mdekkers

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by mdekkers 8y ago
"we oppose all forms of oppression blah blah". I find they stop being interested in your oppression as soon as your views differ from theirs.
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by mdekkers 8y ago
I think the reason DBAs are not hired is because we don't need them as often and for as long as we do devs. Good DBA's are also really hard to find. We have been looking for one for the past 6 months with no luck
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by mdekkers 8y ago
There is nothing more awesome than seeing, on the fly, your worker pool being scaled out by 100x This was possible, and done, long before kubernetes or docker. The frequent counter-argument I hear is that "kubernetes makes it easy&qu
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by mdekkers 8y ago
It's no accident big corporations like RedHat Google, Microsoft, Amazon are jumping on Kubernetes (which uses the docker concepts, and massively extends them), for cloud deployments, it's the future. Do you know the history of K
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by mdekkers 8y ago
This is nonsense, and comes across as exactly the case the author is talking about, a solution (no branches and PR's) looking for a problem (It must be trust, who can argue against increasing trust in the team). In our team, we have a
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by mdekkers 8y ago
Yeah, that incident was with a bank I knew many years, and they know me well. The manager told me "we do this for everyone now, compliance and regulation is just like this now". This is the new normal...
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by mdekkers 8y ago
Nope, I absolutely don't feel the need to ascribe my negative habits to some fear or anxiety whatever thing. Not everything in life is a drama. I am fully aware of my strengths and weaknesses, and my personal opinion is that ascribing
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by mdekkers 8y ago
paywall
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by mdekkers 8y ago
Procrastination is the avoidance of activity due to a discomfort/fear/anxiety and subsequent inability to scale the discomfort wall that exists between you and the tasks' completion. Incorrect. The dictionary definition of
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by mdekkers 8y ago
You stick with your friends through the bad times. You mean like Canada and the EU?
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by mdekkers 8y ago
location history and personality profile
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by mdekkers 8y ago
I cannot speak for the OP, and I don't live in Sweden, but as someone freely travelling and living in many EU countries (I'm European) I can tell you that opening a bank account as an expat has become seriously hellish sometime in
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by mdekkers 8y ago
every time I go back to continental Europe and suddenly have to carry around huge amounts of cash with me. Because nobody accepts cards You must be going to the wrong areas in Europe. Literally, everywhere I go (France, Spain, Italy, Swit
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by mdekkers 8y ago
Where do I sign up? I was forced today to accept Facebook's new settings and I was presented with an option to either allow facebook to process my data for face recognition or not. Choosing not does not allow you to move forward in the
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by mdekkers 8y ago
I can't wait to read the n-gate writeup about this one...
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by mdekkers 8y ago
Unlike other vehicles, Tesla is uniquely positioned to address more corner cases over time through over-the-air software updates, and it continually does so to improve factors such as stopping distance, I'm sorry, but that is complet
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by mdekkers 8y ago
Is there some working source code?
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by mdekkers 8y ago
porn was shot at their place and it's now a hazmat site That is a ridiculous statement. What about "regular" couples having sex in an AirBnB? Or only pornstars have sex?
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by mdekkers 8y ago
False: If this were true, I'd look like the Hulk by now
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by mdekkers 8y ago
Looking at the effort and cost, why don't people just buy a mac? (other then of course the fun of actually doing this)
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by mdekkers 8y ago
Just because you paid for a software license doesn't mean you can do whatever you want with said software. Just because I bought their software doesn't mean they get to do what they like with my data, or my systems. The only rig
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by mdekkers 8y ago
Thanks for the tip!
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by mdekkers 8y ago
I'm really sick of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and every other company that uses lies, deceit, ambiguity and general dark patterns to coerce me into parting with the ownership of my systems. Google must be laughing their asses o
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by mdekkers 8y ago
it does break Google Assistant From personal experience, it breaks a ton of stuff, including my patience with the endless "turn on location services" prompts.
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by mdekkers 8y ago
Wouldn't it be racist to force an intelligent entity to disclose its nature? This argument is hilarious, but I'll play along. First of all "racism" is about superiority, not about differentiation per-se. There is nothi
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by mdekkers 8y ago
This essay is excellent, and to me it clearly highlights the difference between an experienced architect that has been there, done that, and got the battle-scars, and those that have not. The attitudes and behaviours Lawrence describes are
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by mdekkers 8y ago
Or mesos/marathon, though I'm in no way qualified to make comparisons vs k8s. I am qualified to make that comparison, and Mesosphere all the way. Rapid, no bullshit deploy, not having to deal with key stack components being alph
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by mdekkers 8y ago
Mesosphere
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by mdekkers 8y ago
Alternative title: "Man at end of his career realises value of lawyers"
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by mdekkers 8y ago
Should AI software that’s smart enough to trick humans be forced to disclose itself. Google executives don’t have a clear answer yet. I would think that Google's executives shouldn't have a say in that question at all. As the ch

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