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by geodel 10mo ago
This CEO is a sales guy. He's gonna repeat same thing every few months claiming "Brand new and improved AI Prediction"
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by geodel 10mo ago
I have heard this thing quite a few times over last few months each time is Amazon or AWS CEOs. May be this time he want to replace senior engineers. That would be more useful for them as each passing year they more and more of them and in
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by geodel 11mo ago
Reminds of an research article from Microsoft!. It detailed on why scam emails about `Nigerian prince` are so obviously dumb. The reasoning being it specifically need to target only those who can fall for it. Anything more sophisticated and
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by geodel 11mo ago
This is great news. Kafka (the messaging/streaming platform) has finally found its natural home.
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by geodel 11mo ago
Indeed. And I say this as Costco member. There are lot of factors that make Costco memberships work. And a lot of people won't be able to make much benefit out of Costco membership.
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by geodel 11mo ago
Most MOOCs are venture funded companies not lifestyle business so they will not likely do sensible user friendly things. They just need to somehow show investors that hyper growth will happen. (Doesn't seem like though that it did happ
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by geodel 11mo ago
They are mostly used for professional courses. Learning python, java, gitlab runners, micro services with NodeJS, project management and things like that
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by geodel 11mo ago
Hehe. Great point. I have lived and worked in 2 Delhi and Mumbai in India. With such terrible living condition, traffic, pollution and so on it sucked the soul out of me. At least I found it so bad in Mumbai that many a times while leaving
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by geodel 11mo ago
> and it's so absolutely terrible that everyone uses pflag, ../ This is just social media speak for inconvenient in some cases. I have used flag package in lot of applications. It gets job done and I have had no problem with it
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by geodel 11mo ago
Agree. Dealing with Amazon customer support is such a great experience and it keeps on improving every time I reach out to them.
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by geodel 11mo ago
> Ask your boss if he needs a hand :) Hehe, you lack skill in empire building. You know "leading a team of highly motivated team of 50+ devops engineers". The kind of talent that postpones patching until you are back from vacat
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by geodel 11mo ago
Obviously that'd be completely unheard of.
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by geodel 11mo ago
One need to see how many developers are already getting paid enough and out of them how many actually donating to OSS projects. AFAIK developers are full of excuses like "these trillion dollar companies need to pay fair share while my
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by geodel 11mo ago
If you pay for service you are premium product. Even more useful private data for interested parties.
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by geodel 11mo ago
I work(ed) on something similar in Java. And it still works quite well. But last few years are increasingly about getting berated by management on why things are not modern Kubernetes/ micro services based by now.
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by geodel 1y ago
Could be Meta is quite liberal in this area. Or it could be one of those "For my friend, anything, for everyone else its corporate policy."
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by geodel 1y ago
Yeah, like Blackberry had great phone with touch screen and keyboard both. It was blockbuster and gained huge popularity.
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by geodel 1y ago
Phone Chip/Plastic Body/12" 3:2 or 4:3 screen/~400 dollar. I see my family as a customer for it.
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by geodel 1y ago
> But programmers seem to feel that they are above this stuff. No, programmers are quite below this stuff. Budgets for medical research, treatments, trials are way more than IT budgets. And for typical IT project the underlying point is
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by geodel 1y ago
Huh, Pilot/ Captain job requirement for commercial plane is highly regulated by authorities like FAA etc but software engineer has no such requirement. Any random business with some basic software requirement can ask an employee or con
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by geodel 1y ago
True, besides actual software engineering is small part of overall IT/computer related work. There are far more analysts, managers(project, program, IT, agile etc), QA, operations and so on. So engineers who employers think are capable
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by geodel 1y ago
It is more of people who can manage servers have no standing in front of people who buy or sell cloud services.
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by geodel 1y ago
> For my peace of mind, I chose a sane path - if the company as an entity decides to do AWS, I will do my best to meet its goals... Amen to that. Any kind of performance improvement, monitoring work I did for my applications has met wit
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by geodel 1y ago
All great points. I have seen in company of smart people CIO/CTO would freely up admit "Look we know cloud may not be cheap or easier to manage but this is the direction we have taken since we are getting out of owning or managing
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by geodel 1y ago
"The end of the rip-off economy..." Yeah, like in past I was able to stun customer support managers, public officials, class instructors and so many others by using Google search results. Never thought why it stopped working now.
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by geodel 1y ago
Huh, even employment nowadays doesn't come with month or two notice from employers. And here some one giving things gratis need to issue notice lest you might be inconvenienced.
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by geodel 1y ago
Truly strange analogy. 1) No restaurant is serving free food for years. 2) Serving poop will be really be very serious, legal issue even it was served for non-tippers. Seems like the new definition of open source is not license, not code bu
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by geodel 1y ago
> But you make those boundaries clear, not treat all non-paying users as entitled children. True in theory but no one has infinite time to distinguish correctly between good feature requester or bad one.
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by geodel 1y ago
Rust is all about safety.
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by geodel 1y ago
Very true. You are right. I also felt those comments about teachers being in union , job safety and all sounds like it is frozen in 1960s America. To think software jobs (forget even Amazon for a moment ) are horrible compare to tons of te

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