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by kermatt 3y ago
.com boom was full of 3-6 month contract roles, where each new contract was an opportunity to improve cash compensation. Improving earnings via job-hopping is nothing new, the difference may be in the other reasons people hop.
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> While commodities such as corn, wheat, coffee beans and chicken have gotten cheaper, prices for sugar, beef and french fries are still high or rising. Are french fries a commodity? For non-economists to try and understand the actual di
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by kermatt 3y ago
Agilefall
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Batman’s super power was his bank account(s)
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Are unions forcing Boeing to perform less QA? Or are investors, who would use the term “parasites”?
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by kermatt 3y ago
Maybe every interaction with HR should be recorded, but almost none of them should be posted to TikTok. That eliminates anonymity, and increases the chance of bias for future employers.
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> shedding more experienced, more expensive workers A very common IBM theme.
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When my company supplies me with a car, they sign it into Teams. Otherwise, no thanks.
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https://archive.ph/Ir77w
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Druid Deprecation and ClickHouse Adoption at Lyft(eng.lyft.com)
4 points by kermatt 3y ago|0 comments
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FixIt: an unreasonably effective AI error fixer for SQL(motherduck.com)
3 points by kermatt 3y ago|0 comments
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by kermatt 3y ago
I think it’s for people who want the Tmux experience to be consistent both locally and remotely. Like you, however, I only use Tmux remotely, and either splits or multiple windows locally.
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> Here Cassandra has an advantage because it is one of the more popular “operational” databases. Meanwhile, most of Microsoft and Amazon’s databases have been focused on analytical workloads, primarily for business intelligence applicat
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by kermatt 3y ago
This is an all too familiar story, unfortunately, and not just limited to the games sector. It’s why if I can avoid it I won’t touch anything that considers it’s exit strategy more important than its product.
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by kermatt 3y ago
> as the company doubles down on margin over growth Is this a strategy more companies should be looking at?
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by kermatt 3y ago
For business apps Debian, Ubuntu. Was content with RHEL derivatives, but the IBM driven chaos (for lack of a better word) was something I did not want to deal with. For R&D, still Fedora. Hoping it retains its form and does not get Blue
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> To be clear, Spotify hired too many people when it was cheaper to do so (because it could borrow money at lower rates), and now has to let them go because it still hasn't made a profit despite throwing money at things ... A lot of
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Deletion of previously licensed content will likely entice at least a few.
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How does age factor in?
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My job as a manager is to ensure there are no unrealistic deadlines, and when peer managers suggest them, push back hard . Otherwise the result is a feedback loop where burnout affects subsequent projects, and a tech debt spiral results. T
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by kermatt 3y ago
Has this been tested against Mawk? I often see performance benefits with Mawk, when the Awk script does not need any Gawk specific functions. I'm looking at the test suite, trying to figure out how to get it to emit test failure detail
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by kermatt 3y ago
If you don't like a role, pivot. Not everyone can (or should) be a manager, and whatever you do you should not hate. Note I'm not saying a job should be lovable, just that it is a means to an end and should not be intolerable, for
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by kermatt 3y ago
What do you want from a terminal that the macOS supplied app does not provide?
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The stupid keep the evil in power.
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Fast, templateless HTML generation in Python(github.com)
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Canonical Microcloud(canonical.com)
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by kermatt 3y ago
Did you even read the title? A horse is loose on an airplane . Loose cargo can be a serious issue for any aircraft, especially when 1,000 - 2,000 pounds of it is potentially panicked and independently mobile.
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by kermatt 3y ago
Seems like storage of flammable materials under busy freeways is not always a great idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_85_bridge_collapse
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by kermatt 3y ago
I only have one: (Py)Spark. I do a lot of ETL and it has solved most of Pandas arbitrary data type limits (ex. dates). Rust based alternatives are still not stable enough in my experience.
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Was there ever a serious look at restructuring loans that did not dispose of the principal? That could have been a more responsible solution.

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