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by mkl95 4y ago
We have gone from a zero interest rate economy to a high interest one within months. Whoever claims to accurately predict what's going to happen in the next few years is talking out of their ass. We know inflation should start decreasi
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by mkl95 4y ago
The elephant in the room is that schoolchildren are not empowered to solve their issues. If I'm having a rough day I can let my employer know and take some time off, or quit my job if I have had enough. There's no such flexibility
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Django Anti-Patterns: Signals (2017)(lincolnloop.com)
5 points by mkl95 4y ago|0 comments
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Japanese biker tricks internet into thinking he is a young woman (2021)(bbc.com)
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Isn't this a worldwide issue?
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by mkl95 4y ago
I used to write small 2D engines when I was a teenager. I had no clue about databases at the time, so I ended up writing a NoSQL-ish database to save games. I soon learned that rolling your own db is looking for trouble.
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by mkl95 4y ago
> I get it. Meeting culture sucks. It’s too easy for people to thoughtlessly take each others’ time, occupy standing slots, show off with performative teamwork, and generally suck your energy. Personally, the biggest negative effects I h
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by mkl95 4y ago
Any SLAs worth mentioning? Did you ever struggle with them?
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I saw RealPage's crappy rent-jacking-up software so you don't have to(cohost.org)
508 points by mkl95 4y ago|403 comments
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Could there be any false positives? Data mining for legit use is a big thing in games like World of Warcraft
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If your company is a feature factory, it is not a good idea. If the business is stable and has a clear scope, you should be OK.
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by mkl95 4y ago
I used to be really excited about FAANG opportunities. I still get those Google emails but I'm only interested in Apple these days, since are the only ones not doing some stupid thing every few weeks.
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How is this legal?
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by mkl95 4y ago
> Elon Musk reportedly got fewer views than Joe Biden, so he changed Twitter algorithm Musk has been pretty boring since he bought Twitter. It's like he's dropped the visionary narrative and he's just some burnt out guy.
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> So there it is, a complete trifecta of business resources destroyed. Messenger chat history is gone, friends and contacts that I don’t even have phone numbers for are gone, and don’t even have a way to know that I’m alive until I hopef
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by mkl95 4y ago
> "We solved the problem of 144,156 citizens of Maras with zoning amnesty," Erdogan said, using his term for the construction amnesties handed out to allow contractors to ignore the safety codes that had been put on the books s
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by mkl95 4y ago
I don't know how bad it is in the US. The EU market has plenty of L5+ positions and their recruiters are cold messaging as usual. I would argue it's even easier than before the layoffs, since it's really easy to justify short
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Pygame – Community Edition(github.com)
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> He had the bright idea of installing custom charging ports all over the office. He unfortunately confused the wiring diagrams of the charging ports and the diagrams of the gloryholes. Well that was something.
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Ask HN: Why did you decline a FAANG opportunity?
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by mkl95 4y ago
Medium.com has great SEO but terrible UX. Loved by people who post their stuff there, loathed by readers. It succeeded because it was one of the few free traditional blogging platforms of its era. Many Medium users were kids when blogger wa
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by mkl95 4y ago
The way the remote job market is being flooded by American companies proves your point. EU companies do not even try to compete with them, with a few exceptions.
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One of my favourite pieces of software. Simple and stable
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I don't know if I would describe it as "losing my marbles". But I had some extreme OCD-like symptoms right after dropping out of university. I attribute it to my brain trying to cope with failure and uncertainty. The symptoms
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by mkl95 4y ago
I don't work with GPU based stuff, but I work with some convoluted lambda based systems that are kinda expensive. You could literally replace all of them with a $5/month VPS (several orders of magnitude cheaper), or an equivalent
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by mkl95 4y ago
I see it as a long term investment. In a few years many companies will be taking the opposite approach and transforming their 300 microservices into a couple of monoliths, because suddenly "simple systems are more scalable" or som
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by mkl95 4y ago
Big Tech companies have been scraping massive amounts of data for about two decades. Many smaller companies have tried to imitate them (remember when Big Data was the hottest thing out there? How do you think most of those startups obtained
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by mkl95 4y ago
I read enough horror stories about GCP in the last few years to prefer AWS over GCP with some exceptions (mostly GKE). What I'm saying is I hope they don't expect the same level of service from GCP that they expect from something
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by mkl95 4y ago
> Why didn't they ship something like ChatGPT earlier? Lack of product vision? Perfectionism? The simplest answer is that the people with the know-how did not work at Google. Knowing why they didn't is not so simple, though.
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by mkl95 4y ago
> Google and Anthropic declined to comment on the investment, but separately announced a partnership in which Anthropic will use Google’s cloud computing services. I really hope they have tested some prototype extensively before signing

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