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Trump administration expected to suspend H-1B visas for the rest of the year(mercurynews.com)
5 points by nwatson 6y ago|0 comments
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by nwatson 6y ago
PyCharm is a huge help when dealing with APIs that return huge or complicated data structures or where documentation is vague. Examples: interacting with AWS with boto3; interacting with Kubernetes. You can read the docs alone, but much bet
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by nwatson 6y ago
I've been using pipenv happily for a few years now, but on projects that don't have a huge number of dependencies (Django, DRF, MySQL/Postgres, AWS, Kubernetes, a few other random libraries), and haven't seen too much sl
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by nwatson 6y ago
Not yet ... perhaps some day.
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by nwatson 6y ago
We just spent months at my workplace working on a system to reliably define and configure a set of parallel silo'ed integrated datastores, services, and network stack within Kubernetes/ISTIO (and AWS), and to reliably upgrade new
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by nwatson 6y ago
Where I work we're about to move from a single DB across all tenants to a separation of sorts, due to scaling and customer demands. Very large enterprise customers will get their own DB as a "group of one", and "groups&
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by nwatson 6y ago
"Less-density-and-easier-to-speed-and-be-reckless" vs "cheap-gas-so-let's-go-for-it" vs "stir-crazy-in-lockdown" vs ... "rage-over-losing-my-job-or-having-to-work-in-risky-situations-while-the-r
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by nwatson 6y ago
Jetbrains IDEs (and others for that matter) provide so much more than the glorified text-editors, including extensive debugging support (both in my own code, library code, platform code), code-autocompletion, code navigation, code-formattin
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by nwatson 6y ago
In English "bosque" is a specific type of forest/woods ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosque , could be named for that too. (Bosque is a generic "woods" in Spanish/Portuguese.)
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Money for Welfare Instead Funded Concerts, Lobbyists and Football Games(nytimes.com)
1 points by nwatson 6y ago|0 comments
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by nwatson 6y ago
ISTIO has been a good Kubernetes service mesh for a project I've been working on, and has been the hardest part to tie down though. So many obscure settings and hard-to-track-down information, especially in a sea of options and possib
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The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil(ft.com)
8 points by nwatson 6y ago|1 comments
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by nwatson 6y ago
... and it was an Iraqi immigrant who steered Norway on the right path to avoid over-reliance on oil exports: https://www.ft.com/content/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144feab... ... "The Iraqi who saved Norway from o
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by nwatson 6y ago
Japan already has formal stigmatizing of groups: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burakumin ... this is how caste systems develop. Burakumin: "They were originally members of outcast communities in the Japanese feu
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by nwatson 6y ago
So now Trump is an idiot-savant? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/health/sunlight-coronavir...
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by nwatson 6y ago
Uruguay is a very secular place, should be further up on the graph.
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Ask HN: What is total mass of human-infecting SARS-CoV-2 Covid-19 virus
15 points by nwatson 7y ago|5 comments
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by nwatson 7y ago
So, for one kind of "loner", the psychopaths with their psychopathy, as they relate to general human society and culture: - do psychopaths prey on and drag down society in most circumstances until there's an "evolutionar
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by nwatson 7y ago
The Americas saw this rapid decline with arrival of Europeans. The diseases killed 90% of indigenous people ... Guns, Germs, and Steel, PBS adaptation ... "When the Europeans arrived, carrying germs which thrived in dense, semi-urban
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by nwatson 7y ago
The U.S. revenue-side of government isn't encouraging you to start illegal businesses to improve tax receipts, they probably get almost no taxes from that form-box ... it's just much easier later when authorities find out about yo
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by nwatson 7y ago
Works for me almost everywhere in North Carolina.
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U.S. Air Force contracts data blockchain Fluree for secure communications(ledgerinsights.com)
1 points by nwatson 7y ago|0 comments
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by nwatson 7y ago
For a seemingly real-world application of Blockchain technology, Fluree DB [1] has announced a Blockchain/graph-database secure-communications contract with the U.S. Air Force [2]. The Fluree platform seems a compelling base for simil
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Hound of Hounslow: Who Is Navinder Sarao, the 'Flash Crash Trader'?(bbc.com)
1 points by nwatson 7y ago|0 comments
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by nwatson 7y ago
It's not symmetric at all ... “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” ---> “[Moral people] are all alike; every [immoral person] is [immoral] in [their] own way”. There are many more varieties
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by nwatson 7y ago
I just returned to Java after 3 years away, IntelliJ IDEA syntax highlighting, auto-completion, code-formatting, and "code analysis/inspection with suggested improvements" made it easy.
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by nwatson 7y ago
An open API triggers that other fear, a bigger attack surface to a closed-source system that was built in a hurry with less regard for security, and more room for exploits.
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by nwatson 7y ago
The product is built in a very controlled and secure environment at the core of a company's competency ... code-signing here stamps the product as authoritative and representing the company's efforts. The website from which you, t
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by nwatson 7y ago
Nossa senhora! Parabéns pelo novo trabalho! ... que fique tudo tranquilo.
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by nwatson 7y ago
Just don't try to fly anywhere in the USA for a while after playing around with this stuff.

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