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by mason55 8y ago
It’s all about how easy you’d be to bribe. If you owe a lot of money or gamble a lot then that’s viewed as you being susceptible to selling secrets. They don’t care if you like to go out drinking
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by mason55 8y ago
Start with a project in vanilla JavaScript (try to write your code in an idiomatic JavaScript style). Keep building on it until it gets difficult to manage, then go add TypeScript to it. If you're not a JavaScript developer then that e
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by mason55 8y ago
VS Code works well for me. Both TypeScript & VS Code are made by Microsoft so they work pretty well together.
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by mason55 8y ago
For what it’s worth I did find that I adapted to long flights and jet lag. The first time I did the NYC to LON redeye I was a mess the first day. After doing it every other week for awhile it was no problem. Then I did a Dallas to Sydney
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by mason55 8y ago
Yeah First class on Chicago to Bismarck might be 2x but JFK to Heathrow is an easy 10x
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by mason55 8y ago
Good process is all about ensuring that expectations are clear and shared across the company. It does not meant that there's no room for judgement or that it treats every employee as a mindless automaton. Everyone follows a process -
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by mason55 8y ago
Either it’s secure or it isn’t. If it isn’t secure then it doesn’t matter if there are only 1.3 million people in the country; I promise someone from outside the country will try to break it.
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by mason55 8y ago
The common thread is your boss, not your customer. A good boss is worth everything. A good boss would push back on unreasonable customer demands and spend time figuring out what went wrong. A good boss will help prevent it from going wrong
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by mason55 8y ago
I just posted another comment on this but you can get adapters that let you hook up full sized CO2 tanks. A big one will last you for a year even if you drink tons of soda water
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by mason55 8y ago
Get an adapter and a full sized CO2 canister and be done with the refills!
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by mason55 8y ago
Which cities do you choose? N cities will require O(n^2) connections. That grows very, very quickly.
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by mason55 8y ago
Isn’t this only true if you’re doing full CI? Otherwise I could update my service and you can update yours to work with mine but unless we coordinate deployments you still have to worry about interface mismatches. I guess the alternative
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by mason55 8y ago
I use LastPass but have had the same experience - autofill is very, very reliable
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by mason55 8y ago
According to this article[0] those annoyances are still there > It does look like certain annoyances with Workflow are showing in Shortcuts as well. For example, sending a message via a Shortcut still requires you to manually hit the se
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by mason55 8y ago
It’s called “starve the beast” and it’s an actual tactic
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by mason55 8y ago
> difficult to pull off and requires productization, in other words not low-level tooling in a text file. Is this supposed to be a feature? One of the great things about simple config files is that you can use standard GNU tools to vi
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by mason55 8y ago
See also Chesterton’s fence. You don’t want to change something until you understand why it’s there in the first place. https://abovethelaw.com/2014/01/the-fallacy-of-chestertons-f...
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Learn just a little Awk (2010)(gregable.com)
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by mason55 8y ago
> In the three years I have been here the rents have risen probably 15% or so - it means even with promotions and pay rises you just keep up. Well, except you also have 15% more money after paying rent as well. If you save the same pe
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by mason55 8y ago
Likewise, this is why acquisitions come with golden handcuffs and lockups. I think everyone handled it well. They fought for what they believed in, they lost, and they chose to give up money instead of sticking around and being a pain in t
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by mason55 8y ago
Hopefully they don't fuck it up like they did when they changed from high contrast to Smart Invert on iOS. I used high contrast accessibility as a de facto night mode. In iOS 11 (or maybe 11.x?) they changed it to "Smart Invert&q
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by mason55 8y ago
I take issue with the way he describes securitization as if it's some horrible evil. Securitization (and financialization in general) just takes big balls of intertwined risks and breaks them apart into little balls of (theoretically)
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by mason55 8y ago
Similar to how people say that transgender folks don’t ever pass. It’s not that, it’s that you only notice the ones who don’t.
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by mason55 8y ago
The parent originally said Why is this almost always a male occupation? Are women systematically excluded?
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by mason55 8y ago
How do you prevent this from effectively becoming a marketing/popularity contest? Seems like if it actually became popular then you're right back where you are now, where the charities that get the money are the ones with the bes
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by mason55 8y ago
Individual contributor
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by mason55 9y ago
Yes, if you look at the article, specifically Anti-Pattern 3, you'll see that different types of applications require different types of tests. If your units of work are "retrieve data for a list of IDs" and "store this
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by mason55 9y ago
No single person can maintain an entire ecosystem around a language. And programming languages have strong network effects. If I think a language is dying then I won’t want to use it because I’ll worry about future support. It becomes a s
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by mason55 9y ago
FWIW it doesn't seem like the most important part (the docs) has changed: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/indexes.html And I'm perfectly fine with that.
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by mason55 9y ago
Do companies really believe their hiring processes are all great? From people posting online it seems like everyone knows their process sucks but doesn’t have ideas for improving it

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