience or whatever. Sexual orientation too sometimes. Even if they don’t make a big deal of
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by gaius 8y ago
They do this on phone screens too. You can hear the keys then their intonation changes as if they are reading text out loud...
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by gaius 8y ago
on social media just to get a deeper understanding of what kind of person (and coder) they are I think this is a bad idea. If you discover through this stalking that they are on the opposite side of some issue to you, will you be able to
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by gaius 8y ago
so why not use jets to reach cruise altitude, then switch to ion thrusters ( for which you don't need fuel Because you would need to restart the engines to land, and that is when they are at a higher risk of failure. You could maybe
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by gaius 8y ago
why do I need experience with database x, when I can pick it up in less than a week You can use a serious database like Postgres or SQL Server or Oracle for 5 years or more and still not see more than a fraction of it or its surrounding e
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by gaius 8y ago
Companies used to do this. You might join working the helpdesk or as a manual tester, then work your way up. But now those junior, entry level jobs have been outsourced and offshored.
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by gaius 8y ago
Doesn’t make sense really, the UK military does regular exercises with the UAE, anything they wanted to know about defence they could just go see

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