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by mkl95 4y ago
> For companies that have become extraordinarily successful doing one market-defining thing, it is hard to have a second act with something entirely different. Google are extraordinarily successful at selling ads. Their search engine is
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by mkl95 4y ago
Hold my beer for a few billion years while I crack it.
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by mkl95 4y ago
Tech salaries are keeping up with inflation in my area. Employers expectations are proportional though.
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AMC's output is low, and most if not all their good stuff is available somewhere else. I just learnt they have a streaming service. I wonder if they could make more money by signing some exclusivity deal with a major competitor.
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by mkl95 4y ago
I can't help you with the legal side of things, but moving forward I advise hiring some security-aware infra guy. The root cause of most of these incidents is some human being incompetent (leading to things like poor security and relyi
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by mkl95 4y ago
> I'm a 43-years-old single guy, NEET for the past decade. I got my Master's in the US in the late 2000s and was gainfully employed there for a few years Unless your post is missing some major red flag, your experience should m
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by mkl95 4y ago
The current state of Twitter reminds me of the startups I worked at in the beginning of my career, where unstable people made stupid decisions all the time.
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by mkl95 4y ago
Some people have too many resources and free time on their hands.
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by mkl95 4y ago
I would happily review my performance if my employer lent me the money and time to continuously improve my skills. At the moment that budget is nonexistent, so I don't really owe them this kind of thing.
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by mkl95 4y ago
It's crazy to think it would only take a few thousand plants to power the entire world, or about 15 times the ones we have today. But even another few hundred plants could completely change the geopolitical landscape. Nuclear power is
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by mkl95 4y ago
I have had my share of Linux Evenings. They built my confidence when it comes to troubleshooting system stuff, and they eroded my confidence in Linux for a while. Things are incredibly stable these days compared to even half a decade ago.
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by mkl95 4y ago
I don't know if you are joking or being serious, but TIL iron is of Germanic origin and irony's origin is the romanization of a Greek word. This also explains why the words for iron and irony are so different in Romance languages,
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by mkl95 4y ago
I agree with some of the points, but on the other hand most organizations do not really empower SDEs to reason about architecture. Things like production budgets and production grade monitoring and observability are usually owned fully by S
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Hitler offers Britain 'peace or destruction' (1940)(upi.com)
14 points by mkl95 4y ago|28 comments
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> This series is intended for graphics programmers that know a modern 3D API (at least OpenGL 2.0+ or D3D9+) In other words, it should still be relevant today.
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by mkl95 4y ago
Job title inflation is an inverse function of compensation and inequality. When a few people are getting paid a ton of money and you are not being paid much, getting a "promotion" is one of the few ways to land a highly paid posit
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Carlos Kleiber(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by mkl95 4y ago|0 comments
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by mkl95 4y ago
LastFM circa ~2010 is one of the most wonderful apps I've ever used. Spotify feels like a cheap knockoff while ironically being much more expensive. However LastFM was so good that even a cheap knockoff is enough to get me to pay my mo
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by mkl95 4y ago
What would prevent them from going extinct again?
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by mkl95 4y ago
Thanks, I will be applying that.
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by mkl95 4y ago
I follow a simple rule. If I'm looking for a written conversation, I say hello followed by whatever I want to say next in the same message. If I want to call someone, I say hello and ask them if they are available in the same message.
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by mkl95 4y ago
Historians of the future will probably refer to the dot-com bubble as the start of the Silicon Age. But another take could be that the silicon and transistor age started at the same time with commercial silicon transistors (mid 50s).
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by mkl95 4y ago
It is incredibly easy to click past some OAuth prompt only to find out later your account has been used to do some shady stuff. In the early to mid 2010s it was a rampant issue on Twitter. Always double check what you are allowing some app
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by mkl95 4y ago
My country is lower income than the Netherlands and Germany. 70k is upper management money here and a bit more than what I make. I have talked to some companies in Ireland and the UK in the last few months, and their ranges usually start at
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by mkl95 4y ago
> Landing lead/lower management roles seems to be difficult if you have limited experience leading people. Those seem to be mostly staffed internally. Because at most places lead/lower management is another word for yes men tha
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by mkl95 4y ago
And so the propaganda begins. They will be hosting sporting events within a decade.
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If the industry followed something like the Unix philosophy, the definitions of Minimum and Maximum Viable Product would eventually converge. But the trend is still to build morbidly obese products that attempt to solve dozens of problems,
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FBI director warns China could exploit TikTok to collect user data for espionage(businessinsider.com)
10 points by mkl95 4y ago|1 comments
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Instagram is "transitional" technology. It peaked at a time when traditional social networks had started their slow decline, and things like Snapchat and TikTok were gaining some popularity. These days it's a bit too open for
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by mkl95 4y ago
The more I read about Google the more I am convinced it cannot be treated as a single organization, but as many organizations operating under the same name - some of them brilliant, some of them utterly clueless.

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