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by mkl95 4y ago
I used to do this when I was leading the development of an internal tool used by a small research department. Researchers were initially using a clunky prototype that had not received any end user feedback. By meeting them regularly I was a
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by mkl95 4y ago
Agile as understood by most companies is a self-deception framework. It's a way for companies to think they are more mature than they actually are. The truth is that in most cases escaping the good - fast - cheap triangle is expensive
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by mkl95 4y ago
What feedback are potential investors giving you? What are your pain points?
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by mkl95 4y ago
Unlike some of the failed states in the area, Saudi Arabia is a legitimate threat to the West. All the random abuse of their citizens is countered by a sportswashing campaign that includes Formula 1 races and boxing events to name a few. Th
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by mkl95 4y ago
> nobody will use the Paris region outside of customers in and around France, does it make sense to build and operate 3 DCs for such a market? Apparently AWS decided that it doesn't and they use Equinix PA2 and PA3, among others, f
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by mkl95 4y ago
I have regularly used two gmail accounts for 13+ years. One of them receives tons of spam every day and has two dozen haveibeenpwned entries. The other one receives little spam and has no haveibeenpwned entries.
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by mkl95 4y ago
> Particularly at the time, a few years ago when everybody was moving to the cloud, the cloud area was just a huge blindspot for businesses. They thought that cloud providers were providing all the security they needed, but that’s simply
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by mkl95 4y ago
Is it something like kube-bench as a service? What's the killer feature?
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by mkl95 4y ago
I have spent my whole career in webdev and I couldn't agree more. A common pattern is that there's a bullshit-free option to solve some problem, but someone wants you to solve it in a stupid and painful way. I sometimes wish I was
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by mkl95 4y ago
> While the repeat attempts have not reached the same level of fusion yield as the August 2021 experiment, all of them demonstrated capsule gain greater than unity with yields in the 430-700 kJ range, significantly higher than the previo
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by mkl95 4y ago
This is a pretty solid game. Two thoughts: - It is so hard to maintain control that it feels unfair rather than challenging on tricky levels. - The game should reward the player to give them a sense of progress - this will prevent many of t
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by mkl95 4y ago
I make ~4x my country's generous minimum wage and I'm struggling to find a decent flat I can afford - I'm not talking of something like a detached house, just a good flat in a non crappy urban area. I often wonder how people
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by mkl95 4y ago
> Turn up the heat in every interaction and ask uncomfortable questions. Some of the questions I repeatedly ask: > Can we re-frame this in terms of the customer’s problem? > What’s the soonest we could get this done? > What woul
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by mkl95 4y ago
Also make sure that Dev and Ops are separate departments that are not allowed to work together. Devops? We don't do that here. BTW you need to fix that 15-second query ASAP.
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by mkl95 4y ago
Your service is now crippled by a bunch of spaghetti APIs on top of the stuff that was crippling it before. You are cloud-scale!
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by mkl95 4y ago
IIRC the EU does that, but there is a limit that isn't sky high. So it's more likely to deter smaller FAANG competitors than actual FAANG companies.
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by mkl95 4y ago
This post would be insightful if it mentioned what his teammembers did after such a crappy experience. Did they go back to academia, or did they go for another industry job?
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by mkl95 4y ago
The blockchain as understood today is a sloppy idea plagued with even sloppier implementations. 100% of the blockchain's legit use cases can be solved with free software that predates it.
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by mkl95 4y ago
My suspicion is that low birth rates and blazingly fast cultural evolution (is anybody here single and working from home?) have more to do with unhappiness than intelligence / computational ability / etc.
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by mkl95 4y ago
Scrapy for low level stuff plus some tool that can run Javascript
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by mkl95 4y ago
I wrote a lot of small Java programs when I was in school, and Eclipse felt like being on developer steroids compared to using an IDE with a dynamic language. My software just worked and was pretty fast. I have mostly worked with Python sin
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by mkl95 4y ago
Actual insight can be tough to hear. No one wants to be told they would be doing better if they had worked their ass at some innovative company early in their career instead of taking an office job with a lower ceiling. Learning they can pu
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by mkl95 4y ago
> but I was also sad and a bit upset the unit circle was not taught in high school I'm not a mathematician, but that sounds like poor teaching to me. Even if it's not part of the programme, learning the unit circle takes liter
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by mkl95 4y ago
I'd say income and debt are more interesting than GDP. The Average Joe in my country saves a bit of money, burns it quickly, then struggles for a while because he needs to borrow money, and he doesn't make enough to pay it quickly
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by mkl95 4y ago
IMDB created a Top Rated Indian Movies section to mitigate spam [1]. However some obscure Indian movies make it every now and then into the regular Top 250 list. [1] https://www.imdb.com/india/top-rated-indian-movies&#x
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Google Meet lacks “Change Background” feature(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
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"Closed as Won't Do", then move on
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by mkl95 4y ago
It reminds me of pix2pix https://phillipi.github.io/pix2pix/
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by mkl95 4y ago
Coworkers
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by mkl95 4y ago
Being swamped is mostly a symptom of having bosses who don't say no often enough. The root cause could be greed, incompetence, etc. but it's irrelevant from a rank-and-file point of view.

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