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by mstaoru 1y ago
That's the truth, there are whole agencies specializing in removing bad reviews in Germany. The laws are really skewed against consumers in this respect. I was looking for a gym and went to several, multiple times, paying outrageous am
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by mstaoru 1y ago
You need to work with people who value async communications and uninterrupted work time (or cultivate this culture). I recently moved to EU and it's very very difficult for me to adapt to people insisting on having a call or a meeting
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by mstaoru 1y ago
> that would be a great idea since everyone hates using Teams, nobody knows where to find files in Sharepoint Summarizes my experience in my new company, which is a Microsoft shop. Though RevOps side, I don't see how this would make
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by mstaoru 1y ago
I'm a bicycle "driver" myself. I cannot even drive a car, and don't intend to learn. But you should come to China and see how bikes behave. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3X9BGMPM8Us (electric scoot
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by mstaoru 1y ago
I lived in China for many many years and this is not a good example. Parking, and driving in general, is chaotic and unregulated. Yes, you have cameras everywhere that detect running on red or taking a wrong lane, but that's about make
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by mstaoru 1y ago
Redis Streams is a "go-to" for me, mostly because of operational simplicity and performance. It's also dead simple to write consumers in any language. If I had more stringent durability requirements, I would probably pick Red
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by mstaoru 1y ago
Well, I had two quotes: one right before the tariffs at 22 rmb/kg door to door, and one end of April, at 58 rmb/kg door to door. We shopped around quite a bit, everybody say it's crazy right now.
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by mstaoru 1y ago
Good point, but several Chinese freight forwarders say, on the contrary, the shipping lanes are empty. The "ship" costs a fixed amount, if you can make a full load, the cost is shared between parties. With LCL (less-than-container
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by mstaoru 1y ago
I'm moving internationally (from China to EU) and the quote is 2.5-3x higher than 3 months ago. Sea freight seems to be inspected at a much higher rate, and they don't recommend it, and air freight is more expensive because of muc
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by mstaoru 1y ago
GlitchTip had replaced our Sentry (9.x, pre-Clickhouse madness). It was just a matter of updating DSN in a few Configmaps/Secrets, good to go from day one. The UI is a bit buggy and "resolve" doesn't always work, but it
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by mstaoru 2y ago
> If you are like me, come first of the month, you are going down that page and applying to whatever seems a good fit Nope. I'm going down that page (in my case, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/ ) and
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by mstaoru 2y ago
I've been in a similar situation and I eventually walked away to keep my sanity. However, that being said, there are some simple heuristics you can try first: - if you have more power via your shareholder agreement, you can prevent you
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by mstaoru 2y ago
Wait, where is General Tso's Chicken? My wife is from a small town just 50 km southeast of Nanjing, that is now folded into Nanjing proper, with metro and all. The town's language has nothing to do with Nanjing, they cannot unders
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by mstaoru 2y ago
You already answered #2 with #1. The standard will be gamed.
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by mstaoru 2y ago
Admittedly, I moved everything off around 2020. We do have a few smaller "on-prem" style installs for a few customers, with much less traffic than our main installation. One of the Aliyun installs does experience block device issu
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by mstaoru 2y ago
China is good at producing things (thanks to the infrastructure and cheap labor, for now), but is pretty bad at consistent service and general customer friendliness. We can also be sure that their cars are not made to any stringent standard
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by mstaoru 2y ago
"What makes PlanetScale Metal performance so much better? With your storage and compute on the same server, you avoid the I/O network hops that traditional cloud databases require [...] Every PlanetScale database requires at least
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by mstaoru 2y ago
DeepSeek's stuff might be getting many of their stars based on patriotic or nationalistic motives. Also there's a lot of people in software in China who do not read English at all (I would say 95+% of all IT people). Something fam
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by mstaoru 2y ago
5+ years "consulting" would probably be reclassified as employment by most courts.
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by mstaoru 2y ago
"Interest" usually comes from within, when you have agency and see the results of your work. One of the most interesting periods of my work was when my cross-border e-commerce business grew too fast, and we started to outgrow our
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by mstaoru 2y ago
"Where permitted by applicable state law, [company name] will not hire any candidate who uses coffee or any caffeine product."
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by mstaoru 2y ago
I tried Supermaven, and while it is certainly fast, it is more distracting to me since I have to read the suggestion, find it wrong, and type by myself (Python). Our FE guys who are doing React find it much more useful, probably because of
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by mstaoru 2y ago
I looked at Singapore as a relocation target, but I noticed that post-covid silly money from PRC nationals fleeing the country has pushed the rent and other expenses way too high. The software sector jobs are also 90% either finance or cryp
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by mstaoru 2y ago
One of my first jobs out of college was an e-commerce team lead for a luxury apparel retailer. We had access to all kinds of 80-90% sales before customers did, and lots of bonuses were paid as gift cards, so before long I was dressed head t
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Thank you. I just hope in the end it was not relevant and it was just me looking for something to blame.
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by mstaoru 2y ago
Interestingly, two or three years ago I sent a few emails via Who is Hiring and I got probably 3/4 response rate, and an offer (which I refused in the end, staying in my current company). This year my current company is not in a good s
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by mstaoru 2y ago
In a few days after this breach, my Mercury.com Business card (issued by Evolve) was fraudulently charged by Noon.com, Vodafone UK, and Prezzee for close to US$4,000. Freeze your cards! I've posted an Ask HN for better visibility: htt
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Ask HN: Freeze your Mercury.com / Evolve cards, mine was sacked
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by mstaoru 2y ago
My mental model would be to decompose it into 3 dimensions and try to find some kind of superposition. Dimension 1 - are you enjoying your work? Is your work meaninful? How does it affect your mental and physical health (either way)? Dimens
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by mstaoru 2y ago
Hah, you can totally run K3s on a cluster of RPis these days!

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