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by laurentl 9y ago
Like most decisions, joining a start-up is a risk vs reward decision. So think about the level of risk you’re comfortable with and/or can mitigate (e.g. less job security but it may not matter if you’re confident you can get another jo
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GDPR fines can be up to 4% of a company’s turnover (at group level too, not just the turnover of the local subsidiary). Whether the courts will actually use the maximum fine remains to be seen, but on paper it’s enough to give you pause - 4
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Because excel files are the lingua Franca of the corporate world. Much easier to share an excel file with the numbers formatted to HR/finance/management expectations and a few graphs (which they can modify to their liking if neces
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My usual approach when I reach the limit of my excel skills (and patience) is to save as csv, write a Python script to do the job, import back in excel for the graphs. This looks like it could nicely streamline the process, granted I learn
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By cloudfront and serverless, I mean that if you want S3 hosting + https you need a Clousfront distribution. If you use a custom domain name with your API GW there’s a Cloudfront distribution created behind the scenes. And I believe the s
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Does this hold for other AWS services that manage https endpoints? Especially Cloudfront which seems to be the de facto solution for anything serverless. Integration with ACM obviously also comes out of the box, but I haven’t looked under t
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we're a small start-up, so I worry about shipping as fluidly as possible, and being confident that my infra just runs (security, patch management, scalability, uptime, etc.) All of which serverless gives me much more easily, and at a l
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I think you meant "Serverevres" :D
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Well, I'll add my own use of serverless. We use Lambda + API GW to manage the glue between our different data/service providers. So for instance we expose a "services" API (API GW) that takes a request, does some busines
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Definitely look at your customer base, and maybe talk to them in terms of privacy expectations and which jurisdiction they're comfortable with. From what I understand of your post the issue is not only encryption legislation itself but
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Just to clarify: I meant that the equipment itself is unimpressive (mundane would be a better term I guess) but the results are definitely impressive :D
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I visited a couple of DCs in Tokyo, and the tours systematically feature a look at the anti-seismic system. It's actually pretty unimpressive : basically the seismic-protected part of the building is mounted on big rubber dampers, with
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Thanks for the advice, I hadn't thought about the mentoring aspect. Regarding the job: we're a small team and I'm the only tech on board so far, so the job is kind of a one-man orchestra: some front-end development (building
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Ask HN: (again): how would you interview senior developer candidates?
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I don't know if I'm a "real" procrastinator but I am definitely a "P" on the MBTI scale. This means I usually do things at the last minute. I can rarely manage to get interested in a task (especially a boring o
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My point of view, as a technical manager (i.e. I've both asked and been asked these questions). 1) is, for me, a way to know a bit more about the person and see how they talk about something they're interested in. This can actuall
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Professionally, what helped me grow the most was taking larger responsibilities within my project: overseeing a framework/middleware change, redesigning the technical architecture and rewriting the deployment tools. I learned tons of s
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The original article, in French, is very well-written; the grammar didn't strike me as "basic", but rather the writing of someone used to getting messages across clearly. Largely on par with most articles in French newspapers
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Ask HN: How would you interview developer candidates?
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