janxgeist

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by janxgeist 3y ago
We had a similiar problem with a label printer. On some days, exclusively in the morning hours, the printer would fail to detect the start of a new label, printing over several labels. After connecting remotely and checking the usual (queue
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by janxgeist 3y ago
For me, it's an example of a company messing up the technical side. I was a happy customer in the beginning. Until I didn't have an important note that I had prepared for a meeting, because it didn't sync to my phone. A few w
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by janxgeist 4y ago
I actually did set up replication to another database, several years ago. But at the time, for some reason the databases would de-sync to easily (often when changing the db scheme).
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by janxgeist 4y ago
I'm not so much looking for efficiency, but for simplicity. This contraption of scripts that get called by cronjobs, that then access some account on DigitalOcean etc. just seems to complex to me. If I want to check if everything works
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Ask HN: How do you backup your database?
8 points by janxgeist 4y ago|7 comments
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by janxgeist 4y ago
Bait and switch seems to be widely used by mangers in situations like this. In your inital negotiation, you informally agree on some conditions. Then slowly,over the course of weeks or months, most points change to what your manager wanted.
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by janxgeist 5y ago
These 9 bullet points are far from "not difficult to implement" though.
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Ask HN: What are the risks of 2FA?
6 points by janxgeist 5y ago|5 comments
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by janxgeist 9y ago
I agree with your reversed statement. The company needs to be loyal to it's employees too. But in my opinion, some principles should not depend on how the other side acts: "If my company is not loyal to me, it's my right to d
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by janxgeist 9y ago
It's not slavery: you are free to quit your job and work for another company, or start your own business. But if you DECIDE to work for a company and take the thousand(s) of dollars each month so that you can live a comfortable life, t
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by janxgeist 9y ago
So far (10 years) these rules have always worked out for me in the long run: 1) Your loyalty belongs to your company. Always do what is best for your company. 2) Always share your knowledge freely. 3) Never strategize in order to "secu
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by janxgeist 11y ago
I'm not sure I understand you correctly: are you saying that animal experiments would be ethical if they removed all suffering for humans?
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by janxgeist 11y ago
I think this is a weak argument, because you could just as well use it to argue for conducting these experiments on humans: Humans suffer horrible lives naturally too, and on a much more massive scale. If you're really against human su