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by mkl95 4y ago
One of my favourite things about HN is that a mod would never say something like this.
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I was a consultant for an American company that also hired dozens of cheap consultants from development countries. Mostly India but also neighbouring countries and some Eastern European countries. Indians were by far the hardest to work wit
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There's no formal rule, but Facebook allow it semi officially
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All this guy does is upload other people's videos with some random comments like "Russia has taken the lead in donating tanks to Ukraine". I don't think it should be demonetized but it's not a big loss for the world
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by mkl95 4y ago
My pet peeve with technical books is unintentional filler - things you can learn within minutes by googling it and easily amount to 50%+ of most books. Show me the obscure API workarounds and tricks that will take me weeks to find out inste
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by mkl95 4y ago
Something that the software industry has to assimilate eventually is that unless your organization is very efficient, there's not a big difference between working for 6 or 10 hours a day. Scrum / agile / whatever as understoo
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by mkl95 4y ago
Multiple governing bodies. For instance boxing has four major governing bodies and dozens of small organizations. Other than that every area has its own athletic commission that is allowed to freely interpret some rules.
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by mkl95 4y ago
There are a few competitive sports where the same pattern occurs. Namely decentralized sports, particularly boxing where it's not rare for some elite athlete to be banned temporarily after testing positive for PEDs. Most bans are for 6
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Ironically, if von Neumann was alive today he would probably encourage kids to use some number crunching software rather than "getting used to it". In that sense civilization may actually have regressed since the von Neumann &#x2F
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I agree on the intuition. But once the intuition and the fundamentals are there, should teenagers spend months crunching calculus heuristics? It's still the way it's taught in Europe and it's incredibly inefficient.
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I'd say this used to be true, but calculus has become a historical artifact even at some engineering fields. We have become very good at building abstractions. Matrix / linear algebra on the other hand is something we unconsciousl
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Any reason why it's happening now ? Was there some kind of hard deadline?
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> “It’s the same thing with calculus. You’re not here because you’re going to use calculus in your everyday life. You’re here because calculus is weightlifting for your brain.” There are many non calculus things that are weightlifting f
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by mkl95 4y ago
We have been using "Amazon Web Services". They should market their services more, they definitely have a bright future...
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Coincidentally I was browsing for Raspberry Pi 4 Model B yesterday. They are ranging anywhere from $100 to $350 in my country. That's a big nope.
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Many companies are OK with distributed systems but they don't wanna invest the resources to set up proper observability and monitoring. At those companies fixing a bug that would be relatively straightforward with a monolithic architec
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The answer is in your logs. If there are no logs, Microsoft know your site better than you do.
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by mkl95 4y ago
Serious question - is there a legitimate use case for Edge when a Chrome Stable build is available?
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I haven't used Kubernetes for a while, but shouldn't kube-bench (1) be enough? Do you have to check anything manually? (1) https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench
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Not bad to be honest. If you replace that font with something like IBM Plex and fix those horrific buttons it's a cool template.
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As always it depends. At a small startup the CEO may actually be worse off than their employees. As company_size grows the number of CEOs living paycheck to paycheck approaches zero.
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> Atlassian Engineering recently published how it exceeded 99.9999% of availability with its Tenant Context Service (TCS). What a misleading and cynical headline. Literally all Atlassian products I work with have some unexpected downtime
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> Excessive chargebacks plague many industries: auctions, online gaming, event ticket sales, multilevel marketing, and more. But when your business is regarded as a reputational liability—as porn is—payment processors are quick to blackl
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Twitter's recommendation system doesn't only try to draw your attention. Tweets and their replies form a tree, and the system wants those trees to grow as much as possible. It turns out the human brain is especially vulnerable to
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I have never experienced it and I don't think it's a thing in my corner of the world. However there was a post here or on Reddit (the line is blurry sometimes) where some developers from a specific Asian country described several
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> And yes, if you're ill but can't be arsed to call your NHS GP, then you're clearly not sick and shouldn't be tying up already strained public resources. Doesn't the NHS provide an app to do this exact thing asy
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> [...] Only then would the authenticated caller be passed through to me. Of course, such a protocol does not require a physical secretary. The job could be done by a virtual secretary, an app on my phone. And yet this is not how telepho
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by mkl95 4y ago
Hiring freezes don't have to be industry wide to be problematic. If you are competing with dozens of people for a job, there is a high chance some of them are both a good fit and willing to accept crappier compensation.
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Layoffs may not even be a bad thing if job mobility is high. Startups lay off a lot of people who have bullshitted their way into their position, members of low ROI teams who can't be easily be transferred somewhere else, quiet quitter
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by mkl95 4y ago
I'm more interested in hiring freezes, i.e. locking people out of the industry vs forcing them to switch jobs

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