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by jon-wood 5y ago
It coming up at all is going to vary wildly between interviews. From my perspective your CV is what gets you into the interview process, and will come up in an initial screening call where I have a conversation with you about the last few y
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Wikipedia doesn’t rely on giant donation banners - the Wikipedia foundation had $180M dollars available at the end of 2020, and an annual hosting cost of $2M/year. The vast majority of there expenses are $54M/year of salaries, whi
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by jon-wood 5y ago
They only make an appearance then, but throughout the book Irulan's commentary is interweaved between chapters. It feels like that could have been a useful path for a bit of exposition on the things that aren't explicitly covered
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by jon-wood 5y ago
They've not really stretched it at all, Dune is a long dense book, and to try and do it justice in a single film would result in a confused mess. Just look at the David Lynch version, which even as a huge fan of the book I can't e
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Second the recommendation for Resolve, just be aware it's the gateway drug to an expensive BlackMagic hardware habit.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
You could hypothetically use Webassembly to build your entire application around a canvas and either render directly with canvas calls or WebGL, but it would somewhat miss the point of the web unless you're explicitly building a game o
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by jon-wood 5y ago
As a lifetime resident of the UK, a country that is more left-wing than the US, but still distinctly conservative I can tell you that it is in fact possible to introduce mandatory minimum holidays, maternity leave, and a social security sys
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In which case, I stand corrected. I’ve not used React for a while and wasn’t aware that was possible.
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This feels to me like another example of how the drive to use nothing but functional components in React is harming readability. Class based components were allowed to define a `shouldComponentUpdate` method which would be called ahead of r
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by jon-wood 5y ago
There are several points in Star Trek canon which state that transporters function by digitising the target’s molecular makeup, transferring that into temporary storage, and then reconstructing it at the desired location. This does for me r
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I’ve read Dune about once a year for the last two decades, the first time I did so was a formative experience for my thinking about religion in my teens. The film does remove a few bits but none of them were of any real consequence, and the
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Tanks do work fine in the desert, but if they were rumbling along on tracks they’d quickly attract sand worms and be swallowed. I imagine suspensor propelled tanks would be similar since in the novels force fields will attract worms from fa
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by jon-wood 5y ago
The aversion to using force fields is more about their interaction with laser guns, when shot by one they cause an explosion equivalent to a small nuclear weapon. Not ideal to have wrapping a vehicle you may be flying in formation on an att
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by jon-wood 5y ago
As a company with a strong focus on smooth 3D rendering I imagine it’s quite difficult to find a CTO who can top John Carmack, and if he’s willing to stick around then why rush it.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Please can you provide (and direct people to) some mechanism other than mentioning you in a reply to tweets? I’m now at the point where I’ve muted the term “unroll” because any thread with some traction is swamped by people requesting the u
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I can almost guarantee that over a period of years you'll see significantly less downtime that can be attributed to Heroku than you would on VMs that you manage. Even if that isn't the case, if Heroku are responsible for it then y
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I would advise against Elastic Beanstalk, last time I used it the product had the stink of being on life support - they've not really added any new features to it in several years, and even before that it was incredibly flakey.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I have no idea why there's nothing here saying "don't". Go and get a Heroku account, hook it up to your Github repository's master branch for deploys, use Github Actions for CI, and then get on with life. Yes, you&#
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by jon-wood 5y ago
How disorganised does a team need to be that they need to call meetings so involved they can only be done in-person with less than 24 hour’s notice? This isn’t a genuine business requirement, it’s just management wanting to remind everyone
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Is there any known corruption in the UK Land Registry though? Are there frequent reports of land that someone had bought quietly have its ownership transferred?
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by jon-wood 5y ago
One of the first steps in setting up an iOS device is a great big screen telling you what data is collected and allowing opt-out. There’s several of them for each feature you’re setting up. There’s then another of those for each first party
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Sorry, reading back I definitely come across as disagreeing - I would kill someone for task tracking software which supports giving the degree of uncertainty on an estimate.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Story points are a curse on the software development industry. However much people say "they're indicative, and don't map to hours", someone, somewhere, will map them to hours. The most accurate project plan I was ever i
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by jon-wood 5y ago
> And they didn't create an "App Store" or any other free extensible model for Siri. They should have, because people are on aggregate more creative than any big company including Apple -- thanks to survivorship bias. They
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Sky UK | Senior Developers, Infrastructure Engineers | REMOTE (UK) | Full-time | https://sky.com We're a startup team that was recently acquired by Sky to deliver our home monitoring devices as part of a new business ventur
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by jon-wood 5y ago
YoungerFemaleCousinWithDifferentSurname is encoding a lot of assumptions about how familial relationships work in Western European/American cultures. Looking at all the possible values in that enum to me doesn't scream of a massiv
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That's why notes are then distributed for review, allowing people to say when the notes as taken don't accurately reflect what was discussed.
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I'd take it as a complement, but I think that's a thing that comes with age.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I'm sure there's some nuggets of value in SAFe, but I just can't take anything seriously which welcomes you into it's world with this diagram: https://www.scaledagileframework.com/wp-content/uploads&
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For that one vital service which doesn’t support multiple users on a single account (or locks it away behind an eye-wateringly expensive enterprise plan). Every org has one, for a long time in mine it was access to the Alexa developer conso

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