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by jon-wood 5y ago
I really don't get how this has become the standard, on the team I hire for we do two interviews - one introductory conversation, and a technical interview. After that we're either going to hire you or we aren't, it really do
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by jon-wood 5y ago
If I'm reviewing a CV I'm not going to ding someone for leaving a job a few months in, but I am going to be asking some carefully worded questions about why you left to work out whether you left of your own accord, or you were ask
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by jon-wood 5y ago
That makes much more sense, in the UK “peg it” means running away, which seemed like entirely rationale advice.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I just can’t bring myself to get worked up about it - I’ve done a lot of Rails, and I’ve done a lot of pure Ruby. You quite quickly learn which bits come from ActiveSupport when you step outside Rails because… it doesn’t work. It’s not goin
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by jon-wood 5y ago
They’re completely impractical, that jet pack does indeed exist, but there are approximately two people in the world who can safely fly it untethered. Every now and again they’ll pop again with “mountain rescue experiment with jet pack” or
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I’m not aware of the docs making any guarantees that expires are ordered either, just that at some point after the expiry time the keys will be expired.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Primarily I would say use recruiters, either external ones (you'll have very mixed results here, be prepared to sift through a ton of barely relevant CVs), or hire a recruiter as part of your core team. Either way as a small company yo
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by jon-wood 5y ago
This will sound flippant, but that's not what Dynamo is for. If you want to do freeform relational queries like that then put it in a relational database. Dynamo is primarily designed for high volume storage/querying on well under
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by jon-wood 5y ago
If you're ok with people's devices making attempts at connecting, eduroam, or some variant of Starbuck's Wifi might be good options. There'll be APs broadcasting those SSIDs all over the world.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
In a world of Docker existing there’s rarely a reason not to just use your target database - I can have a non-production grade Postgres instance up and running in less time than it took me to write this message.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I’m going to wade in with some pedantry here - retweets didn’t really exist for a fair bit of Twitter’s existence, and grew organically from users introducing the convention of prefixing reposts of other people’s content with an “RT @whoeve
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Sadly the requirements for sound mastering state that having only a 5.1 mix is fine, and if you’re doing a stereo mix it’s alright to just slap the centre/surround channels into left/right after dropping the volume a bit. https:&
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Did you just claim London has inadequate public transport? When I lived there I had 24 hour busses that could get me from one side of the city to the other, three different train lines, a boat route, and public cycles within walking dista
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by jon-wood 5y ago
One of the examples given wasn't a server name, it was leaking potentially confidential information via the domain olympics-campaign.staging.example.org - in many environments its fine if people know project names, but NDAs are a thing
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by jon-wood 5y ago
The same applies in the UK, but like the US you’re unlikely to get arrested unless you’re doing something more than peeing behind a bush.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
The ability to just work whatever (Apple) device I’m currently using is the big selling point for AirPods to me. Typically I just put them in my ears and they connect to whatever device I’m currently using, worst case I have to select them
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by jon-wood 5y ago
RDK is the firmware used on a wide variety of set-top boxes, routers, and IoT devices: https://rdkcentral.com/ The core media pipeline is almost all gstreamer, ffmpeg, and just because I think it’ll surprise some people, Wa
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by jon-wood 5y ago
A recent dark pattern I’ve seen is for news websites to add their home page to the history stack when you click a link to an article anywhere on that site so that tapping back doesn’t take you back to the page you were linked from.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Down Detector doesn't really detect anything other than people saying "Is [service X] down?" on Twitter, which does mean that Xbox Live appears to be permanently offline if you believe them because the typical user for Xbox L
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Has anyone ever seen a device that actually uses Ethernet over HDMI? The thought of being able to plug a single network cable into the back of your display and then anything plugged into that has a wired connection is lovely, but as far as
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by jon-wood 5y ago
This is how the big multiplayer servers available via Bedrock edition work, not so much for distance, but for different game modes. Unfortunately players pay by buying predatory micro-transaction items, which I find near unacceptable in a g
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Overdrafts are very much a thing in the UK, most accounts allow it, but you have to request it in advance. In effect they work like a pre-approved loan, which at least when I was working badly paid jobs and needed food right up before payda
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by jon-wood 5y ago
A quick thanks here for making me feel hideously old by mentioning your experience of parental controls being on an iPhone, a device that didn’t even exist until well after I’d moved away from home and was paying for my own internet connect
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Having used one, and then upgraded to a Mavic Mini, $50 drones terrify me now. They're a safety hazard, both to you, and to anyone around you at the point you're flying them. A proper drone with GPS, an IMU, and visual position ke
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by jon-wood 5y ago
> It’s nice to not always give your brain an agenda and see what it comes up with itself. On day's when my brain is functioning properly that's great, it can be really nice. On the days when it isn't I would much rather be
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Precisely this for me. Sometimes I find it easier to concentrate on getting things done with some background noise that I can tune in and out of - the alternative is not having that and instead finding 3 hours later that I haven't got
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by jon-wood 5y ago
The two podcasts I consistently listen to at the moment are: * Power Corrupts - An in-depth look at the darker side of humanity, particularly corrupt national leaders, the ways they hold on to power, and how to prevent that. * The Electroni
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I'm curious, what are you doing that requires supporting hundreds of active participants (as opposed to a few active participants, plus a hundreds of spectators)?
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I'll now make the conscious decision to stop posting on Hacker News and go do something useful!
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I agree that scheduling your entire life in 10-minute units with no space left for just living sounds somewhat hellish, but I like the core concept of being conscious about what I'm doing with my time. I would look at it more as not ju

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