lbriner

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by lbriner 5y ago
How much space do I have? I think the skin-in-the-game is very significant as the OP says. In a smaller organisation, you might have a person who does several things and one of those is HR. The existence and success of the company depends o
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by lbriner 5y ago
Just remembered another consideration. When Ken Livingstone introduced free transport for school age children in order to remove cars from the school run, it simply meant a load more children who would have traditionally walked or cycled di
813.
by lbriner 5y ago
In the UK, most people who are employed do not file taxes, they are handled by the employer. Other people whose only income is benefits also do not file taxes.
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by lbriner 5y ago
When I visited Germany, they had cleverly ditched most "gateline staff" like you say but then had a reasonable number of ticket inspectors who would check you had a ticket and it was stamped for the current day. Best of both world
815.
by lbriner 5y ago
Because it doesn't necessarily solve the problem of car journeys but costs a load. It might be fine for e.g. London but where I live, there is no public transport between my house and work (well, perhaps over about 3 hours compared to
816.
by lbriner 5y ago
I remember the same! I was amazed that my friend could read the number on the front of the bus while it was still 300 metres away. How can you read that? I asked. I just read it, why? can't you read it? I was 14 but fortunately was not
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by lbriner 5y ago
Thank you. I think something that a lot of the tech world can take note of. I was also terrible at confrontation when I was younger because I have affirmation as a love language and confrontation doesn't fit too well with that. In the
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by lbriner 5y ago
Just thinking the same thing although I suspect a lot of people don't even know what it means anyway like they don't understand logical fallacies enough to learn how to evaluate any advice/information. Not that I do very well
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by lbriner 5y ago
I think there is a commonality with the UK Police that might not be there in France and Spain that have a different MO with investigations and have an invetigating judge. Michael Mansfield QC, a barrister wrote about this ages ago with the
820.
by lbriner 5y ago
What github did was not table partitioning but schema separation. Splitting tables between separate disk partitions works well when the storage is local to the engine and historically got around the size/io limits of hard disks but not
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by lbriner 5y ago
I don't quite understand the "lack of Scrum in large companies" when they all seem to Plan-Ship-Build. That is pretty much the high level description of Scrum isn't it? Sure Scrum has some ceremonies, but these are basic
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by lbriner 5y ago
You cannot get management buy-in to Scrum or most agile processes unless they can accept the agile manifesto principles. The whole idea that you can be agile while having delivery dates for things several months in advance is a nonsense. Ag
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by lbriner 5y ago
My worry about these types of articles is that can make conclusions that sound like they should be universal but are not. Company size and nature of work; turnover of staff; existing teams vs new teams all have an effect on whether you can
824.
by lbriner 5y ago
The issue is more like the guarantee is not worth anything. AWS/Azure/whomever "promise" 5 9s uptime. Something goes wrong, you don't get 5 9s, and what do you get? A system that went down for 4 hours and a $50 reba
825.
by lbriner 5y ago
There have been a handful of books like this that I think are so key and probably not very contraversial but then I see so many companies who fail because they don't approach things in this way - perhaps they don't know about the
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by lbriner 5y ago
I'm not sure how valuable this is really. Most people, I assume, would wholeheartedly agree but since the CC culprits are not 'Christians who cause climate change', then the pope or Archbishop saying what loads of other peopl
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by lbriner 5y ago
The benefit you are getting from GraphQL is massive flexibility of the query in return for probably sub-par performance. The fact that you can get X 100K requests/per second best-case is not really the point. The point is if I don&#x27
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by lbriner 5y ago
It sounds like they are already caching but the problem is what happens when the number of possible queries is so high, you cannot cache them all and also on "live" apps like the football ones, the result of the query might change
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by lbriner 5y ago
Not sure why this is downvoted, there are def some issues here. I find the same, there are many things like GraphQL but even SQL libraries or entire frameworks that are not easy to performance-test, or perhaps they are easy to performance t
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by lbriner 5y ago
I think there is space for more disruptive approach to meetings. Remember Elon Musk saying if he didn't find meetings productive, he would walk out? Stuff like that. How about saying to people that if they don't see the value of a
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by lbriner 5y ago
Many people in the tech industry can't touch-type! Certainly in the UK, and probably Europe, where you are much less likely to have a comp-sci degree, it is very hard to create consistent requirements for devs like "touch type 60
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by lbriner 5y ago
Meeting notes can easily become noise. One of the big dangers of meetings is spending lots of time talking and not making specific actions to make something happen. Instead of minutes, it would be better in my opinion to put any relevant po
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by lbriner 5y ago
That is a cynical assumption. I think in most cases, people don't want eternal back-and-forth that can happen with emails when it can make sense to have a single conversation where the objections can quickly be noted/considered an
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by lbriner 5y ago
I guess it is ultimately about money so as long as the tax is really high on petrol or diesel, let them buy it I say! A handful of fast cars won't make much of a difference compared to the 100s of millions of engines running now.
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by lbriner 5y ago
My experiences has been generally positive too. One thing I do find is that although their documentation is now open-source, it can still take a long time to get changes reviewed and merged (if at all). I waited about 3 months once for a si
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by lbriner 5y ago
I think Azure suffers in the same way as MS development tools generally, they are racing to try and make so many new things that their "legendary" backwards compatibility feels more like neglect than support. Sure, Webforms still
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by lbriner 5y ago
What if you want to build a phone handset that you don't want to support forever? It has to be online but there is no realistic way the original hardware will support continuous upgrades, even my Samsung S8, which is hardly ancient, is
838.
by lbriner 5y ago
Exactly, otherwise it's no different than saying you need to support IE8 because 0.05% of the world still use it. Very unreasonable imho.
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by lbriner 5y ago
They are ranked highly because of the number of times they are recomended in a comment.
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by lbriner 5y ago
Some have already gone bust. I don't think the concern is the credit money, the problem is getting moved to another provider and instantly paying a higher rate than before.

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