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by lbriner 4y ago
> Yes, I know there’s esoteric hardware and stuff like that where automation isn’t straight-forward, but that’s the exception, not the rule. Maybe in your world but plenty of us work in places that have 1000s of servers, many of them int
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by lbriner 4y ago
It sounded like the intermediate cert was very old so any browsers that had visited a site that used it previously would have cached it but anyone trying to obtain it now didn't work. Seems weird though, you would think that if the int
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by lbriner 4y ago
The problem is that you don't need a large percentage of your target to not want them and "report spam" even if it is literally the opposite, then your whole brand suffers. A lot of the tricky stuff is trying to make the emai
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by lbriner 4y ago
A large business who gets 20K customer service calls per hour and sends them a CSAT questionnaire? Whether or not you think it is good practice, it happens. Other scenario is a business that wants to invite a load of people to something at
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by lbriner 4y ago
I thought these cars had radar and/or lidar? The radar should "see" things 160 metres away so regardless of whether the Tesla thought these were cars, shouldn't it still have seen them as obstructions and avoided them? I
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by lbriner 4y ago
Did they think they would get away with it or did it just become a game? I assume in the US, the punishment for this sort of thing is pretty severe?
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by lbriner 4y ago
One of the forgotten aspects of this is how a growing community fights the normal distribution of people's ability. If I am a small company, it is relatively easy to employ, say, 2 very talented engineers/marketers/sales peop
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by lbriner 4y ago
Isn't it similar to the "Nobody was ever fired for buying IBM". If there is any kind of concern over safety, any incident affecting any school, some well-meaning supplier/council/school admin suggests adding securit
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by lbriner 4y ago
Well I suppose they are called an Editor for a reason. They change the wording to reflect how they picture the character and might think that "What do you mean" is too formal, even in England we are more likey to say "What d&
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by lbriner 4y ago
In my experience, some people in the US/Canada struggle to understand a British accent and this might be one reason to dub it into another accent. My brother tried to order an apple pie fritter in Canada and the woman didn't under
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by lbriner 4y ago
So true. I think my biggest negative when it comes to the idea of running a business is that thick skin. Not so obnoxious that you don't take feedback but realistic that opinions are free and come thick and fast! I think this also play
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by lbriner 4y ago
I think like others have said, it does depend on whether you are targetting the mass market or a smaller (and hopefully more lucrative) niche. Plenty of companies don't do what you say and still become successful. However, for a pure s
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by lbriner 4y ago
I wouldn't quite agree that people will happily give you money for anything that makes their pain less. There is still oboarding friction, possible import issues, fear of vendor lock-in etc. I think it is something that is easy to desc
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by lbriner 4y ago
I don't think having fire detectors or a strange and esoteric control panel is what most people would call surveillance.
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by lbriner 4y ago
You need to think about how to manage expectations and ability of employees, particularly if they are the only person who does that job. You might take someone on who says they will do something and they don't, or they don't very
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by lbriner 4y ago
Similar to you. There were several hints that the author didn't really understand software. The problem with waterfall wasn't that you had to do tasks in order, it was that you needed to know mostly everything in advance to get ri
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by lbriner 4y ago
I think it looks really nice but alluded to in the article is the spectre of people who thought they were doing something equally innovative in the 1950s and we now have large brutalist city centres that are much lamented. There are plenty
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by lbriner 4y ago
I do wonder whether another approach would be starting to delete old videos with not many clicks unless you pay. This would seem to reduce storage bandwidth but I suppose they still have to support the insane amount of uploads! Another thin
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by lbriner 4y ago
In the UK, it would be purely civil since it would not be fraud (false representation for gain) or theft (taking without permission) automatically if EBay are unaware that there is actually a problem. If they took your money and you have pr
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by lbriner 4y ago
Sure! There are lots of parts to the job: 1) Maintenance - rebuilding indexes, managing disks 2) Performance - identifying problems, training devs 3) Architecture - helping people change DB architecture at scale 4) Automation - DB-as-code a
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by lbriner 4y ago
It is both to stop tickets being transferred but is also to help the number of complaints about "I bought a ticket but it fell off my dashboard". At least this way, it is easy to check. Also, if you use the app, you don't nee
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by lbriner 4y ago
Why does it have to work for 10 years? Make the parts replaceable and service the machines. The machines in the shade work for 10 years and those in the sun get a £5 replacement every 6 months.
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by lbriner 4y ago
The apps aren't much better. I got an App error the other day so I paid cash in the machine, it turns out I had paid on the App but still got the error. Also problems setting up some of them (Have to run a number and waste 5 minutes wh
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by lbriner 4y ago
It seems mainly driven by the funding of the company. A large bank or oil company in the city can easily afford to pay Devs a large salary which is less than their investment bankers which generally means London. Others like Just Eat made a
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by lbriner 4y ago
That was the point that jumped out to me as well. If we can all start making progression ladders a normal part of a dev team then we recruit for a rung on the ladder rather than an arbitrary title. Then us Devs will be less precious about &
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by lbriner 4y ago
What is baffling? OP explains that they didn't have certain things on their CV. If I was hiring for a JS app and the applicant was all Java or .Net, it is no disrespect to them to filter them out at the CV stage. I can only speak for m
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by lbriner 4y ago
Without the context, it is hard to know what this means. If they are a company that heavily uses Kafka, then there could well be an expectation that you would have researched it and at least learned enough to have an informed discussion. Ot
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by lbriner 4y ago
This is a very negative view of what an interview is. Most interviews, however carried out, couild be described as "trying to predict the mind of the person asking the questions" but most interviewers are trying to get a realistic
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by lbriner 4y ago
I got the idea for the take-home test from the Remote book by Hansson and Fried and I think what they spelled out made sense: 1) Give them a realistic task to work on - this is what you want them to do if you hire them 2) Give them a reason
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by lbriner 4y ago
I suspect lots of different reasons but for me I think it is simply catharsis to engage with something that doesn't require effort or reaction unless I want to, I can just consume. This helps my brain recover from the focussed delibera

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