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by giaour 4y ago
I think the distinction between printer and publisher is being lost here. KDP is a publisher, and a very cost-conscious one at that. You would have a very different experience with the editorial process of a different publisher, as most
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by giaour 4y ago
My only experience in the field is working for an "old school" publisher, where copyright concerns like the one described in the blog post would be the responsibility of the acquisitions editor (an employee of the publisher). Our
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by giaour 4y ago
Unlike KDP, an editor is not a hyper-discount service provider, so they can afford a more time consuming customer engagement process.
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by giaour 4y ago
Why would they scan paper books to proactively look for copyright violations? Have you ever heard of a bookstore doing that? There's a different standard of due diligence if you publish a book vs just selling copies of it.
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by giaour 4y ago
So in this dystopian future, the OP had to deal with shitty customer service from a discount publisher for a while and then went with a competitor as a result? And the competitor was still able to distribute copies via Amazon? I'm just
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by giaour 4y ago
If you're worried about a criminal history, do a background check. This heuristic would miss people who lie about "consulting" during the time they were in jail and would incorrectly catch someone who was falsely accused and
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by giaour 4y ago
> And if they are clean and they presumably have a greater chance of a relapse than other random candidates. That's skirting uncomfortably close to discriminating based on medical history or a disability, which may be illegal depend
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by giaour 4y ago
Obviously this depends on the job and what someone did that landed them in prison, but that shouldn't be an automatic dealbreaker. If they are applying for a job after being released from prison, then they're trying to reintegrate
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by giaour 4y ago
> A paged response needs to sync state across many machines. As you have said, you need a clientID, a cursor reference, or a sticky session. That's not nothing. OK, I think this is what I was misunderstanding in your comments above.
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by giaour 4y ago
> I don't know the full implementation details themselves but generally there's no reason you can't safely ask for even more after having asked and consumed some I think we're saying the same thing but using different
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by giaour 4y ago
The original article is talking about pagination over stateless (at the protocol level) HTTP requests. (Referring to APIs that are offered over stateless HTTP as "REST APIs" is technically incorrect but reflects common usage and i
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by giaour 4y ago
It's still multiple requests on a streaming API if you're asking the client to notify you when it's ready for the next page. Most DB engines use TCP connection affinity to identify which cursor is in play, but the client stil
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by giaour 4y ago
Users do fuzzy searches across data all the time. They may remember approximately when they last saw a record but not its exact name, or their recollection may be close but imperfect.
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by giaour 4y ago
One advantage of opaque cursors is that they can include information that's not part of your public API. For instance, if you allow soft deletes and do not return deleted items in the list, you can end up with a massive stretch of dele
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by giaour 4y ago
When I worked for a news site, we moved all listing endpoints from offset to timestamp based pagination because offset based pagination assumes the data being queried will remain stable between requests. This was, of course, very rarely tru
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by giaour 4y ago
> a lazy sequence that does sensible prefetching and asks the server for more data as it’s iterated through Isn't this an accurate description of cursor-based pagination? You can have the server hold the cursor and associate a reque
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by giaour 4y ago
Azure has some pretty strict internal requirements around resource creation that make this possible. Every service must provide a "Resource Provider"[0] API that supports idempotent creation operations and standardized query patte
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by giaour 4y ago
Bicep and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) are able to dispense with state only because every Azure resource is required to be individually addressable and to report its state in a consistent way, and each resource is expected to support fully
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by giaour 4y ago
You could try looking at civic technology organizations. I felt that the work I did at USDS had a huge positive impact, and you can find private firms like Nava or Truss that work on the same / similar projects if you don't want t
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by giaour 4y ago
Cryptocurrency is unique in that it allows pseudonymous, irreversible transactions of unbounded value. https://www.lawfareblog.com/ransomware-problem-bitcoin-probl... is a good long-form write up of the argument if you&#x27
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by giaour 4y ago
For software engineers, the numbers start at 59 (as in, a new grad hire is an L59 on their first day): https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Google,Amazon,Microsoft&trac...
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by giaour 4y ago
I don't know about your experience, but 2008 was devastating to people just starting out in their careers. So far, the current economic situation feels mild in comparison.
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by giaour 4y ago
You only need to worry if you have a series of very short stints, especially if there's any gap between them. But one six month stint is fine, especially if you can explain it away with something pithy about how the economy tanked and
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by giaour 4y ago
There is a central HR department that creates job postings, employs recruiters and sourcers, and handles standardized onboarding processes, but conducting interview loops and making hiring decisions is handled by each team individually. As
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by giaour 4y ago
Every team at MSFT does their own hiring, so experiences there won't be uniform.
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by giaour 4y ago
I know that's the case for doctoral degrees, but are terminal masters degrees usually fully funded in those fields?
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by giaour 4y ago
> but everyone cashing out their USDT is not a scenario going to happen Didn't bankers say something similar in 1928?
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by giaour 4y ago
You can't buy a $1MM Amazon gift card. That would be incredibly useful for illegal activity but more or less useless as a gift card. When financial instruments are primarily used for licit activity, we tend to add features that make il
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by giaour 4y ago
Large amounts of fiat currency are heavy, bulky, and difficult to smuggle. The US got rid of $500 and $1K notes because they proved more useful for doing crimes than for doing business, and the same happened with bearer bonds. Criminals wil
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by giaour 4y ago
> Unless you mean they convert dollars... in which case they were just using the dollars already. It's actually pretty hard to spend dollars when you represent a sanctioned entity. A DPRK official may have a suitcase full of USD, bu

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