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by nikau 4y ago
Ahh story points... the logic that you don't want to use real time units because predictions are inaccurate, but then everyone spends time mapping from story points to real time units anyway...
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by nikau 4y ago
Or you are working on complex problems and interdependencies not tonka toy systems.
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by nikau 4y ago
All the recent projects I've been on have been shit shows, and I put it down to Agile, MVP, and inappropriate tools like Jira and Miro being used to manage projects with pretty diagrams and no depth or proper interdependency mapping. I
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by nikau 4y ago
Even better is/was the wording around insider installation, it said you can go back to normal windows, but left out the small detail that you have to reinstall normal windows from scratch vs rolling back.
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by nikau 4y ago
I actually printed out a sheet with the numbers for each icon position and stuck it on the monitor. For pinned stuff you eventually remember the number for each app and switch quickly.
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by nikau 4y ago
Mcdonalds has had automated basket lifters for years, is this actually much of an efficiency improvement?
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by nikau 4y ago
Nah it was an Australian finance company running some in house trading and market data apps. Would have been very late 90s I think. I remember it was even faster than the Windows ICA apps at the time which I think were hosted on a NT4 Citri
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by nikau 4y ago
A long time ago I used a Citrix xserver that translated everything to ica, it was very fast and hid the latency well even over an isdn connection.
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by nikau 4y ago
> Not much room for sloth, though. Isn't that the whole business model for uber eats and its ilk?
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by nikau 4y ago
My experience with dumpster fire legacy systems is to at least ensure you have proper backups in place so you can roll back if the worst happens.
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by nikau 4y ago
Yep after a while you learn which battles to fight - will the outcome make my life harder? sure I'll fight it hard. If its just a negative for the business but no impact on me I'll point out the issues but wont go any further tha
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by nikau 4y ago
I recall being able to view guest reviews around 3 years ago when I last used airbnb. A quick google shows complaints of dodgy hosts who do a "snipe" nasty review just before the feedback window ends if the guest has not left a re
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by nikau 4y ago
Ahh memories of running "synergy" at work to use my Windows mouse/keyboard on my Sun ultra2 box. The mouse was always very jittery on the Sun box until I tried setting the synergy daemon on the windows box to realtime which m
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by nikau 4y ago
Does it also have a top gun style heads up display to lock on to the coffee and cars crowd that you are about to crash into?
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by nikau 4y ago
Yep I've skipped giving feedback on a place that was very misrepresented because I know they would probably provide bad feedback in retaliation. There should be escrow for the feedback - its not published until both parties provide fee
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by nikau 4y ago
Welcome to Australia - its quite a shock when you travel to the US and suddenly the hotel price advertised increases with tax and resort fees and a bunch of other hidden charges.
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by nikau 4y ago
This is why you should watermark any ID images with something like "FOR UBER USE ONLY SEPTEMBER 2022" in a wavy distorted font.
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by nikau 4y ago
I've haven't worked anywhere where Docker runtime is used outside local development machines - container images are run on one of the 10+ various container services each cloud provider have. Secondly the performance hit of running
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by nikau 4y ago
Any other teachers that decide to follow her lead, don't have anywhere near the same luck and ruin their future career fallback options?
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by nikau 4y ago
I use an set of iphone 4 headphones combined with a separate boom mic. They have atrocious sound quality for music, but are fine for speech and I can wear them all day without discomfort.
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by nikau 4y ago
Things like that were popular in the Amiga era with bridgeboards to run x86 code on a 68000 machine, but not much of a market now with modern CPU speed and hypervisor support.
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by nikau 4y ago
Negligent narcissistic assholes. They drove a faulty car knowingly, riding the brakes and cooked them. Then in the video all they talk about is their injuries and how bad it was for them and damage to their clown car, no concern for the inn
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by nikau 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtdpJlZ07u4
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by nikau 4y ago
The AZ-900 exam reminded me of the Simpsons episode, "Pepsi? Partial credit!"
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by nikau 4y ago
exactly, there's always the endless ads for manscaping ball shavers.
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by nikau 4y ago
looks like they are still using Akamai: www.apple.com. 0 IN CNAME www.apple.com.edgekey.net.
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by nikau 4y ago
its like a modern day geocities
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by nikau 4y ago
I've joined rewrite projects towards the end a few times to try and steer them back on course, and the projects followed identical patterns - rewrite in shiny latest language/architecture and get 80% of the way there, then get bog
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by nikau 4y ago
Can confirm, setup an old galaxy smartphone as a webcam during the pandemic, after a few months the battery turned into a pillow.
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by nikau 4y ago
This is akin to my mechanic being anti oil change due to some conspiracy theories - I don't want them touching my car.

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