mkl95

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by mkl95 3y ago
If their boss wants to meet with them at 8PM, skipping their siesta won't help. Spanish corporate types hang out at the office until their dinner time, which is also horribly late.
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by mkl95 3y ago
> Yet, despite all the limitations of the 1990s, the guys at id Software could make 13 games in 1 year. > In today’s post I want to explore why new indie game developers plunge themselves into much longer game development cycles. The
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by mkl95 3y ago
Someone who needs to. In this case, the victim worked for an aerospace company. I know some people in that industry and all of them work insanely long hours. On top of that, it was a Spanish company, so working for 10+ hours a day would be
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by mkl95 3y ago
It's just an opinionated product. If the hosts don't like it, they can always unsubscribe.
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by mkl95 3y ago
Localtunnel used to be a nice tunnel. It has gone through some enshittification lately. > tunnel consent page now requires the tunnel creator's public IP in order to access tunnel content https://github.com/localtunn
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I guess my career is pretty close to optimal. I get to work on interesting problems from anywhere I want and save a ton of money. If you are an EU candidate, FAANG companies want you to relocate to some city in the UK or Ireland, which woul
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by mkl95 3y ago
How relevant is it to be hired by a FAANG? I have some experience with "web scale" systems, but I tend to reject FAANG recruiters because Leetcode makes me want to become an apple farmer (no pun).
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by mkl95 3y ago
> The first pattern is having multiple Load Balancers (per VPC); this is often the result of using several readily available Cloudformation templates / Terraform modules, or somehow using Kubernetes ingress controllers that create a
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Venezuela crisis: 7.1M leave country since 2015 (2022)(bbc.com)
2 points by mkl95 3y ago|0 comments
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Is there anything particularly painful about working with the Google Cloud Terraform provider? If there isn't, I would rather use OpenTF with that provider and manage state myself.
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Touché
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by mkl95 3y ago
> when you're looking for docs on go do you google just "go"? Golang will do the trick. Catala lang will not unless the language becomes massively popular.
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by mkl95 3y ago
> Clever use of computation over convenient assumptions Making falsifiable assumptions is legit. I don't know what "clever use of computation" is supposed to mean.
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Scraping with Tor (2021)(anas.link)
4 points by mkl95 3y ago|0 comments
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> According to NASA, the cost of the mission was $327.6 million It probably makes the top 10 most expensive software defects of all time.
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by mkl95 3y ago
I struggle to believe some space agency ever used the imperial system (or the US spinoff) for anything mission critical.
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by mkl95 3y ago
Sweet. But as long as the EU doesn't have a big company in the social media market, the Asia/US giants will get away with it.
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by mkl95 3y ago
In the beginning of my career, I did an internship at a very small company that had been selling a desktop app for 20+ years, among other stuff. Each customer got their own database. The software was pretty stable and the team were part tim
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by mkl95 3y ago
Windows 10 is just fine for my needs. Yet every weeks my system is kidnapped on startup by a menu full of dark patterns that tries to lure me into installing Windows 11. Not only is it hostile and deceitful, but it fails to explain the adva
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by mkl95 3y ago
This lines up with my experience. In my case, the teaching materials were some PDFs with the typical content recycled from old textbooks. The price tag was hefty, which made it feel like a scam.
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by mkl95 3y ago
As a late millenial and college dropout, I have considered attending college part time, and I have enrolled in online degrees a few times. But I lose motivation every time, because every uni system seems to be stuck in the 2000s, and I have
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by mkl95 3y ago
A month or so ago I started watching a comedian I thought was pretty talented. Youtube then started spamming me her Shorts. I unsubscribed because my brain associates her content with that annoying pattern.
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by mkl95 3y ago
> have started the process of working 4 days a week in 2 companies, a big (unicorn) one that is part of NYSE, and a small one of less than 20 employees. This works on all scales (not guaranteed it works with all companies). Don't ta
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by mkl95 3y ago
Old man yells at mud
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by mkl95 3y ago
> You have to remember to pay back your credit card debt before the clock runs out In my experience paying with credit is a fire and forget action, since the money is debited automatically at the end of the month, with no interest. The U
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by mkl95 3y ago
I don't know about other areas, but in the West the overlap between credit card users and people who can get a decent loan at a <10% interest rate is very high. Which is why for most credit card users, credit is a no go if they are
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by mkl95 3y ago
Not sure it qualifies as debt. It's just an agreement with your bank to give them that money in a few weeks / days. And if you commit to spending some small amount per year with your card (usually something like $1500), the bank w
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by mkl95 3y ago
There are similar patterns elsewhere, so I would not call it surprising. Take England, for example. Despite being a relatively tiny country, some regions have significantly higher life expectancy than others. In that case, it has been linke
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by mkl95 3y ago
Python beat Ruby because it's boring technology, whereas Ruby prides itself on being as clever as possible. Take a large application written with Django vs the equivalent Rails app. Even if the Django app was written by mediocre engine
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> I think it is a life-sucking batch of meetings that are good for one thing: taking developers who can’t or don’t want to see the overall business/architecture picture and getting useful work out of them. If I'm being onboarde

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