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by jon-wood 5y ago
If one of the US TLAs has decided to target you you’re fucked. No amount of switching phones and OS is going to help you, short of completely disconnecting from the internet and not using any sort of financial infrastructure.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Trade magazines have always peddled crap from the highest bidder, that’s how they stay in business. Winners of their annual awards are at least partially picked based on willingness to pay a substantial fee.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Not without passing places, because you can't miss a stop without the train in front of you also missing it, at least without an eye watering body count.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I have Dyslexia, which in me mostly surfaces as confusion of the various theirs, and a writing speed which would result in me never completing any class work. I dealt with that by learning to type, after which all my work was done on organi
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by jon-wood 5y ago
They’re paying their interns how much ? Either finance pays way more than I thought, or that’s wildly off - for comparison as the most senior developer in our London based organisation, having been here since the beginning, I make about $1
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Not that I can see, but frankly if you’re not willing to use iCloud, give up on Apple devices because it’s what makes basically all the good stuff work. (This is not an invitation to get into yet another debate on recent events)
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Assuming enough apps expose functionality through it, Shortcuts is the bridge between walled garden apps and UNIX pipelines, and Apple made a very clever move in making Shortcuts how Siri discovers functionality.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
You should be able to advertise your ipv6 endpoint in the AAAA record, going direct to the origin, while make the A records pointers to Cloudflare which can then proxy back to your v6-only origin servers.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
We definitely haven’t fully embraced an event driven architecture, but we have gone all in on it where it makes sense for us. We’re processing in the order of a billion messages a day from hardware in customer’s homes, which is probably the
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I have a rule when in pubs - no Googling answers to the inane argument. Inane arguments in pubs aren’t about getting the right answer, they’re about the tangents you end up going down from them, something that’s lost if you can just immedia
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by jon-wood 5y ago
That's true in the sort of desk jobs most of the people who inhabit Hacker News do. It's patently not true of things like manufacturing line work, delivery drivers, chefs, and call centre operators. A chef can't drop 8 hours
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by jon-wood 5y ago
As with most things in computer security this is mostly performed as a self-assessment. The insurer will provide a set of questions about things like backup policies, access control, and encryption which you’re expected to answer. Unless it
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I’ve had a couple of interviews where I was asked to either whiteboard FizzBuzz, or answer 00s era Google brain teasers. From a big company that would be a swift exit from the interview process for me, but in both cases it happened to me I
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by jon-wood 5y ago
> We thought employees would use our app because it’s innovative, but they mostly use it because they really need the money. This came as a surprise to us. I'm having real difficulty working out how this could possibly have come as
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by jon-wood 5y ago
> We don't have any equivalent of the THW, as far as i know. The fire service do some kind of disaster relief, particularly if it involves pumping water. But for the rest of it, there just isn't any systematic response. Typical
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by jon-wood 5y ago
It's not a bug, it is quite literally the feature, and something that also happens on Android and iOS, and I believe even on recent releases of Gnome.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
This seems like another case of American exceptionalism. Countless countries around the world do this, they do it by having employers report income when they pay people. I’m in the UK and other than a short period of being self-employed I’v
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Steam and other game distribution systems also have an extensive network of edge caches around the world, and Linux distros have had local mirrors since forever. It’s also pretty common for people running large LAN parties to run a local St
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Making sure the "usual place of work" being head office is struck out is vitally important if you're working remotely in the UK, otherwise you're no longer able to claim travel to the office as an expense due to tax law.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
These things do happen, but I'd be willing to place money on it not happening to a major financial institution. The day AWS and friends summarily terminate the account of a major UK bank, causing people to lose the ability to access th
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Meet, until April or so last year, was always a part of the paid Google Workspace product. They only just turned on actual free access to people without Workspace accounts. Overall its probably one of Google's best products IMO. It has
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by jon-wood 5y ago
In a company where everyone is working from home Meet is used for much more than meetings - we regularly use it for pair programming which can run all day, and product development workshops which are very hard to fit into a single hour. Way
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by jon-wood 5y ago
It's whatever you want it to be. You can choose to turn up with winning as you're only goal, then spend a couple of sleepless days hammering things together. Personally I take it as an opportunity to play around with silly ideas a
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by jon-wood 5y ago
This is precisely what we do where I work. We have a service which has just one responsibility - receive webhooks, do very basic validation that their legitimate, then ship the payload off to an SQS queue for processing. Doing it this way
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by jon-wood 5y ago
If there’s one thing that would make me even less likely to play multiplayer it would be a requirement to travel to a (potentially distant) location in order to take an exam before being allowed to progress.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
At a LAN party a few years ago one of the games being played was Modern Warfare 2, a game where your gun is almost always going to hit in exactly the centre of the screen, but that’s made more difficult by requiring you to look down the sig
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Yup, also banned in England now. It shouldn't have been, but it was very refreshing when I last renewed my lease not to be charged several hundred pounds for the privilege of emailing back a signed copy of the document with the end dat
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I think the point wasn't that there are some products being restocked every five hours, and instead that the turnaround time from a truck turning up from a supplier to the products on that truck being available for delivery is five hou
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by jon-wood 5y ago
There's not a huge difference between the domain of telecom switches and modern web applications. You've got multiple clients connecting, with the understanding that one client shouldn't have undue impact on the responsivenes
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by jon-wood 5y ago
When allowed to do the job well, yes. The UK’s Government Digital Service led the way in this, and have massively improved the online experience of everything from finding information about the current Parliament to booking vaccinations. Th

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