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by nickjj 3y ago
> a) know the material inside and out, and b) have practiced shit loads. I remember the first time I went in front of a live audience to give a 2 minute intro. It was a meetup with ~60 people and all I had to do was go up and talk about
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> Given the US population of just over 333 million, its a but over $100 per person. That's true but not everyone lives in their own complex. A family of 3 will benefit from 1 installation. An apartment complex with 500 people could
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I tried a bunch of terminals over the years. I never did tests that were as in depth as the OP's blog post but no terminal I've used ever matched how good Xterm feels when typing. It's like you're typing within a zero re
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> Has anyone ever actually found this to be true? It depends. I've written a number of apps where I'm fearless with making changes because I trust the tests I wrote. One of the apps has been running for 7 years and it's ha
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> Knowing the command line is one of those unsung critical skills of being a software engineer. Yep, the command line is what lets you solve "We have 178 CSV dumps of tables that has ~60 GB of data and we want them imported into a S
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by nickjj 3y ago
This really goes to show you how valuable a good experience / API is. PiVPN is so easy to use. You run 1 command and pass in the name of the config to generate and you're done. Now you can take that config and use it client side.
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If my eyes were closed I wouldn't have been able to tell the difference between it and a washing machine running on a floor below you. I really only noticed it because my monitors were wobbling a decent amount. > Is it even possible
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I felt it on Long Island over 100 miles away. I had headphones on and thought a really heavy truck was shaking the ground. It was enough to make my desk and monitors shake but nothing too crazy.
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by nickjj 3y ago
Location: NY, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No but open to occasional travel (company events, etc.) Technologies: Docker, Kubernetes / Argo CD, Python, Ruby, Shell scripting, Terraform, Ansible, Linux (Debian
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I really wish businesses thought more about the butterfly effect. Putting small tickets that help reduce technical debt, increase developer happiness or help make progress towards a longer term technical goal at the bottom of the backlog be
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Yep, funny enough I have a Macbook for work (company laptop) and I also stumbled upon Maccy. You're right in that it's not Ditto but it's quite good and I'm overall happy using it.
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IMO it's up there, I've been using it for over 20+ years. IrfanView and foobar2000 (mp3 player) haven't left my side since I started using them. Ditto (clipboard manager) has also earned its place.
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by nickjj 3y ago
> Billing and Accounts Payable will always seem like a "how could you mess that up?" problem to engineers, but it literally is difficult and complicated and rife with ways to very seriously and permanently fuck your relationshi
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Yeah, containers don't fully solve this problem. We still need a generated lock file with every top level dependency and sub-dependencies locked down to their most precise version commit to version control so that when you build your i
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It depends on who you're optimizing for, insurance companies or individual drivers.
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> I assume they just don't care about exceptions, and just correlate past data to actual claims to adjust their actuarial tables Yep, IMO that's a problem in general. So much is based on case studies in aggregate instead of ind
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> This is, I assume, penalizing aggressive driving that hasn't yet resulted in a citation or accident. If there's no context about the situation then how do they differentiate aggressive driving vs reasonable driving? For examp
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> if you do get lost, never leave your drainage (when things are going poorly, don't make them worse) I read drainage as a water source and it might still work. In general rivers or any type of running water will have a higher chan
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by nickjj 3y ago
You mentioned being bilingual. What language do you speak besides English? As you mentioned, outsourcing is popular again. If you speak a language that's popular in outsourced countries then you bring an interesting skillset with you i
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Thanks, I do see a difference now. Both compliance types are checked on the free tier. Can you please answer the question about how our data is viewed and or used internally?
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At the time of this comment (edit: since this comment, they addressed this, check the replies), on your pricing page you have "SOC 2 Type II Security Compliance" not being checked off on the free tier but it's checked in the
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> As I understand it they generally won't hold you liable for resource usage generated by a DDoS From personal experience as a customer of a cloud provider (not with Netlify btw), usually cloud providers who profit from bandwidth co
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> I'd hate to be stuck with that $5K bill, I dunno, that does feel closer to the mark of something that maybe you should be on the hook for if you're responsible for 200 TB of bandwidth overage over 4 days? The responsibility p
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> Cloudflare's free tier is ridiculous: We do over 30TB+ of genuine traffic for $0 It's not really ridiculous if you think about what you're giving them. You are massively benefiting their platform by providing them data w
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by nickjj 3y ago
One thing this article doesn't mention are affiliate sales which depending on how far you want to go can be a decent amount of work. This is the system that lets other people get commission based payouts for sales within your platform.
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From the article: > Retail stores also use sound and music to manipulate the environment. A study from the early 1980s showed that slow-tempo music led to shoppers moving more slowly through the store and spending more money than if fas
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No problem, if you want to invoke it with a raw command instead of a hotkey you can set up an alias, I use `pf` for preview files. You can reference FZF's env variable to reduce duplication too: alias pf="fzf ${FZF_CTRL_T_OP
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That's what I do with this bit of built-in FZF configuration: export FZF_CTRL_T_OPTS="--preview='less {}' --height=100% --bind shift-up:preview-page-up,shift-down:preview-page-down" This lets you hit CTRL+t
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> There's a lot of overlap between metal and classical music (by which I mean orchestral, symphonic, and chamber, not the specific age). Yep, there's a whole bunch of bands in the symphonic deathcore genre. Shadow of Intent, Th
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I've been doing something similar for 20+ years at: https://github.com/nickjj/notes - Running `notes` will open this month's notes for YYYY_MM.txt in your default $EDITOR - Running `notes hello worl

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