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by nly 3y ago
So your weekday evening social life is non existent?
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by nly 3y ago
Boost.JSON is arguably the better choice these days. It's roughly as usable as nlohmann but faster than RapidJSON Overview: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_84_0/libs/json/doc/html/jso
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by nly 3y ago
The difference is only one of time. At any given _instant_ in time there is a steady state where there is queue of people willing to buy and a queue of people willing to sell time. There are no market makers in the job market. What OP says
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by nly 3y ago
It wouldn't be efficient for expression parsing. Spirit is a recursive descent parser.
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by nly 3y ago
Fabulous
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by nly 3y ago
Can you explain what you mean by desperate? Poor severance packages and few opportunities?
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by nly 3y ago
I got laid off this week. Plan on switching the mortgage over to interest payment only for 6 months to help cash stretch. Legislation came in the UK to help with this last year. It's called the "Mortgage Charter"
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by nly 3y ago
I said in two years, not one.
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by nly 3y ago
Most highly compensated roles use these as stage 1 or 2 filtering due to the volume of applicants
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by nly 3y ago
Most devs aren't on $800-1.2M TC.
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by nly 3y ago
Barely. In real terms US bills have returned 0.4%/yr over the last 120+ years
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by nly 3y ago
It's not what they want. It's the mechanics of their business. They borrow short at base rates and lend long at a margin
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by nly 3y ago
UK CPIH index value (includes cost of housing) Nov 2021 - 114.1 Nov 2023 (latest value) - 130.0 So, 14%. 18% slightly out of date figure. Cash in the bank, even at 5% rates, hasn't kept up.
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by nly 3y ago
I've worked across the spectrum from 8 people companies to 20,000 employee multi-nationals. From companies 30 years old to startups. It doesn't make a difference. You likely won't see redundancy coming. Chances are you'l
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by nly 3y ago
Wait until your manager is laid off and you're talking to them afterward. This has happened to me twice in my career and both times its like you're talking to a whole different person. In my cynical opinion, being that different p
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by nly 3y ago
TINA when CPI inflation (in the UK) is has been 18% in just 2 years.
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by nly 3y ago
My firm made billions last year too and just laid off hundreds of engineers (a decent %) Some of the best engineers, those that I respected the most, went. People who make no sense. After last year's layoffs they told us they were &quo
468.
by nly 3y ago
In my day we used to copy and paste from Encarta and then carefully rephrase it.
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by nly 3y ago
Was XP really a hit? I remember rejecting it in favour of SP4 for Windows 2000 for the longest time. It was only once XP SP2 dropped in 2004 that it became usable
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by nly 3y ago
There won't, because there's no money in it
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by nly 3y ago
Definitely can last 10-15
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by nly 3y ago
In general, nobody pays for bank accounts in the UK and there are only really ~4 retail banks worth mentioning. Barclays was founded in 1690 though
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by nly 3y ago
There is actually a record player needle onboard alongside the gold record.
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by nly 3y ago
Isn't this the destiny of all rich megacorps that have saturated their market?
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by nly 3y ago
Before string_view, in my experience, people tended to pass around strings by const&
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by nly 3y ago
The best way to use feature flags is when adding or removing a feature. You add and test the feature flag before you deploy in to prod so you can disable the feature quickly if shit hits the fan. Same for removal, disable first. Make sure i
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by nly 3y ago
I got over that using WiFi enabled power line adapters.
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by nly 3y ago
Same here. Jumped ship in late 2021 for a 50% pay increase. Haven't had a pay rise with new employer since. They have one more chance this annual review cycle or I'm jumping again. My monthly mandatory expenses (excluding mortgage
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by nly 3y ago
Setting the classic locale too
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by nly 3y ago
Just use the Boost Iostreams library The array_source device can be used with any buffer (char*, size_t)

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