mneil

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by mneil 8y ago
Yup, I felt similar just 6 months ago. I quit my job and changed what I did and love it. I went from being an engineering manager to being an engineering consultant working in entirely different lines of business. The skills are the same, t
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by mneil 8y ago
I'm kind of in the same boat. Here's my opinion. Python has many numeric types. That makes it well suited to machine learning and data science which are hot right now plus the language is simple enough to pick up. That's lead
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by mneil 8y ago
Let's start with some information that could be helpful. Where do you live? How many dependents so you have? Did you contribute to a:401k,HSA,FSA, or any other tax deferred accounts? So you own a home? Do you pay for private insurance?
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by mneil 8y ago
ii) definitely not true, but it doesn't hurt. Many corporations have policies requiring internal job postings for certain lengths of time before being able to hire someone from outside. The idea here is to promote internal, upward, gro
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by mneil 8y ago
To be blunt, you appear to only be considering your own experience and are assuming you're a perfect candidate for every position you've interviewed for. If you have been applying for positions in the US first I'd point out t
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by mneil 8y ago
While not definitive github does an annual "state of" report. Other sites do this as well and they often show trends in languages; although none of the other reports are top of mind for me right now. https://octoverse.g
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by mneil 8y ago
I don't know if they are or not but I do know that the autoplay, with user activation required, does not apply to sites you frequently visit and play videos on (they track behavior and potentially allow auto play). If you're a You
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by mneil 9y ago
You can make Cassandra cp by making writes persist to 100% of nodes. Obviously you lose the availability. Mongo, for example, can be acid but you lose write throughput again. Postgres, I believe, has better throughput for most workloads ove
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by mneil 9y ago
You could look at tuning hdfs or Cassandra to be strongly consistent. By default though they both use eventual consistency for replication. The difference is you can set the required number of nodes to accept a write as a success. What I ca
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by mneil 9y ago
Distribution. Redis, rabbitmq, and celary are all used to share state or messages across many servers. Unless you can run the entirety of an app like facebook on a single machine then you will, at some point, have to run several instances o
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by mneil 10y ago
I receive 99% coverage and wife/kids get 50%. At 99% the cost to me is so minimal it doesn't matter.
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by mneil 10y ago
This account is clearly squatting. Not only do they hold several one letter package names but also many other names that are generic. The majority of them have nothing more than a package.json
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by mneil 10y ago
You must not have worked in VR because most developers I work with are using these legacy windows machines to build stuff with Unity and Unreal.
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by mneil 10y ago
It's your site, do what you want. Wamp. I don't dual-boot or open a VM to browse HN.
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by mneil 10y ago
I was pretty unhappy cleaning oil tanks at a refinery for a year where the average summer temperature is 100+ degrees fahrenheit. I was also pretty unhappy working retail at a big box hardware store and pulling mandatory monthly night-shift
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by mneil 11y ago
How to generate recurring revenue: Step one, buy his book Step two, write your own book Step three, list your book for sell on hacker news
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by mneil 12y ago
I forgot to mention that a static index is generated under the /i/ prefix https://muut.com/i/moot of each forum for SEO and reading when there is no javascript available. But, to contribute on the forum you w
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by mneil 12y ago
It's hard to read get your actual points through your comments but I'll try to address what I can. Right-click new tab is available when you click the link icon available from the burger when hovering a title. That burger holds sh
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by mneil 12y ago
Have you checked out Muut https://muut.com/ ? It's completely customizable with CSS, uses a lightweight javascript client, minimal design and focuses on the conversation (text). You can also use it privately. That requi