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by gaius 8y ago
Well, it sort of does: any services the government delivers will be delivered by people being paid UK wages using goods and services paid for at UK prices. We look rich from the outside because we (still) have a strong currency but from the
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by gaius 8y ago
The UK is one of the richest countries in the world. Yes but you are neglecting to mention the other side of this coin: also one of the most expensive countries in the world. Look at purchasing power parity and the UK doesn’t seem rich at
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by gaius 8y ago
more often it is because of the perceived ubiquity of Python 2.7 installs on the target user's computer It’s not just “perceived”, it is actual reality e.g. on CentOS. If you need compatibility still the best option is 2, regardless.
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by gaius 8y ago
Amongst seafaring folks the cunt splice is often called the cut splice now, despite that making no sense, to workaround this problem
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by gaius 8y ago
It would not surprise me if the Bank Of England still kept written ledgers, with a quill, in Latin.
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by gaius 8y ago
In the UK we have a phrase for government departments who issue statements like this: “Ministry of the Bleedin’ Obvious”
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by gaius 8y ago
there's a non-trivial chance that the choice you make will be join the ever growing collection of library abandon-ware in the not too distant future. I’ve been using Matplotlib for the last 10 years and expect to continue using it fo
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by gaius 8y ago
I don't _want_ a grammar of graphics; I want a grammar of data, where the data happens to have a graphical representation The point of having a graphical representation is to communicate with other humans therefore some subjective ju
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by gaius 8y ago
A non-chronological CV is somewhat unusual, to be fair to the recruiter (not something I’d often say!)
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by gaius 8y ago
Yes the myth of Terraform is that it abstracts sufficiently to be cross platform. You can use it on multiple platforms but that’s all.
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by gaius 8y ago
he'll have tremendous credibility saying that Why? A salesman says whatever he’s paid to say. Tomorrow he could move again and be flogging IBM’s joke of a cloud.
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by gaius 8y ago
I don’t use FB myself anymore but my wife still does and this morning she showed me some posts by a friend of ours. He’s... troubled anyway, but recently he seems to have become addicted to self-harming and posting the photos on FB for the
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by gaius 8y ago
Oh yeah, plenty of advertised functional programming positions are really run-of-the-mill Java positions, but recruiters have found that noone answers true ads, so its a total bait-and-switch, “do this Java for a few years and they might on
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by gaius 8y ago
That is not what the words small and limited imply to me but in Silly Valley I guess who knows?
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by gaius 8y ago
How do you know when someone works at Google? They’ll tell you...
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by gaius 8y ago
The thing is, Facebook has billions of users and you don't get billions of users by being evil This is such an obviously nonsensical thing to say. What about the tobacco industry? What about sweatshop-manufactured clothing? It’s easy
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by gaius 8y ago
Facebook basically fueled a genocide in Myanmar and extreme violence in other places. If we widen the definition slightly to include other social media firms then the most recent phase of chaos in the Middle East (post "Arab Spring&q
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by gaius 8y ago
How does this matter? Most people don't personally use the products they work on. I think Phillip Morris probably would be surprised if a candidate quit 3 years ago but still wanted to work there...
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by gaius 8y ago
This isn’t really true. The important experiences at a startup are meeting and learning to work with investors, the board, regulators, early key customers and so on. As an employee you won’t get this exposure (tho’ the founders will dangle
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by gaius 8y ago
Basically you don’t want to be employee 1-10. Either be a co-founder, or join at a point you can paid a good salary. Those guys work as hard as the founders and take as much financial risk as the founders, but walk away with nothing. There
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by gaius 8y ago
The real question is if IBM will cut off CentOS in the hope of driving customers to pay for RHEL.
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by gaius 8y ago
Users prefer something about YouTube compared to it's competitors That something is the vast amount of copyrighted content...
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by gaius 8y ago
only Systrom and Krieger walked away with hundreds of millions of dollars; Facebook offered other early employees small signing bonuses and limited Facebook stock grants Why you should never be an early employee at a startup, example one
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by gaius 8y ago
It’s pretty rare, and has been for a long time, for a domain expert to be in charge of a government department. Like St Mattis is the first SecDef in a long while and it still took an act of Congress to get his appointment in.
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by gaius 8y ago
It's because lying on a Resume is extremely easy. I do interviews for a large software company about once a week. The relationship between what a candidate says they did and actually doing simple programming problems is non-existent.
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They kept your shadow profile and are still tracking you, I guarantee it
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They also typically come with a unique URL for each person...
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by gaius 8y ago
Do you mean one in which Corbyn admits he was wrong? There is no such tweet.
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What’s in it for IBM? Mainframe hosting (e.g. being a 1970s style computer bureau) is the only possible competitive advantage they have in cloud.
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by gaius 8y ago
You mean like this guy? https://mobile.twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/3090657449545...

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