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by giaour 5y ago
Not sure why this is getting downvoted; if you look at the hypothetical “with” syntax in the original blog post, it is clearly borrowed from the C# implementation.
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by giaour 5y ago
"With" doesn't exist in Java, but it was introduced in C# 9.0 as part of the .NET implementation of records: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/c-9-0-on-the-record/#w... I think the author is mor
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by giaour 6y ago
https://usds.gov
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by giaour 6y ago
I like the way Fastmail handles this. Your normal email is user @ domain . tld , and you can configure the service to also treat emails to <anything>@ user . domain . tld as having been sent to you. I have never seen bots try random
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by giaour 6y ago
It gets super awkward when you have to read the email aloud. My optometrist spent five minutes trying to explain that they wanted my email when they tried to transfer a prescription from Warby Parker. "My email/username for Warb
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by giaour 6y ago
Microsoft collaborated, but the SQ series is an optimized Qualcomm Snapdragon variant: https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/what-is-the-microsoft-...
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by giaour 6y ago
I was on a team that used them because we needed to run our own virtualization layer, which standard EC2 instances disallow. I don’t recall seeing any performance difference compared to a comparably sized virtualized instance, but we weren’
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by giaour 6y ago
> Being a senior engineer at Facebook where your responsible for making sure Cat memes load more quickly Hey now, don’t underestimate the technical challenges inherent in weaponizing misinformation at scale.
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by giaour 6y ago
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services | Data Scientists | Woodlawn, MD | REMOTE for now (permanent remote negotiable) | Full time USDS is supporting the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in hiring new data scientists! Th
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by giaour 6y ago
I don't think the economics dictate such a shift. I have had jobs where I was paid hourly, could start and stop at will, and for which I received a W2. (This was for a temp agency in CA.) Is there anything in CA law that prevent Lyft f
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by giaour 6y ago
When I took some of these courses at Amazon, they were taught using open source tools like numpy and mxnet. Assignments and enrollments used an internal platform, and most hands-on work used a Jupyter-like platform that I don't believe
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by giaour 6y ago
I live in a dense suburb (Fairfax county) of a major metropolitan area (D.C.) and like the combo of easy access to both open spaces and city amenities. There are plenty of commuters in my neighborhood, so we have easy access to reliable pow
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by giaour 6y ago
There’s a great Taika Waititi movie about a relationship sabotage agency in New Zealand: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6728096/
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by giaour 6y ago
If you're in the US, you could take a look at USDS: https://www.usds.gov/ I work primarily on projects for Health & Human Services and definitely feel like I'm doing much more good in the world as a civil serv
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by giaour 6y ago
Doesn’t the public market and IPO process exist explicitly to weed out obviously bad faith “businesses” like the ones you describe, or at least force them to be transparent enough about what they’re doing that no one gets hoodwinked? There
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by giaour 6y ago
The rich data types can be useful for filtering, I guess? When you are running a query against a certain hash key and want the first record (sorted by range key) that meets a condition placed on a nested property of a map or whose "tag
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by giaour 6y ago
As a former AWS engineer, I'm going to disagree. Teams and products at AWS are set up to weather most any individual leaving, but they are fairly lean and would certainly feel the pain of an engineer quitting in protest. Obviously, Tim
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by giaour 7y ago
Too late to edit the original comment, but this is exactly what happened
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by giaour 7y ago
Fastmail also supports subdomain aliasing (where messages sent to <anything>©<username>.<domain> go to the <username>©<domain> inbox). This is less obvious to mass emailers that GMail + aliasing, and I don&#x27
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by giaour 7y ago
The iCalendar syntax ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar ) is the dominant DSL.
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by giaour 7y ago
Most government hiring does not work like that. "HR Specialists" decide if incoming applicants are qualified, and the hiring manager has little or nothing to do with it.
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by giaour 7y ago
USDS's sister organization, 18F, is remote-first: https://18f.gsa.gov/
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by giaour 7y ago
I'm not personally familiar with Google's culture, but I came to USDS from AWS, and you're right that government work culture is pretty different from what you would see in the private sector. One of USDS's core values i
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by giaour 7y ago
I think the same customer (Digital Globe, an earth imagery LEO satellite operator) was on stage at both announcements. Snowmobile for getting PB of data from their ground network into AWS and Ground Station to get it there directly from spa
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by giaour 7y ago
You can always write a function that gets triggered on a schedule and then performs a polling action. For example, instead on continuously polling, have a Lambda function that polls once and stops immediately if there's no work to be d
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by giaour 7y ago
As other commenters have pointed out, the manual data entry this requires makes it pretty onerous in a home kitchen, but I wonder if there's something similar for commercial kitchens? You could possibly integrate with the POS system to
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by giaour 7y ago
If you can, try to talk with your internship coordinator about your concerns and see if they have any contingency plans. I don't know which company your internship was with, but I recall interns having some flexibility in their placeme
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by giaour 7y ago
Sorry, didn't mean any slight at you by that. I don't doubt your account, but having no idea how widespread the practice was, its dominance on a large scale is just a supposition on my part.
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by giaour 7y ago
To be fair, I've met a lot of young COBOL programmers since starting to work on mainframe systems last year. I think the "elderly COBOL programmer coaxed out of retirement by dumptrucks full of money" dynamic that supposedly
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Facial hair styles and medical masks(cdc.gov)
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